Summary This is the story of a man named Vitalis. He could be a fictional character living his life as one lives a destiny, thirsty for novelty, braving death to feel ever more alive. But Vitalis is only a man. A character in his own fiction, he has lived his life with death always in…
Summary Dancer and choreographer Sidi Graoui works in a nursing home. Through mobility exercises, he gradually introduces his unusual partners to dance.
Summary He was there, and then he flew away. A taboo revealed.
Summary Threatened by coastal erosion, whose ravages are being inexorably accelerated by global warming, the Rozel site in the Cotentin region offers rare insights into the daily life of Neanderthal populations who occupied this remarkable stretch of the Normandy coastline around 80,000 years ago. Among these fragile remains, archaeologists have uncovered more than 2,000…
Summary Film about rescue archaeology in the Roya Valley following Storm Alex 9 min – UHD – Court-jus Production – Musée des Merveilles / Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council – InrapBroadcast: ‘Après la pluie’ exhibition – Musée des Merveilles – TendesScientific advisors: Franck Suméra (SRA PACA)Director: David GeoffroyFilm about rescue archaeology in the Roya Valley following Storm…
Summary In the heart of Auvergne, the Puy de Dôme overlooks the volcanoes of the Chaîne des Puys. From the city of Clermont-Ferrand, you only have to look up to admire the tall silhouette of the dormant volcano. It stands there, like a lighthouse guiding travellers, an immutable guardian of the horizon and an indispensable…
Summary Thierry Courtadon sculpts grey lava stone that is specific to the Auvergne region and its chain of volcanoes. He comes from a family of stonemasons, but he is the first in his lineage to transform Volvic stone into something artistic, malleable and luminous. This unique, charismatic sculptor combines the life of a craftsman with…
Summary Germany, 1933. Hitler seizes power and forces German Jews into exile. Between 1933 and 1939, they flee Nazi persecution. How did the young Hannah Arendt and millions of German Jews flee their country to seek refuge in France? How did France, a land of welcome, turn into hell for all the exiles? Travelling across…
Summary Our daughter Noa was born into a family with roots in several countries: France, Russia and Cameroon. To share and bring this cultural complexity to life, her father and I are putting together a little puppet show for her birthday. We want her to feel and experience the places that are absent from her…
Summary An archaeologist friend takes me to the other side of the Hauts-de-France region, a few metres below ground level. I discover that this region, which still dreams of industry, is teeming with objects and traces of long-forgotten ancestors. In the middle of this vast, amnesiac plain, I begin to see the landscape differently and,…
