L'esclavage à Bourbon

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

Vers la seconde abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises de 1802 à 1848

La Liberté générale : chroniques de la 1ère abolition de l'esclavage 1794-1802

L’esclavage au cinéma, la fin d’un tabou ?

Le Diable noir

La Route des abolitions

La Couleur de l'esclavage

Sakifo, la musique au bout du monde

10 mai Africaphonie

Terre marronne

Los Palenqueros du Pacifique colombien : cinq siècles de solitude

Le souvenir dans la peau, esclavage en terre normande

Kaloubadya

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to La Réunion after an absence of four years, because her Pépé, a local zarboutan, is dying. Just as she has to say goodbye, Ondine has a strange encounter in a pond.

Au nom de nos ancêtres, esclaves et négociants

Ne suis-je pas ton frère ? La Société des Amis des Noirs 1788-1794

Perro and his grandmother fear for their homeland in southern Nicaragua, an area which is threatened by the planned construction of the 300-km-long "El Gran Canal". The documentary accompanies the silent and nature-loving boy amidst the inevitable farewell to his old life in the jungle and his new beginnings in the city.

From the mind of Chris Benchetler comes TGR's latest short film collaboration. Improvisation is the silver thread that weaves this crew together. Just as the Grateful Dead did not fit their music into an established category, this short film finds a cast of some of the world’s best athletes on a spontaneous journey of skiing, snowboarding, surfing, and music, complete with a soundtrack comprised of only Grateful Dead music.