Serge Lalou

Nueva York, 2010. Jeff Harris, un periodista musical, se propone descubrir la verdad sobre Francisco Tenório Júnior, un joven pianista brasileño de samba-jazz que desapareció en Buenos Aires el 18 de marzo de 1976.

Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work' video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.

An overworked and underpaid production assistant who must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace.

Una historia de tres funerales surrealistas de Pirandello entrelazados con el asesinato de un joven inmigrante siciliano en Brooklyn por lo que se describe como una narrativa surrealista, grotesca y compleja.

Una explicación exhaustiva de cómo ocurre y qué consecuencias provoca la ocupación militar de un territorio invadido, utilizando como ejemplo paradigmático la historia reciente de Israel y de los territorios palestinos, Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza, desde 1967, cuando tuvo lugar la guerra de los Seis Días, hasta la actualidad; un relato del cineasta Avi Mograbi enriquecido por los testimonios de veteranos del ejército israelí.

Febrero, 1939. Abrumado por la oleada de republicanos que huyen de la dictadura de Franco, el gobierno francés opta por confinar a los españoles en campos de concentración. En uno de aquellos campos, dos hombres, separado por un alambre de púas, traban una amistad. Uno de ellos es Josep Bartoli, un dibujante que lucha contra el régimen de Franco.

Un retrato de quienes intentan sobrevivir en el Medio Oriente devastado por la guerra.

En medio de la lucha por la supervivencia en una gran ciudad, una rosa roja reúne tres historias de amores imposibles. Amor entre una chica y un chico inaccesibles. Amor entre dos mujeres. El amor de toda una ciudad por sus estrellas de Bollywood.

People who hear voices talk about their daily inner and social struggles. The film deals with “madness” through an acute awareness of reality and echoes our secret suffering.

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.

A documentary film by Canadian Director Debra Kellner, produced by Frank Giustra, Serge Lalou, and Richard Copans. Inside My Heart chronicles the plight of three refugee families fleeing their war torn countries over a period of nearly 3 years. Despite having lost everything and their harrowing stories about the atrocities of war, each family continues their fight to stay alive. Unable to return to their countries without the risk of being killed, today they are forced to live with the consequences of their broken dreams.

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Extraído de la novela de Beppe Fenoglio, Un asunto privado sigue la historia del joven partidista Milton (Luca Marinelli), enamorado de la bella Fulvia, perdiendo el hilo durante la guerra de resistencia en las Langhe. En el contexto de la batalla partidista, el protagonista emprende un viaje heroico en busca del amor perdido y de la verdad que gira en torno a él. Gracias a la complicidad de la encargada de la villa (Anna Ferruzzo), donde los dos amantes pasaron sus noches, Milton descubre el terrible secreto que vagará por su camino: contorsionado y peligroso, salpicado de enemigos y desafíos insuperables.

A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.

A gun to be heard, a pen to make yourself understood. The identical course of four young West Indians men who arrived to Paris in the 70's.

Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures.

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course of English history. An account of the life of the extraordinary Norman warrior who became king.

The film Announcements paints the portraits of seven women reflecting on the same theme. Their starting point is the announcement to Hagar, Sarah and Mary as in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their thoughts spread out and weave a new web, drawing strands from their associations and interpretations of these texts. And by talking about their own history, their personal myths, they work up to subjects such as the birth of image in the Christian world or that of poetry in ancient Greece. Announcements is a film about the movement of thought, the power of words, the secret of the voice, and the seduction of the image.

En el siglo XVI, en algún lugar en las Cevenas, en Francia, Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen), un próspero mercader de caballos, tiene una vida feliz y acomodada junto a su familia. Víctima de una injusticia, este hombre bondadoso e íntegro recluta a un ejército y saquea las ciudades para restablecer su derecho.

Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place

Mushrooms could be man's best allies in the struggle against sanitary and environmental challenges that are threatening our societies. A select group of species, known as Super Fungi, are incredibly effective at tasks ranging from digesting oil waste to enabling the growth of trees in the desert. We are just becoming acquainted with one of Earth's most versatile and powerful organisms, the lowly fungus.

Filmed over four years, the film brings out the drama of a massive regeneration scheme unfolding in the heart of the capital. It is also a personal journey of discovery in the city the filmmaker chose as her home 20 years ago. Centred around the now derelict Heygate Estate in Southwark, Home Sweet Home tells a complex but intimate story of urban and social transformation, and asks: what kind of society are we building?

Documental y estudio biográfico sobre una de las actrices más influyentes de su generación, la mujer de mirada enigmática, Charlotte Rampling.

