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HURRICANE KALATOZOV
2009-2010 - 74 min
Synopsis: By offering to USSR, in 1958, the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival with his masterpiece : “Cranes are flying”, Mikhaïl Kalatozov, director of georgian origin, opened an incredible breach in the greyness of... suite > |
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ROUBEN MAMOULIAN, BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD GOLDEN AGE
2006-2007 - 63 min
Synopsis: This film, which takes place in Tbilissi, Rochester, New York, Los Angeles but also in Paris recounts the density and complexity of one of the bigmasters and pioneers of Hollywood... more > |
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RETURN TO JACMEL
2005 - 26 min
Synopsis: On February 2005, for the first time since sixty years, french-haïtian writer and poet Rene DEPESTRE comes back to Jacmel, his birthplace, a small town in Haïti. He enjoys visiting all the places he cherished during his chilhood... more > |
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ARTHUR RIMBAUD, CHYPRE POSTE RESTANTE
2005 - 52 min
Synopsis: Shoot in the Ardennes, Cyprus, Alexandria, the Mediterranean coast and Mount Troodos, this film recreates the travel of Arthur Rimbaud at a crucial moment in his life… more > |
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RENE DEPESTRE, DIARY OF A PHENOMENAL SEAMAN
2004 - 63 min
Synopsis: In 1804, Haïti became the first black colony to win its independance. In 2004, from his adopted town in France at the foot of the Corbières, the poet-writer René Depestre… more > |
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SERGUEÏ PARADJANOV, THE REBEL
2003 - 52 min
Synopsis: Georgian-Armenian filmmaker who was born in Tbilissi (Georgia) and died in July 1990, Paradjanov is considered as one of the greatest contemporary film makers. He leaves an unfinished… more > |
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AZIZA, SCULPTORS FROM BENIN
2003 - 32 min
Synopsis: This film is a sort of travel to meet Béninian contemporary artists very implicated in cultural heritage of their country. Concerned by the modernity of their work and by the economic expansion of Benin… more > |
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KALI, BOOKS AND WOMEN
2002 - 27 min
Synopsis: Kali for Women, India’s first women’s publishing house, exists since 1984. Founded in New Delhi by two militant feminists, publisher and French language writer Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, its objective has been… more > |
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WRITERS FROM MALI
2002 - 26 min
Synopsis: The film seeks to show how good litterature, as supported by true freedom of expression, can exist in an African nation aspiring to democracy. Writers and… more >
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JEAN CORTOT, PAINTED WRITING
2000 - 26 min
Synopsis: This documentary wants to translate Jean Cortot’s personal touch. We see through his two studios in Paris and in the Lot area, close to Turenne, but also the one deeply inscribed in the French southern outside… more > |
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MARCELLE DELPASTRE, LIFE ON EDGE
1996 - 26 min
Synopsis: In 1985, in her hamlet in Germont (near Chamberet-Corréze) the writer Marcelle Delpastre kept on doing in the obscurity, since 30 years, a poetic, strict, marginal work at… more > |
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THE LARK’S SONG OR THE TROUBADOURS’ HERITAGE
1995/1996 - 68 min
Synopsis: In the 12th century, by the own power of words and music the Troubadours’s works made a start on a philosophical and cultural renaissance, which ten centuries later keep… more > |
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DOISNEAU IN TOWN, DOISNEAU IN FIELD
1993 - 55 min
Synopsis: Friendship always made him do foolish things.Realized a year before he passed away, this film is a document shooted after twenty years of friendship.Doisneau comes back to… more > |
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JEAN LURÇAT OR THE SUNNY DREAM
1992 - 26 min
Synopsis: This film is Jean Lurçat’s itinerary thanks to the filmed sequences in his villa Seurat in Paris and Saint Laurent Towers castle in Saint Céré but also in Angers and… more > |
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IT’S AN ENCHANTING CINEMA
1990 - 30 min
Synopsis: The Occidentals discovered the Georgian Cinema through the works oh Otar Iosseliani, Tenguiz Abouladzé, the Chenguelal Brothers, Nana Djordjazé. They depict a strange accuracy and truth about the human conditions and… more > |
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JEAN LURÇAT, THE HOUSE AND THE WORLD
1988 - 15 min
Synopsis: This film is about Jean Lurçat’s poetic itinerary in the Lot, at Saint Laurent Towers Castle, his last Studio but also in Angers’s museum. We discover the tapestry-painter’s complex... more > |
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SERGEI PARADJANOV, A PORTRAIT
1988 - 26 min
Synopsis: The first film about Sergeï Paradjanov to be made by a film crew for the West. Born in Tbilissi (Georgia) and died in July 1990, Paradjanov is considered as one of the greatest contemporary film makers… more > |
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MARCELLE DELPASTRE, THE VEGETABLE SONG
1986 - 32 min
Synopsis: In 1985, in her hamlet in Germont (near Chamberet-Corréze) the writer Marcelle Delpastre kept on doing in the obscurity, since 30 years, a poetic, strict, marginal work at… more > |
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INDIGO, PASTEL, VERMILLON…
1985 - 14 min
Synopsis: The dying of the wool needed for tapestry is one of the major steps of this art craft.
