Edgar Morin

Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire

Euzhan Palcy

Aimé Césaire, Jorge Amado

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".

Nous resterons sur Terre

Pierre Barougier, Olivier Bourgeois

Mikhail Gorbachev, James Lovelock

Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay takes an uncompromising look at Planet Earth today, in all its beauty but also its scars and contradictions. Illustrating the intricate relationship and contrasts between the miracles of nature and man's obsession in trying to tame them. Can we turn back the tide? What do we really want for ourselves?

Le Joli Mai

Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme

Yves Montand, Chris Marker

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.

Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch

Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.

Un été + 50

Florence Dauman

Edgar Morin, Marceline Loridan-Ivens

A seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961), along with new interviews with co-director Edgar Morin and some of the film’s participants.

Contre l'oubli

Francis Girod, Jean-Loup Hubert

Paul Amar, Robert Badinter

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.

Edgar Morin, un penseur à Paris

Momoko Seto

Edgar Morin