Joël Calmettes

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers propelled the figure of the politically engaged writer into the limelight.

He is the most widely translated and widely read French writer of the 20th century. To mark the centenary of his birth on November 7, 1913, Joël Calmettes, who had already directed two films about the Nobel Prize-winning author — La tragédie du bonheur (with Jean Daniel) and Le journalisme engagé — travels around the world to meet readers of all ages and backgrounds whose lives have been profoundly influenced by his work.

A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.

Culture ... an affair of state, it is a historical novel journey to the heart of the Fifth Republic Cultural Affairs of France. Malraux, first holder of the ministerial office in 1959, to Catherine Tasca, in 2002, the film tells the scenes of major events during the cultural policy of the state: the case Langlois around the Cinematheque Landowski case-Boulez on the reform of music, the construction of Beaubourg, the Louvre, the conditions under which the music festival has been decided or that the cultural exception publicized. From archives, interviews or testimony, it is a political reading of unexpected contemporary artistic life which is at issue here.

A documentary that lifts the veil on the issues of construction, evolution and transmission of memory after the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis.