Jean Flechet

Movies

L'orsalher
Director
In the Pyrénées, in the nineteenth century, Gaston is one of the seven sons born into a family of poor peasants.Wanting to escape his condition, he captures a bear cub, raises it secretly with the help of his fiancée Estala, and trains it with a view to showing it in the fairs and the villages of the region. He has become a bear leader.
L'arbre vieux
Editor
A César award winning documentary about the resistance of the people of Limousin to technocratic measures that threaten their culture and their living environment.
My Neighbours
Technical Supervisor
African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people’s own doorstep. Hondo then switches to another mode to continue his analysis of social conditions: never has the post-colonial state of the world been summarised as succinctly as in the closing animated sequence.
Philosophie et vérité
Director
A discussion between Jean Hyppolite, Georges Canguilhem, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou on the subject of philosophy and truth. Curated by Dina Dreyfus.
Brahim
Director
The rebirth of hope to overcome poverty and unemployment after the independence of Morocco.