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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...
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Armed with a camera and plenty of reckless enthusiasm, two childhood friends decide to take on the adventure of spending the summer at an alpine pasture. The two plan mainly to revive their friendship...
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In Pristina, everyone knows Kadri Batusha's house, a concrete and steel castle that arose without plans, archi- tects or permits, and shelters some 300 residents on the heights of the Kosovar capital....
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Marcel Schaffner was a Swiss painter born in Basel in 1931 and influenced by the post-war American movements, particularly abstract expressionism and Color Field. In this documentary portrait made...
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Ibrahima, a Senegalese, takes on various small jobs in Tangiers while wait- ing to realise his dream of reaching the Old Continent. Agostinho, age 57, has spent his life fishing on his boat. But...
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Mahmud, aged 29, was part of the rebel movements that fought against Bachar el-Assad's regime before seeing the rise in power of the Islamic State and then also fighting them. But after ISIS attacked...
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A summer night, on the water's edge, hundreds of people, men and women, have gathered. It's Paris, on the banks of the Ourcq Canal, La Villette basin and it has been like this for many years. People...
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An account of a counter-memorial of Italian immigration to Switzerland in the 1960s is weaved through the memories of a woman whose accent suggests a potential affiliation with the theme of the film....
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Throughout the 1980s, the young people of Geneva demanded spaces of political and cultural freedom. Their fight resulted in the creation of ‘l'Usine', a cultural action centre which has remained “the...
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Riace is a small village in Calabria. Once there were warriors roaming the land. Today it is a safe haven for refugees. A small community and its idea of utopia in the heart of a growing...
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Anoosh and Arash are DJs of Tehran's underground house music scene. However, the fight for their right to party is very tough. In order to organise raves, they adopt spy-like underground techniques to...
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Back in the village after his studies in town, Maofu is 20 years old and his ambition is to modernise his father's bee farm. However, the latter does not see it this way and bemoans his son's lack of...