À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

An overview of the best methods and techniques for taking nude photographs.

Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.

Short film about the dangers of winter traffic on the German Federal Railways

Speed has always played a particularly important role in railroads. New, ever better technologies have been developed throughout history. Engineers have come up with many ideas to make trains faster. This short film recalls the most striking record-breaking journeys in Germany and abroad.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

50 años de... Canciones

Le Théâtre National Populaire

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.

The documentary tells the story of Uschi, a farmer living free and recluded in the bavarian alps. Shot in epic black and white pictures, Still follows Uschi's life over a ten year period. From an untroubled summer of making cheese through pregnancy and the uncertain future of the parental farm, Matti Bauer portrays Uschi's struggle to keep alive the dream of a way of life that has become rather untypical in this day and age.

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

Charles Dekeukeleire, then a questioning Catholic, was spurred into making this documentary on a pilgrimage with the Catholic Young Workers’ Movement. The director’s approach is one of critical reflection; A film emotional and fervent, even acerbic.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.