Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Bibo Liang | Chine | 1999 | 69 mn
Quand il s’agit de mariage, les villageois chinois respectent un protocole strict. Il comporte six étapes : la demande en mariage, les négociations sur la dot, les fiançailles, la comparaison des dates de naissance des deux jeunes gens, une...
Amos Gitaï | Israël | 1999 | 112 mn
FICTION Les ablutions et la prière forment le rituel matinal de Meïr. Suivent l'exégèse et les prières à la Yeshiva (école de la Torah), où il retrouve les autres hommes qui ont fait de la connaissance de la loi judaïque le seul objet de...
Basile Sallustio | France | 1999 | 26 mn
The Fon in Bénin have a unique matrimonial practice : marriage between women. When she is rich, the woman can marry one or several other women who have children for her. The children born of these unions belong to the husband-woman who can thus...
Mohammad Shirvani | Iran | 1999 | 15 mn
Une mère montre la photo de son fils, qui finira son service militaire dans deux semaines, à des filles dans la rue et leur demande si elles veulent se marier. Refus, stupeur ou rire, toutes les réactions renvoient la mère à sa chimère,...
Maïté Débats, Carol Prestat | France | 1998 | 23 mn
Five women, native of Morocco and Algeria, and living today in France, talk about the marriage, about their relation with men, about love and virginity... The marriage, a place where is the compromise between the two cultures. And the film is...
Nicolas Jouvin | France | 1998 | 48 mn
In Mauretania, on the extreme western edge of the African desert, lives the people of the million poets. The griots, musicians, poets (an inferior caste) lived with the shepherds and warriors between a peaceful life and tribal wars. They drew...
Ghislain Allon, Michaela Heine | France | 1998 | 27 mn
The heart of a Jewish mother is full of one desire : to pass on her traditions to her children. To do this, every means is possible : blackmail, tears, gentle tyranny. The heart of an Arab mother is filled with the same desire, with this...
Marta Bergman | Belgique, Luxembourg | 1997 | 75 mn
"One day, my prince will come..." is the life of three young Rumanian women, in search of a Western husband, against a backdrop of family feuds, uncertain jobs, unfulfilled dreams. To find this man, they use small ads and matrimonial agencies....
Reynald Bassile | France, Liban | 1997 | 54 mn
Lebanon, 18 religious communities for 3,5 millions inhabitants. This reality confers to this small country contrasted and plural features that show through marriage. We follow alternatively, during the last days preceding their union and till its...
Agatha Estera Ferrer, Josep Maâti Salvat, Montserrat Bartuí Casanovas | Espagne | 1996 | 27 mn
"Al-Urs" is the story of a traditional Riffian wedding seen through the eyes of the newly weds, Abdelkader and Husnia. Preliminary activities, the men celebration, that of the women, the gift of a bull, the different dresses that the bride shows...