Catalogue des films par mot-clé
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Island RoadFrancescu Artily | France | 2019 | 73 mn
The Isle de Jean Charles is found on the Bayou, in southeast Louisiana. The location is currently inhabited by descendants of Choctaw, Biloxi and Chitimacha Native American tribes representing fifty residents or so. Since the 18th century, fishing...
Le Film du dehorsFrank Smith | France | 2018 | 30 mn
Isle Jean Charles is a narrow strip of land on the border of Louisiana, two hours southeast of New Orleans. It is the first victim of coastal erosion, eating away at the area for centuries, compounded by the effects of storms and hurricanes that...
Chassez le démonPeter Entell | Suisse, France | 2007 | 99 mn
It is six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. Its inhabitants – mostly poor Afro-Americans – have lost their family, homes, and work. And now, at St. Augustine Church the axe has just fallen. The archdiocese has...
Revivre à la Nouvelle-OrléansVanya Peirani-Vignes | France | 2006 | 52 mn
Ce film raconte le retour en ville du musicien/historien local Paul Nevski, immédiatement après le passage de l’ouragan Katrina.
Les Alpins du Nouveau MondePhilippe Jamain | France | 1997 | 51 mn
Jacques Arnaud, an Ubaye valley's inhabitant, in southern Alpes, leaves his village in 1805, to go for the great adventure : America. He founds a town in the bayous area, in Louisiana, which became later a town : Arnaudville. 187 years later, his...
LouisianeFrédéric Laffont | France | 1996 | 52 mn
American music was born there. To celebrate the building of a nation : the plaint of slaves ; the pride of ranchers ; the memories of Europe. There in the South. Our series of three documentaries (3 x 52 min.) is a musical voyage to the innermost...
Mendiants, fous et roisAndrew Young, Susan Todd | France | 1995 | 90 mn
New Orleans is famous for its excesses, wild Mardi Gras celebrations, spicy cuisine, sultry jazz, and most recently, the highest murder rate in America. It is a city where reality often takes a back seat to fantasy, where a stripper can become a...
Louisiana BluesJean-Pierre Bruneau, José Reynes | France | 1993 | 54 mn
In the strange spectacular bayous of south-west Louisiana, French-speaking Cajuns and Creoles perpetuate an original minority culture which is expressed chiefly in dancing and music. Interviews with many young and old musicians, white and black,...
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