To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

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Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

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12 Days

12 Days

A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

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Les habitants

Les habitants

Raymond Depardon sets out to meet French people to listen to them tell their tales. From Charleville-Mézières to Nice, Sète to Cherbourg, he...

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Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

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Against Oblivion

Against Oblivion

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a...

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Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

Miscellaneous images of African life.

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Profils paysans: l'approche

Profils paysans: l'approche

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

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1974, une partie de campagne

1974, une partie de campagne

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing

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Modern Life

Modern Life

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

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Concerning Nice

Concerning Nice

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

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Captive of the Desert

Captive of the Desert

A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...

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Profils paysans: le quotidien

Profils paysans: le quotidien

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director...

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Reporters

Reporters

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by...

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Urgences

Urgences

A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable...

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Feminist Riposte

Feminist Riposte

Documentary that follows the movement of the collage makers throughout France.

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Délits flagrants

Délits flagrants

This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.

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Journal de France

Journal de France

A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the...

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Untouched by the West

Untouched by the West

Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters...

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