Sarah Maldoror travels to Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean that is also a region of France. On the island, she visits the Village Titan, in the city of Le Port, a cultural center where you can learn singing, music, painting, dancing, circus, as well as visual and performing arts.
1983 in Mexico. Russian painter Vlady Kibalchich Rusakov, a refugee in the country, finishes an 8-year long work: painting the frescoes in the chapel of San Felipe Neri, which was transformed into the Miguel Lerdo Library by the Mexican State.
The French national library presents itself, nevertheless, as a library of the whole world, due to its accumulated literary wealth. Piece about the Tunis-Paris Exhibition: Espaces et temps privilégiés — La production intellectuelle tunisienne d’expression française, in 1986.
Interview with Algerian author Assia Djebar about her novel Ombre Sultane. Djebar discusses the role of women in the Arab and Muslim world, and her desire for Western or European readers to see themselves in the book’s protagonists.
The result of a year-long collaboration between Ana Vaz and two high school students, Vera Amaral and Mário Neto, this is a kaleidoscopic film about what it is to look, to be looked at and about the latent potential of cinema.
The director returns to the figure of Aimé Césaire more than ten years after Aimé Césaire — Un homme, une terre. The occasion is a tribute paid to the surrealist poet and activist of the black movement in Miami. In an interview, he recalls his life’s trajectory.
A look at the stylist Emanuel Ungaro. For him, it all started with the touch, with the sensual rapport that is established with the fabrics of his clothes. For him, fashion is sensuality.
After an interview whose theme is Senegalese immigrants in France, a piece by Sarah Maldoror appears. This is about the role of African women in social organization, founded on ideals of community solidarity.
Interview with women of different nationalities who are “public” writers. They link French administrative bodies to people who cannot speak and/or write French.
Presentation and representation of The Hostage, a play by French author Paul Claudel at the Théâtre de la Comédie.
Sarah Maldoror reports on Christiane Diop, editor of the publishing house Présence africaine, which includes an interview with illustrator Sophie Mondesir, about her work as the first black woman to run a major publishing house in Paris.
The Maeght Foundation, a museum of modern art in the south of France, dedicates an exhibition to Joan Miró. Maldoror directed a short piece on the surrealist painter’s oeuvre and exhibition.
A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of French kings, from the 10th to the 19th century.
A Vermelha/ The Red was Vila Franca de Xira, so named by PIDE, during the time of the Estado Novo. This film brings us echoes of a city that contained a multiplicity of places — whether private or institutional houses — used by the antifascist resistance of the era. These, and those responsible for them, are now revisited and interviewed.
Abel is a gamekeeper, patrolling and safeguarding the animals. But his marriage is something he hasn’t taken care of. The two facets of his life collide when his mercilessness brings something back to his home that should never have entered it.
Composed of three chapters and filmed over five years, encompassing different formats, Simon Chama deals with the protagonist’s response to his parents’ divorce and how it shapes his future.
Kiko is not kind towards animals. On the contrary, be it a chicken, a dog or a rat, here he comes to torment them. Their mission – besides running away from his wrath – will be to show Kiko that they are just like him, beings to whom we must reach out with an open heart.
Tom’s father is not in the mood to tell him stories. Not about pirates, not about knights, not even about cowboys. So, Tom makes the only possible decision: create his own story, where pirates and knights and cowboys come in!