Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop?s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean? transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.
Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann?s monumental film Shoah, Guillaume Ribot reveals the director?s relentless pursuit to tell the untold, using only Lanzmann?s words and unseen footage from the masterpiece.
The film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge a system during Stalin?s Great Terror in 1937 after discovering a letter from a prisoner that is a desperate plea for help.
Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.
Currently in production, A GREAT AWAKENING tells the true story of an unlikely friendship that resulted in one of the most defining, yet untold, moments of American History. Known as our spiritual founding father, George Whitefield?s voice ignited a revolution we now call The Great Awakening.
In Paris, at an exhibition on the French writer, photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), Jean-Henri Cabrera thinks he sees himself in a specific shot of the short film La Jet?e, directed by Marker in 1962.
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil?s repressive military regime.