Inborn Pair / 2011

Betrothed while in utero, a resort group president enters into an arranged marriage with a legal assistant. Despite their bickering, love blooms.

Au pays des têtes à claques / 2012

Adventures in the Land of Asha / 2023

On a cold winter's day in 1940, Jules and his family move to live with his uncle, mayor of a settler's village in northern Quebec. He is banned from school because of his rare skin disease. From that moment on, his greatest wish is to be cured. When his dog Spark runs away into the wild forest, Jules has no choice but to look for him. On his way, he meets Asha, a mysterious young indigenous girl. Together, they venture to the other side of the forest, where nature reveals itself full of life and secrets.

Modern Life / 2008

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

OUI-OUI au pays des jouets / 2009

Dongsi Pailou Dong / 2021

Set from the 1920s to the 1940s, the story follows the playful and cowardly Beile Halan of the former Qing Dynasty whose life changes tremendously after he obtains a secret record to the treasures of the imperial tombs. In 1909, Halan (Fu Dalong) was born inside a dilapidated palace in the capital. He is childhood sweethearts with Xiao Yuelou (Dou...

Nous paysans / 2021

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they once made up the vast majority of the country, today they are only a tiny minority and are faced with an immense challenge: to continue to feed France. From the figure of the simple tenant farmer described by Emile Guillaumin at the beginning of the 20th century to the heavy toll paid by peasants during the Great War, from the beginnings of mechanization in the inter-war period to the ambivalent figure of the peasant under the Occupation, From the unbridled race to industrialization in post-war France to the realization that it is now necessary to rethink the agricultural model and invent the agriculture of tomorrow, the film looks back at the long march of French peasants.

Men in Pain / 2006

Women will never understand, why face is a matter of life and death to men. They say that life is difficult and that it is particularly difficult if you are a woman. But the 50-year-old HONG TIN-YAM (LAU CHUNG YAN, DAMIAN) finds it equally hard to be a man. YAM was widowed at an early age and was once a single father. Years later he was married to his...

Embracing Canada India / 2008

The Painted Bird - Nabarvené ptáče / 20197.04 voti

Tratto dal famoso romanzo di Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird è una pellicola 35mm girata in bianco e nero, una meticolosa evocazione della selvaggia, primitiva Europa dell’Est alla fine della sanguinosa Seconda guerra mondiale. Il film ripercorre il viaggio del Ragazzo, affidato dai genitori perseguitati a un’anziana madre adottiva. Presto, però, l’anziana donna viene a mancare e il Ragazzo rimane solo a vagare per le campagne e a spostarsi tra villaggi e fattorie. Nella sua lotta per la sopravvivenza, il Ragazzo è esposto all’atroce brutalità messa in atto dai superstiziosi contadini locali e assiste alla violenza inaudita dei soldati russi e tedeschi, efficienti e spietati. Al termine della guerra, il Ragazzo è cambiato, per sempre.

Painting Heart Expert / 2017

The series is about the struggle between two opposing schools of thought. Hua Xin Shi are those that collect the pure sentiments of people after they learn to let go of their obsession. Yang Xin Shi are those who collect the impure thoughts of people consumed by their own insecurities.

It Pays to Exercise / 1918

short subject comedy - fun at the gym!

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died / 1977

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.