Vosges Télévision

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the son of Algerian immigrants from the Var, Human Geography offers a series of brief meetings with individuals who recount their lives in just a few words before disappearing to take their trains. The crowd of passengers is embodied in these stories, one life after another, and we see how globalization fashions individual destinies, subject to geographical and economic pressures.

“I return to Poland 25 years after directing a film about the traces of a destroyed Jewish world. This time, I am accompanied by Jen, my French-Israeli companion of Sephardic origin. Upon the ruins of the past, we look for signs like pieces of a puzzle that built our history, our memory, our emotions.” (Julien Donada)

Marta and Karina are sex workers also studying to become lawyers. Filmed over ten years, this documentary captures their unlikely journey from prostitution to the defense of women's rights.

Summer holidays. David, 16 years old, is bored to death. A microwave will gets him out of his routine.

Gilbert Garcin passed away on April 17, 2020. Having become a late photographer (he was 65), he will never stop defying time, playing with him to clear his head of his memories, to open his eyes to create ... And to become an ageless man, with his double “Mister G”! An unclassifiable being. His work, quickly recognized, is full of poetry and mischief.

After marrying a girl from his native village, Sokuro, a young Burkinabe immigrant living in Italy, tries to build a future with her despite the distance that separates their two worlds.

For Brad Mehldau's performance in Lorraine for the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival, the piano virtuoso is accompanied by a double bassist and a drummer. A high-flying concert!

The story of a family saga that began with a pharmacist, Louis Meignan, and continued with a talented industrialist, Jean-Antoine Brutus Menier. In 1816, Menier launched the Menier chocolate company, which went on to dominate the global market. All that remains of this fabulous empire is a prestigious architectural heritage.

Farida runs a three-star hotel in Nîmes. For the past year, she has been receiving a singular clientele. Homeless people, migrants, women victims of violence, have found shelter there during the health crisis. Through successive confinements, the hotel has become a micro-society in which each person must learn to live with the other, whatever their history and difference. Between the interventions of social workers, mutual aid and waiting, an inventory of emergency accommodation is drawn up.

On both sides of the Mediterranean, a battle is being fought over the preservation of Marshal Lyautey's legacy. In 1912, Marshal Lyautey became the first Resident-General of the French Protectorate in Morocco. There, he was a soldier, peacemaker, administrator, builder, urban planner, writer, and protector of the arts and monuments. A century later, the Lyautey Foundation, chaired by Claude Jamati, the marshal's great-grandnephew, is working to preserve his castle in Thorey-Lyautey near Nancy. In Morocco, the Casamémoire association is campaigning to ensure that his architectural legacy, unique in the world, is not sacrificed under pressure from property developers. Through their struggle, this film reveals the complex history of a man who left his mark on the memory of Morocco and France.

Making a film about the choreographer Jérôme Bel means embarking on a paradoxical project: how do you direct the anti-director? There’s a risk of seeing your film turn against itself.

Once upon a time, there was a village that had fallen into the dustbin of history, located in the French sector of West Berlin. I grew up in this community of military and civilian expatriates during the Cold War. Today, I return to Berlin in search of traces of that bygone life. My subjective memories and official history intertwine in this city undergoing constant reconstruction.