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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.

Loic Prigent opens the secret doors of Paris Fashion Week. Interviews of creative directors, journalists and influencers help us understand this obscure microcosm and give us the keys to fully apprehend this hidden industry.

Loic’s camera films discreetly and lets the viewer observe as a real attendee of these crazy fashion moments. Paris Fashion Week enables the audience to finally experience and understand the unique circus of fashion shows.
 
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40 minutes in total immersion in the fashion world with Mademoiselle Agnès. Ten days of fashion, stimulated by the new generation of designers, reassured by the old guard, and dazzled by hallucinating scenography.

As every season Mademoiselle Agnes immerses herself in the backstage of women's ready-to-wear to take the tension of the business, to measure the height of the heels as well as the morale of the troops.
 

Follow the footsteps of Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman to be appointed head of Dior. An exclusive and unique immersion in the magical backstage of one of the world’s most prestigious and iconic «maison de couture» and discover the secrets of Dior’s first lady.

This film is an exclusive and unique immersion behind the scenes of one of the world’s most prestigious and iconic “maison de couture.” Discover the secrets of Dior’s first lady. The 2022 cruise show will take place in Greece, at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The artistic director gives us intimate access as we follow the elaboration of the collection at her side. We discover her working method with her daughter, the frantic rhythm of the haute couture workshops, the doubts, the changes and the last preparations before the dazzling fashion show in Athens. When the show begins, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s vision takes full shape before our eyes. In 1951, Christian Dior himself came to present his creations on the Acropolis of Athens. The circle is complete: 70 years later, the name Dior still spreads its magic and beauty in the middle of the ancient capital.
 

With the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021 approaching, with athletes, mental trainers, but also researchers and scientists, we are going to immerse ourselves in the champions’ minds.
 
 

What is an athlete's mind? How does it work? What are the new methods to improve one' s mental state and to be competitive?
Through a review of the great stories of sport since the 80s until today, through the prism of the mind, our investigation will explain how these new performance methods through the prism of the mind, our investigation will explain how these new performance methods, by filming mental trainers and athletes in training and on the field and by following them in their mental training on the eve of the Olympic Games.

To mark his 50th year as a designer, Jean Paul Gaultier held his final show in 2020 in Paris, with an event combining models and artistic performances. Let’s look back at his incredible career and personality.

With exclusive access, Loïc Prigent’s documentary follows the legendary bad-boy of French fashion in this exercise in virtuosity and celebration, a retrospective on a career and a demonstration that his creativity remains undiminished. The perfect occasion to look back on 50 years of classic designs which left their stamp on fashion: The corset, the sailor top, tattoo prints, skirts for men, and Haute Couture revisited.

After decades of growth and ostentation, when every excess was allowed, the fashion industry is currently at a turning point, caught up in the political issues that are reshaping our times: The environment and sustainable development, cultural representation and appropriation, equality, gender issues...

Brands and creators are now subject to increasingly sharp public scrutiny. How is the fashion industry facing these challenges and responding to this new paradigm? Based as it is on the concept of planned obsolescence, can fashion survive?

This film opens the doors to the work of a unique creator with a creative process always on the move and with a unique know-how. He reveals himself as a free and passionate alchemist who imagines shoes as real works of art.

Instinctive and spontaneous, Christian Louboutin is a creator with a singular journey. Constantly on the alert, he develops immediately recognizable collections of shoes and accessories to keep pace with the seasons.
From distant destinations where he isolates himself to draw without constraint, away from the factory in Italy where a rigor and meticulous know-how reigns, Christian Louboutin reveals to us, behind the scenes, of a creative process made of exchanges and travels.
Over the months, we follow Christian Louboutin in his daily life and we witness the birth of an exceptional event: the design of the first major exhibition dedicated to him in France which will be held at Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris starting February 2020.
This documentary is an opportunity for the creator to share his love for shoes, to pay a vibrant tribute to the artists and craftsmen who crossed his path while returning to his sources of inspiration and the enthusiasm aroused by the act of creation for him.

Who was Ali ? This first and only real portrait, contrary to recent stock shot montages, brings a powerful, often hilarious, and always entertaining answer.

In 1964, Cassius Clay becomes heavy-weight champion of the world and declares his name is Muhammad Ali. A date in sports history and a turning point in black awareness.

It was a searing look into boxing, into the Southern power structure, inside the Black Muslims. Muhammad Ali explodes on the scene constantly catching America off guard, the first black champion to declare himself free. Eventually, it cost him his title, 3 years enforced retirement, and many millions of dollars.

Muhammad Ali, an aging 32 year-old, who no longer Floats-like-a-Butterfly-and-Stings-like-a-Bee, no longer a revolutionary figure but nostalgia, wants his title back, or, at least, one last big pay check and he shall fight the terrifying Foreman.
And at all odds, this is the end of the most extraordinary sports career of all time.
October 31, 5:30am, Kinshasa, Zaïre. Ali stands triumphant over Foreman, bewildered and K.O How did Ali, underdog, ex-martyr, become once again an all-time hero, champion and legend ?

From its beginnings on the streets of New York City, breaking has experienced a meteoric rise to fame, establishing itself as the style of street dance for young people around the world.

40 years after it first appeared in the Bronx block-party scene, this is the epic story of breaking, as told by its biggest stars - between inner-city violence and reconciliation, mind-blowing acrobatics and artistic expression - from New York City to Seoul, Berlin and Paris.
 
With MR. FREEZE, DOZE GREEN Rock Steady Crew, CRAZY LEGS Rock Steady Crew, BENJI Division Alpha, JUNIOR Wanted Posse, MOUNIR Vagabond Crew, STORM Battle Squad, and HONG 10 Drifterz.

The French TV show about Art and Gastronomy on Arte, featuring the best chefs in the world. An invitation to embark upon an unprecedented experience: sampling gastronomic meals that are represented in works of art. 

Beginning with a famous masterpiece, Historians, Art Historians and Historians of Food take us on a journey through Food History and Art. Acting as detectives, they give us keys in order to understand the painting and the painter, the historical context and how people ate at that time. While the specialists deal with those topics, a three-stars Chef explains what the masterpiece inspires him and what he or she is going to cook as a result.
 
31 Artists - 31 Masterpieces - 31 Chefs... in 31 episodes 
 
EPISODES AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH:
01 - Luncheon on the grass
09 - Lascaux caves
10 - Arcimboldo
11 - Andy Warhol's hamburger

Two food artisans producing the same kind of food – one from Europe and another from Asia – meet up, spend time together and swap knowledge and know-how. The series delves into their different worlds: their work, their businesses, their lives, their production procedures...

Our heroes are food and the people who produce it. Each episode is dedicated to a single organic product – from cheese, fermented cabbage and flatbread to salted fish roe and pasta – and to the stories behind it. Stories of real people who work to produce outstanding foodstuffs, rooted in their local environment and culture. What will they learn from each other?