Como respuesta a la feroz represión borbónica de 1828, tres jóvenes del sur de Italia, Domenico, Angelo y Salvatore (Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco y Luigi Pisani), deciden alistarse en el grupo de resistencia dirigido por Giuseppe Mazzini (Toni Servillo). A través de cuatro episodios, seremos testigos de la corrupción, las conspiraciones y las pulsiones homicidas que se viven en el seno de la organización. La unidad de Italia es el objetivo, pero no parece que vaya a ser precisamente un camino de rosas.

Un sicario responsable de secuestros, torturas y de cientos de muertes cuenta él mismo los secretos de su trabajo. Ex comandante de la policía de Chihuahua, actualmente vive como un fugitivo, perseguido por sus antiguos jefes. El experimentado documentalista Gianfranco Rosi, premiado en Venecia en 2008 por su obra "Below Sea Level", decidió correr el riesgo de entrevistarse en persona con un auténtico narcotraficante y sicario para conocer de primera mano su testimonio. Rosi se encarga no sólo de la realización, sino también del guión, la producción y la fotografía, campos, todos ellos, en los que ha desarrollado una amplia experiencia a lo largo de su carrera.

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

About the Chinese drivers who transport coal from the coal fields to the buyers.

Georges Nail vive en un barrio nuevo. Está casado, ama a su esposa, hijo y perro. Paul Hammer es guapo, rico e inteligente. Pero él está destrozado por su severo juicio del mundo y el deseo de ser parte de él. Un día, sus caminos se encuentran. Nail ve este encuentro como una oportunidad para crear una nueva amistad. Por su parte, Hammer lo ve como una nueva razón para vivir: para crucificar la imagen perfecta del hombre feliz occidental y su encarnación en la persona de Georges Nail. Un clavo es la víctima perfecta para un martillo.

Una noche en un bar, un viejo amigo cuenta al director Ari Folman que tiene una pesadilla recurrente en la que le persiguen 26 perros. Cada noche, el mismo número de animales. Los dos hombres llegan a la conclusión de que hay una conexión entre su sueño y una misión del ejército israelí durante la primera Guerra del Líbano de los años ochenta. Ari se sorprende de no poder recordar nada más de ese periodo de su vida.

Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.

En 1975, Nicolas Philibert, un joven ayudante de dirección, participó en la película de René Allio "Yo, Pierre Riviére, habiendo matado a mi madre, mi hermana y mi hermano...", inspirada en un crimen que tuvo lugar en Normandía hace 140 años. Esta película debía su singularidad al hecho de que los miembros del equipo artístico eran los propios granjeros de la región. Treinta años después de rodar aquella película, Nicolas Philibert decide reencontrarse con los actores. Algunos ya no viven y otros han emigrado, pero en un absoluto proceso de investigación, Philibert intenta recuperarlos para que nos hablen sobre su vida y nos cuenten cómo les ha afectado su participación en aquella película.

In four long takes, like a haiku in black and white, we enter the rubble of a country following the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Without ever looking death in the face, the absence of life shows itself over the course of clues appearing in the no man’s land of a battered Beirut. In silent, frozen time, the film subtly refers to the spectator’s imagination in alluding to death.

Out of the underground archives and the emblematic figures of these avant-garde movements, featuring Steve Ben Israel of the Living Theater, the puppet creator Peter Schumann, the photographer Alain Dister, the American black dramatist Amiri Baraka and a hypnotic ride, punctuated by the electrified performances of Jimi Hendrix.

38 años después de "Belle de jour" de Luis Buñuel, dos personajes de la película vuelven a cruzarse con el misterio de un secreto que sólo conoce el personaje masculino y cuya revelación es imprescindible para el personaje femenino. Aunque ella le evita, él sigue sus pasos hasta que finalmente consigue que le preste atención al confesarle su intención de revelarle el secreto. Fijan una cita, una cena durante la cual ella, ahora viuda, aguarda la esperada revelación: qué es lo que él le dijo a su marido cuando éste estaba mudo y paralítico por un disparo efectuado por un amante de ella. La situación es tensa y ella termina sin saber qué es lo que realmente pasó. Se trata de la venganza de él porque la mujer nunca le permitió poseerla.

A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?

Documental sobre el pintor Pierre Bonnard.

Under threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the hope that the people he's fleeing from will forget him the time he is away. In the letters that he writes to the daughter that he left behind in his homeland, he tells his own story in the guise of the biblical tale of Jonas and the Whale. Somewhere in France, an elderly farmer has just lost his young son. His three other children help him as much as they can to get through the trial of the funeral, but the ceremony is halted when the old man falls ill. The two stories unfold parallel to each other and are alternated.

