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In 1914, Paul Klee sought inspiration from the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, in Tunisia ... He discovered light, color and architectural lines there. This journey changes his painting and upsets the artistic world. 

Under his brushes, a new geometry was born. The painter affixes colors from the Tunisian daily life, which he sort of lets rub off on the city. We invite you to discover what inspired him.

The Silence of the Angel is a sacred journey into the universe of an architect of colours, one of the great painters of the twentieth century.

The works of Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) are vast and include 9 000 pieces on the fringe of all known artistic movements of his time.
Like Kandinsky and Delaunay, Klee revolutionizes the traditional concept of composition and the use of colour.
Klee questions forms, lines and colours. He listens to nature, to the sciences of his time, to music and poetry, creating a language made of signs. Klee goes beyond the opposition between abstraction and figuration. His painting is founded on movement, rhythm, as well as on oppositions and tensions, and becomes a polyphonic work.

Released on DVD by ARTE VIDEO.
BONUS: 150 paintings of Paul Klee

2006 : Award for best educational film at the 24th International Art Film Festival (FIFA) - Montréal, Canada.

Rough Trade is the story of a British record label that changed the course of music history. It opened in London in 1976, right in the middle of the punk movement. It went on to become the first independent label, with The Smiths as its first major signing, and went on to release albums by Pulp, The Strokes, and The Libertines, among others.

How did Rough Trade go from being a small shop to the equivalent of a major label? How did it propel an entire scene to the top, far from the prevailing industry standards, driven primarily by a desire to take the leap, the so-called “Do It Yourself!” spirit, independence, and a sense of community? By retracing its decisive influence, this film immerses us in the context that saw, in the late 1970s, a few pioneers pave the way for the meteoric rise of independent labels. Featuring special appearances by its founders, Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee, as well as Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Pete Doherty from The Libertines, and Jarvis Cocker from Pulp.

This documentary series tells the story of intimate and tumultuous love stories in the context of art history. With Amedao Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, Lee Miller and Man Ray or Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.

Love story is an excuse to narrate the lives of artists, their neuroses and narcissism, and to confront them to their alter ego, the other, their double.
Each of the couples of this collection answers the same questions: is love compatible with creation? Can artists reveal themselves through romantic passion? Does love bring a renewed energy to Art?

A collection of 32 live concerts filmed in optimal conditions, often in 4K, in extraordinary places. Among the artists : Angus and Julia Stone, Lucas Debargue, Christian Scott, Monty Alexander, Avishai Cohen Quartet, Linda Lee Hopkins, Jacky Terrasson... Kintsugi and many more. 
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Enjoy extraordinary concerts, as if you were there. The greatest artists of the moment, whether pop, classical, jazz or afro-beat, are on MUSIC LIVE COLLECTION.

"Real people" welcome us into their homes, far off the beaten track, and allow us to get to know their countries, their families, their jobs or their passions.
75 portraits make up this living mosaic of Europe!

Strong, surprising and remarkable personalities - Leo, a boxing-mad broker from London; Enda, an Albanian designer who's preparing her first fashion-show in Tirana; Elisabetta, a Sicilian woman who, after travelling round Europe, takes over the family olive-oil business; Bosse, a Finnish biker who's also a doting father; Jean, a priest in the Belgian Ardennes who at the age of 70 is going to leave his parishioners in order to marry the love of his life; Didda, a grocer-woman from Reykjavik who dreams only of poetry; Gabriela, a struggling Slovakian actress who's waiting for her dream-role. All these different faces of one and the same Europe.

As Bulgaria and Romania swell the ranks of the member-states of the Union, the goal of the Welcome to documentary collection is to create a living mosaic of Europe, day by day, far from the institutional machine.

Welcome to bears in equal measure the imprint of young authors and experienced directors, such as Solveig Anspach, Nino Kirtadze, Manu Bonmariage, Cyril Mennegun, Dominique Gros, Judit Kele, Vassili Silovic, Patric Jean, Peter Vaclav and many others.

2007 : Special Mention at Doc en Courts (Lyon, France) for LITHUANIA: WELCOME TO DOVID'S WORLD

Cyrille, a cosmetic doctor, travels the streets of London on his motorbike, guided by his GPS, to satisfy the needs of his ever-increasing clientele that are looking for the perfect body.

With his Botox injections and advice, Cyrille spreads beauty, youth and comfort around him. Between his work and his love for Christine, a charming airhostess, Cyrille embodies the success of the doctors of the new millennium. But under his elegant and smooth surface, Cyrille is hiding a few wounds.

