Arts and Culture

A portrait of major contemporary artist Miquel Barceló through his process of creation, always on the spot, outside the workshop and for an ephemeral life....

Dominique, Robert and Ginette are film extras. They go from set to set and merge into a group the time it takes to shoot their scenes. Is there hope for a real role or is this fun enough? Every one of them has their own good reason to be there, to throw themselves into this environment that sheds s...

The paintings and drawings of the Chauvet cave – made thirty six thousand years ago and discovered twenty years ago in the south of France – are the oldest human artistic expression to date. Their strength and modernity changed radically all the ideas we had on prehistorical art. The creation of an ...

Harlem 1968, a group of young poets get together and found THE LAST POETS, the founding fathers of today’s hip hop, rap and slam. The group denounces the oppression of African-Americans, while painting a devastating yet humorous picture of life in the ghetto. Nearly forty years after their separatio...

Brigitte is a painter. She is autistic. But, every Wednesday she models for Jean-Luc. With time, the distance between the artist and his model decreases. Facing Brigitte and her “strangeness”, Jean Luc slowly finds his own place. While observing one another, Brigitte’s painting contributes to the...

Douglas Trumbull was a pioneer of modern special effects. Known for his work with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Steven Spielberg’s Encounters of the Third Kind, Trumbull became an outstanding figure in the film world. This documentary offers fascinating insights into the mysterious wo...

Visiting the Louvre begins outside with an interminable one or two-hour queue. So what! Visitors are prepared for a long adventure. This film presents the portrait of a diverse public whose many voices speak of their presence at the museum, their expectations and the content of their visits. Supposi...

With Japan’s opening to the West in the 19th century, travellers bring back art objects and engravings in Europe. Japonism overwhelms the artists imagination as a reaction against academism, and influences the avant-gardes, leaving it’s mark on the Impressionists, the Nabis or the Fauves… Through th...

Following an appeal by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich, a founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers travels to the city to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a “fine example of linguistic collaboration” in this “high place of sp...

At sunset in the streets of the ancient old town, the musical clubs of Zanzibar buzz with the joyful sounds of Taarab, the music of Zanzibar, whose style reflects two millennium of cultural exchange and the island's place at the crossroads of the spice route. ...