Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

La Rényon lontan

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

Des baleines, des tortues et des hommes

Kaloubadya

MATRIARCH

The cult of the Madonna dell'Arco dates back to the 1400s, when a young believer, after losing a game of pallamaglio, threw a ball in anger at a portrait of the Madonna under a Roman arch. The Madonna began to bleed. The crowd wanted to punish the boy for his wicked deed. The Count of Sarno decided to have him hanged from a tree. A few hours later, the tree withered. This is the myth that has always accompanied the oldest Marian cult in Campania (Italy).

Una piedra pequeñita

Mateo (5), Nadia (9), Mati (4) and Isabella (5), are neighbors of a settlement located in the middle of an open-air garbage dump. These little protagonists appropriate the space they inhabit from the playful reflecting what it means to grow up in La Favela.

Antonio Divino

This short documentary, with its aim of exposing the festival from the perspective of Andalusian culture and anthropology, delves into the complexities of this celebration. Understanding how difficult it is for outsiders to grasp that a saint could be a member of the UGT (General Union of Workers) during the Civil War and possess a membership card, we gradually decipher the festival while simultaneously revealing features common to many other celebrations deeply rooted in the culture and popular religiosity of the Andalusian people, such as the presence of a communist mayor presiding over the saint's procession and offering cheers.

L’esclavage au cinéma, la fin d’un tabou ?

Le trésor caché du Moyen Age

Le Diable noir

Villanegyed

La Route des abolitions

Les Années 2000, la BO de notre vie

10 mai Africaphonie

Filhos da Cratera

Le souvenir dans la peau, esclavage en terre normande

Los Palenqueros du Pacifique colombien : cinq siècles de solitude

Vers la seconde abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises de 1802 à 1848

L'esclavage à Bourbon

Sakifo, la musique au bout du monde