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4 5 6 SECRETS OF THE NILE Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Guillemette AUDREU Jacques BARSAC Cinétévé 120 min 1997 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS This exceptional program leads us to discover ancient Egyptian civilization by exploring objects from the Louvre's collection, which will be reopened to the public in December 1997. For the first time ever, the collection's magnificent tresors have been filmed, embarking us on a unique journey through the history of the Egyptians, their traditions, their worshipping rituals, and their everyday lives. From the book written by Guillemette Andreu, Marie-Hélène Rutchowskaya and Christiane Ziegler "L'Egypte ancienne au Louvre" (Antique Egypt at the Louvre) published by Hachette Littératures, 1997. THE ARCHEOLOGY COLLECTION Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights ARTE FRANCE, GEDEON PROGRAMMES 3 x 13 min, 15 x 52 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle-East VIDEO This collection will transport you from Morocco to Pakistan, from Alexandria to the South China Sea or from Etruria to Peru, investigating today's most amazing archaeological discoveries. The time taken over filming (in some cases up to a year) and the techniques involved make this collection a unique reference of the highest quality, which has brought the series international recognition in the world of scientific films. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video A TOWN IN ROMAN AFRICA ALEXANDRIA - THE SEVENTH WONDER OF THE WORLD ALEXANDRIA THE MAGNIFICENT ANIMAL MUMMIES GIANT OF THE HIDDEN VALLEY MISSION TO EASTER ISLAND SHIPWRECK IN THE CHINA SEA THE BURIED CITIES OF THE TAKLAMAKAN DESERT THE ENGULFED JUNK THE ETRUSCANS - A BROKEN JOURNEY THE FRESCOES OF STABIES THE LAST DAYS IN ZEUGMA THE MANY DESTINIES OF ALEXANDRIA THE MUMMIES OF THE CLOUD PEOPLE THE MUMMIES OF THE DESERT THE NAZCA ENIGMA THE SCYTHIAN PRINCE'S TOMB TRACKING AFRICA'S DINOSAURS 7 ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE BOLIVIAN DIARY Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Richard DINDO Richard DINDO Les FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE 91 min 1995 FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ENGLISH Worldwide except USA, Austria & Bolivia TV, VIDEO Che died at the hands of the Bolivian military after a year-long struggle to « liberate the South American continent ». Richard Dindo's finely analytical film is an adaptation of Guevara's journal, intertwined with original documents, archives, eyewitness interviews. AWARDS : "FIPA d'Or" 1995 GULAG Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights 4 x 60 min, 2 x 115 min 2000 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH WORLDWIDE except Portugal, Belgium and France TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS This excellent and breath taking documentary is the result of a long study on the Goulag to try to understand why more than 60 million Soviet citizens were sent to the camps from 1918 to 1956, how such a massive confinement could take place during two generations. From the Solovki in the north-west to the Kolima in Siberia, from Lenine to Kroutchev, a polar geography is erected into the Goulag system. One does not escape from camps. After ten years of imprisonment, one dies. Some survived, some left traces; they witness : organisation, work and discipline, but also resistance, repression and revolt. MAPPING THE WORLD Author Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Jean-Christophe VICTOR ARTE FRANCE 52 x 11 min 2004 FRENCH, GERMAN Worldwide TV, VIDEO For the last 10 years, "Mapping the World", a geopolitical weeky magazine aired on both ARTE & la CINQUIEME is studying major players and power games at stake in our in contemporary world, with maps as a tool for understanding international complexities. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video 8 MAY DAYS Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK 98 min 1978 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS A documentary about May 1968. At the request of students studying at the Sorbonne, William Klein filmed events in the Latin Quarter of Paris. This footage was intended to be used as part of an umbrella film about May 1968 which, due to multiple dissensions, could never be completed at the time. The film is given over to the people, students, militants, union activists,those who in daily life barely have any contact with each other who can suddenly express themselves . We listen to workers, housewives, waiters, store owners, immigrants, school-children, pensioners, dissatisfied yuppies, repentent bosses, angry young men and women of every type and political tendency, whose passionate discussions ebb and flow across the city... Good intentions, rumors, revelations, wild dreams and speeches, incisive and far-fetched analyses, dramatic turns of events, plots, confessions, crises of conscience, good and bad trips and psychodramas... Talking and talking into delirium. Programme released on DVD by ARTE Video THE GREAT BELIEF OF THE CENTURY Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Patrick BARBERIS, Bernard GUETTA, Patrick ROTMAN Patrick BARBERIS ARTE FRANCE, KUIV PRODUCTIONS 4 x 52 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, SPANISH WORLDWIDE except ITALY TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS The GREAT BELIEF OF THE CENTURY, is the epic of the twentieth century that is Communism - four episodes of 60 minutes, a fresco pulled from the American, Russian, Chinese and European archives, an international team of historians and the narration of two journalists, experts in history and geopolitics : Patrick Rotman and Patrick Barberis. 1 - UTOPIA IN POWER [1917-1928] 2 - THE TWO FACES OF COMMUNISM [1929-1939] 3 - THE PEAK YEARS [1940-1953] 4 - END WITHOUT END [1953-1999] 9 10 11 12 BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY Directors Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Jerome PRIEUR, Gerard MORDILLAT ARTE GEIE, ARCHIPEL 33 10 x 52 min 2004 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH worldwide VIDEO The Birth of Christianity recounts the invention of Christianity within Judaism by piecing together, in a timescale from AD 30-150, the disputes and debates that arose among its early protagonists and the first generations in Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Alexandria and Rome, always with the aim of ensuring the salvation of the nation of Israel. An essential period in western history. When Jesus died around AD 30, crucified as "King of the Jews" by the Romans in Jerusalem, who could have predicted that a new religion would take root within the next century? And yet... Programme released on DVD by ARTE Video 01 - JESUS AFTER JESUS 02 - JACQUES, JESUS' BROTHER 03 - A KINGDOM THAT DOESN'T COME 04 - FAMILY QUARREL 05 - PAUL, THE ABORTION 06 - COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM 07 - DAYS OF ANGER 08 - THE ROMANCE OF THE ORIGINS 09 - BREAKING WITH JUDAISM 10 - VERUS ISRAEL LIFE OF BUDDHA Author Director Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Martin MEISSONNIER Martin MEISSONNIER IN FINE FILMS, ARTE FRANCE 2 x 52 min, 93 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except The Netherlands, Poland, Dutch-speaking Belgium, Australia, Finland, Spain, United-Kingdom TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO, INTERNET It is two thousand five hundred and forty-four years since the Buddha Sakhyamuni departed this world, having attained Nirvana, the highest level of enlightenment. Although over half of humanity has been influenced by Buddha's ideas, his life-story has been interpreted in various ways. Our knowledge of Buddha stems mainly from the Tibetan exegetical tradition. But the facts of his life are less well-known and their significance has often been distorted by the religious establishment. Rather than taking a hagiographical approach, this documentary attempts to find out who Buddha really was. He emerges as an anarchist visionary who attempted to shatter the caste system in which India is still imprisoned, forbade his followers to make representations of him (the earliest image of Buddha dates from seven centuries after his death), and invented the law of cause and effect, whose relevance scientists have recently rediscovered. The Life of Buddha sets out to re-examine the life and doctrines of Buddha in the places where he himself lived. His founding texts are explained by lay Buddhists - peasants, children and wise men - and by monks, in the very places where Buddha lived and taught 2,500 years ago. Programme released on DVD by ARTE Video AWARDS : Selected for the XV festival of Archeological film - 2005 (Italy) 13 MOHAMMED, THE PROPHET Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Chema SARMIENTO, Youssef SEDDIK, Tugrul ARTUNKAL Chema SARMIENTO ARTE FRANCE, COMPAGNIE DES PHARES ET BALISES 5 x 52 min 2001 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except France, French-speaking Africa, the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico & South America TV, INTERNET, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO Mohammed, son of Abdullah, was born in Mecca in about 571 A.D. He was orphaned at the age of six and was brought up to be a merchant, the traditional occupation of the prestigious Hashemite clan to which he belonged. In 610, when he was 40, Mohammed had a vision of an angel and received his first divine revelation. From then on, he spent all his time preaching, proclaiming his faith to ever-larger audiences from Mecca to Medina until his death in 632. The Prophet's biography is told via rare interviews with a number of Muslims, including imams, whilst academics from the Arab world and beyond shed further light on various sections of the narrative. With the aid of calligraphic manuscripts, Ottoman illuminations and sequences filmed in the mosques and Koran schools, the documentary series MOHAMMED demonstrates the vast importance of the prophet whose life-story is inextricably woven into the Koran, the sacred text on which Islam is founded. