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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...

The Iran-Irak war lasted eight years: from 1980 to 1988. Enormous frescos of the faces of those who died in the war cover the walls of every Iranian city. These portraits exalt the “martyrs”. Today, seventeen years after the end of the war, a whole generation later, the martyrs faces are still a ...

Far from Home is a film about women facing the war fought by the men they love. Told through the eyes of Kelly, Dina, Jennifer, and Michelle, this documentary explores the war in Iraq as experienced by four young women in America. By revealing the tragic gaps between war time propaganda and the lon...

Here we are, in Dr Moussa Maman’s surgery. The room is basic, the space cramped: a few chairs, a plain rug on the floor to be used as a bed. The characters: Dr Maman, his assistant and a few patients who come by, including a witch doctor. This doctor moves freely, without batting an eyelid, from Eur...

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...

The Galmi purple, the onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou’s been waiting for her wedding for 2 years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : «The wedding will take place at the harvest !» Y...

This film is a poetic exploration of the film-maker’s journey to discover the true identity of her grand-uncle Henry Hall. Acting like a historical researcher she begins with the family myth about this mysterious character. All her relatives have a different story about who he really was: a murdere...

Michel Foucault died in June 1984. He left behind a legendary work that has been translated into all the languages of the world, and that has been the subject of a thousand interpretations. The man was much like his work: complex and contradictory. Our film mirrors all the facets of his hectic life....

During the period of one year, Iranian exiles followed the « green revolution » via Internet from the street demonstrations to the so called trials.. Between the anonymous amateur images and the official government images, the feelings expressed in emails they received and the official speeches, the...

In a college in Vaucresson, handicapped and able bodied sports students share the same rowdy classrooms, while enjoying wheelchair races and little romances. In this unusual co-educative environment, the film examines adolescence and the questions they ask themselves regularly, such as, “ Who am I? ...