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A series made of hijacked images to understand in a funny and quirky way how our opinions are influenced, and our consent manufactured. Discover from the inside the range of strategies used without our knowledge to shape our desires!

A series of discussions with international specialists who think the world through the prism of property. We will explore this multi-faceted concept with a loose temporality, through the ownership of body and mind, our rights and the idea of collective property. 

In 2022, how to conceptualize property? Can we move away from a solely Western vision? What can we learn from the vision of traditional societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania? How was it historically understood in China, India or Japan? And how is it understood today in the Anglo-Saxon world, where property ownership, as in the Middle Ages, is often divided between ownership of the land and ownership of the house or building (leasehold/freehold)? 
Is the cycle of property rights we are in still expanding, or is it coming to an end? With the sharing economy, are we replacing the principle of exclusive exploitation by that of shared use? Will the commons model become dominant? 

What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassing of oneself?

With the help of illustrious weight trainers and experts, All Brawn offers a fascinating look into the history and culture of this art of performance. Gain insight into this mass phenomenon, a metaphor for the obsession with control and cost-efficiency.

Everywhere on the planet cities seem to pop up and grow, sometimes despite climatic or geographical conditions that seem impossible to live in. How do people acclimate to lead a normal life?

Follow Alexandra, a travel reporter, to meet those living in the most extreme cities of the world. The coldest, warmest, highest, most humid, etc. First stop in Yakutsk, Siberia and then La Paz in Bolivia,  to show the incredible adaptability of their inhabitants.
Some are extremely cold, others extremely hot, very high, very isolated or incredibly densely populated. The planet already has dozens of cities which, seen from our perspective, do not appear to be very appealing places to live. And yet, people like them and live in them, unaware that their daily life is a feat in itself. 
Journalist Alexandra Alevêque will experience life in some of the most extreme cities in the world, living in each one long enough to learn about the locals' way of life.
What she brings back is an insight into humankind's incredible capacity to adapt and find behavioural and organisational solutions.
What do these unusual cities look like?
What is life like for their inhabitants?
What can we learn from them?

Deep Throat is the story of the first mainstream porn film. It tackled sex liberation, women’s liberation and divided feminists. Preview a whole new dimension, in the light of the #MeToo movement.

It was the first time that a porn movie was shown on the big screen for the general public. The first porn star in history, celebrated by the media and fashionable stars, Linda Lovelace was the first to speak out against the conditions of porn a few years later. No one believed that she had been the victim of threats and violence from her husband. The resonance with today is staggering. At the time of the #MeToo movement, her testimony and its reception takes on a whole new dimension.
First "sex war", as it was called at the time, within the feminist movement which had just been born: two sides appear and radically oppose each other, those in favor of pornography and prostitution - the pro-sex - advocating the liberation of women's sexuality without censorship, and the abolitionists on the other side, denouncing the exploitation of women and the rape culture conveyed by porn. A fracture that is still relevant today.

POLACHROMES completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with sketchings of 3 of the cities' symbolic places.

POLACHROMES completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with sketchings of 3 of the cities' symbolic places.

A web documentary series with young people from these two cities.

The project will be part of the process of opening up in the Americas, thus overcoming 50 years of one of the last Cold War conflicts.
For three months, with three stories coming from both sides, Internet viewers will have access to a virtual wall where they will see videos from Havana and Miami, as well as contributions (videos, pictures and texts) coming from the audience. The project will be first on line and will prepare the ground for a television film. The project will be a coalition of producers and broadcasters from Europe, the US and the Hispanic world so as to make it a real global coproduction.

"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

Astrid and Stéphane are going to get married. All is going well.

They already have a small boy, they love each other and their parents are content. All is going well. But it is necessary to organize the event. And so the difficulties begin...

Family Album looks at the way we bring up our children nowadays, explores topical issues relating to childcare and education, and examines the ways in which the structure and role of the family are changing in today's Europe.

The series sets out not only to inform and compare, but also to promote reflection on traditional practices and new developments - some of which are immediately accepted, and some of which meet fierce resistance - in all areas of family life - the last bastion of our national cultures and identities. It covers a wide range of themes, from pre-school education and language learning to abortion and who does the housework.

These documentaries take us to six cities on the very margin of Europe, Istanbul, Belgrad and Lisboa, which nonetheless look towards it.

The programmes focus on young Europeans living in these cities, presenting them as individuals, exploring their similarities and their differences, and revealing how they see and experience Europe.
 

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with 3 of the cities. The idea of this collection is to translate the emotions we can feel when, far from home, we arrive in a foreign city for the first time ; the moments when we get off the plane, the car, the boat.

Architectural, historical or artistical emotions...
Some emotions most of the time translated through encounters we can make there.
With some good characters, ordinary or extraordinary, but always likeable. The pleasure of shooting from dawn on Friday to twilight on Sunday, to go through the city as in emergency, but with a special care. To capture the breathe of this city, its movements, its peculiarities, its future. We follow these people in their daily lives in different places, we discover the city and its history through these lives.