Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-14 of 14
- In 1982 the new French president Mitterrand opens a blind competition, to build an opera at the site of the notorious Bastille prison The jury seems to have found the best design, by prominent American architect Richard Meier. Or so they thought. Until the Minister of Culture blanches and stumbles through the name Carlos Ott, Canadian. No one has heard of him and he has never built anything. They chose the wrong guy? Hastily informed, Carlos flies to Paris with an expired passport and is tossed into an airport holding cell for immediate deportment. Official panic ensues. Things get worse from there. But like French politics, nothing is what it appears. A year later when Jacques Chirac is elected Prime Minister, he hates Mitterrand and works to stop the Opera When Carlos Ott receives Chirac's stop work order, the money is cut off. It seems that all the sacrifice is for naught. Building Bastille is a feature length documentary that tells the comic, dramatic and tangled story of modern history's greatest case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.
- They wage wars and administer medicines; they are farmers and graziers. They live in a world of coded communications and lightning chains of command, secret poison mixtures and prodigious strength.
- Discover the magic and beauty of some of the world's most enchanting destinations; their natural wonders, outstanding monuments, their crafts and breathtaking landscapes.
- A name full of promise. Rarely has any country generated so much passion for adventure. Travelling along the banks of the Nile, we discover the treasures left here by different pharaonic dynasties and meet Egyptians proud to share their cultural heritage.
- A writer struggles with his latest project when a mysterious woman appears seemingly out of nowhere. Could she be his muse or maybe something else...
- The story of a lioness who befriends a leopard. Their respective mating rituals.
- A tour of the nation's most bizarre spectacles and competitions, from bog snorkelling to cheese rolling, presenting Britain at its eccentric best.
- An Italian choreograph travels to the Indian tribal areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand, home of an exhausting tribal male dance using enormous masks. Like India, this spectacular art form is in mutation, opening to foreigners and female performers. CHHAU NACH is a colorful journey and a reflection at how traditional art can benefit from modernity.
- Douce France is an offbeat tour of France's quirkiest traditions. From snail racing, frog jumping, duck plucking to lemon sculpting. We pay homage to fromage and worship at the temple of wine. From the Pyrenees and its quaint folklore, to Normandy and its no-rules rugby, this is France like you've never seen it.