By Fanny Chrétien, 52 min At the age of 22, Marie-Hélène interrupted her teaching career to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres. Full of doubts and certainties, she leaves the congregation at the end of the summer, but perhaps she will return...
Anna is 23 years old. She cuts her hair like Louise Brooks, and keeps her long nails like a Lynch actress, and always dresses with a lot of style and charisma: there are so many stories to tell about this 1.50m tall woman. As today, after an adolescence spent in the margins of society, Anna has finally…
by Niki Velissaropoulou, 52 min Dimitra and Garifalia are teenage girls living in the stunning region of Halkidiki, Northern Greece. When an open-air gold mining project brought to the region by the Canadian company “Eldorado Gold Corporation” threatens to become an unprecedented environmental…
By Sona Simonyan, 60 min Gyumri is the second biggest city in Armenia, and within 8 seconds the earthquake kills 30 000 people, sweeping away over twenty kilometers of land.I was born in this dead city that has stopped growing and has remained ever since under the dark shadow of the catastrophe, and…
by Fanny Chrétien, 52 minutes Xavier Delorme is a professional storm chaser. Missioned by Météorage, a subsidiary of MétéoFrance, to capture and photograph lightning, he looks for the best point of view to install his equipment, travelling thousands of kilometers…
Dans un centre médico-social, Le Marronnier, en Suisse, l'artiste François Burland crée une gravure géante. Avec de jeunes migrants, au milieu des résidents. Le temps d’un été, ils se rencontrent, se racontent, se révèlent. Seuls…
COVER/AGE examines the lack of healthcare access for undocumented immigrants in California, and how two undocumented individuals are advocating to fight this exclusion. One protagonist is Emma, an elderly Pilipina caregiver, who has spent over a decade providing care for others. Over the course of the…
If you travel down a one-mile stretch of Doremus Avenue in Newark, NJ, you pass a natural gas plant next to a sewage treatment facility next to an animal fat rendering plant next to a series of ominous looking chemical storage containers behind acres of fencing. Airplanes pass overhead every two minutes,…
Une rencontre avec les Grecs de Camargue, descendants des pécheurs d’éponges de l’île de Kalymnos, venus ici pour travailler le sel, à travers témoignages intimes, paysages grandioses, scènes de vie, archives d’autrefois et musiques de là-bas.…
A 22 ans, Marie-Hélène interrompt sa carrière de professeur pour rentrer au noviciat des Sœurs de Saint-Paul de Chartres. Elle suit deux années de formation aux côtés d'autres jeunes femmes promises à Dieu - Marie-Hélène est la…
de Mike Baudoncq, documentaire de 52 minutes On entend des éclats de rire, ça parle pachtoune, anglais, arabe, français, bambara... On court, on joue, on crie et on s’embrasse. Le Château des Vaux, site des Apprentis d'Auteuil, situé à 40 kilomètres…
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White and looks into the connection between her physical traumas, on the one hand, and the history and collective political memory of Iran, her birthplace, on the other. Remembrance and re-construction provide a course, as she undergoes various…
