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This ultimate interview is the opportunity to finally understand Bruno Latour, "one of the most internationally famous, but also misunderstood French sociologist and philosopher" according to the New York Times. 

Bruno Latour had never given long interviews. At the end of October 2021, he asked Nicolas Truong, a senior reporter for Le Monde and a specialist in intellectual life, to revisit his fifty years of research. Spread out over four mornings, these interviews were intended to complete in another form, audiovisual this time, the whole of his singular and striking work. With great finesse and not without humor, Bruno Latour takes up and elaborates on the most important elements of his thought on camera.
 
“The most famous and misunderstood of French philosophers” – according to the New York Times – has been one of the most influential thinkers in the world since the 1990s. Bruno Latour has substantially influenced our time through a dozen fundamental works, translated into more than twenty languages, distinguished by the most prestigious prizes.

Yasmina Khadra's story is anything but ordinary-it is an epic tale. This best-selling author, whose early novels are set during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, is not, as one would imagine, a woman.

His real name is Mohammed Moulessehoul, a former Algerian army officer who fought against the rise of Islamist extremism that plunged his country into a bloodbath. He spent his sleepless nights writing novels that were published under a pseudonym composed of his wife's first two names. Structured as a road movie between Algeria and France, this documentary takes us on a journey through the work of Yasmina Khadra, the author's complex personality and his life, which is inextricably tied to the history of Algeria since its independence.

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th-century French writers, formed a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers propelled the figure of the politically engaged writer into the limelight. 

Between 1943 and 1951, Sartre and Camus were friends. In 1952, they publically tore each other apart, with violence, panache and in bad faith, largely on account of the cold war. There were many reasons for their separation, including literary, philosophical, political and personal ones, as well as divergent deep beliefs, jealousy and resentment. There constitute all the ingredients of an intellectual and fictional drama. The relationship the two iconoclastic thinkers shared was simple yet tormented, and mundane yet out-of-the-ordinary.
 
Their conflict marked generations of intellectuals, who had to choose whether they sided with Sartre or Camus. This film features a multitude of personal accounts, and a previously unaired recording of Sartre talking about Camus. It is centred round a lot of previously unseen archival footage, and contains original graphics.

A unique film on Isaac Asimov, the godfather of science fiction, featuring his deepfake giving its vision of our future: robots, overpopulation, technology invading our houses...

The film presents the theories of a man who, back then, saw what science is bringing to us today.
With over 500 publications to his name, from the 50’s to the 80’s, he had anticipated computers and electronic gadgets invading the household, autonomous vehicles and humans' withdrawal from nature. Science fiction and anticipation stories have never been as popular as they are today. It inspires literature, drama series, films, even politics and the military. As the world we live in faces an unprecedented technological acceleration, we are more concerned than ever about our future.
 

Étoile de LaScam, 2023
Brooklyn SciFI Film Festival 2022 - Best documentary 
Sibersalz Science & Media Festival 2023 - Best Science Documentary

Albert Camus is today's most widely read 20th century French writer. For the celebration in 2013 of the centenary of his birth, this documentary goes in search of his impassioned readers.

Camus' admirers form a vast "community" that extends far beyond borders. A cheerful and improbable community made up of people, unknowingly, from different walks of life, including singers (The Cure, Patti Smith...), a Breton priest, an American abolitionist, a Chicago attorney, a Japanese calligrapher and a dancer from Yaoundé.

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote her novel. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself. We explore the novel's extraordinary power and timelessness due to its eternal theme: Man's quest for the secret of Life.

At 19, young Mary Shelley was well versed in the scientific research of the time, impressing even scientists by her masterpiece.  In this documentary will do Mary Shelley justice by exploring her novel and its eternal theme: man's quest for the secret of Life.
The bicentenary of its publication will allow a wide public to explore the novel and discover its extraordinary modernity two centuries after it first appeared.

Follow the rise and fall story of Doctor Jivago, the masterpiece novel that won the Nobel Prize in 1958 but was banned by the Soviet regime and considered as contraband.

Discover this great Russian novel's rocky journey in the midst of the Cold War. To this day, it still arouses lively debates in Russia.

In 1991 the release of American Psycho was a bombshell. With over a million copies sold in the USA, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel is a deep dive into the sick mind of a yuppie serial killer.

