Roman Lechapelier

A French current affairs show.

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.

After the sudden death of Maria Paz, her husband Marco discovers that she has a lover, Frédéric. He decides to embark on a journey to meet him. Through this man and this journey to Brittany, he will discover how much his wife ultimately remained unknown to him and will learn to discover himself.

Anolan is a soloist in a string orchestra, lives with her mother and dedicates every minute to his profession; Enmanuel is a peasant resident in the Sierra Maestra who devotes his time to working the land, accompanied by his young son.

Catarina decides to leave São Luís to start a new life. While buying stuff for her farewell party, she meets Francisco, with whom she'd had a relationship, which was interrupted at its peak when he disappeared a few years earlier. Francisco's explanations hide the real reason for his disappearance. During the party, Catherine tries to get over this situation by getting really drunk. The next day she can barely walk, but needs to go out on a date with her true destiny.​

A life of political commitment led filmmaker Michèle Firk from the underground support network of the Algerian FLN to the guerrilla struggle in Guatemala. In 1966, she was in Havana when the Tricontinental took place, a conference aimed at forming a united anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist front of countries from the Global South.

“The Discreet Charm of a Champion” portrays one of the quietest athletes in Brazilian sport. Record holder in participations in Olympics, five in total, the lifter Fofão, about to complete 30 years of career, brings with it a trajectory of patience. He waited more than a decade on the bench to become the biggest winner in Brazilian volleyball. Through it, it is possible to portray 30 years of the sport in the country and characteristics inherent to great athletes: humility and perseverance.

Reporter Julião Siqueira, tired of being a joke at the station he works for, teams up with cameraman Yasmin to investigate a human trafficking complaint involving drag queen Lohanny and Nordrags agency. For this, the two will head into the world of Drag Queens.

Rafael resides on his southern Spanish finca with his friends, a group of bohemian refuseniks, adventurers and leftover revolutionaries. They loaf about in style in the idyllic surroundings, playing around, drinking, chatting, reciting verse, posing and performing. Early on, Rafael’s son shows up with his German fiancée, who soon runs off with Julio after some four-handed piano playing. Henry is on a relentless quest for new business ventures and is prospecting for gold in a secret mine; Franziska prefers to ignore the need to earn money; Lucas reads book after book about economics and culture. And then there’s Domingo, who is supposed to relieve a certain Herr Müller of Düsseldorf of three million Euros.

Sergio Abel lives in a small town in Central Cuba and he videotapes his life. He is also a grade school teacher. A beautiful documentary that incorporates Sergio’s observations and footage and his student’s aspirations for the future with the outsider’s eye to tell his story.

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

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Poetic documentary about the experience of a Puerto Rican film student in Cuba.

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