MIPCancun 2016 CATALOG > 5 ANCIENT HISTORY > 6 END OF THE OTTOMANS (THE) AUTHORS As it unfolds the century-long history of the collapse of the Ottomans, Mathilde DAMOISEL, Sylvie JEZEQUEL DIRECTOR the film offers an in-depth understanding of the impact the process Mathilde DAMOISEL had on the former Ottoman territories, up to the present time. COPRODUCERS SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS, ARTE For six centuries, the Ottomans had ruled over three continents and seven seas. FRANCE On the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, a whole new world was created. That is the purpose FORMAT of this two-part film: analysing these new lines of fracture in order to remind how the 2 x 52 ', 2016 AVAILABLE RIGHTS Ottoman past still matters. Without appropriate knowledge and understanding of this page TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - of history, no one could pretend grasping fully the current political, religious and ethnic Internet challenges of our present time - in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Turkey, in Lebanon, in Syria, VERSIONS English - German - French in Israel, in Palestine, in Irak... TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. LIST OF EPISODES 01 - THE NATIONS AGAINST THE EMPIRE 02 - A FRAGMENTED MIDDLE EAST FURNITURE OF VERSAILLES: FROM THE SUN KING TO THE REVOLUTION (THE) AUTHOR Via six masterpieces, the film reveals the beauty of the spirit of Stephanie HAUVILLE-HOURLIER DIRECTOR Versailles of the 17th and 18th centuries. A unique homage to the Fabrice HOURLIER people that crafted it, the furniture reveals the personal tastes of its COPRODUCERS commissioners, and portrays something that has ceased to exist! A PRIME GROUP, ARTE FRANCE FORMAT These unique items of furniture that once belonged to Louis 14th, Louis 15th, Marie- 1 x 52 ', 2014 Antoinette and Louis 16th have fascinating stories to tell: the tortoise-shell chest-of- AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - drawers with inlays of brass; an astronomical clock - a veritable miracle of science; the Internet most emblematic example of French furniture art in the world - the King's Desk; and the VERSIONS exquisite items made for Marie-Antoinette - the queen's jewellery case and the wheat- English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) sheaf furniture. Worldwide. ANCIENT HISTORY > 7 GREAT GREEK MYTHS (THE) AUTHOR Tales of love, sex, power, betrayal, heinous crimes, unbearable François BUSNEL DIRECTOR separations, atrocious revenge, and metamorphoses - the poetic François BUSNEL force of the myths has crossed the centuries. COPRODUCERS ARTE FRANCE, ROSEBUD PRODUCTIONS This series sets out to recount these ancient stories using animations created especially FORMAT for the occasion, and illustrations chosen from the entire history of art. This dynamic blend, 20 x 26 ', 2015 a bridge between modernity and history, ancient narrative and contemporary dramatic AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - art, is a new way to discover or re-discover this part of our universal heritage. Internet VERSIONS English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. LIST OF EPISODES ANTIGONE, THE WOMAN WHO SAID "NO" APHRODITE - DICTATED BY DESIRE APOLLO - SHADOW AND LIGHT ATHENA - ARMED WISDOM BELLEROPHON, THE MAN WHO WANTED DEDALUS AND ICARUS - A SHATTERED TO BE A GOD DREAM DIONYSUS - AN OUTSIDER IN THE CITY HADES - A RELUCTANT KING HERACLES, THE MAN WHO BECAME A GOD HERMES - THE IMPENETRABLE MESSENGER MEDEA, MURDEROUS LOVE OEDIPUS, THE RIDDLE SOLVER ORPHEUS - A HYMN OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE PERSEUS - THE LOOK OF DEATH PROMETHEUS - THE REBEL OF OLYMPUS PSYCHE - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST TARTARUS - THE DAMNED OF THE EARTH THESEUS - THE RAVAGES OF OVERSIGHT ZEUS AND THE CONQUEST OF POWER ZEUS IN LOVE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 8 DIED FOR FREEDOM - THE TRAGIC END OF FLIGHT "C CHARLIE" AUTHOR This drama-documentary tells the tragic story of 7 young airmen - Francis BIANCONI DIRECTOR one Canadian and 6 British, who died in the Hautes-Pyrenees, in July Francis BIANCONI 1944. A page of Resistance history was written there. COPRODUCER TEA AND COFFEE On the night on July 13th, a four-engine Halifax Bomber of the RAF loaded down with FORMAT weapons, ammunition and money, takes off from Blida in Algeria with its 7-man crew. Its 1 x 52 ', 2016 mission: resupply by parachute the Resistance Fighters of Nistos. The aircraft crashes AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - at the foot of Douly's Peak. Was it a navigational error or a coordination problem with the Internet Resistance? Nobody knows. The crash enables the Resistance to gain a decisive upper VERSION hand over the German forces. Since then, Douly's Peak has become a symbolic place in French TERRITORY(IES) its own right, for an entire generation of pilots, a sacrificed generation, heroes who freely Worldwide. volunteered to fight Nazism and support the French Résistance at any price. MARGHERITA S, THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED MUSSOLINI AUTHOR Mussolini's mistress and advisor, remains a nearly forgotten woman Pierre-henry SALFATI DIRECTOR in the Duce's entourage. 