8 Times Up / 2010

Elsa makes a living from little jobs, struggling to gain custody of his son. Mathieu, who lives next door, also keeps getting job interviews only to polish his art of failure. Their situation is increasingly precarious, but both are trying to bounce back in a world that seems not to fit them.

Le printemps debout / 2021

In the spring of 2016, during the social movement against the labor law of the Valls government, student protest seemed particularly strong and lively at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis. Le printemps debout tells how these students, from the beginning of March to the beginning of July, experienced this spring of struggle which transformed them. He questions what it means to fight in 2016, how beautiful, fun, galvanizing, violent, difficult it can be, while bringing out resonances with today's social movements.

Get Up Kinshasa! / 2016

No polished shoes, no school. Samuel, 10 years old, is about to discover Kin the beautiful’s way of muddling up and muddling through… Article 15 Papa!

Up at Night / 2019

Although Nuit debout opens with a woman’s account deploring the shortage of electricity in Kinshasa, the direct nature of the invective is put at a distance by the way it is treated: the image that should accompany the voice is first absent, then tripled. The film seems to be the result of a mischievous prism that sometimes multiplies the image, sometimes associates it with others. By combining colourful shots bordering on the abstract with ambient sounds, the filmmaker proposes a personal variation on a documentary tradition: that of the urban symphony. The visual stream is as precarious as the electric current and it happens that darkness invites itself onto the screen without warning. The images echo each other or are sometimes attuned to create veritable triptychs.

Standing Nude / 2022

Paris, March 8, 2020 - Following violence on the sidelines of a feminist demonstration in Paris, sex worker activists find themselves in police custody and are led to explain the reasons for their fight.

Le genou blessé et l'homme debout /

One morning, Jonas, 14, finds his mother dead. Left to his own devices, he travels miles in order to find his father, whom he has not seen for years.

Songs of the Standing Dead / 2022

This is the trans dystopian commune we are all dying to visit. Living gleefully in the French countryside, these queers are sent spiralling when a newbie arrives. The film grapples with the myths of queer utopia by tearing it apart. Echoing post-horror aesthetics and manipulating genre tropes in meaty ways, this is a poetic joyride to the underworld that never loses its glamour amid plenty of gore.

Nuit debout / 2017

Stand Up! A History of the Women's Liberation Movement / 1999

A documentary about the feminist movement in France and Switzerland in the 1970s, retracing the history, the struggles, the achievements, and the upheavals.

Marche des primates et stations debout / 2000

This opus could be interpreted as a long and elegiac version of the Danse des primates au musée d'histoire naturelle.

Debout là-dedans! / 1935

A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!

encore debout / 2023

"The trees that are here while you weren't here will also greet you when you leave."

Sit, Roll Over, Play Dead / 2011

A loving husband, a mother-in-law who cares, an attractive house, a puppy and the project to have a child. Lena has everything to be happy. But at the end of one year, Lena is still not pregnant and takes refuge in the training of her dog.

Albatros, debout malgré la tempête / 2010

Mary Deboutez Zellmer Fenoglio / 2023

An intimate portrait filmed across 10 years of Mary, a charismatic and complex woman, born and raised in rural Kansas, USA. She runs a curiosity shop out of her front yard, builds giant furniture and dreams of becoming an artist one day.

Our Land, Our Truth / 1983

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreement signed on November 11, 1975, between the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, the Québec and federal governments, the James Bay Energy Corporation, the James Bay Development Corporation, Hydro-Québec and the Grand Council of the Crees, which took away Native rights to a territory of almost one million square kilometres. By their words and actions, the dissident Inuit of Povungnituk, Ivujivik and Sugluk express their strong desire to retain their land and their traditions. The filmmakers go into their homes, on the ice and the sea to record first-hand the lives of these northern people.

I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down / 1997

Two parts magical drama and one part straight documentary, this outing from famed ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch is set somewhere in Nigeria near a small village.

Stay Up / 2021

Mariam comes from Fana, a town nearby the Malian capital. At 5, she was sexually abused by a family acquaintance, raped by her cousin at 13 and by her brother-in-law at 16. Today, she deals with her traumas through dance.

Dôc Lâp - Se tenir debout tout seul / 2018

Debout demain / 2017

Outside, things are rumbling. We must go out, rebel, but it's too hard.