Projections Spéciales
One year of life in Lampedusa, the Sicilian island whose shores refugees from North Africa reach in desperate conditions. For all of them, Lampedusa is the gateway to Europe. Closer to Africa than to...
Projections Spéciales
“When we talk of war, children count only in terms of statistics. What these innocent victims feel, how they behave, is rarely evoked.” (FB) Sarah dit... Leïla dit... r eveals almost unknown...
Doc Alliance Selection
Three extraordinary jazzmen from Czechoslovakia, Laco Deczi (trumpet), Jan Jankeje (contrabass) and Lubo Tamškovič (saxophone) set off on their music career in the 1960s and were influenced by the...
Doc Alliance Selection
In 1308, the workers for the Duomo of Siena commissioned from Duccio di Buoninsegna a monumental Madonna in Majesty featuring saints and, on the other side, the Passion of Christ. Although, throughout...
Projections Spéciales
Imagine that. The supreme military headquarters of the United States sum- mon their archenemy Michael Moore for a super-classified debriefing. The chiefs of the world's greatest military power...
Premiers Pas
Philbert Mbabazi is failing to talk to “the old people” about colonisation. This is when he meets an individual in Geneva who claims to be the son of Marshal Mobutu and has himself filmed clad in an...
Grand Angle
Small city, big story. In the Wichita Foothills rises a different Jerusalem, right in the heart of Oklahoma. For the past 88 years, the eastern pageant about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ...
Maître du Réel
In 1931, Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Guanajuato in Mexico to shoot a film. Building on the huge success of his masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925), he had previously been invited to the...
Helvétiques
Cédric is a farmer. Lila Ribi films him throughout the year in which he decides to radically change his working methods, abandoning conventional agriculture in order to embark on an experiment in...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Gates of the Lamb is an atypical film in the work of Audrius Stonys. Firstly, because it was initiated by a Lithuanian cleric, Gediminas Numgaudis, who even entirely produced it outside...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the Second World War, a Lithuanian farmer found the bodies of three dead soldiers — two Russians and a German — near his house. Fearing reprisals, he quickly buried them in a ravine where he...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
The first row of the Stonys pantheon features timeless characters. This one could almost be the exception, having lived out a kind of saga. Because Ramin Lomsadje is a former Greco-Roman wrestling...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
A wedding home movie, the only trace of past happiness, was saved from the flames that destroyed the house of a couple. Stonys follows here the way of the cross of the victims, who are starting again...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Almost entirely composed of archives, Four Steps is Audrius Stonys' most literally ethnographic film. The reels shown do not come from official institutions, but from Lithuanian family films shot...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the Swedish-Lithuanian war 300 years ago, the bell of the Plateliai church was apparently dismantled and then left to sink at the centre of the eponymous lake. In 2006, Audrius Stonys followed...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
“Pain does not affect us only in the mourning experience that exposes us to Eternity but also through life itself which throws us into the course of time.” With these words borrowed from the Russian...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
The start of the film: we hear a nurse in the process of putting a man onto life support. Who is he? The name engraved on a headstone in the next shot? Setting off in the footsteps of Augustinas...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Alone (a prize-winner at Visions du Réel in 2001) is a film whose power appears inversely proportional to the simplicity of its approach: a filmmaking team, which appears on screen several times,...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Audrius Stonys was able to direct this “flight” thanks to sophisticated filming techniques and specific sound delivery recreating the wind. The result invites us to enjoy, via images and sound, the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Fedia draws calmly on his cigarette when the director asks him to comment on God, Heaven and Hell or the Big Bang, which two scholars are “describing” in front of the camera. It's the silence of the...