Jean-Pierre Bailly

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees. A male is looking for its mate. Suddenly a call answers back. It is the beginning of the story of a lynx’s family we will follow over the seasons. While it is rare to come across this private feline, it is exceptional to discover its daily life in the wild.

After being missing for almost 80 years and despite the obstacles, the wolves are on their way back to their former territories. The documentary tells the great mystery of the dispersal of wolves: how the young wolves leave the territory where they were born and the way in which these adventurers set out to conquer new territories. For two years, Jean-Michel Bertrand conducted real research to try to understand the complex and erratic functioning of these young wolves, their encounters with their peers, and the opportunities to become a couple.

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer who laid the foundations of modern oceanography.

The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-limbed creature is considered highly intelligent. From Spain to Vancouver Island to Capri, Italy, scientists are testing the brain-power of the mysterious and mythic octopus.

Сергей является эвенком. Это кочевые оленеводы, которые живут в горах восточной Сибири. В возрасте 16 лет Сергей был назначен охранять большое стадо клана Батагай. Этот клан, чей глава является его отцом, состоит из четырёх семей и их стада в 3000 северных оленей, которое они ведут от одного пастбища к другому. В этой бескрайности бродят волки, которые угрожают северным оленям — единственному богатству и гордости эвенков. С самого раннего возраста Сергей обучился охотиться и уничтожать волков без жалости. До тех пор, пока встреча с волчицей и её четырьмя волчатами не пошатнула всю его уверенность…

The story of a young city boy wanting to become the mahout, the elephant driver. Despite his master's belief that only karen tribe people are born to be mahouts, the lad finally wins his heart and becomes a real mahout.

Off The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.

Норман Уинтер — действительно один из последних представителей американских трапперов (охотников на пушного зверя), живущий в Скалистых Горах со своей женой-индианкой Небраской и собаками. Он пытается хранить гармонию с природой, однако неумолимое наступление цивилизации и исчезновение девственных лесов делает эту цель все более невыполнимой…

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the game: the setting, the Abbey of Royaumont, and the chosen participants. Each singer came accompanied by a person of his or her choice, and worked on an aria chosen by the director.

Nicolas Vanier undertook a 5,000-mile odyssey across frigid yet varied landscapes fom the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baykal to the Siberian tundra. The adventure lasted 18 months, during wich Vanier and his team confronted some of the most hostile regions on the globe, finally reaching the Arctic ice cap. Throughout this amazing itinerary, only traditional mean of transportation were used to advance across the various types of difficult terrain encountered.

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.