Les Films Grain De Sable Movies

In March 1977, six activists of the Movement for the Liberation of abortion and contraception (MLAC) were tried for the illegal practice of abortion....

"Philip Priestley's acclaimed film charts the history of Stax Records, the influential soul and blues record company founded in the 1960s by Jim...

At 63, Jawad Bashara has spent more than half his life in exile. But when Islamic State troops set out to obliterate the Sumerian origins of our...

This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri)...

Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union,...

A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French...

Stress, harassment, violence, depression and suicide are the themes the media evoke with increasing frequency when it comes to the world of work....

1974 saw the end of beans. The Halles were being destroyed. The extreme left was hesitating between the Molotof cocktail. The heirs of May '68 had...

Documentary charting the rise of Chinese art following the death of Mao, and how some artists embraced Western styles while other critiqued it by...

A documentary about the efforts to ban the global khat trade in Great Britain that routes its way from from war-torn Somalia to the streets of London.

First film about the University of Vincennes Paris VIII. After May 68, anyone could come to take classes there, without a baccalaureate or diploma....

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando...

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard...

Documentary made with the patients of wards 15 and 17 of the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris in 2008-2009.

80 years ago, Marseille's Old Port was the scene of a tragic event that is still largely unknown today: the roundup and total destruction of the...

Morabeza - this word, the expression of lack and pain, appears as a response to the pains of the Cabo Verde archipelago. Luciano, a tourist guide to...

Home to a fifth of the world's population, the newly-minted superpower will soon be the largest economy on earth. Yet it remains little understood in...

Opera artist Hira Gasy from Madagascar, Emeline Raholiarisoa tells the story of this unique art that an international group is proposing to include...