“Being French in 2024 means being able to serve as Prime Minister while openly gay.” With these words closing his policy speech on January 30, 2024, Gabriel Attal made history. The documentary *Homos en politique: le dire ou pas?* uses this milestone — the appointment and visibility of France’s first openly gay Prime Minister — as a springboard for a broader inquiry. Journalists Jean-Baptiste Marteau and Renaud Saint-Cricq travel across France to meet LGBTQ politicians of all generations, from Paris to rural towns. Eleven years after the protests against same-sex marriage, has France really changed? Through interviews with figures like Bertrand Delanoë, Sarah El Haïry, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, Franck Riester, and others, the film explores how coming out intersects with politics, homophobia, and representation — questioning whether saying “I’m gay” in politics is still an act of courage or simply a sign of the times.
This is the first non-fiction film to document, through real footage, the stories of children seeking help — and finding self-rescue — amid psychological and emotional struggles. Through intimate, unfiltered moments at schools, in families, and inside hospitals, the film captures the children’s interactions with teachers, parents, and doctors. Over the course of five years, the director — a veteran journalist — immersed herself in classrooms, medical institutions, and social organizations, conducting hundreds of interviews with children, parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Drawing from tens of thousands of real cases and records, she uses documentary cinema to explore the urgent question: how can we better understand and support children in their journeys of growth, care, and education?
This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of journalist Vladimir Herzog, who was murdered by the military dictatorship in Brazil, the documentary retraces his life and the story of his family — up until his death on October 25, 1975. His assassination became a turning point in Brazil’s struggle for redemocratization during the 1970s.
The film tells the inspiring story of a young Moroccan skateboarder who defies societal norms to forge her own path in life. Growing up in a conservative environment, Houda is the only female skateboarder in her city. Her skateboard becomes her symbol of freedom and self-determination.
In this documentary, the cleaner Güven Ciftci, the DHL courier Khaleel Al Bodach, and the caretaker Cynthia Würpel take us into their often-invisible daily working lives. From the first ringing of the alarm clock at half past three in the morning to coming home in the evening, the film depicts the physical strain, daily routines, and the dignity of three professions without which our society could not function, but which are hardly noticed in the public consciousness.
The city of Alicante (southeastern Spain) experienced catastrophic floods in 1982 and 1997. Locals share their memories from the floods, and their concerns for the present.
Beneath the soft glow of a theater stage, a conversation unfolds — an unraveling of stories tethered to history, shaped by places, and refracted through memory. Words echo silence as the stage becomes a mirror, reflecting what is seen, what is unseen, and what is felt. A contemplation of the liminal.
Oscar® and Grammy®-winning musician Jon Batiste crafts an album with legendary producer No ID — blending joy, lineage, alchemy and protest into something deeply personal.
An exploration of Edmond Dédé and Basile Barès were 19th-century New Orleans composers of color. Dédé, born free, was an orchestral composer and violist, known for his opera Morgiane. Barès, born into slavery, was a pianist and composer of music for dance halls, unique for being the only known American composer with a copyright assigned to his work while enslaved.
A touching tribute to the distinguished Lithuanian cultural figure Irena VeisaitÄ—. Having survived the Holocaust and lost her loved ones, but refusing to give in to hatred, she chose forgiveness over revenge, dialogue over silence, and love over hatred, becoming an inspiration to many.