Dark Forests

Dark Forests

At the end of the road lies a track, the very last, a track swamped with the mud of a Siberian autumn, and at the end of this track lies a vast...

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The First Days

The First Days

On a stretch of desert coastline in northern Chile where it never rains, seaweed collectors live on a shoestring and live life to the fullest, in...

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The Ways of the World: Vol. 1

The Ways of the World: Vol. 1

A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23 May.

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Filles du feu

Filles du feu

The Empty House

The Empty House

Shot like a western without a gun, at a drunkard’s distance, the film takes place in New Mexico among an ancient Spanish community eaten to rack...

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Heaven in a Garden

Heaven in a Garden

Focused on his neighbours, Le Ciel dans un jardin continues the conversation, begun with the previous film, which is imbued with melancholy in the...

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A Silent Summer

A Silent Summer

Filmed during the Kirghiz summer pastures in the Tian Shan Mountains, the film describes the quarrels of shepherds living in the same tent as well...

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Night Rising on Clouds

Night Rising on Clouds

A documentary with black-white imagery taken in West Papua (Indonesia).

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Ascent to the Sky

Ascent to the Sky

In a small valley in Nepal, at the end of a path worn out by so many feet and so many centuries, two old shepherds escape fromt their village to...

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Quelques jours ensemble

Quelques jours ensemble

Russian people are passing before us during an endless train journey in winter. We lose ourselves in their speeches, gestures, faces, eyes...

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Le monde extérieur

Le monde extérieur

A poetic stroll that doubles as a lilliputian ethnography and Lilliputian ethnography, filmed downstairs in the streets of Paris. It's a kind of...

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Them and Me

Them and Me

Shot behind the scenes, from the point of view of a subjective camera, the film shows the ethnologist’s ambiguous relations and negotiations with...

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