This scandalous novel had been pilloried upon its release, its qualities only appearing later. When cooler heads prevailed, the world finally saw how accurate the author actually was. Politics, money, sexuality, capitalist frenzy, over-consumption: the book was a portrait of contemporary America against the backdrop of the West’s decline.
The writer portrays Patrick Bateman, a young wolf of Wall Street by day and a serial killer by night. The violence and the crudeness of the description of his murders deeply shocked the readers. Not to mention the racist, homophobic, misogynistic ranting, hatred of the poor and of children that the author forces his audience to hear without restraint through his character's mouth.
The writer withstood death threats, calls to boycott by feminist organizations, cancellation of promotional tours, lambasting by critics (with very rare exceptions such as Norman Mailer or John Irving)... The release of Bret Easton Ellis' novel in 1991, then its destiny until it became a cult work, adapted twice for the cinema and then in the form of a musical on Broadway, could provide enough material by itself for yet another novel.

Consecrated “king of horror” of modern literature, he distinguished himself in other genres such as fantasy, science fiction or detective stories. Several of his works have been adapted for cinema such as Shining by Stanley Kubrick, Dead Zone by David Cronenberg or Misery by Rob Reiner. 

What is Stephen King afraid of? "Well of everything !" says the prolix American novelist. Born in 1947 in Maine, where he still lives, he has established himself since the mid-1970s as the king of fantasy and horror, selling more than 350 million copies of his bestsellers around the world in half a century. Revitalizing the genre by playing on child terrors, his stories, rooted in today's rural America, have inspired a host of accomplished filmmakers, from Brian De Palma (Carrie) to Stanley Kubrick ( The Shining) to John Carpenter (Christine), David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone), George A. Romero (The Dark Half), or Rob Reiner (Misery).
 
Influenced in his youth by the works of Richard Matheson and the classics of fantasy (those of H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker), marked as much by the arrest of a serial killer in the 1950s as by the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, this cantor of popular literature sheds light on the genesis of some of his greatest bookstore bestsellers and their adaptation, for television or cinema, through interviews gathered by Julien Dupuy in an enlightening documentary portrait. Between two film extracts, Stephen King confides in it his childhood memories - the figure of the father, who abandoned him and his mother when he was 2 years old -, his impecunious youth in a small town in Maine, his work methods, but also his struggle against his inner demons (alcohol addiction in especially), his defiance of machines, whose revolt he staged in Maximum Overdrive, his only film as a director, or his philanthropic support for libraries to enable the greatest number of people to have access to books.
 
Long despised by literary critics, it has since won several prestigious awards such as the National Book Award.

A portrait of Ernest Hemingway in love makes us delve into the intimacy of a man infinitely more complex than the image he liked to give. We will discover the author's relationship with each of his 4 wives, which will enable us to re-read his work with a different perspective.

Each of them corresponds to a time and a place during the author's life, allowing us to move from the bohemian Paris of the 1920s to the Florida of the 1930s, then back to Europe during World War II before discovering the Cuba of the 1950s; our story ends in Idaho, America, where Ernest Hemingway chose to kill himself at the age of 61.

Despite the weight of the years he works tirelessly to revive the Jewish world lost in the Holocaust. Aharon Appelfeld has become one of the greatest Jewish writers of our time. He is the last Israeli writer who has witnessed the Holocaust.

His work has more than forty books, translated and published all over the world, having obtained numerous literary awards, including the Prix Médicis Etranger in 2004, and the Israel Prize .

Every day, through his murmuring voice and handwriting, the survivors, the children of Ukraine, the peasants of Yiddishland come alive in the tiny office of a Jerusalem apartment. Aharon Appelfeld, lonely, wants to fight this battle to the last breath.

But this solitude is disturbed by the encounter with a young woman. Her name is Valerie Zenatti and she is his translator in French. With her, life breathes into the apartment. For her, he will give shape to a literary and humanist inheritance, and will give it to her.

Etoile de la SCAM 2017

“Who killed Roger Ackroyd” is a deconstruction of one of the most famous Agatha Christie’s novel as well as an original portrait of a cult writer, whose life still retains a part of mystery today. 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one Agatha Christie's most famous novels. Its fame rests on a narrative device, profoundly original in its day (1926): murderer and narrator are one and the same. The author was thoroughly pilloried by critics at the time for this. They considered her invention an unfair trick on readers, that broke the rules of detective fiction.
 
Eighty years later, Pierre Bayard, a professor of literature and psychoanalyst, offers a fascinating deconstruction of the novel. Quite apart from the technical aspects of his analysis, Bayard reaches an absolutely convincing, yet astounding conclusion: Agatha Christie is guilty of a miscarriage of justice. The murderer cannot be Dr Sheppard, as Hercule Poirot so blithely asserts.