L'esclavage à Bourbon(2024)

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery(fr)

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(fr)

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

Terre marronne(fr)

Le Diable noir(fr)

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

Sakifo, la musique au bout du monde(fr)

Kaloubadya(fr)

Los Palenqueros du Pacifique colombien : cinq siècles de solitude(fr)

10 mai Africaphonie(fr)

Le souvenir dans la peau, esclavage en terre normande(fr)

La Route des abolitions(fr)

La Couleur de l'esclavage(fr)

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

La Liberté générale : chroniques de la 1ère abolition de l'esclavage 1794-1802(fr)

Lo Chan Lo Bassin(fr)

In this short film, in search of a cinematic grammar more in tune with Creole imaginary and oral tradition, we follow Ondine's quest. She returns to La Réunion after an absence of four years, because her Pépé, a local zarboutan, is dying. Just as she has to say goodbye, Ondine has a strange encounter in a pond.

Ne suis-je pas ton frère ? La Société des Amis des Noirs 1788-1794(fr)

Au nom de nos ancêtres, esclaves et négociants(fr)

The Legend of Till(ru)

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere." First part: "The Ashes of Claes". XVI century. The freedom-loving and cheerful people of the Netherlands under the rule of the Spanish king: persecution, torture, bonfires of the Inquisition, encouraging scammers. The fearless Thyl Uhlenshpiegel and his faithful girlfriend Nele have to go through many trials. Second part: "Viva Beggars!". The people of the Netherlands, tormented by cruel royal decrees, taxes, heresy, torture and executions, began a war of liberation against Spanish rule. Many feats will be performed by the national hero Tilbert (Thyl) Ulenspiegel and his friend Lamme Gudzak before peace returns to their homeland.

Mona Lisa Smile(en)

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.