Return of the Prodigal Son 1976 ( 6.3)

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Pastoral Symphony 1946 ( 6.2)

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.

Voyage au Congo 1927 ( 7)

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual fascination. One of the most elaborate manifestations of this was the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris to celebrate ‘la France des 5 continents’. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or tableaux of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigènes and forcing them to act out the gestures of their ‘everyday lives’ under the eyes of 1930’s Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret’s Voyage au Congo.

N/A N/A ( 6.2)

Relaxed pacifist, matcha addict, and convinced vegan, Panda runs a small shack in a remote corner of the Camargue. No phone, no computer, no car; he lives with his 16-year-old in this perfect cocoon of peace and serenity, avoiding anything resembling conflict. How to imagine that this wise man in flip-flops and a faded t-shirt was once a cop? And not just any cop. One of the best. Unfortunately, even in paradise, there's no way to be completely peaceful. When his former life comes knocking at the door, Panda finds himself obliged to return to duty... But in his own way. Without weapons or violence and not too early in the morning. Zen, you know.

Double foyer 2024 ( 4.2)

Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of life which, someday, will call their way of life into question.

Diabetes, a Hefty Bill 2021 ( 8)

How can we better manage patients with diabetes, a chronic disease that affects more and more people around the world? Conducted on three continents, an in-depth investigation into an alarming situation.

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Should the Wind Drop 2021 ( 6)

International auditor Alain has arrived to appraise the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus to green light its eventual reopening. Through Edgar, a local boy running a make-shift business in the airport, Alain will risk all to help this isolated territory to open up.

All the Dreams in the World 2017 ( 6.3)

Pamela is stuck in her contradictions, failures and absolute love for her family, she feels lost and seems incapable of imagining how she could live her life. She will try to find her own way between France and Portugal.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017) 2019

This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast featuring Florian Sempey as Figaro, Catherine Trottmann as Rosina, and Michele Angelini as Il Conte Almaviva. Jérémie Rhorer conducts Le Cercle de l-Harmonie.

Die Fledermaus - Opéra de Lille 2024

The most brilliant of Austrian operettas takes us to the outskirts of romantic Old Vienna. It’s New Year Eve and we are in the company of Caroline, who is determined to teach her philandering husband Gaillardin a lesson, even while she is being pursued by her former beau, the operatic tenor Alfred. At the centre of the action is the extremely wealthy, eternally bored Prince Orlofsky, whose lavish masked ball brings everything to a most delicious boil. But what if the whole plot has been a cunning plan masterminded by someone just to get back at Eisenstein?