Atchinsk, 2500 miles away from Moscow, a Siberian town to which Soviet dissidents and, before them, the Tsar's opponents were deported. Campaign for presidential elections. Cold winter. The people are not really keen on talking politics. Iouri, political hireling working for Putin's party explains t...

The knowledge needed to build the atomic bomb was not given to us, it was consciously pursued. And the world has been living with the consequences ever since. Snake Dance is a personal reading of humankind’s catastrophic decision to play God. From New Mexico to Congo and Japan, we explore the atomi...

An exposed Cumbrian village by the sea surrounded by windmills, fields and factories provides a striking setting for this fairy tale of young love and the loss of childhood innocence. Over one year, the film follows the 9 year-old Laura Anne and her 11 year-old cousin, Steven as they move towards t...

Stony Paths is the story of a walk across Anatolia. Arnaud Khayadjanian starts a trek in Turkey, on the land of his forefathers who survived the Armenian Genocide. Starting from a painting, from encounters and from accounts by his relatives, he goes on exploring the little known issue of the Righteo...

Crazy, dynamic and ironic, this film takes us on a journey into the history of Tehran with Massoud Bakhshi’s film crew. In this both humouristic and critical portrait of a major city, he joyfully plays with fact and fiction to depict today’s reality. From the city's foundation, then a small rural ...

Ada is 19. A man she knows invites her to dinner and she accepts. Everything goes so quickly. She doesn’t defend herself. Body and mind in tatters. In spite or because of that, she returns twice to confront him. Her story is intertwined with others, each one different yet all the same – a nasty, in...

The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens and crops are green again. People support one another and families have reunited. In a movement of solidarity, local youth help rebuild what was devastated a year ago when Russian troops occupied the ...

In Bangui, Rodrigue and Reine are a couple very involved in the activities of their church. But they live with a terrible secret: they are sick with AIDS and carry it like a divine punishment. When Rodrigue is offered the position of assistant pastor, he has doubts: is he worthy of leading the churc...

Through the daily life of a general practitioner, this film offers an investigation into today's medical practices - practices which have become so specialised and modernised that they sometimes bypass what was once their foundation: the doctor's appointment and clinical exam. We attend the doctor's...

On his farm in Moldavia, Costica Arhir stakes his honour on bringing up his three children well while his wife has left to work abroad. He supervises their studies, cuts their hair, reads to them and mobilises them on the farm, gets them to help with the housework and cooking. The mother’s absence i...