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video 1 - TOWARDS PROPHETHOOD 2 - THE REVELATION 3 - MEDINA AND THE LAW 4 - MECCA AND POWER 5 - THE KORAN 14 MUHAMMAD ALI - THE GREATEST Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK, DELPIRE ADVICO 110 min 1974 FRENCH, ENGLISH WORLDWILDE except the United-Kingdom TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, CINEMA, INTERNET In 1964, Cassius Clay becomes heavy-weight champion of the world and declares his name is Muhammad Ali. A date in sports history and a turning point in black awareness. This was the subject of William Klein's feature documentary : Cassius The Great, winner of first prizes in four international festivals. It was a searing look into boxing, into the Southern power structure, inside the Black Muslims. Muhammad Ali explodes on the scene constantly catching America off guard, the first black champion to declare himself free. Eventually, it cost him his title, 3 years enforced retirement, and many millions of dollars. But unkindest cut, as ex-champion he became a symbol in reverse. In America, a martyr is rather a loser than a hero. Muhammad Ali, an aging 32 year-old, who no longer Floats-like-a-Butterfly-and-Stings-like-a-Bee, no longer a revolutionary figure but nostalgia, wants his title back, or, at least, one last big pay check and he shall fight the terrifying Foreman. And at all odds, this is the end of the most extraordinary sports career of all time. October 31, 5:30am, Kinshasa, Zaïre. Ali stands triumphant over Foreman, bewildered and K.O How did Ali, underdog, ex-martyr, become once again an all-time hero, champion and legend ? What has he become, the man that Malcolm X called the most important black personality of our time ? The phenomenon that Norman Mailer calls "The Spirit of the 20th Century, the Prince of Mass Man and of Media"? Who is Ali ? This first and only real portrait, Muhammad Ali the Greatest brings a powerful, often hilarious, and always entertaining answer. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video AWARDS : Grand Prix of the Tours Festival (France), 1965 / Festival of the people of Firenze (Italy), 1965 / Oscar of the Havana Festival (Cuba), 1970 THE FRENCH Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK 116 min 1981 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET, CINEMA On the circuit of grand slam events, the Roland Garros tournament is better known as The French Open, or simply The French. For two weeks, life in Paris and the whole of France is dominated by this amazing sports event where great champions are on court wherever you look and as many as 50 matches are fought out each day. William Klein and three camera crews were given total access to The French. From men and women's locker-rooms to massage tables, reception rooms to television studios, players' signing-in desk to turnstiles, stands, umpire's chairs, entrance gates and the VIP village, the cameras were given, for the first and last time, absolutely free rein. Miles of filmstock, unique footage, a thousand and one details, a many quirky anecdotes. For over two hours, the film shows the tennis carnaval as you have never seen it before. A circus with its cast of crazies, cranks, snobs, groupies, gurus, magicians, hustlers, heroes, clowns, sponsors, supermen and superwomen. And dollars, fistfuls of dollars, glory, fear and passion. Released on DVD by ARTE Video 15 16 17 18 IN SEARCH OF THE NILE Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Stephane BEGOIN Stephane BEGOIN La COMPAGNIE DES TAXI-BROUSSE, ARTE FRANCE 52 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN Worldwide except Germany. TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO In this film, we relive one of the greatest geographical and human adventures of the nineteenth century: the quest for the sources of the Nile. After four expeditions and thirty years of laboured progress through unforgiving African terrain, the centuries-old mystery of the river which sprang from beyond the desert was finally solved. The quest rapidly acquired legendary status. Geographical curiosity soon gave way to expansionist urges and endless wrangling and controversies. Via the narratives of Speke, Burton, Baker, Stanley and Livingstone, we relive their journeys - the hardships, the illnesses and the disasters - and share in the fanatical determination of these men, the grandeur of whose aims was equalled only by the size of their egos. THE CITY OF THE ANTS Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Philippe CALDERON, Guillaume VINCENT Philippe CALDERON ARTE FRANCE, EOLIS PRODUCTIONS 50 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS In the heart of the big rain forest is hidden the city of the domes, populated by thousands of farmer ants... This film relates the story of the extraordinary events which took place there within two days which nearly cost the life of its inhabitants... Human footsteps : a genuine turn at ant level. The city of the domes is ripped open. Then a series of catastrophes break out on it, up to war : the city is the target of a civilisation of nomad and warrior ants which tries to invade it... Also available : FORMAT FOURMIS (27'): the making of CITY OF ANTS. AWARDS : Public Prize at the Toulon Festival 1999 / Best Production for Young People - Festival Telescience 1999 (Montreal) / Jury Special Award - Bodrum International Environmental Film Festival - June 2000 19 THE LAST SAFARI Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michel VIOTTE Michel VIOTTE La COMPAGNIE DES INDES, ARTE FRANCE 54 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO The eventful history of the relationship between Man and animals in the heart of Africa, from Roosevelt's famous safari in 1909 to the heated contemporary debate on wild species conservation. The early 20th century was the golden age of the safari: for a period of about thirty years, all over the world, the word "safari" conjured up an image of long lines of bearers led by a seasoned white hunter paid to guide wealthy tourists through the bush in search of thrills and exoticism. The adventure-symbol of the safari is inseparably linked with the colonial era, but it has survived the end of that era and reinvented itself to fit in with changes in African circumstances and Western attitudes and a growing public awareness of ecological issues. This exploration of the topic of safaris reveals how our perceptions of Africa and its wildlife have changed, and highlights the real issues: there is a consensus that the ecosystem is in danger of collapsing, but the benefits and drawbacks of the various solutions put forward have to be carefully weighed up. The film also attempts to define what it is about safaris that continues to attract people to East and South Africa, and why they yearn to see wild animals from close to, be it through the sights of a gun or the lens of a camera. TREES Authors Directors Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Marc-Antoine ROUDIL, Sophie BRUNEAU Marc-Antoine ROUDIL, Sophie BRUNEAU ARTE FRANCE, ADR PRODUCTIONS, TELEVISION SUISSE ROMANDE, RTBF 48 min 2002 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN Monde except French-speaking Canada, French-speaking Switzerland and French-speaking Belgium. TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET Sophie Bruneau and Marc-Antoine Roudil set off in search of the trees of the world and return with a rich haul of traveller's tree-tales - long or short, true or fantastical - in a documentary which is at once poetic, educational and contemplative - a superb moment in plant cinema. Trees tells the story of a society which is hundreds of millions of years old, which is made up of with individuals with widely differing personalities, taking us on a journey through space and time to rediscover the riches of a world we no longer take the time to look at. Madagascan baobabs, Californian sequoias, date-palms, bristlecone pines and other specimens are minutely scrutinised down to the finest scale of bark. Sophie Bruneau and Marc-Antoine Roudil relate their histories (be they truth or fable) from their origins to their premature deaths, their scientific characteristics and their special magic, and explore the ways in which they are different from and similar to human beings. In the course of this voyage of discovery, we encounter some extraordinary characters, including a tree which preserves the imprint of its strangled victim, an acacia which communicates, a tree that walks towards the sea, a shy tree which avoids all contact with others of the same species, a town-dwelling tree and a mad tree. The magic of film brings alive the fantastical elements in our scientific knowledge of trees, and fact metamorphoses into fairy-tale before our very eyes. 20 CAMBODIA, THE LANDS OF THE WANDERING SOULS Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Rithy PANH Rithy PANH ARTE FRANCE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'AUDIOVISUEL 98 min 2000 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, SPANISH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO In 1999, the laying of the first fibre-otpic cable in South-East Asia crossed through Cambodia. The works involve digging a in-deep trench from the Thai border over to the Vietnamese frontier and then laying the cable, which is no wider than a thumb. It is an opportunity for many Cambodians to find a job, whether they be poverty-stricken farmers, demobilised soldiers or families without resources.. The trench digging encounters a mining region, as well as the obsessive presence of the millions of unburied victims whose souls harass those who have survived. Throughout the works, where pick-axes, hoes or hands make good, the trench digging