Denise Rimbaud leaves her husband, her job and her city to go live in the country. Paul Godard, a TV producer, is afraid of leaving the city and afraid of solitude since Denise has left. Isabelle has left the country to become a prostitute in town. The imaginary world, fear and commerce in each character's life are the three movements of a film ending with a musical movement.

“I would like to slow down, film what we don't usually see, I'm going to try to show you that on a video cassette, not slow down exactly, a little to break down this past in the moment where it makes up the present of the characters. » (JLG, letter no. 1 in advance on receipts, 1979)

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

The life of Etienne-Jules Marey, the 19th century pioneer of photography and cinema, famous for studying animal and human locomotion.

"Le métier comporte ses joies pour ceux qui aiment la mer, pour ceux qui l’aiment jusqu’à l’exclusion de toute autre possibilité de joie naturelle. Patauger jour et nuit par n’importe quel temps même où l’on sait ne rien trouver, de l’eau au nombril ou aux chevilles, fouiller partout, algue ou pieuvre, s’hypnotiser sur une mare sinistre où tout vous guette alors que rien n’y vit — extase de n’importe quel intoxiqué y compris le chien de chasse kilométrant en tous sens avec un plaisir infini le champ dont chaque repli cache, au plus, une vieille patate."

Jean Painlevé, "Les Pieds dans l’Eau", Voilà, 4 mai 1935.

Ce programme réunit 5 courts métrages réalisés par Jean Painlevé : Le Vampire, La Pieuvre, L'Hippocampe, Comment naissent les méduses, Acéra ou le bal des sorcières.

Mai 1968 Paris France. 8 millions de Français sont en grève. La Sorbonne est prise d'assaut, les étudiants occupent les locaux universitaires où ils imposent un débat social et remettent en question les institutions conventionnelles.

Quel rôle joue le cinéma dans ce contexte ? Comment s’engagent les cinéastes dans le contexte d'une politique culturelle à redéfinir ? Des étudiants en cinéma, des lycéens, des ouvriers — notamment des usines Citroën —, mais aussi des réalisateurs confirmés comme Jean-Luc Godard, participent dans ce film aux débats et aux affrontements des collectifs de cinéma nés en mai 68. Ce n'est qu’un début, continuons le combat - Le film comme arme politique est un document unique de cette époque.

Dans son documentaire …ce qui importe, c’est de le transformer, la réalisatrice s'intéresse aux ouvrières de l'industrie métallurgique à Francfort, Wetzlar et Mannheim. Elle rend visible la manière dont le travail en usine et le travail familial se conditionnent mutuellement en tant que lieux d'exploitation qu'il ne suffit pas d'interpréter, mais qu'il faut fondamentalement changer. Ce sont les femmes elles-mêmes qui s'expriment dans le film et qui discutent entre elles des possibilités et conditions de changement. "Le tournage était extrêmement compliqué et la direction des entreprises généralement peu intéressée à rendre publics les conditions de travail catastrophiques des femmes. Il fallait une sorte de "Wallraffiade" féminine* pour obtenir les autorisations de tournage en faisant semblant d'aborder des sujets supposés et d'autres intentions".

Newly qualified as a Doctor, Marie Prieur hangs up her shingle in Isle of Ouessant. Her professional integrity and her kindness soon win her the esteem of the islanders. Her friend and sole confidante, Miss Leblanc, the Island school teacher for twenty-five years, is distressed to see Marie risking her reputation and future by her attachement to Andre Lorenzi, an engineer temporarily at Ouessant to instzal a fog sirene. At the moment Maria refuses to make a sacrifice that Andre demands of her, Miss Leblanc suddenly dies...

A Joan of Arc's trial reconstruction concerning her imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English. Filmed in a spare, low-key fashio

Frederique leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state of feelings begin to fill her mind, forcing her to come to terms with innermost self.

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.

Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.

While expecting her first child, Emma learns that she has breast cancer. The doctor plans an abortion. She consults another specialist, Doctor Morin, who says that the treatments can be followed while continuing the pregnancy.

Armand, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is a popular middle-aged homosexual. Just as he was getting sick of life, he falls in love with a young girl called, Curlie, and goes on the run from her parents and the police.

Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailors on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working as sailor and mechanic for the fishing boats of the "Lights of the Communism" kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love with the beautiful Misha.

Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame's to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame's husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated.

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...

A satire about young African men arriving in the district of Saint Germain des Prés in Paris during the 70s

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters, Moretti uses the experiences of traveling on his motor-scooter, cruising with his friend around a set of remote islands in search of peace to finish his new film and consulting doctor after doctor to cure his annoying rash to cast a humorous look at his life and those around him.

