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Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights...

On an island, children between the ages of 7 and 14 are bored. To alleviate the boredom and escape their often harsh daily lives, they steal. At night, they band together to commit burglaries.

The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this context of quiet desperation that a writing workshop has been set up to help a group of seven young people integrate into the world of work. Under the guidance of well-known novelist Olivia Dejazet, the participants are asked to write a noir fiction connected with the industrial past of their hometown. Session after session, one of them, a boy named Antoine, stands out. Provocative and aggressive, he gets noticed by his systematic opposition to all, including Olivia. Even more alarming, the story he has devised and that he reads aloud, the cold description of a mass murder seen through the eyes of its perpetrator, proves very disturbing. Antoine understands the killer too well. At this point, Olivia starts experiencing a feeling of attraction repulsion to Antoine.

A 48-hour journey into modern Cairo following the parallel lives of Youssef and Leila.

A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80.

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

Gilles Caron was at the height of his career as a brilliant photojournalist when he went missing in Cambodia in 1970. He was just 30 years old. Through his iconic photographs, and the gaps between them, this film, constructed like an investigation, aims to restore the photographer's presence, recount the story of his gaze, and how he managed to cover every high profile conflict of his day in such a short period of time.

When confronted with their lingerie factory (Starissima) going bankrupt, the employees attempt to take it over by forming a cooperative. Soon questions about fundamental economic and social issues pop up amidst the bras and panties. Through this adventure together they discover a new freedom.

French/German documentary on the Black Panther party told through the modern day (1999) perspective of 4 former members: Bobby Seale, Jamal Joseph, Nile Rodgers & Kathleen Cleaver.

One morning in a building on the outskirts of Paris, men and women of all ages begin to empty a large office. They threw dozens of files out the window. Among the people, Olivier Besancenot, the famous 35-year-old leader of the French radical left. He and his friends are getting rid of the archives which have been accumulating over the last forty years by their former organization. In a garbage truck, old cabinets, marxist books and campaign plans pile up. In the weeks to follow, all their hard work will turn their dreams into a reality: a new anti-capitalist party, wide and open, which is due to be born one year later to the day. The film follows this beginning, full of hopes and dark traps.

Presents twelve 26-minute short films, each of which is an introduction to and an invitation to read famous European writers of the 20th century who have passed away in the last thirty years.

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understand the enigma that each one of them represents and, without ever imposing anything on them, invent the solutions that will help them to live in peace, case by case. Through their stories, 'Like an Open Sky' reveals their singular vision of the world to us.

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

Sarajevo was under siege already 9 months when Radovan Tadic flew there with a UNO machine to take pictures of misery and destruction in a city, in which dread is part of everyday life. He lets people talk about their desperate situation and repeatedly the dismay about the hatred between former neighbors. We see pictures of a wedding, interrupted by gun fire, an emergency operation on a soldier is interrupted by a woman's delivery, children disassemble a theater to get firewood. -- A dramatic appeal against carelessness and forgetting.

Using footage of her family she has shot on video for over a decade ,the filmmaker offers a personal vision of the complexities of the war in Lebanon.

The documentary series "Travail, salaire, profit" (Work, salary, profit) takes us into the mysteries of the global economy, which is often too opaque to grasp all the ins and outs. Gérard Mordillat and Bertrand Rothé interview 21 researchers from around the world - economists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, philosophers - on the fundamental concepts of the economy: work, employment, wages, capital, profit and the market.