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Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

Emily, the daughter of Louis XIV's chief secretary, has a mathematical talent. But in the 18th century, science and woman are incompatible concepts. Having matured, the girl challenges both pundits and the whole society. Intimate passions, theater, cards are added to innate abilities... Emily's behavior outrages many. Only a person of high intelligence and great talent can pacify this fascinating nature. It was Voltaire. Science, art and love are intricately intertwined in the relationship between the great philosopher and his muse.

Through the accounts of a doctor and a young couple, a review of thedetermined social battle led by the rail workers in Theis in Western Africa during the 1940s.

A few days before her wedding, Anouchka discovers that Lucien is not her real father. Then, she sets out to find her biological parents. But this quest for truth will push her closest ones to make astonishing revelations, to say the least.

After her escape from Algeria in 1967, Adda lives in 17, rue Bleue, Paris, with two children and two sisters. She has a relationship with her boss, who guarantees a comfortable situation for her family. After his death, everything changes.

It's 1944. Since she's Jewish, young Lisa needs desperate measures to survive. Her parents send her to a childless couple's mansion, who protect Jewish children whose parents were sent or about to be sent to German camps. Twelve years later, Lisa is joined at her "French Catholic Home" by another Jewish girl, Claire. Claire comes to live with the French family, after her parents who did escape deportation and the death camps, are psychological wrecks, unable to raise her. The two girls begin a a close friendship, now 11 years after the end of World War II. But their friendship will bring old phantoms and secrets out of the closet, and will change their lives forever, revealing the truth about each one of them, and about the adoptive family.

A two part documentary; 1 "Beginnings" 1885-1914, 2 "Breakthrough" 1915-1960., that recreates the historical path of psychoanalysis with, at the heart of this story, the destiny of an exceptional man. The first film presents three essential moments of the invention of psychoanalysis: the treatment of female hysteria at the end of the nineteenth century, the creation in Vienna around Freud of a first circle of disciples and the foundation of a movement international aim to spread worldwide the new healing technique of mental illnesses. The second film tells the transformations of psychoanalysis after the first world war: its expansion outside Vienna, its conquest of the great democratic countries and the exile to the United States and Great Britain of all the practitioners of continental Europe. driven out by Nazism and fascism.

Paris, 1900. The 16-year-old Gigi lives in a world of mere women, inspired by Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, she doesn't want to surrender to the "bondage of a loveless marriage".

Martine, a housewife who lives alone with her son Silvio, a student in political sciences whom she still supports financially, goes through serious money problems. Far from being deterred, she decides to bounce back. With this in mind she buys an old truck and transforms it into an itinerant hair salon, which will serve (it is her choice) a poor neighborhood. Martine endures a difficult start but little by little people, all more or less colorful, come to the salon and become not only customers but true friends as well . But there are also the 'unhappy few' who resent the 'intruder'.

Angélique is a nursery school teacher. She loves the children: other people's, of course, and those of her partner Damien, who's going through a divorce. It's then that she realizes that she has contracted a very rare allergy: to children.

Angélique is a nursery school teacher. She loves the children: other people's, of course, and those of her partner Damien, who's going through a divorce. It's then that she realizes that she has contracted a very rare allergy: to children.

Dr. Brunel is a married osteopath, father of three children, who leads a seemingly uneventful life. One morning, while he is taking care of a patient, two police officers enter his office, handcuff him, and take him away unceremoniously.

A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.

Believe it or not, Mick Jagger was not the first bisexual. In fact, 'going both ways' dates back to ancient Greece, when heterosexuality was not the norm. This fascinating documentary, featuring John Cameron Mitchell and French pop star Yelle, explores and uncovers the history and modern-day perceptions of this often misunderstood culture. Interviews with prominent artists, designers, and writers are interspersed with archival footage from around the world.

Reveals how this Paris meeting between the two men, Rodin and Rilke, will be nourished by the master/novice evolution of their relationship, the emotion, the intellectual and physical fascination, and the violence that will emerge from it.