Battle on the Great River

After an unsuccessful attempt in 1946 to film a traditional bangaoui (hippopotamus hunt) on the Niger River, Jean Rouch returns several years later to document the ritual in full. The film records the ceremonial preparat

Un fleuve de lait

A passage from Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, in the original French, is performed in Dolores Park.

Dieuleveult, les disparus du fleuve

Documentary on the disappearance of a French journalist.

Unpredictable Nature of the River

Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.

Un cirque sur le fleuve

On the "fleuve de la Saint-Laurent", a couple of welcome them boat from the world by "hisser le drapeau" from their country and playing their national hymn.

Apatou, les enfants du fleuve

Le fleuve aux sept fantomes

A River in Winter

The director Félix Lamarche questions our relationship with the St. Lawrence River during the winter. Aboard the Amundsen, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker, we follow passionate scientists who explore the mysteries of

Clearing Skies

Easter week-end. Agnes remembers the last moments spent with her father in his cottage by the sea. Though never close, intuitively they try to make up for lost time.

Dikhav - Les bords du fleuve

The Gorgans are a Roma family who live on the outskirts of Arles, in the South of France. The family has inhabited the region for generations, but their living and work conditions largely remain those of nomadic subalter

Un fleuve dans la tête

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen African and European musicians, all soloists, traveling together in a dugou

L'homme du fleuve

A squatters family live on an island on the Seine river. Despite police intervention, they refuse to leave. The young woman and a cop are killed. The father escapes with his daughter. They arrive in Honfleur and manage t

The Boy on the Dock

One night, on a bridge in Paris, a young man is saved from suicide by a young woman as lost as him.

Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille

Bonus footage from the film "Le Corniaud" (1964).

Balade à l’est du fleuve

A simple day east of the river.

Of the Tree, the River and the People's Cry

The last part of the triptych is dedicated to the struggle of the peasant communities of northeastern Brazil; on the banks of the São Francisco River, the indigenous residents of the village of Caiçara fight to keep thei

De l’espace pour le fleuve - Innover contre les inondations

Yannick Nézet-Séguin et l'OM - La symphonie du fleuve

I Made My Own Course Down the Passive Rivers

Flore, eighteen years old, joins Arthur to go to a party which does not exist. On their way, strange characters and hallucinations lead them into the night. Flore experiences mourning and her lost childhood to find herse

La Folle Journée de Nantes 2026

The closing concert of La Folle Journée de Nantes, galvanized by the ebb and flow of the Volga, Mississippi, and Moldau rivers. The program features works by Maria Bach, Franz Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, R