Hugues Nancy

1874, The Birth of Impressionism (2024)

April 15, 1874, boulevard des Capucines, Paris: a group of young feverish painters shunned by the official Salon and mocked by the classical masters, chose to come together to exhibit their paintings freely, in the studio of photographer Nadar. At the end ...

Manouchian et ceux de l'Affiche rouge (2024)

Nous les ouvriers (2023)

Children of Chaos (2022)

In 1945, twelve million homeless children wandered through the rubble of a Europe that had just emerged from the deadliest conflict it had ever known. An unprecedented number of children were separated from their parents or orphaned. Under the guise of the ...

Il était une fois Marseille (2022)

The heroine of this film is immortal. She is over 2600 years old. This is the self-portrait of the oldest city in France. A city whose landscapes bear the scars of a destiny that has spared it no trials. Gateway to the Orient, crossroads of trade and immig ...

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story (2021)

In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19 years of marriage, the couple had grown apart. It was at this point that François Mitterrand met the woman who ...

Charlie, le journal qui ne voulait pas mourir (2021)

In September 2020, a trial opened at the Palais de Justice in Paris to judge those who participated in the murderous attempt to destroy a newspaper. This historic trial is that of those days in January 2015, when France witnessed live the assassination of ...

Paris 1900 (2019)

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visitors, and the city celebrated itself in a glamorous era. This period went down in history as the "Belle Époque." Elaborately restored and colorized historic ...

Paris 1900: The City of Lights (2019)

Thanks to incredible archives restored and fully colorized, this film presents a previously unseen journey through time and space. They captured magical moments of lightness and euphoria, the marvels of scientific and aesthetic invention: the crowning glo ...

Une vie après la mine (2017)

L'Épopée des gueules noires (2017)

Hergé: In the Shadow of Tintin (2016)

Georges Remi, known as Hergé, a complex and complicated artist, created Tintin, one of the most famous characters in the world. With exceptional access to the archives of Studios Hergé and Moulinsart, this documentary looks at Remi's life and the way he ...

François Mitterrand: Family Albums (2016)

Twenty years after his death, François Mitterrand remains an enigma. Never before has a French politician generated so much contradictory comments, both during his lifetime and after his death. Beyond his political career, his complex and mysterious perso ...

Picasso: Love, Sex and Art (2015)

Documentary telling the story of the women who fed the life and art of Pablo Picasso, many of whom would find themselves damaged forever by the experience of being his partner. ...

Women at War (1939-1945) (2015)

Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World war II. ...

Women at War 1914-1918 (2014)

Trace the overlapping journeys of exceptional women swept up in World War I and hear their tales of bravery on history's front lines ...

Picasso: The Legacy (2014)

A never-before-seen portrait of the artist's life through his entire body of work, from his sketches as a child prodigy until his final paintings. ...

Looking for Picasso (2013)

Changer la vie ! (2011)

A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over econo ...

Mitterrand à Vichy (2008)

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A ...

Paris 1900: The City of Lights (2019)

Thanks to incredible archives restored and fully colorized, this film presents a previously unseen journey through time and space. They captured magical moments of lightness and euphoria, the marvels of scientific and aesthetic invention: the crowning glo ...