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Kourou, a young villager, decides to conquer Kinshasa, the capital. But it is easier said than done. In the big city, Kourou finds nothing but odd jobs and throws his life away with prostitutes. One day he is even fired for stealing. The situation seems hopeless but the worm turns the moment when, after entering a bar, Kourou takes a mike in his hands and starts singing.

When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.

Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták, a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová, takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her grandfather.

The daily life in the primary school of Taillères, in the La Brévine valley, is filmed over the course of an entire school year, from 1959 to 1960. Henry Brandt's film, which won the Vela d'argento in Locarno in 1961, is a unique testimony to pedagogical processes, with a tender observation of the relationship between the young protagonists, their place of birth and the adult world.

Sort of a low-budget Short Cuts (1993), set in the Flemish port city of Antwerp on a warm day in June. Natalie, her brother Chouki, her boyfriend Walter and his ex Lara, the gallery keeper Firmin, unhappily married French language teacher Paul Garcin, a couple of party-loving studs from Ghent (another Flemish city) and the enigmatic Windman, independently go about their lives, which have little in common, yet all end up on the same place for a grand party that evening.

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with Heinrich, who ups the ante by suggesting they have a child. She takes him seriously by initiating a journalistic project interviewing working mothers, asking how they balance work and family, delving into their sexual histories. Heinrich sulks when she spends evenings on the project, he's childish. Should she leave him? The story plays out against the backdrop of left-wing political agitation.

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Two ex-soldiers search for stability and love when they return home after World War One.

In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow.

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martincek, the film's power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.

Inspired by Robert Flaherty's narrative documentaries, the Jewish ethnologist and filmmaker Friedrich Dalsheim made this expedition film with a fiction plot. The villagers of Bedulu on Bali live in peace and harmony. Only witches and demons threaten their happiness by causing trouble and bringing disease to the village. Even Wajan and Sari can only come together after they have overcome the demonic forces.

In this satire on Art under Socialism, a minor musician who plays the humble triangle becomes a tyrannical orchestra director.

Three women, a journalist, her French friend and a pop singer, deal with life, career, desire, sex and personal fantasies.

This is a ballad about love, hate, and a search for a way out of loneliness. It is a dramatic story about the strange potter, Martin Lepis, nicknamed Dragon, who is suspected by the villagers as the cause of natural disasters. He loses his beloved, his home, and his freedom due to false accusations. After years he returns to his native village. Putting his own life to risk, he saves a herd of cattle from a forest fire in the hills. But not even this heroic deed helps him to win back the friendship of the locals.

Omar, from La Garenne-Colombes, has decided to spend his holidays in the land of his ancestors, Algeria. On his way back, he boards the ferry "Le Tassili" and during the crossing he meets people who share his feelings...

An accurate and sensitive adaptation of Akli Tadjer's novel Les A.N.I du Tassili, which was awarded the Prix Georges Brassens in 1985.

Fictional re-enactments about the early years in Belgium of the director's parents, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and scenes taken in modern Brussels in this elliptical experimental feature.

Linda—young, self-confident and independent—is the manager of a construction site. Most in her team are men, so it is no wonder that she falls in love—not with one, but with two very different men.

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

Film as a sort of family therapy – an unvarnished chronicle of a divorced mother in West Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel neighbourhood. She talks without reserve about why her family is falling apart, while at the same time discussing her own ambitions.

A surreal-looking episodic film about the freedom of trying out new lifestyles and dropping out of society. Hans, who lives aimlessly into the day, meets the successful guy Ardy and because he suddenly wants to stop doing nothing, he gets left by his girlfriend Petra …

Bernhard has to drop out of university after an altercation with a neo-Nazi. He falls in love with Johanna, the daughter of a building contractor, and travels to Prague with her. Johanna's father pulls the strings in the background to put his future son-in-law on the right track from his point of view…

Scenes from a marriage in crisis. Karin Hendrich is 30, the mother of a young daughter. Before marrying, she was an interpreter. Her husband, Robert, doesn’t understand why she wants to go back to work. He’s a shipyard engineer and can provide for everything Does he suspect that Karin is cheating on him with Ulrich, one of his freelance colleagues?

Detective Peter Flowers has to deal with Nola, the "most beautiful and corrupt woman in the world"...

Nyúl Béla, the insignificant teacher of Latin, father of four, writes a study on Hannibal, which states that the war lord became the victim of the revolution in Carthago. A journalist appears at Nyúls', he makes an interview, the family is happy: the bread-and-jam age is over. In the Parliament however, the extreme right wing makes a scandal on the pretext of the paper and Nyúl Béla is dismissed. The teacher pays a visit to his former classmate, the right wing representative Muray. He promises help, but in a great assembly in the Amphiteatrum he already heats the mob against Nyúl. The teacher publicly "becomes converted". He is taken aback by the bursting out enthusiasm of the mob, and falling from the cornice he crashes to his death.