reveals all the anguish of having to keep one's job despite the economic violencethat fills daily life. AWARDS : San Francisco Festival 2001: Golden Gate Award / Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel 2000 / Best Documentary TV5 Award - Namur's French-speaking Film Festival (Belgium) / Banff Global TV Grand Prize as best political documentary (Canada) HEAVEN IN A GARDEN Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Stephane BRETON Stephane BRETON Les FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE 62 min 2002 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN Worldwide TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET, VIDEO This documentary is an intimate narration of the last trip to a remote country -a small valley of the New Guinea highlands- where the narrator, an anthropologist, used to go regularly and where circumstances now prevent him to go back. A nostalgic narrative on the poetry of small things, very different from ethnographic films or exotic travelogues. Released on DVD by ARTE Video AWARDS : Fipatel 2004 official selection 21 THEM AND ME - A TRIBE AND ITS ETHNOLOGIST ON THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Stephane BRETON Stephane BRETON Les FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE 63 min 2001 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN worldwide except Spain and Portugal TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS This film aims to invert the classical approach of ethnographic films and to show how the native tribe sees the person looking at it. The frustrations of the ethnologist and the speculations revolving around him are the theme of the film. This is not a documentary on an exotic or very exotic society but on the exoticism of the one who observes and on the art, perhaps, of exchanging looks. Released on DVD by ARTE Video 22 23 24 MEDITERRANEE Author Director Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Stephane BEGOIN Stephane BEGOIN 53 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO The entire story of the Mediterranean, from its birth 40 million years ago to the present day. In outer-space and at the bottom of underwater abysses, with the satellite and the electronic microscopr, we follow the Earth's changes, from mineral to life, the ocean's palpitations, man's passion and the endeavour of scientists : the gripping tale of a great scientific adventure in an ocean that we hope is immortal. PLANT WARS Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michele DECOUST, Basile SALLUSTIO Basile SALLUSTIO LIEURAC PRODUCTIONS, FRANCE 5, RTBF, RADIO TELEVISAO PORTUGUESA 3 x 52 min 2004 FRENCH Worldwide except France, Portugal, Capo Verde and French-speaking Belgium TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET Since the beginning of time, human beings all over the world have made use of plants for healing purposes. These three documentaries tell the story of medicinal plants. Two-thirds of the Earth's population still rely on some form of traditional medicine. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, complex and subtle medical knowledge has survived to this day, handed down via comprehensive oral traditions. Meanwhile, in the West, with the development of medicinal chemistry and universal access to health care during the first half of the 20th century, traditional healing practices and the use of medicinal plants gradually came to be seen as esoteric pastimes. After a gap of almost a century, the West is rediscovering the benefits of plant medicine. As a result of the new recognition that medicine needs to centre around the person as a whole, we are taking another look at this traditional discipline. Plant medicine, which has continued to thrive unabated in the southern hemisphere, is now experiencing a revival in western countries. A TREASURY OF PLANTS THE SHAMANS OF THE FUTURE OR THE NEW ALLIANCE WHOSE PLANTS ARE THEY ANYWAY? 25 THE CLITORIS - FORBIDDEN PLEASURE Authors Directors Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michele DOMINICI, Stefan FIRMIN Stefan FIRMIN, Variety MOSZYNSKI CATS AND DOGS FILMS, ARTE FRANCE, SYLICONE 60 min 2002 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH World except Australia, Denmark, French-speaking Switzerland and Sweden (and except France for Video rights). TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO This documentary looks at an organ which has no apparent reproductive or survival value but whose only function is giving women pleasure, and it shows how the clitoris has been perceived and in our current understanding. The program includes interviews with psychologists, sex therapists and the Australian urologist Helen O'Connell, the only person to have studied the anatomy of the clitoris using modern medical techniques. With 8,000 nerve fibres at its tip the clitoris has more fibres than any other part of the human body including the tongue or, in men, the penis. As writer Natalie Angier comments it is strange that women are often perceived as having a more "muted" sexuality or as experiencing penis envy when the clitoris is far more sensitive than the penis and enables many women to experience multiple orgasms - an experience denied to men. This film also looks at research on women's response to erotica and the debate on whether a female version of Viagra - to address sexual response in women - is viable. TUNED INTO THE CLIMATES Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Danielle JAEGGI Danielle JAEGGI ARTE FRANCE, Les FILMS D'ICI 51 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE except Italy TV, VIDEO Danielle Jaeggi sounds out experts in climatology, geology, etc.(among which Jean-Claude Duplessy, Claude Lorius, Nicole Petit-Maire, etc.) to help us understand better the contradictory news that tend to invade the world of media. Without sinking into pessimism, this inquiry underlines the fact that the lack of a real worldwild environmental policy is a threat to our future. 26 27 28 ARCHITECTURES Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights ARTE FRANCE, Les FILMS D'ICI 17 x 26 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH worldwide DVD A ongoing series of films devoted to the most remarkable achievements in modern architecture, from the works that heralded the birth of the modern style at the end of the 19th century to the latest designs by today's top architects. Each film examines the structure of the building, the architectural techniques as well as its cultural and historical influences. By examining a key building in detail the series brings light to its rôle in the evolution of architecture. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video FAMILY LODGINGS IN GUISE GALLERIA UMBERTO I HIGH SPEED TRAIN LYON SATOLAS TGV NEMAUSUS I THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING IN CHICAGO THE BERLIN JEWISH MUSEUM THE CASA MILA - ANTONIO GAUDI THE CONVENT OF LA TOURETTE THE DESSAU BAUHAUS THE GEORGES POMPIDOU CENTRE THE JOHNSON BUILDING THE MUNICIPAL CENTRE OF SAYNATSALO THE PARIS FINE ARTS SCHOOL THE PARIS OPERA THE SIZA SCHOOL THE STONE THERMAL BATHS THE VIENNA SAVINGS BANK ALBERTO GIACOMETTI WHAT'S IN A HEAD? Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michel VAN ZELE Michel VAN ZELE Les FILMS D'ICI, ARTE FRANCE, TELEVISION SUISSE ROMANDE 64 min 2001 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, SPANISH Worldwide except France, French-speaking Switzerland and Australia TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS The enigma of Giacometti superbly unravelled. To commemorate the centenary of the sculptor's birth, on October 10, 2001, this documentary reveals for the first time the sublime singularity of the work and career of Alberto Giacometti, who died on January 11, 1966. An unending quest brought into relief by those who knew or discovered the artist (Sabine Weiss, Balthus, Jacques Dupin, Roger Montandon, Jean Starobinski, Ernest Scheidegger, Jean Laymarie and Ernest Pignon Ernest). To understand the extraordinary universe of this 20th century visionary, director Michel Van Zele explores the various sources of Giacometti's inspiration and his unique conception of the head, be it sculpted, drawn or painted. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video 29 PALETTES Author Director Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Alain JAUBERT Alain JAUBERT PALETTE PRODUCTION, ARTE FRANCE, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE DU LOUVRE SERVICE CULTUREL PRODUCTIONS AUDIOVISUELLES 48 x 30 min, 2 x 60 min 2003 FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO From the canvass itself to the type of brush used by the artist, from the historical, political or individual context of the painting to the personality of the characters displayed in its features, Palette uncovers the endless secrets a work of art can hide. Using the finest techniques (infrared, X rays, video animation...), Alain Jaubert dissects the paintings to their most intimate levels, leading an investigation worthy of History's greatest detectives. 