Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Jacques Kébadian
In March 1996 the French government decided to expel all African family who did not have papers from the city of Paris. During a six month period of time, the director followed many of the families and got there testimonials about how it felt to be discriminated against by the French on film. Eventually the documentary focuses on one man who emerges at the center of the fight to not to be sent back to Africa. In the end he is sent back to his native Mali, the director and his camera accompany him.
50 years ago, with our collective ARC, we shot the uprising of May and June 1968. From these images and some other borrowed from friendly filmmakers, we imagined this film.
Pierre Guyotat at home, between 2002 and 2009: scenes from a writer’s life. First he organises his library : each book is an occasion for comments, reminiscences, questionnings. Then he is seen at work, preparing an edition of his Notebooks with his assistant, based on manuscripts from the 1960s. He is finally seen in his room, sitting in bed, discoursing on french kings and working out a text out loud, in a hypnotic self-dictation. Because Pierre Guyotat offers himself unrestrainedly to Jacques Kébadian’s attentive filming, this most precious of films gives us a rare glimpse into a writer’s intimacy: into his labour and passion. (Cyril Neyrat)
The Hovanessian family immigrated to the United States in winters 1994. Vartan and Anahide allowed me to share the last days before their departure from Erevan. The young Armenian Republic, still in shock from the earthquake and in conflict with Azerbaijan for the autonomy of Karabagh, was suffocated by a blockade that made the emergence of a new economy difficult.
Comedy insolent and anti-authoritarian, “Albertine”, film-proclamation of the insurrection of youth and the desires, tell the history of a teenager in rebellion against the school, the rancid family, the religion and put in scene young girls and young boys from 14 to 18 years which assert their right to a sexuality without obstacles and the right to the abortion for the minor ones.
Feature film.
"Part of the series grands jours et jours ordinaires (big days and ordinary days), UN CAFE UN details a small coffee shop and bistro in Paris over the course of one long working day, carefully registering small moments (like one businessman’s very long gulp of his first beer, or a bored child soliciting the attention of the various old ladies who flock to the espresso counter on the regular.)" - Spectacle Theater
