The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.

In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines agai...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the P...

In the aftermath of the fire that struck Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, the cathedral is in danger of ...

In the austere "Horseshoe Cirque", attempts on ice are so impressive and require such a high degree ...

This documentary unravels the surprising history that links Barranquilla with France, from the arriv...

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spect...

He climbed solo, without a rope, the north face of the Eigers in 2h47. Below him the rock wall steig...

Six big north faces of the Alps. The film consists of six films: "Die Wand der Wände" (Eger by Rober...
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext f...

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate ...
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

Investigation into the Le Pen family, which has been a prominent presence on the political stage for...

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...

Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he g...