Catalogue Histoire et Géopolitique

In Kurdistan, as in most areas of long-term conflicts, women are increasingly present. As if, faced with the murderous madness of men, they now put themselves in the foreground, transformed into human bombs or soldiers. In 1996, the women joining the Kurdish guerrillas of the PKK decided to create their own army, totally independent of that of the men. The film traces the life of a "manga" of women, the basic guerrilla unit made up of six female combatants. 

Des pièces de métal rouillées perdues en plein champ, un pan de mur criblé de balles dressé sur une colline... Des traces... Traces muettes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ces traces prennent sens au regard d’un journal, d’une voix, celle de Lucien Laby, médecin, soldat dans les tranchées...

OMC - organisation mondiale du commerce - trois lettres pour nommer une institution dont l'idéologie, les caractéristiques, les objectifs n'ont - encore - que très peu de visibilité publique. Comment, pourquoi, par qui et pour qui cette institution a-t-elle été mise en place, et pourquoi est-elle aussi contestée ?

Fin janvier 2001, au même moment que la 31ème édition du prestigieux Forum économique mondial de Davos (Suisse) se réunissait le 1er Forum social mondial de Porto Alegre au Brésil.

Mur de la honte, rideau de fer... le mur de Berlin est devenu dès sa construction en 1961 le symbole de la Guerre Froide et de la séparation du monde en deux camps.

My Life As A Double Bass is a musical « Road Movie » following the 140 year career of a double bass. She carries her bassist on the trail of her history meeting instrument makers, musicians and historians along the way. Through her story we discover the evolution of music making in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

86 Jews selected in the camp of Auschwitz were deported in the summer of 1943 to the Natzweiler-Struthof camp where a gas chamber was specially equipped to kill them. August Hirt, director of the Anatomical Institute of Strasbourg, wanted a collection of Jewish skeletons, to keep track of this «race who personify a repulsive, yet characteristic subhumanity ». How did this cynical project came to life?

September 2005. The Israelis are leaving Gaza. But how about the situation in the West Bank ?
Three Palestinian towns dying of confinement and suffocation : Nablus, the rebellious, lively and loud… Hebron, the resigned, empty and silent… Qalqilya, dying…

It focuses on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America. Using the image of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, the film's title evokes a dissonance between the promise of a global socialist revolution (the grin) with its actual nonexistence.

Founded by Jeanne Mance in 1642 at the same time as the city, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal is about to disappear, to be replaced by the new CHUM. The Last Breath immerses us in an enclosed world where life, death, love and friendship coexist in close proximity.