10 DVD released by ARTE Video AWARDS : "FIPA d'Argent" for Palettes Véronèse 1989 ANDY WARHOL [1928-1987] BACON [1909-1992] BONNARD [1867-1947] CEZANNE [1839-1906] CHARDIN [1699-1779] COURBET [1819-1877] DAVID [1748-1825] DE LA TOUR [1593-1652] DELACROIX [1798-1863] DUCHAMP [1887-1968] EUPHRONIOS [~ 510 BEFORE CHRIST] FAYOUM [~ 117-138 BEFORE CHRIST] FRAGONARD [1732-1806] GAUGUIN [1848 - 1903] GERICAULT [1791-1824] GOYA [1746-1828] GRUNEWALD [~ 1475-1528] HOKUSAI [1760-1849] INGRES [1780-1867] KANDINSKY [1866-1944] KLEIN [1928-1962] LA DAME A LA LICORNE LASCAUX LE CARAVAGE [1571-1610] LE LORRAIN [~ 1602-1682] LEONARDO DA VINCI [~ 1452-1519] MANET [1832-1883] MATISSE [1869-1954] MONET [1840-1926] PERSIAN MINIATURE PICASSO [1881-1973] PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA [~ 1420-1492] POMPEII POUSSIN [1594-1665] RAPHAEL [1483-1520] REMBRANDT [1606-1669] RENOIR [1841-1919] RUBENS [1577-1640] SASSETTA [1392-1450] SEURAT [1859-1891] SHITAO [1630-1707] TITIEN [~ 1490-1576] TOULOUSE-LAUTREC [1864-1901] UCELLO [~ 1397-1475] VAN EYCK [~ 1376-1441] VAN GOGH [1853-1890] VERMEER [1632-1675] VERONESE [1528-1588] VUILLARD [1868-1940] WATTEAU [1684-1721] 30 PICASSO DAYS Author Directors Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Pierre DAIX Pierre-Andre BOUTANG, Michel PAMART, Pierre PHILIPPE SODAPERAGA, ARTE FRANCE 3 x 64 min, 2 x 48 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except United States, Spanish-speaking countries, United Kingdom, French-speaking Canada, Finland, Australia, the Netherlands TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS Each day of his life, Picasso drew, sculpted, engraved, moulded or painted. His work is like a huge personal diary combining his own life story and the history of our century. This wonderful three-part documentary looks back over the key moments in the life and work of the master. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video 1 - FROM THE EARLY WORK OF A YOUNG PRODIGY FROM BARCELONA TO THE INVENTION OF CUBISM 2 - FROM THE BALLETS RUSSES TO THE OCCUPATION AND SUBSEQUENT LIBERATION OF FRANCE 3 - FROM POLITICALLY-COMMITTED ARTIST TO LIVING LEGEND AND THE SOLITARY DEATH OF A GENIUS 31 CONTACTS Author Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN ARTE FRANCE, KS VISIONS, RIFF PRODUCTION, CNP, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINEMATOGRAPHIE 33 x 13 min, 26 min 2004 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO CONTACTS is a collection of films about contemporary photography. Each film traces the development of an individual photographer. With the help of the programme director, the photographer puts together a retrospective, selecting images from his or her contact sheets, proof prints and end-prints to show how his or her work has changed in character and meaning over the years. Photographers use contact sheets and proofs of various kinds as an aid to memory or a log-book. Exploring these visual jottings provides us with an invaluable insight into their working methods. Over the years, the initial concept of the collection has evolved. CONTACTS now includes major contemporary artists like Sophie Calle, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin and Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose work makes use of photographic techniques, alongside famous photo-journalists like William Klein, Helmut Newton, Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson. CONTACTS has become an international reference for all those who are interested in contemporary photography. 3 DVD released by ARTE Video ALAIN FLEISCHER ANDREAS GURSKY CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI DON MCCULLIN DUANE MICHALS EDOUARD BOUBAT ELLIOTT ERWITT EUGENE RICHARDS GEORGES ROUSSE HELMUT NEWTON HENRI CARTIER BRESSON HILLA AND BERND BECHER HIROSHI SUGIMOTO JEAN-MARC BUSTAMANTE JEFF WALL JOHN BALDESSARI JOHN HILLIARD JOSEF KOUDELKA LEONARD FREED LEWIS BALTZ MARC RIBOUD MARIO GIACOMELLI MARTIN PARR NAN GOLDIN NOBUYOSHI ARAKI RAYMOND DEPARDON ROBERT DOISNEAU RONI HORN SARAH MOON SOPHIE CALLE THOMAS RUFF THOMAS STRUTH WILLIAM KLEIN WOLFGANG TILLMANS 32 MYTHS MADE ART Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Ludovic SEGARRA Ludovic SEGARRA ARTE FRANCE, LUDOVIC SEGARRA PRODUCTIONS 6 x 26 min 2004 FRENCH, GERMAN worldwide TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET Attitudes to "primitive" art have run the whole gamut over the last five centuries. These objects, initially collected as curios, then despised and looked-down on, before being studied as records of cultures, hailed by a handful of modern painters as "sources of inspiration", and finally admitted to the contemporary aesthetic canon, are now highly sought-after by growing numbers of "primitive art" enthusiasts, who are prepared to pay large sums for them. ABORIGINAL BARK-PAINTING FANG RELIQUARY FIGURINE HORSEHEAD VIOLIN, MONGOLIA IATMUL SKULL KAIAPO PLUMAGE KWAKIUTL TRANSFORMATION MASK PETER BROOK Authors Director Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Simon BROOK, Fabienne PASCAUD, Josie MILJEVIK, William SHAKESPEARE Simon BROOK Various producers 71 min, 133 min 2001 ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN worldwide VIDEO Peter Brook delivers himself with tenderness to a privileged interlocutor, his son. Then one of the most succeeded and most beautiful spectacles of Peter Brook: an adaptation of Hamlet. Released on DVD by ARTE Video BROOK BY BROOK, AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET 33 34 35 36 CELTIC NIGHTS Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Gerard DI PUGLIA MORGANE PRODUCTION 2 x 61 min 1994 FRENCH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS Celtic music is a phenomenon in Europe. It forms small oases in a musical landscape downgraded by the globalization of majority cultures and the power of the media. The Interceltic Festival of Lorient each year rallies artists from the Celtic countries whose cultures stem from these deep, age-old roots. The 20th century Celt's imaginative and creative needs are still strong and continue to generate contemporary forms of expression. In 26 years Celtic cultures have entered the modern world without losing their souls. The festival brings together 4,500 musicians, singers, dancers, plastic artists, academics and filmmakers from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Galicia, the Asturias, Brittany, the US, Canada, Australia. The public, which grows each year, is faithful to this musical playdate. Artists performing live include: Alan Stivell, Rory Gallagher, Tri Yann, The Christians, Cherish the Ladies, Jacques Pellen, Dan ar Braz, The Chieftains, Martyn Bennett, Ar re Youank, The Brothers Morvan, Denez Prigent LONDON BRASS Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Olivier MILLE Olivier MILLE ARTLINE FILMS 57 min 1994 FRENCH Worldwide except Germany and France TV, VIDEO It is mostly thanks to its performers that english musical tradition can be enjoyed. LONDON BRASS,a tipically british chamber music ensemble composed by 10 musicians. They all play brass instruments, they are all solists in big londonian orchestras. The interprets' quality is underlined by the immense variety of its catalogue, from Gabrielli to John Lenon including Britten, Porter, Brahms, Nyman and so on. From London to the british countryside or to Italy, the movie LONDON BRASS shows us brilliantly the way of the baroque music from the begining to nowadays. LONDON SOUNDS Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights John BERTUCCI John BERTUCCI COUP D'OEIL, ARTE FRANCE 53 min 1993 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH WORLDWIDE VIDEO If any one city best represents a specific rock'n'roll attitude, it is most definitely London. Local fads appear, and disappear just as quickly; gangs, in the great club tradition, invent all sorts of original emblems by which to identify their members, and look and apparel are generally left free to the wanderings of one's imagination... 37 THE HISTORY OF CUBAN MUSIC Authors Directors Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Dominique ROLAND, Jean-Christophe HERVE Jean-Christophe HERVE, Dominique ROLAND KS VISIONS, ARTE FRANCE 83 min 1992 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS Cuba counts more than 12,000 musiciens and numerous family orchestras. Heirs of a rich and tumultuous past, Cuban musicians majestically assimilate tradition and modernity. This lively and comprehensive panorama, enhanced with archive footage and historic documents, divides the history of Cuban music into three major periods: from colonization to independance (1511-1898), the Rumba years (1910-1937), and those of Mambo, Cha-Cha and new rhythm (1937-1992). NINA SIMONE, THE LEGEND Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Frank LORDS Frank LORDS SYSTEM TV, ARTE FRANCE 54 min 1990 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO Singer, piano virtuoso and black rights activist, Nina Simone has led an exciting life, vivid with contrast, from the darkness of oblivion to the glittering lights of the stage and stardom. In this intimist portrait of the artist, family and friends reveal her strengths and weaknesses, her reticent, fragile, and excessive nature. But it is through her music that Nina best expresses herself; musical excerpts abundantly illustrate her rich repertoire, and ensure the pleasure of rediscovering the genious of her art. 38 39 40 AUGUST, A MOMENT BEFORE THE ERUPTION Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Avi MOGRABI Avi MOGRABI Avi MOGRABI 72 min 2002 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except Israel and Finland TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS "August" is a partly documentary and partly fictional film that portrays a month in the life of a filmmaker and his wife. He wishes to document the month of August, since he believes taht this month constitutes a methaphor of whatever is hateful in the State of Israel. She, on the contrary, is rather fond of August, which represents to her all that is optimistic. "August" depicts a portrait of the State of Israel. Unlike past portraits of Israel this is not based on the exposure of the ideological forces, the political and bilateral conflicts or the historial complexity. It is a portrait of the nature and character and personality of this country and of the people that lives in it. A portrait of constant anger, of bitterness, of suspicion. The feeling that haunts the film is of a place set in motionby a turbulence of anger and rage. A feeling that every man has an enemy, and that at every given moment the person next to you could be that enemy, and that there is no better moment than this moment to expose the potential of dispute between the two of you. AWARDS : Prize of the Peace at the 52th Berlinale / Best Documentary 2002 at the It's all true Festival (Sao Paulo, Brésil) HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. MOGRABI Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Avi MOGRABI Avi MOGRABI 76 min 1999 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except Israel, Finland and English speaking Canada TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO In 1998, the Israeli director Avi Mograbi was contacted simultaneously by two producers, one Israeli and one Palestinian. Each asked him to direct a film marking the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. The Israeli wanted a celebration; the Palestinian, a lament... 