Big Clean Knife

Amo

In a universe that looks like nothingness, two beings seem to exist only to come into contact.

1992

It's 1992. Martin is 17 and he films his daily life with his Hi8 camera. He films anything and everything—his room, the world around him... But never his father, the thought doesn't occur to him. One day he meets Dominique. He's 23 and works as a student monitor at Martin's high school.

The Mad Kings

In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and tall tales set the pace of daily life. And here, men are Kings of the World. But when Jeannot gets out of prison, he has only one thing in mind: to win back Chantal, the love of his life, who moved in with the village butcher while he was serving time. A Greek tragedy that soon takes on the feel of a Western…

Eaux vives

Anna, a young mother, lives alone with her son in the suburbs. But when her son is placed in a home, her life falls apart and her feelings become confused.

Men at Sea

At night on a fishing trawler. An injured sailor, an intolerable order, and the death of the captain. Day breaks, and with it, the crew's doubts multiply.

Help

Ali, a delinquent, is living a chaotic life. His life changes when he meets Souraya, a prostitute threatened by Jacques, a mob guy who is having problems at home. One day, while driving him in his cab to his office, Maroun notices their extreme resemblance. The choices of some and the destinies of others meet and change their existences.

Dounouia, la vie

Modibo, a sixteen-year-old Malian who has just arrived in France, struggles to understand the world he finds himself in. He sees Nadira, a young dancer his age, as a chance to find balance.

The Orphan’s Kaddish

An elderly man is working tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. His name is Aharon Appelfeld, and he became one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. Every day, through his murmuring voice and handwriting, the survivors, the children of Ukraine, the peasants of Yiddishland come alive in the tiny office of a Jerusalem apartment. Aharon Appelfeld, solitary, wants to fight this battle to his last breath.

Sheol

In a forest in eastern Poland, an archaeologist digs to bring to light the traces of the Sobibor extermination center. Thousands of objects that belonged to the victims are emerging from the ground as fragile witnesses. This research must be completed, because the construction of a new museum-memorial is beginning. How can the Shoah be commemorated on its own site, today and tomorrow, when an era without witnesses is emerging? How does the Shoah continue to work on the history and memory of Poland, of its citizens, within Europe, in a conflicting political context? The film looks at these questions by showing and hearing the voices of archaeologists, historians, architects, journalists, curators, and visitors linked to Sobibor.

And the earth opened one last time

In Poland's Sobibor Forest, a team of archaeologists are working to excavate the site of an extermination camp. But time is running out because a museum created by the Ministry of Culture, must be built on the site of their excavation. Two competing sites, with very different aims

Fumel, after the silence

On June 4 th , 2018, the last machines of Fumel’s factory in Lot-et-Garonne, stopped for good. This huge industrial site, after having been a must of French steel production, will disappear. It cannot resist to his debts, property taxes, polluted ground … The last witnesses who made this place are mourning. But as it’s hard to close the chapter, they want to tell their story with this factory. Facing them, elected officials, associations, architects and artists seek to imagine a new future for the site. In this moment, how they will all perceive their memory, to imagine a new common history, rethinking the future of this post-industrial territory?

Chaque jour et demain

The Marriage of Figaro, diary of a creation

The marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s opera, has been adapted for the Opera of Bordeaux by Laurent Laffargue, a theatre director from Bordeaux. How do his artistic intuitions, and sometimes his certainties converge with the skill and talent of his numerous colleagues, scenographers, costume designers, singers, technicians, to make out of this creation a unique moment of the story of this play?