Simons: A Journey of Historical Conjunction and Remembrance 2024

A solar eclipse sends Simons from the nuclear-ruined post-war city of Vaken to present-day Toronto.

S'il n'en reste qu'un, nous serons ces deux-là 2013

The Margin 1976

A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.

The Lovely Month of May 1963

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

La Jetée 1962

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Chronicle of a Summer 1961

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Night and Fog 1959

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The Mystery of Workshop 15 1957

A documentary film about occupational diseases shot in 1957 at the Francolor factory in Oissel. It takes the form of a scientific investigation to discover the origin of a mysterious illness that has infected a worker at the factory.

All the World's Memory 1956

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.