Scam - Brouillon d'un rêve

We are in western Georgia. Here, according to custom, the dead is not separated from the living. People involve them in their family life, talk to them and seek their advice. They protect the dead and they hope the dead will protect them. Death...

In Algiers, I meet Nassima Hablal, a forgotten heroine of the Algerian Revolution. Like a grandmother with her granddaughter, she tells me her story of a woman in the war, her fight for an independent Algeria. Cheerful, charming and ironical, the...

Dor de tine is an untranslatable Rumanian expression: I ache for you, I love you madly... "I never knew my father... he was arrested by the Gestapo in Nice in 1944, ten days before I was born. First imprisoned in Drancy, he left on Convoy 73...

Through a voice-off reading of the letters kept in her social services file, the filmmaker indirectly tells the story of a childhood marked by bureaucracy. The images of landscapes edited in counterpoint banish all pathos from this very originally...

"For me, the most important thing in this story is the encounter of two men. Two men from different cultures who will become friends and then split up to follow their own destiny. There is not much to find out. All you have to do is tell us...

Le Dr Nagesh assure quotidiennement une consultation gratuite à Mumbai (Bombay). Il y reçoit des séropositifs qui ne peuvent pas payer les traitements contre le VIH. Ces hommes, femmes et enfants affrontent la maladie et le rejet des autres. Le...

After 20 years, the film-maker revisits a group of young punks who struggled with the communist regime during the early 80's. How do they see life and political situation in Hungary before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall? Is this what they...

Cécile is delivering her first baby using four hands, guided by a midwife. Aurélie, in her final year, is anxious at the idea of soon being let loose on the world. Stéphanie practises on Mondays on plastic dolls in the classroom, and on...

Born en 1928 in Martinique, Édouard Glissant is the author of numerous collections of poetry : "Le sang rivé", "Le sel noir", "Boises", "Un champ d'îles", "La terre inquiète", "Pays rêvé, Pays réel" and of essays (including "Soleil de la...

It’s the story of a village in which almost all the inhabitants have emigrated, looking for a better life. Some left forever, others came back. Through the dialogues and the tales of the people who live in the village in August, the film tries...