41 HOW I LEARNED TO OVERCOME MY FEAR AND LOVE ARIK SHARON Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Avi MOGRABI Avi MOGRABI 61 min 1997 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except Israel, English speaking Canada and Switzerland. TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO With the 96' election campaign approaching, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a film about long time infamous and admired political figure, former cabinet minister and legendary army general, Arik Sharon. Having refused, for moral and political reasons, to serve in the 82' Lebanon war, initiated by minister of defense Arik Sharon, Mograbi has a "personal" attitude towards him. In the making of the film, he comes to see Sharon in a different light than expected. To his surprise he finds Sharon extremely likeable. In the course of the campaign chase Mograbi sets aside his leftist political beliefs, gets surprisingly close to Sharon, only to find himself, at the end, in a bizzare scene, dancing in a right wing rally with orthodox religeous jews and singing in support of Netanyahu. Mograbi's wife Tammi is always there, to support him in the beginning, warn him along the way when things go in undesireable directions and eventually leave him when she thinks he has lost his political and moral senses. In this ironic fictious-documentary Mograbi tells the story of the making of the film about Arik Sharon that turned into a domestic melodrama, threaded with his dreams about Sharon and dialogues with his wife. But the true story told is of the impossible close encounter between left and right in present-day Israel. IN & OUT OF FASHION Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK 90 min 1995 ENGLISH, FRENCH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, CINEMA, INTERNET This kaleidoscopic film-collage dealing with Klein's work relating to fashion and costume creation (with his wife Jeanne) mixes excerpts from Klein's feature films with imagery from his reportage and fashion photography, his TV commercials, his books, his paintings and even includes rare footage he shot backstage of Yves Saint-Laurent's very first runaway show. The title suggests not only the fashion sporadically played in Klein's production, but also the shifts in taste that have by turns cast him in the spotlight or relegated him to the wings. Given the current revival of attention to nearly all aspects of his career, Klein's now classic work remains very much in fashion. 42 LE COUPLE TEMOIN Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK 65 min 1976 FRENCH, ENGLISH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, CINEMA, INTERNET Electronic happiness, a massive hoax. What will life be like in France in the year 2000? How easy will it be to manipulate and program people? To find out, the Minister of the Future selects a model couple, Jean-Michel and Claudine (André Dussollier and Anémone) and sets them up in an experimental apartment in the heart of New City, which is still under construction. Taken in hand on arrival by two psycho-sociologists (Zouc and Jacques Boudet), the two guinea pigs' lives are dictated by a demented program. Every moment of their existence is dissected, their words, dreams, way of eating, being bored and making love. At the beginning, the experiment is a game. The couple's adventures are shown on TV with the whole country watching live. But gradually, in their closed world, things begin to go sour. What are all these tests for? What exactly are all these technicians after? The plot twists and turns down to the final send-up, a joyous explosion of slapstick. The experiment is a horrible flop like so many glorious initiatives of our schizo society. "It is incisive, never cursory, always subtle. The film makes you laugh from beginning to end, sometimes so hard you cry." (Alain Rémond - Télérama) MISTER FREEDOM Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN FILMS PARIS NEW YORK 97 min 1968 ENGLISH, FRENCH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, INTERNET, CINEMA Mister Freedom, an American righter of wrongs, a sort of spceage Rambo, arrives to solve France's problems and free the country from the Yellow Peril and the Red Menace. After a series of cockeyed adventures, fighting Red China Man (a gigantic balloon), Moujik Man (Philippe Noiret) and Marie-Madeleine (Delphine Seyrig), he succeeds only in wreaking havoc and destruction, just as he did in Vietnam. The style of the film is a no holds barred satire on the great events that shape our times. The sets and costumes are inspired by hardcore comic-books. The plot contains crazy violence, twists and turns, primeval politics, suspense, sex and slapstick. Audiences feel like they are at the circus until they realize they are watching the news. "Mister Freedom is the Ubu of our times, a thundering, allegorical farce that succeeds in recreating for the cinema a trip from which the film draws its inspiration. William Klein's relentlessly inventive, burlesque extravaganza is an invigorating and refreshing breath of fresh air." (Michel Capdenac - Les Lettres Françaises) 43 THE MAN WITH THE CAMERA Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Dziga VERTOV FILM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES 67 min 1929 RUSSIAN, FRENCH Europe, Middle-East, South Africa & Japan. VIDEO The man with the camera, with complete freedom, traverses the everyday life of a large Soviet city while inventing the filmic language. Dziga Vertov carried out a film-proclamation whose modernity and audacity never ceased feeding the cinema. Restored version Program released on DVD by ARTE Video THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Ernst LUBITSCH Ernst LUBITSCH 143 min 1924 ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN Europe except United Kingdom VIDEO Misunderstandings, trickery, confusion and sudden reversals of situation - all the ingredients of vaudeville magnificently played by the great stars of the time and impeccably directed. Chaplin's, Hitchcock's and Kurosawa's favourite Lubitsch. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Raoul WALSH Douglas FAIRBANKS SR, FILM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES 139 min 1924 ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN Europe except United Kingdom VIDEO The fantastic adventures of a thief and a princess in the Orient of the Arabian Nights. Starring Douglas Fairbanks in his most famous role. Restored version. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video 44 WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO? Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights William KLEIN William KLEIN DELPIRE PRODUCTION 105 min 1966 FRENCH, GERMAN WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, CINEMA, INTERNET For one of the series of monthly programs called "Who are you?" Polly Maggoo is the pseudo-portrait of a super model. Done in a cocktail of styles - Méliès, cinéma vérité, Mack Sennet, Vogue, photo novellas, tabloid press - much of modern mythology is systematically exploded. Watching Polly Maggoo today is a rare pleasure, plus a real surprise - there's no movie like it before or since. It abounds with visual inventions and right-on perceptions. Thirty years ahead of its time, it satirizes TV's top model feeding frenzy, the world of fashion and brainwashing in general. The film's caustic dialogue and wicked humor strike home unerringly. With terrible, and terribly funny, far-sightedness Klein had foreseen the diarrhea of media bullshit.The film's designer justifies dressing women in aluminium with a tirade of pretentious creator-speak. "You are a galvanizer and I am galvanized" yelps fashion-victim Violette Leduc, as pundits launch into vapid psycho-historical explanations. William Klein excels in the parody of all things-media: television commentators, phony interviews, useless scoops, the True Confessions of a Ruritarian Prince, the concoction of a fairy tale romance - even the vox-pops that foreshadow the spontaneous debates of May '68. He takes delight in the slaughter of his targets while keeping the poetry of the images and design ever present. AWARDS : Jean Vigo Prize 1967 45 BUSTER KEATON, ALL COMPLETE SHORTS [1917-1923] Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Buster KEATON Buster KEATON LOBSTER FILMS 32 x 22 min 1923 FRENCH, ENGLISH Europe except the United Kingdom VIDEO We are proud to bring to a modern public one of the greatest periods in the work of a cinema genius. These 32 shorts give a huge insight into the artistic journey of the man considered by many to be celluloid's finest comic performer. Each a jewel in its own right, these films, some of which had disappeared for 80 years, are presented here in all their former glory after restoration in collaboration with cinematheques across the world. The musical accompaniment, featuring piano or old-style orchestra, takes us right back to the days when the films were first released. Programme released by ARTE Video BACK STAGE CONEY ISLAND CONVICT 13 COPS DAY DREAMS GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! HARD LUCK HIS WEDDING NIGHT MOONSHINE MY WIFE'S RELATIONS NEIGHBORS OH, DOCTOR! ONE WEEK OUT WEST THE BALLOONATIC THE BELL BOY THE BLACKSMITH THE BOAT THE BUTCHER BOY THE COOK THE ELECTRIC HOUSE THE FROZEN NORTH THE GARAGE