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1) Francofonia
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Explore the Louvre Museum and the relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history.
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The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter's films. At once disarmingly intimate and formally rigorous, NO HOME MOVIE is a singualr exploration of family, memory and history.
5) Celebration
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A fascinating, long-suppressed documentary on the legendary Yves Saint Laurent, commissioned by his business partner (and former lover) Pierre Bergé – and then shelved for more than a decade when Bergé decided it was too revealing. Filming as the proverbial fly-on-the-wall over three years, as YSL became increasingly frail and incommunicado, Meyrou captures the last of the great haute couture houses. Seamstresses, cutters (“les petites mains”)...
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From its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation under Nazi regime has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films ever made. Director Marcel Ophüls interviewed the residents of Clermont-Ferrand who remembered the occupation, as well as government officials, writers, farmers, artists, and German veterans. Here, in their own words, is the story of how ordinary citizens and leaders alike...
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It is not widely known that a handful of prisoners in the Nazi death camps managed somehow to take clandestine photographs of the hell that was being hidden from the world. Director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs.
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Sidonie, who serves as reader to Marie Antoinette and displays a singular romantic devotion to the queen, witnesses the final days of the French Revolution from inside the walls of the Palace of Versailles. The film is seen from Sidonie's point of view, and the story takes place over the course of four days.
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Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the twentieth century, is making a painting, just as French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear and Diabolique) is making a movie. In 1955, these two friends joined forces to make an entirely new kind of film "that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity." As the artist wields his brush, Clouzot invites us to watch the artwork unfolds, erupt, and dance into being before our...
10) Persepolis
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
12) Derrida
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One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. DERRIDA is an innovative and entertaining portrait by questioning the very concept of biography itself. Featuring a mesmerizing score by **Oscar**-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (*The Last Emperor*), DERRIDA is a playful and...
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Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate...
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Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five...
17) Le Joli Mai
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Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents the hopes, beliefs and uncertainties of Parisians in the early 1960s. Interviews with workers, students, houswives and lovers combine to create a panoramic portrait of social and political life in Paris.
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One of France’s most respected contemporary writers, Annie Ernaux’s intimate and autobiographical body of work captures the inner lives of women alongside societal and cultural changes in France from the 1960s onwards. A natural extension of her literary work in its form and content, The Super 8 Years shows the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in post-1960s France through the lens of the Ernaux family archive.
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After decades of oblivion, the life of Lélo Fiaux, a 20th century Swiss painter whose life and painting are definitively inseparable, will finally be brought to light in a film. A fiery personality, nomadic throughout the world, she lived without concession her passion for painting and her freedom in love. Fictional scenes punctuate the story, allowing us to grasp all the facets of this extraordinary life.
20) Drowning Letters
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Presented by Isabel Coixet, DROWNING LETTERS goes beyond traditional storytelling to reflect on the plight of migrants and Europe’s refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of people cross the sea in search of a better life. We follow the letters written, from mothers to sons, as we accompany the Spanish NGO ship Open Arms struggling to save 550 people from shipwreck. We will come to forget that this is a true story, the situation will...
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