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Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's...
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it...
The Mystery of Dark Matter
Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during the full moon of June 2014 (Le mystère...
700 Sharks
Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles plus petites que les hommes ?
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer...
Horendi
In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of...
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
In Jean Rouch's cinematic reinterpretation of Julius-Amédée Laou's theatrical work, a freshly appointed nurse steps into the chaotic...
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating...
Mont Saint-Michel: The Enigmatic Labyrinth
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain...
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
This documentary outlines the unique properties and latest studies of "Physarum Polycephalum", also known as Blob.
The Blob: A Genius without a Brain
Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of...
Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect
Boris and Sandra meet and immediately love each other with a lively passion. Enough to help them fight the best enemy of their love: addiction. That...
Les inséparables
Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in...
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins
From her birth in Warsaw to her entry into the Pantheon, Marie Curie's work and career is a myth. Honored throughout the world and embodying a model...
Marie Curie: Beyond the Myth
Journey of an african migrant through Europe.
Beyond the Ocean
Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects of hunting and fishing. But signs in ice’s...
Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. An ethnomusicological film experiment describing...
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm