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- During the Second World War in the United States, cinema was extensively used as a propaganda vehicle. All the great filmmakers were involved: Capra, Ford, Huston, and Hollywood's new master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. After making several films advocating American entry into the war alongside the British, in direct violation of the Neutrality Act, Hitchcock took advantage of Zanuck's departure from 20th Century Fox to launch a major new propaganda project: Lifeboat. He asked John Steinbeck to write the basic story. This great American literary figure, author of The Grapes of Wrath, whose adaptation was one of Fox's biggest successes, was himself very committed to the war effort. When Lifeboat was released, success quickly turned to controversy. What if Hitchcock's film had completely missed the mark? What if, instead of providing anti-Nazi propaganda, the film actually defended the thesis that the German people were superior to the Allies and the union of democracies?
- "I m called Lancelot Rubinstein, my wife died that day, in this moment. She was called Irina. The more strange in this story is to discover the person with which we live once that she is dead. "
- Under the Nazi regime, were women only glorified for their ability to give birth to future soldiers? Obviously not. How could a dictatorial regime with a total absence of women in the upper echelons of power, through laws, films and a clear desire to put an end to bourgeois norms, actually encourage the emancipation of young people? women ? One of the most interesting paradoxes of this documentary.
- As every Sunday in the Detention Center where she finds herself prisoner, Nathalie awaits her turn in the visiting room.
- Director Bruno Romy has put together a surreal, droll, and sometimes melancholy, sometimes simply trashy series of seven vignettes on the love lives of several couples.
- John and his mother Catherine saw their lives tumble because Peter, the father, chose to humiliate his wife in front of his children and neighbors to punish her for a hostile rumor.
- A drought-struck island in the Mediterranean - Welcome to Cyprus. Anne Quéméré meets some of its inhabitants whose daily lives face dramatic changes due to the ever-increasing scarcity of water.
- The mysterious story of a lost film.
- Every year, Hellfest raises its black flag on the coast of France and brings screaming hordes of music fans to experience three days of insanity. Witness the colossal effort and the army of crew required to build Europe's go-to fest for metal.
- Video recording of the contemporary dance/choreographic show created by Akram Khan, "Kaash".
- In a factory bunker on the outskirts of Krakow, a group of punk outsiders live by their own rules, bobbing their heads to the sound of their favorite bands while hand stitching leather boots labeled "hand stitched in Poland." The crisp charcoal-like images are framed and edited to vibrate along with the punk rock music that fills the workspace during the day and fuels the parties at night. This unique boot factory shows that rock and roll can still represent real resistance. The camera moves discreetly, always immersed in the events. Extreme close-ups of the leather and of the scars on the flesh are tactile, tangible and touchable. Cult director Kowalski reveals the simmering tension in the bootmakers' lives and the releases they find in their work and music. The images confront us directly, the music intrusive, scenes gather speed and tumble forward. Nevertheless the apparent spontaneity of the pictures conceals a real mastery of cinematic techniques. The camera follows their lives first showing the mythical aspect of the enterprise but then a harsher reality.
- Simon Tabet is a Lebanese who currently lives in the United States. He urgently arrives to Marseilles to look for Nirane Tabet, who maybe his long lost sister, reported missing during a massacre in which his whole family perished at the outset of the war in Lebanon (1975-1990).
- It was planned as a journey to one of the most beautiful and most fascinating islands in the world! It turns out as their most dangerous and toughest adventure ever! the professional Freeskiers Phil Meier, Matthias Haunholder and Matthias Mayr try to reach the Island Onekotan far out in stormy seas to ski the most unique Peak in the World.
- Chil Rajchman was 28 years old when he was deported to Treblinka in October 1942. Separated from his sister when he got off the train, he escaped the gas chambers by becoming a clothes sorter, hairdresser, corpse carrier and tooth puller. .. On August 2, 1943, he took part in the camp uprising and escaped. After several weeks of wandering, Chil Rajchman hides out with a friend near Warsaw. While the war was not yet over, he wrote in a notebook about his ten months spent in Treblinka. At the Liberation, he was one of the 57 survivors of this extermination center where at least 850,000 Jews were murdered between July 1942 and November 1943.
- Between Paris and Tunis, a film reel deemed to be the first test for talking movies is the Pandora box that makes us meet a brilliant and visionary man: Jacques Haïk.
- They are just over 17,000: the French customs officers. For several weeks, we follow Aurélie, Stéphanie, Christine, Daniel, and Philippe, five customs officers working in different brigades in France and who are all fighting against fraud.
- Documentary on an emergency accommodation center for homeless people, located in the suburbs of Paris.
- He was the great rival and competitor of renowned studios Pathe and Gaumont. He created Paris's two mythical theaters, the Rex and the Olympia, and was one of the talking film pioneers. He's also the one who revolutionized the Arabic cinema by spreading the Egyptian films through out North Africa. Yet today, few know who Jacques Haik was, and his name has almost disappeared from cinema history. Thanks to a mysterious roll of film and some determined descendants, Jacques Haik's name is back on everyone's lips, from Tunis to Paris, from memory to history.