History

In December 1914, German, English and French soldiers came out of hiding in their trenches and fraternised with the enemy. This behaviour was without doubt marginal, but it did show something infinately more real regarding the state of mind of the soldiers, than what we were used to seeing. Follow...

In the Autumn of 1999, Putin was an unknown civil servant in charge of Russia's FSB, the country's ill-loved intelligence agency. How did it happen that he became Boris Yeltsin's heir as Russian president? This is the story of the deal that put Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin and a portrait of ...

In Nazi concentration camps, the Gulag and Japanese war camps, deportees wrote cooking recipes. Hundreds of those recipes were copied in small notebooks by starving human beings of all origins–women, men, young, old, French, Russians, Americans–who took huge risks to write and keep them. Telling abo...

“Cakes for new mothers, Baden Caramel sweets, Quetsch strudel, Linzertorte…” A handwritten recipe book, covered in craft paper, held together by a simple piece of string. Deported by the nazis in Terezin, Mina Pächter wrote down, before dying of starvation, her best recipes to send to her daughter w...

In 1932, Japan invaded China. In 1936, China made an attempt to resist occupation. The Japanese armies retorted with a massive punitive campaign. But Nanking where the Chinese government had moved, put up a fierce fight. When the city finally fell, Prince Asaka decided to avenge the numerous Japane...

Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary diptych of two feature-length films 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. Non-Aligned re-traces the birth ...

In September 1944, the writer Louis Guilloux took part in the trial of a black American soldier in Brittany, France. The GI is sentenced to death by hanging. This affair haunted the novelist for thirty years. In 1976, he told it in a short novel: “Ok, Joe! ". He unveiled a taboo aspect of the 2nd Wo...

Every year in June, the Gay Pride parade is a wild party. It hasn’t always been like this. While 2020 marks its 50th anniversary, it was originally the first time gays and lesbians walked the streets in New York, claiming publicly to be out, and this procession was intended to commemorate the Stonew...

The Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have become the battlefields where our future and that of the planet are being played out. This film documents 30 years of war that marked the return of religion in the realm of politics. It began in 1979 and the Iranian revolution, and develops over with ...

His future looked glorious. The battles, the achievements, the medals. Unscrupulously from one war to the next. However, one day in 1957 he refuses to obey orders justifying the use of torture during the war in Algeria. “Globetrotter par excellence” he turns to the side of non-violence. The destiny...