Guarani, People of the Selva

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Year: 2006
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Penty and his family are members of the Guarani tribe from the community of Bameno in the heart of the Amazon forest. They live in the selva, in a region that has been preserved from modern influence for many centuries. Today, however, as modern civilization is penetrating the forest to exploit its wealth, Guarani culture is fading. For the past decades, large industrial groups have been threatening the flora and fauna. The Guarani are one of the last traditional tribes of South America, with only 87 members left. This film paints the intimate portrait of a people struggling to preserve their traditional ways.
Video Added: 13.08.2024

The Salt of the Earth

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Year: 2014
Country: France / Italy / Brazil
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
Video Added: 30.07.2024

Salut les Cubains

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Year: 1964
Country: France / Cuba
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
Video Added: 04.06.2024

Eux et moi

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Year: 2001
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: For the last few years an ethnographer has regularly gone to a small New Guinea village. He speaks the languages of these people who walk around naked with bows and arrows, who dispute over forest gardens with axes, and who have a short fuse like our own French peasants. He knows them well, but a certain discomfort subsists between them. They seem to be interested only in his toothbrush, they too often take him for a cash machine.
He finally comes to realise, while filming the monetary dealings and negotiations he has with them, that all of this, what he didn't want to see and was ashamed of, is in fact what bound them together. Only after a detour through impurity and self-interest could they find common ground.
We discover people who are no more savage than our next door neighbours. We end up forgetting that they live so far away. We watch with bemused smiles as the ethnographer and these people, who didn't boo him off the stage, get their feet wet in a friendship made the hard way.
Video Added: 23.04.2024

Élémentaire

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Year: 2018
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, girl
Description: The documentary about photographer Alain Laboile, directed by his daughter Olyana.
Video Added: 17.11.2023

Étienne Jules Marey, films chronophotographiques 1890-1904
Year: 2007
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy
Description: The Cinémathèque Française digitized, restored and reanimated more than 400 fragile cellulose nitrate films of Etienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist and chronophotographer.
His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of labor photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.
Video Added: 28.02.2023

Jane Birkin et nous

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Year: 2022
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: Jane Birkin has forged a unique bond with France and the French. Between the little Englishwoman and her adopted country, love at first sight was immediate and has lasted for more than 50 years. This documentary returns, through the prism of this unique bond, to the life and career of an artist apart in the French musical and cinematographic landscape. The intimate portrait of a freedom-loving woman. Singer, actress, fashion icon, muse: Jane has taken on all the roles. From Gainsbourg to Daho, from the auteur cinema of Jacques Doillon or Agnès Varda, to the popular comedies of Audiard and Zidi via the Chéreau theatre, she knew how to become a unique artist, celebrated and adored by the French. Jane Birkin agreed to open her personal photo albums and boxes full of Super 8 home movies.
Video Added: 25.11.2022

Ulysse

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Date: 15.05.1983
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy
Description: Agnès Varda interviews two subjects from a photograph she took 30 years earlier.
Video Added: 25.10.2022

Dans les brumes de Majuli

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Year: 2008
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, dancing
Description: In a remote corner of Northeast India, in Assam, on one of the largest river islands in the world, lie monasteries which have long remained inaccessible. The monks of the island of Majuli, mostly peasants, have a lifestyle reminiscent of the Middle Ages. These monks, whose beauty is astonishing, are above all artists, magnificent dancers who create fairylike spectacles.
Video Added: 13.09.2022

Jane B. par Agnès V.

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Year: 1988
Country: France
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: French docudrama film directed by Agnès Varda and starring French-English actress Jane Birkin. The film was conceived when Birkin admitted to Varda she was apprehensive about turning 40 and Varda told her it was a beautiful age and the perfect time to make a portrait on Birkin's life.
The film mixes interviews with Birkin about her past and current life with small vignettes where she takes on roles that either she or Varda are interested in seeing her play.
Video Added: 24.06.2022