Inspirado en el fenómeno francés de la clase única, "Ser y Tener" muestra la vida de una pequeña clase de un pueblo a lo largo de todo un curso, mostrándonos una cálida y serena mirada a la educación primaria en el corazón de la Landa francesa. Una docena de alumnos entre 4 y 10 años, reunidos en la misma clase, se forman en todas las materias bajo la tutoría de un solo profesor de extraordinaria dedicación. Maestro de la autoridad tranquila, el profesor Georges López conduce a los chicos hacia la adolescencia, mediando entre sus disputas y escuchando sus problemas.

After the mysterious death of the father, a family - the mother, her son, and her two daughters - try to keep their life together on the island where they have always lived. Lost in the mourning process, without being able to share it, each member of the family unit, which teeters on the verge of breakdown, tries to face the situation. But behind the force of strong links and of the moments of happiness which, for a time, continue to unite them, isolation, the age of the children, and the health of the Mother, accelerate an inevitable separation.

After the mysterious death of the father, a family - the mother, her son, and her two daughters - try to keep their life together on the island where they have always lived. Lost in the mourning process, without being able to share it, each member of the family unit, which teeters on the verge of breakdown, tries to face the situation. But behind the force of strong links and of the moments of happiness which, for a time, continue to unite them, isolation, the age of the children, and the health of the Mother, accelerate an inevitable separation.

The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts with history. There is a young leftist idealist, a city councilperson who is fighting real estate speculation. This is the portrait of Latina and its inhabitants. This province is certainly an anomaly, but is not so far from the present-day times that all of Italy is going through now.

Overview of the life and career of the great Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written nothing in years, Genet begins to write on the threshold of his death about this disturbing new experience. It leads to his last book, entitled “Un captif amoureux” in which Genet reflects on the Palestinian revolution, its defeat, and the loss of one’s homeland. In this film a young French woman of Algerian origin who is reading the book returns to the landscapes of the Palestinian resistance and the refugee camps full of exiles, in search of Genet.

Hervé Le Roux discovered a short film about a strike in a battery factory. Now he's looking for one of the workers seen in this film: a young woman who is very, very angry.

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches through the many levels of pain and finds it in its unique position between disaster and pleasure. Pain is..thus plunges us instantly into the midst of controversy and the unknown.

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in “At All Costs.” As the docu opens, founder and manager Jihad is off to see his banker. The lack of ready cash to pay his loyal employees, wholesale produce providers and a whole range of other creditors, including the tax-gobbling French government, is omnipresent. From a staff of 14, Jihad is down to three cooks, one delivery driver and a secretary in less than six months. The good-natured pluck of the remaining employees is at the heart of the film. Subterfuges for putting up a brave united front include scheduling food orders from a coin-operated pay phone when the office phone is cut off for nonpayment.

This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film archives in the world. This documentary will be most meaningful for those already familiar with Langlois' story. Through old film clips and interviews, Langlois is seen as an eccentric but charismatic young visionary obsessed with preserving and locating old films. Filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky uses scenes from Citizen Kane to compare the portly iconoclast to Charles Foster Kane, in that both Langlois and Welle's fictional newspaper magnate where avid collectors, and both were men of mystery.

This fascinating French documentary chronicles the reopening of the Zoology Hall in the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1993. It had been closed for almost thirty years and it took three years of hard work to restore it and the stuffed creatures within.

The films and methods of Nicolas Philibert, maker of Etre et avoir, have shown him to be one of contemporary cinema’s most acclaimed documentarists. In The Land of the Deaf is an elegantly spare and thoughtful portrait of the rich, diverse, but often isolated culture of the deaf community. The film has tremendous power and value: it educates and transports us to another way of occupying this world, and it does so in a pleasurable, unrushed and intelligent fashion.

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World War II, the director Cozarinsky returns to Argentina after many years in France and recalls places and events from his childhood, particularly the celebration of the liberation of Paris on in August of 1944, in Buenos Aires's Plaza Francia. Featuring testimony from various authors and acquaintances of Maria (Renee) Falconetti and Robert Le Vigan, the film explores their lives and final years in Argentina.

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors. (Written on IMDB by Artemis-9)

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over and above this 'coverage' of the feat, we discover the wings, the story behind the project, the peaks and troughs of the preparations for it, and the personality of the man behind the climbs, a dancer on sheer rock faces, focusing all the energy and reflexes of life itself in his fingertips.

The most notorious terrorist in Tunisia in the years 2013-2014, Kamel Gadhgadhi, turns out to have been a close friend of the director at university. The surprise of this discovery prompts him to reflect on the question of how he became a terrorist...