Dominique Auvray

Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and...

The film takes the form of a documentary report in which the director Claire Denis follows Les Têtes Brulées, a group of five musicians...

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while...

A girl on the verge of maturity tells her family and friends in the French countryside so many lies about her hidden relationships that they can...

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

After 5 years, a young Montreal couple's marriage begins to collapse.

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the...

An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.

In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.

Juliette is a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced...

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend...

The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000...

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for several years, with advanced...

On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been...

Probably no one in the public listening to the orchestra's rendition of Ravel's Bolero notices him but the drummer is a regular hero. For, although...

Within a Japanese family, for whom cooking and food punctuate each event, 8 years old Sosho emancipates himself from his parents thanks to his...

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du...

Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A...

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script....

Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a...

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman,...

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of...

Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg.

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having...

A night in the lives of an all-girl punk band as they illicitly shoot their first music video on the streets of Tangier.

Wang Bing is one of the greatest documentary-makers alive today, and his films offer a very insightful overview of the transformations occurring in...

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera...

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

Paolo wants to go to Itlay, to forget his broken heart. Arthur suggests a surprising shortcut: Do all roads lead to Rome?

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked...

Serguei is a 50 year old railway worker, seemingly cheerful and sociable. But within the intimacy of his gloomy apartment, he lives a terrible...

Portrait of the film-maker and visual artist Pierre Creton, who shoots films in the country of Caux, in Normandy, while taking on his agricultural...

Portrait of the film-maker and visual artist Pierre Creton, who shoots films in the country of Caux, in Normandy, while taking on his agricultural...

Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s...

In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation...

They meet in »Le Vieux Belleville«: Minelle, the singer, or Robert Bober, the writer, once Truffaut's assistant director. Basque...

Barrada digs into her family history and narrates 16 myths based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, illustrated with strangers’...

“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An...

Vincent Dieutre explores his neighborhood of the Xth arrondissement and sprinkles his ride micro-stories of dredge and drugs.

A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal,...

In September 2008, at the crack of dawn, a small film crew met in a house in Provence to give substance to a memory. During his childhood, whilst...

The third, Sicilian, part of the “films of Europe” cycle, Orlando ferito Roland blessé is a multifaceted ‘chanson de...

A couple travels to Italy. During their trip, the state of their relationship becomes clear to them: They argue, take different paths and wonder...

Set in Tangier, Traitors tells the story of Maika, a calm, conservative girl by day and a leader of an all-girl punk group by night.

Antoine and Viviane manage an equestrian exploitation on a wild plateau. Viviane, overcome with boredom, finds life and passion in the arms of...

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

Gao Ertai (1931) is an artist, teacher, philosopher who, in the 1950s, was imprisoned in the Jiabiangou Labour Camp. The film works as a diptych with...

This documentary examines the life and work of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, recounting how a frail prodigy prone to bouts of...

A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old...