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Follows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina's road to ruin.

An eclectic group of actors struggle to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his family to build his career and is forced to confront the daughter he deserted. Then there is Enrique, the playwright-poet who is reduced to pawning his belongings to sustain his livelihood when his state pension is severed. Finally, there is Fulo who is driven to succeed so that she can bring her daughter from Rio de Janeiro.

A documentary on the women fighting for abortion rights in Argentina.

Tahar who is a blacksmith in retirement, lives with his son, born from a first marriage; he took the decision to leave the house to go to Azemmour in order to pay respect to his wife's grave as he saw her in a dream. Driss a young man who leave the hospital without knowing if he was cured or no. Driss and Tahar meet on a bus.

The film tells the story of three people related to each other by their common itineraries: that of Rabii with his dreams; Kacem who is sick and trying to forget his dark past and Laarbi, an ex-boxer, an ex-convict and a mythomaniac who ends up in loneliness.

Alicia is a young film student, who wants to make a documentary about women (mothers, girlfriends or wives) visiting men in prison. Soon after, Alicia begins to develop feelings for one of the inmates.

Yeung Faï embodies the last generation of a great dynasty of Chinese puppeteers. This documentary offers a portrait of an artist and his tormented life's journey, as he took refuge in France, where he was able to create his first show.

From April till July 1994, in Rwanda, a few Hutu resist to the genocidal terror and decide to shelter and to save Tutsi. Today, in spite of symbolic attempts of recognition, they are always marginalized: traitors for some people and potential killers for others. Joseph, Joséphine, Léonard, Augustin and Marguerite tell how, at the risk of their life, they hid Tutsi and helped them to escape. Their words resound then in the places where they resisted, from the hills of Nyanza to the shores of the lake Kivu, and thus, they make us sensitive to the humanity that they have shown.

A sequel to the film "Étude de pluie", made twenty years ago. What happened to Lucien and Guy, these two blind brothers who are now over 70 years old? Their village lost in the heart of the Lacaune mountains in the south of France, has changed... Like family that we have not seen for a long time, we find the inhabitants of this village today with emotion and pleasure.

Portrait of Philippe Assalit, a young rising photographer from Toulouse, Occitanie. Philippe Assalit works on the female nude, and eroticism. He's also part of a group of photographers who perform public photo shows, the "Lucette Omnibus".

Young French people of Malian origin are preparing for a six-week stay in Mali, including a month in the village of their grandparents, so that these teenagers from suburban housing projects can rediscover the meaning of their roots.

If there's one vehicle that tells the history of France, it's Citroën's Traction Avant. A revolutionary vehicle for its time, it embodied the daily life of the French people, from 1934 when it debuted to 1957, the year it was discontinued.