Gael Rakotondrabe

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Amid the late ’80s pop craze and rising HIV epidemic, 12-year-old Boaz uncovers a devastating secret about the father he idolizes that threatens to tear his family apart. Across a yearslong journey, Boaz seeks to heal the wound and reclaim the father-son bond he never stopped yearning for.

In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.

Things are busy at the Paris hospital where young psychiatrist Jamal and his colleagues work. The place is run down, the staff are exhausted, budgets are constantly being slashed. You know the story, but you’ve rarely seen it conveyed as engagingly as in ‘On the Edge’, which employs a handheld camera and meaningful, artistic interventions to observe the daily routine at the psychiatric ward. The deeply sympathetic Jamal is an everyday hero with an exemplary, humanistic disposition, for whom the most important prerequisites for mental health – and for a healthy society in general – are good relationships with other people. He puts his philosophy into practice by listening patiently, giving good advice and organising theatre exercises based on Molière. Realism and idealism, however, are in balance for the young doctor, at least as long as the institutional framework holds up.

Gael Rakotondrabe and Léonie Pernet enlarge and compliment each other's worlds for ARTE Concert's Piano Day. One concert, four hands, tons of talent: Everything necessary to thrill the audience at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, which has been taken over for the occasion.

A man's recurring sexual fantasies about a mermaid tear his world apart and reveal disturbing insights into the object of his desire.

Marion Rampal plays the bird of paradise at Jazz sous les Pommiers. In Coutances, the singer introduces us to Oizel, an album in which avian creatures take the lion's share.

For the 5th edition of Piano Day, ARTE Concert invites Guillaume Poncelet, Sarah McCoy, Gael Rakotondrabe, Léonie Pernet, Thomas Enhco and Clara Ysé to the Palais de Tokyo for an evening dedicated to this versatile and timeless instrument.