THE GOAT THE HAUNTED HOUSE THE HAYSSED THE "HIGH SIGN" THE LOVE NEST THE PALEFACE THE PLAYHOUSE THE ROUGH HOUSE THE SCARECROW 46 CHARLIE CHAPLIN - THE ESSANAY & THE MUTUAL COMEDIES [1915-1917] Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Charles CHAPLIN FILM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES 28 x 25 min 1917 FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN Europe except United-Kingdom VIDEO Charlie Chaplin's first comedies from 1915 to 1917 (the Essanay and Mutual Comedies). The 28 films are presented in the best versions, in restored copies with high quality musical accompaniments. A JITNEY ELOPEMENT A NIGHT IN THE SHOW A NIGHT OUT A WOMAN BEHIND THE SCREEN BURLESQUE ON "CARMEN" BY THE SEA EASY STREET HIS NEW JOB "HIS REGENERATION" IN THE PARK ONE A.M. POLICE SHANGHAIED THE ADVENTURER THE BANK THE CHAMPION THE COUNT THE CURE THE FIREMAN THE FLOORWALKER THE IMMIGRANT THE PAWN SHOP THE RINK THE TRAMP THE VAGABOND TRIPLE TROUBLE WORK 47 A MELIES SHOW Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Jacques MENY, Thierry SILIGHINI Jacques MENY SODAPERAGA, ARTE FRANCE 58 min 1997 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except ARGENTINA for TV rights TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS A dream-like journey throughout the world of Georges Méliès by way of fourteen of his most famous films. The series offers an overview of the different genres he tried his hand at, such as trick films, extravaganza, burlesque and fantasy. 1 - A Man of Heads - 1898 - 50 sec. 2 - The Trip to the Moon - 1902 - 9mn 3 - The Infernal Cakewalk - 1903 - 5mn 4 - The Speakeasy - 1902 - 3mn 5 - The Music Lover - 1903 - 2mn 30 6 - The Infernal Boiling Pot - 1903 - 2mn 7 - The Man with the Rubber Head - 1902 - 2mn 30 8 - The Living Cards - 1905 - 2mn 9 - Posters on a Binge - 1905 - 3mn 10 - The Chinese Thaumaturge - 1904 - 3mn 11 - The Makeup King - 1904 - 2mn 30 12 - The One-Man Band - 1900- 2mn 13 - The Devilish Tenant - 1909 - 6mn 30 14 - Bluebeard - 1901 - 9mn Program released on DVD by ARTE Video MELIES' MAGIC Authors Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Thierry SILIGHINI, Jacques MENY Jacques MENY ARTE FRANCE, SODAPERAGA 132 min 1997 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide except ARGENTINA TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS Including original archive footage, film excerpts and reconstructions, this extraordinary documentary retraces the life and career of Georges Méliès, who visualized and elaborated most of the techniques that have been used throughout the century (special effects, trucquage, coloring, backdrops and costumes). Georges Méliès is the ancestor of Disney, Spielberg and Lucas. All at once author, producer, director and decorator, he is the legendary pioneer of the cinematographic show. Witnesses and historians tell his story, guiding us throughout this exciting discovery of his life, his art and the unique techniques of an artist, who, as of 1896, produced no less than 500 films in his dream factory. Program released on DVD by ARTE Video AWARDS : FIPA 97 Selection 48 NANOOK OF THE NORTH Author Director Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Robert FLAHERTY Robert FLAHERTY FILM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATES 79 min 1922 ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN Europe except the United Kingdom VIDEO The first major documentary in the history of cinema filmed during the winter of 1920 in the Canadian Arctic. Explorer Robert Flaherty films the daily life of Nanook the hunter and his family. Released on DVD by ARTE Video ONCE UPON A TIME THE SUPER HEROES Author Director Producers Durations Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michel VIOTTE Michel VIOTTE KALAMAZOO INTERNATIONAL, ARTE FRANCE, IDEACOM, 13ème Rue 2 x 52 min, 99 min 2001 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Europe except the UK, Asia and Oceania TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, Captain America...and the roll-call goes on. These legendary urban heroes sprang from the imaginations of American comic-book artists and screenwriters between the Great Depression and the Second World War to combat the bugbears of the modern world. Mutant human beings with superhuman powers, they were an expression not only of the fears and obsessions of the twentieth century, but also of American ideals. Initially associated with the black-and-white conflict between America and Evil in the shape of Nazism and then Communism, in the early 1960s they began to mirror the anxieties of a younger generation confronted with rapid social change. At once ambitious and entertaining, "Once upon a time the super heroes" brings the American super heroes back to life with the aid of a treasure-trove of extracts from comic strips, feature films (including the various Superman and Batman films) and cartoons, and a fascinating collection of interviews with screenwriters, comic strip artists, film producers and directors, sociologists and so on. Program released on DVD by ARTE France Développement 49 WILD AFRICA ON FILM Author Director Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Michel VIOTTE Michel VIOTTE La COMPAGNIE DES INDES, ARTE FRANCE 54 min 2003 FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH Worldwide TV, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS, VIDEO From Mogambo to Out of Africa, from the pioneers of the documentary to the golden age of wildlife filming, this is a kaleidoscope of the most breathtaking footage and still photographs of Africa ever taken. Until the early 20th century, all Western populations knew about African wildlife was what they had seen in botanical prints and trips to the zoo or read in the accounts of missionaries and explorers. Not surprisingly, they were bowled over by the first big-screen footage of lions and elephants in their natural habitat. From the late Thirties until the end of the Fifties, Hollywood was people's main source of images of Africa. The movies perpetuated the myth of the great white hunter confronting a hostile wilderness full of savage beasts. The white hunter was seen as the consummate adventure hero, and was played by actors like Clark Gable and Stewart Granger - the biggest stars of their day. Today, wildlife films have become a genre in their own right. Filming the wilderness offers insights into the risks of wildlife filming, the techniques used to get pictures in differing circumstances, and the relationship the cameraman has with the animals he is filming. 50 51 52 CARTOON FACTORY Producer Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights LOBSTER FILMS 50 x 27 min 1994 ENGLISH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS During the thirties in the US, cartoons were one of the major types of film. Walt Disney's contemporaries constantly innovated and created new and original worlds... A considerable amount of research, and reediting, done for ARTE by the best specialists of the genre, has saved a number of these cartoon classics. With more than 50 films, we rediscover Alice, as well as the fabulous adventures of Popeye and Olive. We also discover Bosco, Tom and Jerry, at the time when they were not yet a cat and a mouse... Cartoon Factory is both a historical monument and a moment of pleasure for children aged 7 to 77. 53 THE AMUSING MUSEUM Authors Directors Producers Duration Production year Version(s) Available territories Available rights Alain JAUBERT, Marie-Jose JAUBERT Alain JAUBERT, Marie-Jose JAUBERT FRANCE 5, MUSEE DU LOUVRE - SERVICE CULTUREL PRODUCTIONS AUDIOVISUELLES, PALETTE PRODUCTION 76 x 4 min 1996 FRENCH, SPANISH WORLDWIDE TV, VIDEO, NON-THEATRICAL RIGHTS A child, who we follow throughout the series, discovers, in each new program, a different art technique and tells us a story inspired by the work he encounters (painting, sculpture, tapistry...). The stories he tells are often very simple, closely linked with a childhood imagination: day/night, house/country... Fairy tales and fables mingle with art. AQUARELLE : THE HARE - DURER AUTUMN AUTUMN - GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO BIRDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD BLACK AND WHITE BLUE - YVES KLEIN CATHEDRALS - MONET CHARACTER - GASTON CHAISSAC ECHO AND NARCISSUS - POUSSIN HELENE FOURMENT - RUBENS LE SCHOOL TEACHER - ADRIEAN VAN OSTADE LES VERY RICH HOURS OF THE DUKE OF BERRY LOUIS THE XIVTH IN VERSAILLES MAILLOL'S STATUES - THE TUILERIES MAYA WITH A DOLL - PABLO PICASSO MOSAICS MOSES SAVED FROM THE WATER - NICOLAS POUSSIN NIGHT LIGHTS - CAMILLE PISSARO NOAH'S ARK - VENICE ON HORSEBACK PERSIAN MINIATURES PORTRAIT OF A MAN - TITIEN PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG PRINCESS - PISANELLO PREHISTORICAL PAINTINGS RED RUE DE SEINE - JACQUES MAHE DE LA VILLEGLE SECRETS OF A PAINTING SELFPORTRAIT - ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI SILVER OVER BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW AND RED - JACKSON POLLOCK SNOWSTORM AT SEA - W. TURNER STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS OF THE HOLY CHAPEL STILL LIVES - CHARDIN THE AFTERNOON NAP - VAN GOGH THE CHILD WITH A TEETOTUM - CHARDIN THE CHILDREN'S GAME - PIERRE BRUEGEL THE CIRCUS - GEORGES SEURAT THE COWHERD - COROT THE CRADLE - BERTHE MORISOT THE DAIRY GIRL - VERMEER THE DANCER - EDGAR DEGAS THE FARM - NICOLAS-BERNARD LEPICIER THE GOOD CHILDREN - AUGUSTE RENOIR THE GOOD GOVERNMENT - AMBROGIO LORENZOTTI THE GREAT CANAL - ANTONIO CANALETTO THE GREENGROCER - LOUISE MOILLON THE HAPPY COUNTRYSIDE - JEAN DUBUFFET THE ICARUS' FALL - CARLO SARACENI THE INTERROGATING CHILDREN - KAREL APPEL THE LACEMAKER - VERMEER THE LADY WITH THE UNICORN THE LANGLOIS BRIDGE - VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LITTLE RED RIDLING HOOD - GUSTAVE DORE THE LOUVRE MUSEUM'S STATUES THE MAGPIE - CLAUDE MONET THE MONEYLENDER AND HIS WIFE - Q METSYS THE NEW BORN - GEORGES DE LA TOUR THE PARTY THE PRINCESS AND THE DRAGON - UCELLO THE PUBLIC GARDENS - VUILLARD THE RAINBOW - MILLET THE RED HORSE - CHAGALL THE RED POPPIES - CLAUDE MONET THE SAN ROMAN BATTLE - UCELLO THE SLIPPERS - SAMUEL VEN HOOGSTRATEN THE SNAKE CHARMER - HENRI ROUSSEAU THE SPRING THE STRAVINSKY FOUNTAIN - NICKY DE SAINT PHALLE, JEAN TINGUELY THE TROMPE L'¿IL - BERNARDO GERMAN Y LLORENTE THE WAVE - HENRI MATISSE THE WHITE HORSE - PAUL GAUGUIN 54 THE YOUNG WOMAN WITH A MIRROR - TITIEN TRAVELLING THROUGH PAINTINGS TREASURES OF THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDES WILD ANIMALS - SCULPTURE WOMEN IN BATH - DEGAS YELLOW 55 56 THEMATICAL INDEX History.................................................................................................... 