Sorry, Cinema

Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds.

En 2009, l’armée américaine lance l’assaut sur un bastion taliban dans le sud de l’Afghanistan. Dès l’atterrissage, les Marines sont attaqués de toute part. Engagé dans ce régiment, le réalisateur Danfung Dennis capture les évènements de manière viscérale. Il suit le parcours de Harris, jeune soldat de 25 ans, des champs de bataille ensanglantés d’Afghanistan à sa maison de Caroline du Nord, où il se bat pour retrouver ses capacités physiques et mentales, perdues à la guerre.

Ce documentaire observe les émotions déchirantes des patients, médecins, et familles, confrontés aux douloureuses décisions de la fin de vie.

Centré sur le bien-aimé terrier de Laurie Anderson, sa chienne Lolabelle, qui est décédée en 2011, Heart of a Dog est un essai qui mêle souvenirs d’enfance, journal intime en vidéo, rêveries autour de la collecte de données, de la culture de surveillance, de la conception bouddhiste de la vie après la mort, et des hommages chaleureux aux artistes, musiciens et penseurs qui l’ont inspirée.

A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to numerous other directors during the 1990s, to its shoot in 2006 and 2007 in New Orleans, to its complex, CGI-intensive postproduction process.

2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Maroun Baghdadi’s sudden and tragic death. Maroun was a Lebanese filmmaker who wrote and directed films during the Lebanese civil war and contributed to documentary and fiction filmmaking from 1973 up until his death in 1993. In this film, Feyrouz Serhal embarks on a day trip in Beirut and navigates the city that profoundly shaped Maroun’s journey in life and cinema. Here she encounters individuals who were close to him and who shared his experiences. And as she traverses Maroun’s life and career, the social and political backdrop moves to the foreground. The film reflects on the last fifty years of the history of the country from a present standpoint. Through Maroun’s story, we perceive how cinema can, beautifully and dramatically, portray our stories and discourse our life events..

Join director Clint Eastwood and his creative team, along with Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, as they overcome enormous creative and logistic obstacles to make a film that brings the truth of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's story to the screen.

Ce documentaire montre l'amoncellement de débris plastiques flottants dans les océans et met en lumière les conséquences de cette forme de pollution sur l'environnement.

A behind the scenes look into George Romero's groundbreaking horror classic Night of the Living Dead.

Un documentaire qui suit l'évolution des films "Halloween" au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années. Il examine les raisons pour lesquelles les films sont si populaires et revisite de nombreux lieux originaux utilisés dans les films, en observant les effets sur la communauté locale. Pour la première fois, les acteurs, l'équipe, les critiques et les fans se réunissent dans l'ultime rétrospective d'"Halloween".

Un montage visuel de notre monde contemporain dominé par la technologie globalisé et la violence.

Filmed over 3 years in Homs, accompanying 2 outstanding young men from the time they were only dreaming of freedom to the time when they are forced to change course. Basset, the 19yo national football team goalkeeper, who became an outspoken demonstration leader in the city, then an icon revolution singer, till he becomes a fighter... a militia leader. Ossama, his 24yo friend, renowned citizen journalist, cynical pacifist... as his views are forced to change, until he is detained by army secret service. It is the story of a city, of which the world have heard a lot, but never really got closer than news, never really had the chance to experience how a war erupted. a modern times epic of youth in war time.

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.

A depiction of the Wrangelkiez neighbourhood in Berlin. The people portrayed tell their life stories. One woman came to the neighbourhood a decade ago to work in Berlin’s still unfinished Brandenburger Airport, one man reminisces his childhood on a Tobacco farm in Kentucky, another speaks of an exceptional day in an otherwise monotonous workplace. These portraits are interwoven with the story of Elpi, a Greek woman who is waiting for the long overdue visit of an old important friend. The outcome of this mixture is a film which captures the lives and perspectives of some of Wrangelkiez’s most commanding citizens, while at the same time evoking the loss that change and time passing means for places and for people.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Face à l'inéluctable, des patients en fin de vie sont accompagnés par de remarquables médecins qui s'appliquent à transformer notre conception de la vie et la mort.

Ses films, ses amours, ses « emmerdes » : la biographie mouvementée du génial Chaplin, nourrie d'archives savoureuses et de nombreux témoignages. Dès sa première apparition, la puissance de son personnage de clochard malicieux crève l'écran. Présenté hors compétition au festival de Cannes, ce documentaire retrace la carrière de Charlie Chaplin, ainsi que sa vie privée agitée. Films, liaisons, mariages, scandale du procès en recherche de paternité, persécutions du FBI , exil, tout est raconté à l'aide de témoignages, d'extraits de films et de riches archives .

A documentary about the sport of boxing, as seen through the eyes of champions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins.

Portrait impressionniste d’un grand acteur : moments intimes, extraits de quelques-uns de ses 250 films et bouleversante interprétation personnelle de chants folkloriques américains. Exploration des pensées profondes de l’acteur sur sa vie ainsi que sur son talent inexploité de musicien, le film montre aussi des scènes tournées sur le vif avec David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson et Debbie Harry. Un collage qui fait apparaître l’âme fragile de l’acteur.

Dans sa maison à Hawaï, le chercheur, auteur et guide spirituel novateur Ram Dass poursuit sa réflexion sur l'amour, la vie et la mort tandis que son existence s’achève.