Paris Underground

The Olympic Games in Paris 1924

A documentary on the 1924 Olympic Game in Paris.

Paris Calligrammes

Ulrike Ottinger weaves her personal memories of Parisian bohemianism and the serious social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic “figure poem.”

Paris Was a Woman

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

Alien nation : autopsie d'un monstre artistique

Paris, for once, not chic and prim, but raunchy, kinky, and uncompromising: This documentary explores a subculture in which fetish, BDSM, techno, and performance art came together around the turn of the millennium to form a distinct way of life in the French capital.

Bienheureuses : La véritable histoire des Carmélites martyres de Compiègne

La Toilette des pensées

Lutèce, sur les traces des Parisii

Saïd et Misbah ou l'enfance partagée

Joseph Zobel, l'Enfant de la Rue Cases-Nègres

Lisa à Paris

After the Ruins

At the beginning of the 20th century, two major colonial exhibitions took place in the Bois de Vincennes near Paris. Today only a few silent ruins remain.

À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel

Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the events, does not succeed in arresting the intrepid who reach the summit with agility under the stunned eyes of tourists. They then abseil and happily throw themselves into the Seine to celebrate the feat.

La mi-Carême à Paris

Footage of the Paris Carnival of 1897. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Seule la danse, dernière année au conservatoire

Secret Things

Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.