Profils paysans: la vie moderne (2008)
Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon is a photographer and documentary filmmaker who has long had an interest in the rural landscape and traditional methods of farming...   [More...]

Profils paysans: le quotidien (2005)
Raymond Depardon

In 2002, the journalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon returns to the small farms he visited a few years earlier in Lozère, Ardèche and Haute-Loire, continuing his personal portrait of traditional farmers who are struggling to eke out an existence at the start of the third millennium...   [More...]

Rien que les heures (1926)
Alberto Cavalcanti

All cities would look alike if it were not for the monuments which tell them apart. This is not a depiction of the rich and fashionable set, but of the poor and downtrodden who eke out modest lives in the eternal city of Paris...   [More...]

Le Sang des bêtes (1949)
Georges Franju

On the dreary outskirts of Paris, the city's poor live in tall tenement blocks bordered by undeveloped land which is a playground for children and a haven for lovers...   [More...]

Sans soleil (1983)
Chris Marker

Itinerant filmmaker Sandor Krasna offers his personal reflection on the threads that connect the multifarious aspects of humanity through a film that combines readings of letters with stark visual images...   [More...]

Les Statues meurent aussi (1953)
Chris Marker

Today when we see an African sculpture made in a previous century we are likely to be fascinated by it, perhaps mesmerised by its unfamiliar exotic beauty...   [More...]

Taris, roi de l'eau (1931)
Jean Vigo

French swimming champion Jean Taris is the subject of this short documentary, an early commission for the film director Jean Vigo after he completed his innovative first documentary À propos de Nice in 1930...   [More...]