In this light-hearted musical comedy with a message, a North African pop group called Rap Oriental uses music to triumph over the bigotry and violence in their housing project...LEARN MORE

Filmmaker Anastasia Lapsui, a Nenet who hails from the Russian tundra, has combined the legends of her indigenous people with personal experiences in order to convey life under...LEARN MORE

French actress Helene Lapiower (Trouble Every Day) steps behind the camera to direct Petite Conversation Familiale, an intimate documentary that began as a chronicle of her Jewish family, who...LEARN MORE.

This collection showcases the experimental animations of Russian-born artist/filmmaker Alexander Alexeieff and his American wife and collaborator, Claire Parker...LEARN MORE.

This Arte France television production takes viewers into the heart of the "first arts," introducing major artistic pieces from African, Oceania, South America, and Asia. Each of the six half-hour...LEARN MORE.

This Arte France television production returns to the heart of the "first arts," introducing major artistic pieces from African, Oceania, South America, and Asia. Each of the six half-hour...LEARN MORE.

This mysterious, genre-defying French film concerns a reclusive artist named Rene Bernard (Patrick-Mario Bernard), who lives and works in a beautiful old ballroom with his male lover...LEARN MORE.

This crazy, satirical epic humorously portrays several eras in European history. Though the costumes and regimes change, the film suggests, the human motives of lust and greed remain...LEARN MORE.

Genevieve, the village nurse, finds Celine, a confused girl with suicidal tendencies, wandering the ward of the hospital one morning. Genevieve takes the young girl home but is afraid to...LEARN MORE.

This French television documentary recounts the extraordinary career of the father of structural anthropology, Claude Levi-Strauss, whose theories not only impacted that field, but...LEARN MORE.

Canadian director Philippe Falardeau toys with coincidence, contrivance, and near-mystical encounters in this comic drama with as many twists of fate as there are twists of plot...LEARN MORE.

Chilean-born director Raul Ruiz may be cinema's most famous exile, with his most important work produced in France. In this semi-documentary film, patterned after Bertolt Brecht's...LEARN MORE.

Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, and Marie-France Pisier are featured in this 1973 debut from Yugoslavian-born filmmaker Stanislav Stanojevic. While cruising the Mediterranean with a tour...LEARN MORE.

Comprising three narratives, Arnaud des Pallieres' profound film meditates on the lingering impact of the Holocaust on France. The first tale concerns the last survivor, who laments not...LEARN MORE.

Also known as Le Question Humaine, this Cesar Award-nominated film from director Nicolas Klotz stars Mathieu Amalric in the suspenseful story of a Parisian psychologist working at a...LEARN MORE.

When filmmaker Mariana Otero was a young child, her mother disappeared. The family told Mariana and her sister, Isabel, that she had gone to work in Paris and never returned...LEARN MORE.

Bertrand Tavernier makes the everyday electric with this compelling portrait of a teacher and administrator struggling to make a difference in a system plagued by institutional...LEARN MORE.

The second film by Jean-Claude Brisseau (Secret Things) is this gritty story of working women in the modern world. Originally shot on 16mm for French television, Life the Way It Is....LEARN MORE.

In the heart of the Louvre Museum, the Apollo Gallery offers a dazzling display of rich tapestries, monumental paintings, gilded ornamentation, and even the French crown jewels. But...LEARN MORE.

A collection of the major films of Luc Moullet, the unknown genius of the French New Wave and long-time Cahiers du Cinema critic. The set includes: The Smugglers (1967, 81 mins.), which...LEARN MORE.

In 1969, sculptor Jean Tinguely began an amazing artistic adventure with his wife, artist Niki de Saint Phalle. With help from a group of their artist friends, the pair started construction...LEARN MORE.

French novelist Marguerite Duras (Hiroshima Mon Amour) directs this elliptical, minimalist film about the domestic space of women, in which dull rituals mask an undercurrent of lurking...LEARN MORE.

French novelist Marguerite Duras (Hiroshima Mon Amour) directs this elliptical, minimalist film about the domestic space of women, in which dull rituals mask an undercurrent of lurking...LEARN MORE.

Years ahead of its time, Stanislav Stanojevic's Camera Award-winning political drama comprises eight individual stories of human rights violations occurring simultaneously in Prague...LEARN MORE.

Benedicte Lienard's visually inventive and socially conscious drama draws bold connections between a woman imprisoned for labor violence (Severine Caneele, L'Humanite) and her...LEARN MORE.

Master French filmmaker Julien Duvivier (Under the Paris Sky, Pepe Le Moko) adapted this silent film with a powerful story of child neglect that resonates with relevancy...LEARN MORE.

Director Stanislav Stanojevic (Notorious Nobodies) offers an absurdist allegory about the nature of political repression. A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and...LEARN MORE.

Luc Moullet, original member of the French New Wave and long-time critic for Cahiers du Cinema, directed these distinctive documentaries that resonate with his absurdist view...LEARN MORE

Luc Moullet, an original member of the French New Wave and long-time Cahiers du Cinema critic, directed these two idiosyncratic comedies with a modern eye and an absurdist wit...LEARN MORE.

The Films of Luc Moullet highlights the work of an underrated French New Wave icon...LEARN MORE

From the mind of Luc Moullet, the unknown genius of the French New Wave, comes this pair of riotous comedies that capture the movement's sense of dislocation and anarchy. "Maybe the...LEARN MORE.

In our collective memory, Joan of Arc is the teenage shepherd girl who was burned at the stake in Rouen after saving France from the English. But long-buried 15th-century documents suggest...LEARN MORE.

Franz Kafka, renowned author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Plagued by sleepwalking, Kafka wrote almost...LEARN MORE.

French director Jean-Claude Brisseau, a protege of Eric Rohmer, created controversy with his erotic films focusing on the sexuality of women from a decidedly male perspective. However, these three dramas by Brisseau feature women protagonists who live outside conventional society in other ways. Includes Life the Way It Is, Celine, and Workers for the Good Lord.

An unsettling blend of black comedy and melodrama, Workers for the Good Lord, directed by French maverick Jean-Claude Brisseau, was chosen as one of the top ten films of 2000 by...LEARN MORE.