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Director: Raymond Depardon (2001)
French rural life has undergone enormous changes in the last century. Raymond Depardon offers us a glimpse of this world that he knows so well, having spent his childhood on the Gret farm, in the Saône Valley in the center of France. Profils paysans : L’approche opens the doors to several family [...]
Director: Alain Resnais (1955)
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps’ quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With [...]
Director: Nicolas Philibert (2002)
Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, the documentary “Etre Et Avoir” takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartland.
A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single [...]
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