L’esclavage au cinéma, la fin d’un tabou ?

10 mai Africaphonie

2008

La Route des abolitions

2011

La Couleur de l'esclavage

2024

L'esclavage à Bourbon

2024

Le souvenir dans la peau, esclavage en terre normande

2023

Lo Chan Lo Bassin

2025

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to La Réunion after an absence of four years, because her Pépé, a local zarboutan, is dying. Just as she has to say goodbye, Ondine has a strange encounter in a pond.

Au nom de nos ancêtres, esclaves et négociants

2022

Ne suis-je pas ton frère ? La Société des Amis des Noirs 1788-1794

2008

Stripper

1985

A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.

Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness

2012

A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s daughter strikes up an unusual friendship with the ex-IRA bomber who killed her father. And two men—one Israeli, one Palestinian—form a bond after tragedies claim their daughters.

Maidan

2014

A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that took place in Kyiv in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.

The White Stadium

1928

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Grizzly Man

2005

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

Gaps

2024

Can oral history restore a forgotten part of our past? Can it break the silence perpetuated over generations? In 1969, seventeen-year-old Mariona was arrested and imprisoned in a reformatory governed by the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (Women's Welfare Agency), which was dedicated to "regenerating fallen women" during the Francoist dictatorship. In 2023, Mariona and her daughter look back in an effort to piece together her story.

EFKA: The Fastest Girl In The Universe

2024

New documentary about the career of world-class snowboarder Eva Adamczyková. This inspiring film takes you behind the scenes of her team and shows you where Eva comes from. The last years have been a difficult test for her in both her personal and professional life. In this documentary, you will learn how she coped with them.