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- DirectorAlbert Pierru
- DirectorSpadoliniStarsHenri BenhamouRosita DuranFrancisco GrandeAn experimental film without commentary about the songs and dances of the gypsies of Andalusia.
- DirectorÉmile MalespineRandom images of trees and people.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsDaniel GélinFrançoise ArnoulHuguette FagetChilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsCharles BorderieRaymond BorderieRoland BoucherThis rediscovered film is the beginning of an unfinished documentary autofiction that Clouzot wanted to shoot in Brazil on the occasion of his honeymoon with Véra.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisEdmond Van DaëlePhilippe HériatAfter the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged.
- DirectorJacques RozierWilliam RozierStarsFouli EliaBerthe GranvalHelene LazareffDocumentary about the 1962 capes fashion, from the designing process by the stylists of "Elle" magazine to photo studio to the women wearing capes in the street.
- DirectorJean RouchThis short documents the preparation of a musical event, a ritual associated in this African community with a marriage ceremony.
- DirectorJean HermanStarsHenri LangloisLanglois is introduced at his famous archive, displaying some of its artifacts and audiences of film students there are also shown.
- DirectorJocelyne SaabStarsHanan TurkMohamed MounirFathi AbdulwahhabAfter studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
- DirectorAntonio BiginiMariann LewinskyStarsIrène JacobSummer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off drugs. In Kabul she realizes to have lost all certainties and faces the difficult search for herself. For a year she travels alone in the British Indies, a keen observer of the colonial system, living from moment to moment while war ravages Europe. Letters, diaries, film footage and photographs reveal a portrait of Ella Maillart (1903-1997), one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century. Narrated by the voice of a great actress, Irène Jacob.