East, West, Home

Evian: Embarquement

People board a leisure ship while porters ship their luggage in the town of Évian-les-Bains.

Équilibre et moulinet

A moustachioed Frenchman presents his performing cats.

Ouvriers réparant un trottoir en bitume

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

Londres, Piccadilly Circus

A view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

Les Photos d'Alix

Alix Cléo Roubaud, a photographer, describes her images to Eustache’s son Boris. An “essay in the shape of a hoax”, Eustache’s last film wittily questions the relationship between showing and telling as it gradually shifts Alix’s narration out of sync with what we see.

99ème régiment d'infanterie : assaut du portique

A regiment of soldiers demonstrate their skills.

Vu générale de l'Exposition prise du Trocadéro

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

Jérusalem, le saint sépulcre

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Procession à Séville III

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.

M. le Président de la République sur la Jetée Promenade

The President of France and entourage on a pier's promenade.

Aim High In Creation!

A revolutionary film about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jung-IL, with a groundbreaking experiment at its heart - a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 manifesto. Through the shared love of cinema, AIM HIGH IN CREATION! forges an astonishing new bond between the hidden filmmakers of North Korea and their Free World collaborators. Revealing an unexpected truth about the most isolated nation on earth: filmmakers, no matter where they live, are family.

Nach Hollywood - Douglas Sirk erzählt

This 82-minute 1991 documentary by Eckhart Schmidt features a 1980 interview with Douglas Sirk in which he reflects on his career.

Town Business

After a "diplomatic mission" into a neighboring town Kell returns to his town to see that his not so bright team of idiots have screwed up everything.

Berlanga!!

How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.

Sang Hyang Widhi

Is God only worshipped in one particular way? Or are there many ways to talk to The Almighty?

Une balle de gin

This experimental short film deals with anguish, as imagined by Claude Péloquin, author, poet, performer and filmmaker, in the early 1970s. Vertiginous camera angles, oppressive places and a disturbing soundtrack, the filmmaker uses his sound environment and the words of the interpreter Josée Vanasse to express this generalized disease at a time of great acceleration and fury for life.

Absentia: A Retrospective

Documentary film on the making of Mike Flanagan's Absentia. Interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes.

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.

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