The lyrical, impressionist film takes place in Óbuda in the thirties. The smart, unemployed Pettersen meets the immaculately clean worker girl. They spend several nights together in the little hut of the man built of trash. Vera works in a laundry, but all her wish is to become a dancer. The boss, Weiszhaupt, notices the girl. The defenceless Vera leaves Pettersen for the promise of a safe future. When the man gets himself a job in the laundry as well, he sees her again as Weiszhaupt's lover. True love arises in Vera, but now Pettersen refuses her.

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. But during his last secret visit he leaves his gloves there, then wakes up the Barlay-house in the night, drunken and noisy. Therefore, the doctor asks him for a duel. On the day of the dual Barlay is found dead. He has been shot down from behind. Everybody knows who the murderer is, but defending the honour of the uniform is the first priority. The lieutenant's servant's confession is accepted, and the naive Kaál Samu believes Ferdinándy, i.e. that nothing is going to happen to him. Samu continues to believe his master until the moment of his execution. A disgusted lieutenant is discharged, and the regiment moves on to the next town.

The film is a tension-filled parable about the power of order, cruelty and submissive behaviour. A young man arrives at a falconers' plant for summer exercise. The plant stands in the middle of barren land, secluded from everything and managed by the fanatic Lilik, keeping rigorous discipline. Besides him and the falconers only Teréz lives there. The Boy learns the tasks at the plant and is captivated by the elementary force and beauty of the flight of the falcons. Yet he is more and more abhorred by the spiritual terror and the barbaric order used by Lilik to subdue his men. He endures the man-probing hunt but releases the captured falcon in the end. Teréz and the Boy are attracted to each other but she is unable to break out. After a mighty, devastating storm, the Boy packs his belongings and leaves. The others stay.

The dying Szindbád, knight of fairy tales, searches for the purpose of life staggering along the border of life an death. He believes to have found beauty in the organically transforming nature, in sensual and culinary pleasures. His memories come to life: photographs that are now brown, withered flowers, yellowish pages of love letters. He sees the row of women who have been dear to his heart; Florentin, Lenke, Fruzsina, the little flower girl and the others. He remembers how the tactful waiter, Vendelin, used to tell about his wife between the bone with marrow and the fried pheasant, and the way he would curse that unknown nobleman, - i.e. himself, Szinbád, - with whom she ran away and who drove her to commit suicide. An autonomous spirit, and everlasting searching for perfection makes it impossible for Szinbád to find peace in a single woman's love, and his loneliness is dissolved only at the table laid by the motherly Majmunka. His last journey takes him to the church. In the spiritedness of the organist, Angyal, Szinbád experiences the completeness of life, and in that moment he reaches true death.

The film is about the possible attitudes one can assume towards tyranny and dictatorship in the modern man's perspective. Oreste and Elektreia stand up against oppression of freedom in the name of justice, law, and revolution. On the day of Aegistos' accession to the throne - and which is supposed to be the day of telling the truth - people remain silent. The "cracked-brained" is the only one who instigates, waiting desperately for Oreste. Her brother arrives to take vengeance for his father, and they kill each other to rise later as phoenix birds again and again wherever freedom is wanted. A red colour helicopter takes them there.

The story of a family living in the popular apartments in the suburbs.

A famous director wants to make a movie on Love, the real one, the on lived by his parents who spent 60 years together.

A girl comes back to her apartment after two months, finding an old friend. He lives there as if it was his own home and he does not seem available to go away.

Two brothers are world apart.

The daily life in the primary school of Taillères, in the La Brévine valley, is filmed over the course of an entire school year, from 1959 to 1960. Henry Brandt's film, which won the Vela d'argento in Locarno in 1961, is a unique testimony to pedagogical processes, with a tender observation of the relationship between the young protagonists, their place of birth and the adult world.

Since 1695 the people of Brussels know that their 'Manneken Pis' is an easy target for thieves and jokers. Machin uses this premise and makes his panther steal the statue.

Touristic film in which two children discover Brussels's leading monuments and sights.

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Butterfly Woman, another string puppet with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings that hold him in his place as a spectator give way. Thus free, he runs to the Butterfly Woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.

The first film directed by a female director, "The Cabbage Fairy" presents a brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.

An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.

A heavily pregnant woman has a series of irrepressible cravings while walking with her family.

In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?

Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.

A behind the scenes look at Alice Guy Blanche directing one of her films.

An uncharacteristic "trick" film from Alice Guy. The fellow prepares for his bath. And prepares. And prepares.

A four-year-old saves the day.

Anna est serveuse dans un dancing parisien qu'elle quitte pour travailler dans un hôpital caritatif. Au fil des ans, elle se hisse à la tête de l'institution, mais lorsqu'un vieil habitué du dancing reconnaît sa photo, il tente de la faire chanter. La Tare est exemplaire des intentions de Louis Feuillade envers la ligne, tant esthétique que morale, de sa collection de films classés sous l’enseigne de « la Vie telle qu’elle est », équivalent cinématographique des romans de Zola et de Goncourt.

A manuscript is mysteriously delivered to a playhouse where it is eventually turned into a major hit with critics calling it a masterpiece. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote it. The actress of the play receives a call from the author and the two quickly becomes friends but the man won't give any details about himself because he has a secret.

Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

"Le métier comporte ses joies pour ceux qui aiment la mer, pour ceux qui l’aiment jusqu’à l’exclusion de toute autre possibilité de joie naturelle. Patauger jour et nuit par n’importe quel temps même où l’on sait ne rien trouver, de l’eau au nombril ou aux chevilles, fouiller partout, algue ou pieuvre, s’hypnotiser sur une mare sinistre où tout vous guette alors que rien n’y vit — extase de n’importe quel intoxiqué y compris le chien de chasse kilométrant en tous sens avec un plaisir infini le champ dont chaque repli cache, au plus, une vieille patate."

Jean Painlevé, "Les Pieds dans l’Eau", Voilà, 4 mai 1935.

Ce programme réunit 5 courts métrages réalisés par Jean Painlevé : Le Vampire, La Pieuvre, L'Hippocampe, Comment naissent les méduses, Acéra ou le bal des sorcières.

On her birthday, Juliette is too sad to be worried about the strange cleaning lady who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

A Sunday in Brussels. The guard is changing, children are playing and people are visiting Cinema Aventure. A short film about boredom that manages to sublimate the everyday, without commentary and usage of exceptional images.

An isolated villa in the rocky inlets of Cassis. Eric is eighteen and cannot stand family vacations. The night of August the 15th, he decides to go and party alone.

The innocent country Nebelux is accidentally bombarded with the poison gas X-70, designed to keep Asiatics in a lethargic and euphoric state.

The misadventures of Leopold Pavlovsky as he is stuck in transit in New York.

A spectator, a string puppet, applauds the magic tricks of the Butterfly Woman, another string puppet with whom he is in love. Under the force of his applause, the strings that hold him in his place as a spectator give way. Thus free, he runs to the Butterfly Woman in the hope of conquering her and freeing her from her fate.

The story of Roland who spent twelve years in prison, escaping frequently and played himself in Jacques Becker's film The Hole. His life story is narrated by himself and his daughter.

Zohra, 50 years old, is Algerian. She is employed in the household of a young couple. For the first time in her life, she goes to the beach.

One Sunday, Marguerite, a young pregnant woman from Rouen, and Mario, a Spanish sailor in transit, meet while waiting for a train.

Down here is the Seventh Suburb where a little girl, Mireille, can't get to sleep in her Sidereal Condominium : she is worried about strange noises and lights.

A country house, some day in November. Silent, in a corner of the garden, a child is waiting."

A “cadavre exquis” on the theme of murder with film material and Topor’s drawings.

Belfast, 12 years ago, a family movie filmed at the beach. Paris, October 1994 : the desire to find this family again. A trip to Northern Ireland the day after the cease-fire. Chairman, the little girl in the movie, is now 16.

4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

A north-African worker is injured on his way to the factory, when he is knocked over by three young middle class men who followed him around in a car.

Lucie is thirtyish, shy and introverted. During a party at friends', she meets Bertrand with whom she falls in love immediately. Longing for true love, she focuses all her desires and expectations on him.

Sandra and Benoît are invited to spend a few days with friends in the south of France. When they eventually find the house, they are surprised to discover that everybody lives as naturally as possible.

Portrait of a man who builds a fantastic house. He comments on the visit with verve and humour and shares his ideas of an erogenous architecture. He tells his father's story, a Spanish refugee, his quest for new social relationships, his ecological struggle, his suffering, his utopia, his life.

Le début de la journée de travail d'un boulanger et de son aide jusqu'au sortir de la première fournée.

Paul's life story leads to a sign.

Nijinsky, the God of Dance, has been insane for 20 years. His wife, Romola, with the help of Serge Lifar, tries to bring him back to life.

Upon his mother's death, a young man decides to become a priest even though he doesn't believe in God.