20 years of intense, loving, and reciprocal Pierre-henry SALFATI passion. For Mussolini, Margherita was his shadow, his phantom, and COPRODUCER his speechwriter. She was the Duce's "other wife". She was jewish. SECONDE VAGUE PRODUCTIONS FORMAT Born in 1880 in a 15th-century palace on the edge of the old ghetto of Venice, Margherita 1 x 52 ', 2015 Sarfatti spent the rest of her youth in the Palazzo Bembo on the Grand Canal. Her father AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - wanted her to have the best tutors. Internet VERSIONS But that did not prevent her from becoming a militant socialist and, later, one of the most English - French TERRITORY(IES) listened to members of the party, and yet, an avant-garde feminist. Her salon, first in Milan Worldwide. then in Rome, attracted famous composers, writers, and artists from Italy and abroad. She loved to collect "precious people". In 1923, she had the first Novecento exhibition in Milan opened by her lover, Benito Mussolini. CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 9 NO GODS, NO MASTERS AUTHOR This is the story of Anarchism. By going back over the key events Tancrède RAMONET DIRECTOR of the last two centuries of social history, the series reveals, for the Tancrède RAMONET first time, the origins and destiny of a political trend that has been COPRODUCERS fighting all masters and all gods for over 150 years. ARTE FRANCE, TEMPS NOIR FORMAT Who exactly are they? Where do those who have always called themselves anarchists 3 x 52 ', 2016 come from and what is their line of thought? Why do we consider their thinking to be AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - confused and their history such a cause for concern? Internet Featuring previously unseen and forgotten archive footage, in addition to outstanding VERSIONS documentation and accounts by world experts, this documentary series recounts the English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) history of a movement that from Paris to New York, and from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, has Worldwide. constantly imbued the world with its freedom and revolt. LIST OF EPISODES PART ONE: THE PASSION FOR PART THREE: THE MEMORY OF TGE DESTRUCTION (1840-1906) DEFEATED (1922-1945) PART TWO: LAND AND FREEDOM (1907-1921) SCHOOL REVOLUTION 1918-1939 AUTHORS Following World War I, in a traumatised Europe, educationalists Léa TODOROV, Joanna GRUDZINSKA DIRECTOR believed that a world without violence was possible. Joanna GRUDZINSKA COPRODUCERS In France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, the USSR and Italy, figures like Maria ARTE FRANCE, FILMS DU POISSON (LES) Montessori, Célestin Freinet, Ovide Decroly and Alexander S. Neill profoundly changed FORMAT ideas on education, through a child-centred approach to teaching. 1 x 52 ', 2016 The rise to power of totalitarian ideologies hit their utopian dream with full force. AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - Internet VERSIONS English - German - French TERRITORY(IES) Worldwide. CONTEMPORARY HISTORY > 10 SHOAH THE FORGOTTEN SOULS OF HISTORY AUTHORS Soviet archives house the only filmed memories of the Holocaust. Valérie POZNER, Alexandre SUMPF DIRECTOR Taken on the fly, these images represent reality. But what reality? Veronique LAGOARDE SEGOT COPRODUCERS Following the German invasion, the Soviets decided to put their know-how into practice MELISANDE FILMS, ARTE FRANCE and to film the enemy's fearsome extermination machine, for their own purposes. FORMAT The images of war from the period were inspired by a cinematographic tradition of 1 x 52 ', 2015 aestheticism, but were also dependent on political considerations. This strategy of "war- AVAILABLE RIGHTS TV - DVD - VOD - Non-theatrical rights - by-image" creates a black hole: the identity of the victims. The Jews are forgotten. Internet Mentioning the Jews goes against the idea of a Great Patriotic War. Examining the images VERSIONS recorded during this dark period means looking anew at what was not filmed, but also English - Russian - German - French TERRITORY(IES) at the messages transmitted and the arrangements made with the truth. Do "images-as- Worldwide. truth" lie? AWARDS : 2015 : Best Director Award at the Jewish Film Festival (Toronto - Canada) SKY HEROES DIRECTOR Each of the series' episodes recounts, in 26 minutes, the life and Bertrand DEVE COPRODUCERS exploits of a hero who has gone down in aviation history. The first two YES SIR FILMS, GUINDALA PRODUCTION episodes focus on Charles Lindbergh and Manfred Von Richthofen, FORMAT known as the Red Baron. Later episodes include figures as diverse as 2