Jean-Daniel Bécache

From July to December 2015, with a camera team in tow, Bernard-Henri Lévy journeyed 1,000 km along the frontline separating Iraqi Kurdistan from Islamic State troops. The journey resulted in an illustrated logbook offering a special insight into an unfinished war with a global impact. Alongside the Peshmergas – Kurdish fighters imbued with a spirit of unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar mountains, passing the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction along the way. A tale peopled by real characters, men and women whose faces are rarely seen...

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires, since the dead man was someone rather important...

On the occasion of the passing of Marcel Hanoun, Gérard Courant wanted to pay tribute to this companion whom he had known since 1975 by accompanying him with the song Avec le temps by Léo Ferré.

A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?

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A private detective, Assoud the Buffalo, feels lonely and is heading for deep depression at the beginning of the Parisian summer. Lucy, a friend, organises a mysterious meeting for him on the banks of the Canal St Martin.

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15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.

Magda Freund, widow, recently arrived from Argentina, visits a Parisian apartment. Although knowing that its owner does not want to rent it for the moment, Magda, mysteriously seduced by this place, wishes to meet him to convince him to change his mind. This man is called Marek Kowalski and lives in the outer suburbs. Magda decides to make the journey.

An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.

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A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003, Courant filmed this community's annual reenactment of the Via Crucis 24 times.

The filming of Joseph Morder's Cinématon n°1968.

The ending of filming 24 passions over 24 years in Burzet (France). Shot on a silver film, it takes us on a tour around the area now left empty.

Autour de 24 Passions is the making-of of my film 24 Passions . It was shot in 2003, on the occasion of the 24th year of filming this film on the Stations of the Cross of Burzet, in Ardèche. (Gérard Courant)

Located in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris (France) and inaugurated in 1894, the Cipale velodrome was the venue for the 1900 and 1924 Olympic Games, the finish of 7 Tours de France (1968 to 1974) and the famous Grand Prix de Paris (1894 to 1993). This last competition was, for a long time, the most important track sprint event in the world.