7 Ancient History............................................................................................... 7 SECRETS OF THE NILE.......................................................................................................................................................................... THE ARCHEOLOGY COLLECTION........................................................................................................................................................ 7 7 Contemporary History..................................................................................... 7 ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE BOLIVIAN DIARY.............................................................................................................................. GULAG..................................................................................................................................................................................................... MAPPING THE WORLD........................................................................................................................................................................... MAY DAYS............................................................................................................................................................................................... THE GREAT BELIEF OF THE CENTURY............................................................................................................................................... 8 8 8 9 9 Society...................................................................................................13 Religion...........................................................................................................13 BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY....................................................................................................................................................................... 13 LIFE OF BUDDHA.................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 MOHAMMED, THE PROPHET................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Sport...............................................................................................................14 MUHAMMAD ALI - THE GREATEST....................................................................................................................................................... 15 THE FRENCH........................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Discovery...............................................................................................19 Nature - Environment..................................................................................... 19 IN SEARCH OF THE NILE....................................................................................................................................................................... 19 THE CITY OF THE ANTS......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 THE LAST SAFARI................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 TREES...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Discovery - Ethnology.....................................................................................20 CAMBODIA, THE LANDS OF THE WANDERING SOULS...................................................................................................................... 21 HEAVEN IN A GARDEN........................................................................................................................................................................... 21 THEM AND ME - A TRIBE AND ITS ETHNOLOGIST ON THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA........................................................... 22 Science..................................................................................................25 Science...........................................................................................................25 MEDITERRANEE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 PLANT WARS.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 THE CLITORIS - FORBIDDEN PLEASURE............................................................................................................................................ 26 TUNED INTO THE CLIMATES................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Arts - Culture..........................................................................................29 57 Architecture.................................................................................................... 29 ARCHITECTURES................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Painting - Sculpture........................................................................................ 29 ALBERTO GIACOMETTI WHAT'S IN A HEAD?...................................................................................................................................... 29 PALETTES............................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 PICASSO DAYS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Photo..............................................................................................................31 CONTACTS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 Arts.................................................................................................................32 MYTHS MADE ART.................................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Theater - Circus..............................................................................................33 PETER BROOK........................................................................................................................................................................................ 33 Music......................................................................................................37 Concerts - Opera............................................................................................37 CELTIC NIGHTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Musical Documentary.....................................................................................37 LONDON BRASS..................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 LONDON SOUNDS.................................................................................................................................................................................. 37 THE HISTORY OF CUBAN MUSIC......................................................................................................................................................... 38 Portraits.......................................................................................................... 38 NINA SIMONE, THE LEGEND................................................................................................................................................................. 38 Feature Films - Short Films....................................................................41 Feature Films..................................................................................................41 AUGUST, A MOMENT BEFORE THE ERUPTION.................................................................................................................................. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. MOGRABI......................................................................................................................................................... HOW I LEARNED TO OVERCOME MY FEAR AND LOVE ARIK SHARON........................................................................................... IN & OUT OF FASHION........................................................................................................................................................................... LE COUPLE TEMOIN............................................................................................................................................................................... MISTER FREEDOM................................................................................................................................................................................. THE MAN WITH THE CAMERA............................................................................................................................................................... THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE........................................................................................................................................................................ THE THIEF OF BAGDAD......................................................................................................................................................................... WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO?........................................................................................................................................................ 41 41 42 42 43 43 44 44 44 45 Short Films.....................................................................................................45 BUSTER KEATON, ALL COMPLETE SHORTS [1917-1923].................................................................................................................. 