In Sidrat’s studio in Aubusson, where the ancient dying technique is still used we can observe the complex alchemy of the preparation… more > |
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AUBUSSON, THE PASSION OF THE TAPESTRY
1985 - 14 min
Synopsis: Aubusson, a village in the middle of the Limousin has been for centuries the world capital of tapestry of basse-lisse. The craftsmen savoir-faire enabled this town to gain… more > |
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PERE CASTOR’ S WORKS
2007 - 52 min
Synopsis: By their accounts, tales and drawings, PERE CASTOR’s books and albums let a very special footprint in the memories of the european children born with or after the second war world. more >
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DIALOGUE WITH AIME CESAIRE
2005 - 30 min
Synopsis: In his office of Fort de France’s emeritus mayor, on the first floor of the City Theater, Aimé Cesaire tells us about his itinerary as a poet and a militant. He highlights his great friends Rene Depestre and Leopold Sedar... more > |
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DOM ROBERT’S WOOL FIELDS
2005 - 26 min
Synopsis: Born in 1907, Dom Robert whose real name is Guy de Chaumac is one of the master of the contemporary tapestry making. In the twenties he enters the Decorative Arts School... more > |
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JOSEPH CARRIERE OR THE EASY LIFE
2003 - 52 min
Synopsis: Son of a country family from Carennac (Lot) a village on the sides of the Dordogne haunted by the memory of Fenelon, Joseph Carriére was born with electric light… more > |
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AMRITA SHER-GIL, AN INDIAN RHAPSODY
2002 - 52 min
Synopsis: For the indian people, Amrita Sher-Gil is a legend, a symbol. Born in Budapest in the early years of the Great War, this artist who was behind contemporary Indian painting died in… more > |
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RENE CAILLIE, BOOK OF SANDS
2001 - 26 min
Synopsis: This film relates René Caillié’s journey. A child from Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, a small village of the Deux-Sèvres, who learned the language of the Moors in Sénégal in 1824 before going to Timbuktoo that he would reach in… more > |
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ROBERT GIRAUD: THE SLANG MASTER
1999 - 26 min
Synopsis: It’s under the leadership of Robert Giraud, that lonely tormented soul Robert Doisneau from Limousin discovered the picturesque universe from Les Halles and many Parisian cafés… more > |
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JACQUES DUBOIS: THE WISDOM OF THE LOOK
1996 - 26 min
Synopsis: This film tends to help us to discover a discreet and endearing personality of the world of photography which has played a major role in the development of the graphic and… more > |
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MONTAIGNE LOVED AROUND US
1992/1993 - 63 min
Synopsis: How to pay homage to Michel de Montaigne on the 400th anniversary of his death as honestly and joyfully as he would have wished ? This documentary which tends to be loyal, impertinent and finally unveils... more > |
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ZADKINE, THE LIGHT
1992 - 26 min
Synopsis: After a first stay in Caylus,the sculptor Ossip Zadkine got himself a barn- studio in 1934 in the village named les Arques. During the summer months, he came here to work and create his main sculptures… more > |
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GOLD OF GEORGIA - GOUDJI THE GOLDSMITH
1991 - 26 min
Synopsis: The art of enamel on gold is considered in the Caucasus as the top of decorative Arts of the ancient kingdom of Georgia. The mystery of the making of the enamel pieces is complete… more > |
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DOM ROBERT OR THE KEY TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
1989 - 15 min
Synopsis: Dom Robert is a Dominican monk, a tapestry painter whose works are very successful. He works in his studio at En Calcat’s abbey, at the foot of the Montagne Noire… more > |
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NIKO PIROSMANI, THE PAINTER
1988 - 19 min
Synopsis: Living in the old Tiflis (Tbilissi), Niko (Pirosmanachvili) Pirosmani was a remarkable artist from the beginning of the century. He was a sign painter, a portraitist. He painted many frescos straight on the walls of… more > |
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MARCELLE, WORD
1986 - 9 min
Synopsis: This film shot with Marcelle Delpastre, poet-writer, tends to translate in Cinemascope her literary work and her emotions deeply linked to the rurality and the environment. Based on an inner monologue… more > |
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PARIS – INDE, SKETCHES AND CANVAS
1985-2008 - 50 min
Synopsis: The film, which is a 50 minutes long, provides a rare insight into the Parisian influence on four major contemporary Indian artists : Raza, Krishna
Reddy… more > |
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HOW TO RESTORE THE HERON ?
1985 - 20 min
Synopsis: The restoration workshops in Aubusson have been some of the jewel of this art craft often unknown. In one of the most famous workshop of town, this film follows the various steps of the professional technicians of sewing… more > |
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