Denis Gheerbrant

The hill (2023)

A hill in Kyrgyzstan inhabited by men, women, some children. Smoke, birds, a waste dump like a Leviathan. Among them, a traumatized former soldier, a grieving mother, young people deprived of a future, living and facing their destiny. ...

Before the Sky Came to Light (2021)

A horde of wild horses, historians who sing songs of the colonial war against the Russian empire, young people dancing on a public square, villagers cobbling together their own museum : in a small Caucasian republic, a whole people remembers. And, all alon ...

Mallé en son exil (2019)

On a grèvé (2014)

Twenty minutes from the Champs Élysées, chambermaids of a hotel go on strike for the first time with the help of an experienced trade unionist. ...

La République Marseille (2009)

7 films by Denis Gheerbrant. La République Marseille leads us through seven worlds that make up a city and give it the aspect of a republic: the world of dockers, activist workers, women in the garden projects or the inhabitants of an enormous ghetto, an ...

Les mots d’Esther (2005)

Après, un voyage dans le Rwanda (2005)

As he usually does, Denis Gheerbrant has left alone, with his camera and sound equipment. This time around he has decided to discover a country he has never visited before : Rwanda. The year is 2003, that is to say nearly ten years after the genocide. With ...

Le voyage à la mer (2001)

A trip to the seaside campsites, along the coast from Spain to the Camargue, like the other side of society, a cleverly mixed deck of cards. Each time the filmmaker pitches his tent, he gets to know his neighbors. And, as is often the case in these cases, ...

Lettre à Johan van der Keuken (2001)

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Grands comme le monde (1999)

They tell us about the childhood that is going away, about the city that scares us and that makes us envious. They talk about good and evil, religion and school results. They are in fifth grade and live the age when one is born into the world. Denis Gheerb ...

Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers (1995)

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a hospital. Fortunately, the medical staff are well aware that Cédric, like other kids named Steve or Dolores, must - abov ...

The Wheel (1993)

Et la vie (1991)

After studying literature Denis Gheerbrant joined the famous film school IDHEC (now FEMIS) in 1969. When he left the school he had obtained two degrees, one in direction and the other in cinematography. From 1972 on he has had several activities in the mov ...

I Have You Under My Skin (1990)

Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of manageme ...

Les camps du silence (1989)

Documentary film about the camps in the south of France, in which Spanish civil war refugees and the volunteers of the "international brigades", non-sedentary people and Alsatian and foreign Jews were interned from 1939 onwards. Under the Vichy regime, the ...

Nightmare Weekend (1986)

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants. ...

Question d'identité (1986)

A question of identity? First of all what they claim: their city, their Kabylie, their 20 years. Young people from immigrant backgrounds, Farid, Naguib and Abdel Ouab Taalba claim all the more clearly their desire to be young: to be themselves. At the time ...

Manège (1986)

Max, a 40 years old gay, chases in railway stations. He takes his "prey" to the Parisian park, the Bois de Boulogne."Manège" will be the genesis for his later feature film "La chatte à deux têtes" (2002). ...

Amour rue de Lappe (1984)

Rue de Lappe - crucible of all the generations of all the imigrations, with their cultures and their music, their love stories and their solitude... Denis Gheerbrant, alone with his camera and his tape recorder shows us a separate world in the heart of Par ...

Subterfuge (1983)

After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family. ...

Un printemps de square (1981)

Adrien's Story (1980)

This effective, straightforward story about the birth and on-going life of a young man at the beginning of the 20th century reflects the political and social history of his time. Adrien (child, Bertrand Sautereau, adult, Serge Dominque) was born in a field ...

Daguerréotypes (1978)

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. ...

Capturing Reality (2008)

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the compl ...

Le voyage à la mer (2001)

A trip to the seaside campsites, along the coast from Spain to the Camargue, like the other side of society, a cleverly mixed deck of cards. Each time the filmmaker pitches his tent, he gets to know his neighbors. And, as is often the case in these cases, ...