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The life and times of Barney Wilen, the legendary jazz musician who at age 18 was already playing with Miles Davis, and whom many called the “greatest European saxophonist.” Exiled to Zanzibar in the 70s, hero of Loustal's cult comic strip, The Blue Note, Wilen was as famous for his brilliant appear...

On the beach of Thiaroye-sur-Mer on the outskirts of Dakar, the incongruous presence of the director and his " Mobile Office for Discussion" provokes many meetings. It gathers the stories of those who left but failed to reach their destination. As, for the past five years, hundreds of men have embar...

Near Charleroi, Colin lives alone with his mother in a dilapidated house which caves in each day a little more. Facing misery, he writes with his buddies in his room, transformed into a kind of improvised "youth centre". Rap. As safety valve and as necessity. The only way they have found to speak of...

For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character driven stories of refugees, migrants and English ...

Hundreds of thefts are regularly committed in the Paris metro by Romanian children. After several arrests, the Juvenile Protection Brigade takes over the case. The film follows the investigation carried out in collaboration with the Romanian police. Very quickly interrogations and tapping reveal tha...

Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.  It plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for i...

Nadezhda, in Bulgaria, is one of the biggest and worst Roma ghettos in Europe. 20,000 people live packed into an unsanitary environment, walled off from the city by a three metre high wall. Nadezhda itself is strikingly symbolic of the apartheid that most Roma suffer from in Europe today. A glimmer...

For two decades, the victims of the Six-Day War in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been fighting in Kisangani for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding compensation. Tired of unsuccessful pleas, they have finally decided to voice their claims in Kinshasa, after a long journey d...

Consisting of archival material (Super 8 footage, interviews, and images of Budapest), East Punk Memories is based on the testimony of twelve former punks. At the end of the 1980s, they expressed their rage against the regime and awaited with hope a change to the system. What has become of them twen...

1938, facing an incredible outburst of antisemitism and in the light of the tragedy experienced by the masses of all those persecuted by the Nazi regime, 32 nations met in Evian-Les-Bains for an international conference on refugees. This conference raised a question that until then had been off-limi...