Hungary: Pipi, 45, beauty-parlour boss.

Pipi lives in Budapest. She is a beautiful woman, and the owner, as well as the soul and embodiment, of a beauty-salon. Cheeky, with her childish moments, Pipi gives genial and highly professional advice to her clients, and yet is not above making some cruel asides with her staff as she looks at the timetable of the day. Pipi also concocts wonder-creams, as she has a mission against skin-ageing - to wipe it out at all costs!

The story of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas is always portrayed the same: the explorer travelling in a caravel, planting the Christian cross one knee on the ground and meeting with a new people. By following Caribbean, European and American researchers as they investigate the remains that were left behind by Indigenous peoples, this archaeological and scientific the documentary sets out to destroy the myths that have persisted to this day. From Puerto Rico to Cuba, from Martinique all the way to French Guiana, this investigation takes us on an adventure to appreciate exceptional landscapes and make incredible discoveries following in the footsteps of the pre-Columbian Indigenous Caribbeans.

When Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas in October 1492, he didn't just discover a new world, he also met a whole new people. He called them “Indians” and perceived some of them as “good savages” and others as “ferocious cannibals”. This documentary tells the story of how two different worlds met, and it does so through the eyes of the people of the West Indies. Rock paintings, ritual objects, bones and pottery shards tell a new narrative, quite different from the one that was passed down by European settlers. So, who were the pre-Columbian people of the West Indies? How did they meet the Europeans? And finally, did they really disappear, as is often claimed? To answer these questions, we will be unveiling archaeological sites and presenting new scientific experiments to try and learn more about this fascinating civilization.

The story of several Afghan women who fled their country after the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, and are now living in exile in Canada. Former MPs, ministers and journalists, they are fighting to keep the spotlight on the plight of women in Afghanistan. 

Forced to flee their country after the Taliban seized power in 2021, several Afghan women are working to keep the spotlight on what is happening in Afghanistan, while at the same time accepting that their power has been usurped and that over two decades of progress have been wiped out. Now in exile, they are reinventing the struggle to keep fighting for a free and just Afghanistan. As the world's eyes are fixed on the next headline news, and even the greatest superpower admits defeat, can these women achieve their goal? 

In this documentary, you will dive into a universe of perceptions and feelings that is still not well understood.

This is the story of a shaman who has exceptional gifts inherited from his mother, and of the dream of a woman director. She has dreamt of the `spirit which possesses the shaman when he performs operations on patients without anesthesia, using only an old knife.
The documentary tells the story of Don Enrique, a shaman who, twice a week, is possessed by a spirit named Hermanito. This phenomenon has been happening for the last 75 years but only in his family.
Don Enrique flees light and the cameras of a relentless media. It took the woman director 8 years to convince him to do this documentary and to film his famous surgeries.
In 20th century Mexico, Don Enrique is a man surrounded by magic, faith, mystery and love.

A historical cold case: an investigation led by the best experts demonstrates that a significant temperature drop along with successive deadly diseases undermined the foundations of the Roman Empire.

165 AD. A pandemic strikes the Roman Empire when Marc Aurèle was campaigning against the barbarian armies. At the same time, the climate experienced a sudden cooling: the study of old wood suggests a drop in temperatures of about 3 degrees. In the Roman catacombs, scientists discover collective graves. They thought they were seeing signs of smallpox: it would have decimated 15 to 20% of the population. This double environmental crisis led to a military crisis: for the first time, the inner Empire was hit by barbaric incursions.
 
The second crisis begins in 260 AD. A new epidemic hits the Empire. It corresponds to the first major defeats of the Roman army. In Abrittus, 25,000 Roman soldiers are killed: archaeologists exhume the remains of this battle. It is the beginning of the 3rd century crisis: invasions, usurpations, monetary crisis bring the Empire to its knees. No sooner has it started to recover that a new climate crisis in Eurasia is coming: scientists find its origin in the Altai Mountains. It pushes the Huns towards the Empire: this is the beginning of the end for the Western Empire.
 
The final blow took place 150 years later, at the very moment when Justinian launched an ambitious reconquest of the lost territories of the Empire. A series of volcanic eruptions causes a sudden drop in temperatures: scientists estimate it between 3 and 6 degrees. A few years later, an epidemic of bubonic plague hit the Empire: experts of ancient pandemics found it throughout its territory. Archaeologists in Israel are discovering the consequences of it. Abandonment of cities, end of agricultural activities, and interruption of trade circuits: the Empire is drawn into nothingness.