46 CHARLIE CHAPLIN - THE ESSANAY & THE MUTUAL COMEDIES [1915-1917]................................................................................. 47 Cinema Documentary.....................................................................................47 A MELIES SHOW..................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 MELIES' MAGIC....................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 NANOOK OF THE NORTH...................................................................................................................................................................... 49 58 ONCE UPON A TIME THE SUPER HEROES......................................................................................................................................... 49 WILD AFRICA ON FILM........................................................................................................................................................................... 50 Children..................................................................................................53 Children..........................................................................................................53 CARTOON FACTORY.............................................................................................................................................................................. 53 THE AMUSING MUSEUM........................................................................................................................................................................ 54 59 60 ALPHABETICAL INDEX ALBERTO GIACOMETTI WHAT'S IN A HEAD?...................................................................................................................................... 29 A MELIES SHOW..................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 AMUSING MUSEUM (THE)..................................................................................................................................................................... 54 ARCHEOLOGY COLLECTION (THE)...................................................................................................................................................... 7 ARCHITECTURES................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 AUGUST, A MOMENT BEFORE THE ERUPTION.................................................................................................................................. 41 BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY....................................................................................................................................................................... 13 BUSTER KEATON, ALL COMPLETE SHORTS [1917-1923].................................................................................................................. 46 CAMBODIA, THE LANDS OF THE WANDERING SOULS...................................................................................................................... 21 CARTOON FACTORY.............................................................................................................................................................................. 53 CELTIC NIGHTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 CHARLIE CHAPLIN - THE ESSANAY & THE MUTUAL COMEDIES [1915-1917]................................................................................. 47 CONTACTS.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE BOLIVIAN DIARY.............................................................................................................................. 8 GREAT BELIEF OF THE CENTURY (THE)............................................................................................................................................. 9 GULAG..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. MOGRABI......................................................................................................................................................... 41 HEAVEN IN A GARDEN........................................................................................................................................................................... 21 HOW I LEARNED TO OVERCOME MY FEAR AND LOVE ARIK SHARON........................................................................................... 42 IN & OUT OF FASHION........................................................................................................................................................................... 42 IN SEARCH OF THE NILE....................................................................................................................................................................... 19 LE COUPLE TEMOIN............................................................................................................................................................................... 43 LIFE OF BUDDHA.................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 LONDON BRASS..................................................................................................................................................................................... 37 LONDON SOUNDS.................................................................................................................................................................................. 37 MAPPING THE WORLD........................................................................................................................................................................... 8 MAY DAYS............................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 MEDITERRANEE..................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 MELIES' MAGIC....................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 MISTER FREEDOM................................................................................................................................................................................. 43 MOHAMMED, THE PROPHET................................................................................................................................................................ 13 MUHAMMAD ALI - THE GREATEST....................................................................................................................................................... 15 MYTHS MADE ART.................................................................................................................................................................................. 33 NANOOK OF THE NORTH...................................................................................................................................................................... 49 NINA SIMONE, THE LEGEND................................................................................................................................................................. 38 ONCE UPON A TIME THE SUPER HEROES......................................................................................................................................... 49 PALETTES .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 30 PETER BROOK........................................................................................................................................................................................ 33 PICASSO DAYS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 PLANT WARS.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 SECRETS OF THE NILE.......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 THE CITY OF THE ANTS......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 THE CLITORIS - FORBIDDEN PLEASURE............................................................................................................................................ 26 THE FRENCH........................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 THE HISTORY OF CUBAN MUSIC......................................................................................................................................................... 38 THE LAST SAFARI................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 THEM AND ME - A TRIBE AND ITS ETHNOLOGIST ON THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA........................................................... 22 THE MAN WITH THE CAMERA............................................................................................................................................................... 44 THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE........................................................................................................................................................................ 44 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD......................................................................................................................................................................... 44 TREES...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 TUNED INTO THE CLIMATES................................................................................................................................................................. 26 WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO?........................................................................................................................................................ 45 WILD AFRICA ON FILM........................................................................................................................................................................... 50 61