Richard Copans

Fire of Wind (2025)

The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the histor ...

Girl for a Day (2024)

18th century. Anne, grown up, has to "change her clothes" because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and has a great love affair with his new wife, until his past catches up with him. The shocking true story of Anne Grandjean, born intersex, ...

Looking for Robert (2024)

"I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this filmmaker. A way of recalling the central place he attributed to experience to better circumvent the pitfalls of th ...

The Trial (2023)

Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes. ...

Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God (2022)

An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared to enter the darkest depths of the human mind; through his correspondence and his own voice, and that of hi ...

Mon amour (2020)

Mourning his boyfriend Frédéric's death from an overdose, the French filmmaker David Teboul goes to Siberia on a ritual journey. Out here, under the enormous dome of the skies, he finds the free space to disentangle his thoughts again. And in the village ...

Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace (2020)

Famous educator Fernand Deligny tries to find ways to communicate beyond language with troubled and autistic children in his care. ...

Inside My Heart (2018)

A documentary film by Canadian Director Debra Kellner, produced by Frank Giustra, Serge Lalou, and Richard Copans. Inside My Heart chronicles the plight of three refugee families fleeing their war torn countries over a period of nearly 3 years. Despite hav ...

6999 Doors (2018)

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka's castle, it guards its secrets well. It is the place of power. The filmmaker, who worked there for several years as a crime re ...

120 ans d'inventions au cinéma (2016)

One hundred and twenty years of film history in a warehouse in Paris. In the reserves of the French Cinematheque, where thousands of cameras and projectors are sleeping on the shelves. Thousands of stationary machinery, we dream of getting back to work as ...

Austerlitz (2015)

"You buy a book. You don't really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are, facing your own innermost secrets." So begins Stan Neumann's cinematic adaptation of W.G. Sebald's award-winning novel, Aus ...

Un amour (Roman) (2015)

Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire (2014)

Resorting to the images that make up three quarters of the last century, Jean-Louis Comolli chose films that crossed his path fifty years ago, discovering his own history of cinema, and particularly the documentary cinema. Visual score orchestrated by a vo ...

Gare du Nord (2013)

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here... ...

Human Geography (2013)

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the son of Algerian immigrants from the Var, Human Geography offers a series of brief meetings with individuals who re ...

Lullaby to my Father (2012)

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the ...

Eye of the Astronomer (2012)

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the astronomer of Emperor Rudolp II. Kepler observes the night-sky as nobody has seen it before him. His obse ...

Land of Madness (2009)

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps. ...

God's Offices (2008)

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. ...

Bania (2005)

"Bania" is an exploration Russian society through its bath-houses in the city, the countryside, in a monastery, a factory or a prison. The film plays with the boundaries between personal and social space in scenes where naked bodies, marked by tattoos, suf ...

Les métamorphoses du chœur (2005)

An amateur choir in the 13th arrondissement in Paris. Once a week, 30 children, 20 teenagers and 50 adults meet to rehearse and sing together under the direction of Claire Marchand, choir director. There are moments of joy, discouragement, shared pleasure ...

Les Disques de Rivka (2005)

24 Passions (2004)

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003, Courant filmed this community's annual reenactment of the Via Crucis 24 times. ...

The Vanishing Lion (2003)

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic's apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disap ...

Racines (2002)

Director Richard Copans sets out to find his origins. In search of family ties, he meets a laborer, a Jewish poet's son, a violinist, a genealogist, a descendant of slaves, several cousins and three jazz musicians, whose music will never leave him. ...

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, ...

Algérie, la vie toujours (2001)

Oh My America (2000)

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an experience that inspired his novel The Naked and the Dead. But, disappointed by post-war America, he grew ...

Mailer on Mailer (2000)

Norman Mailer frankly discusses American culture, politics, literature, and his own tumultuous life. ...

Cities of the Plain (2000)

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of Ben. After leaving his homeland as a youth, he is greeted in France by menial jobs in industry. In time, he ...

The Zsigmondy System (2000)

Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is. ...

Vilnius (2000)

Genet à Chatila (1999)

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp. Suffering from throat cancer and having written n ...

Algérie, La vie quand même (1998)

A small Algerian town, off the beaten track of the war that is tearing the country apart. At the heart of the crisis that is destroying it, two young men, without work, without leisure activities, without hope, without anything... The film follows them in ...

Reprise (1997)

Hervé Le Roux discovered a short film about a strike in a battery factory. Now he's looking for one of the workers seen in this film: a young woman who is very, very angry. ...

Walk the Walk (1996)

I saw this happen: Raye left home. Why? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean coast, Strasbourg, Zurich, Berlin, she's young. Then her father, Abel, left. Perhaps he wanted something else to h ...

At All Costs (1995)

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in "At All Costs." As the docu opens, founder and manager Jihad is off to see his banker. The lack of ready cash to pay his loyal employees, wholesale pr ...

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 ...

Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary (1994)

A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas ...

More and More (1994)

Nowadays, supermarkets are being built where cinemas and churches used to be. Logical evolution as consumerism is the religion of the 20th century: supermarkets are the cathedrals of the future. ...

Poor George (1993)

One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there. ...

The Wheel (1993)

La Cabale des oursins (1992)

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use. ...

Transit (1991)

In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could travel to Marseilles and attempt to get the servile but still nominally independent government of Vichy Fr ...

Louvre City (1990)

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and ...

Route One/USA (1989)

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spent many years in Africa, returns to the U.S. and decides to reconnect with his home country by walking the ...

The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s. ...

The Comedy of Work (1988)

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an ...

Opening Essay (1988)

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle. ...

Trilogy for One Man (1987)

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over an ...

The Media Waltz (1987)

Study on the evolution and modernization of public libraries and media libraries. ...

A Better Life (1985)

Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their differe ...

The Terrible Lovers (1985)

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisian woman and her Slavic boyfriend out to spend some qual ...

Barres (1984)

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying. ...

Bangkok-Bahrain (1984)

Amos Gitai explores the international traffic in contract labor through parallel movements of Thai women in the sex trade and men migrating to the Gulf states. Through interviews and observational footage, the film exposes the economic forces and human con ...

Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film (1983)

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made. ...

La Bête noire (1983)

In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years co ...

Field Diary (1982)

The story of various journeys through the West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied territories during the months leading up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. ...

Le Dos au mur (1981)

My First Breaststroke (1981)

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim. ...

That Kid (1976)

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes. ...

Right of Access (1965)

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend. ...

Death's Glamour (2007)

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world wi ...

La Cabale des oursins (1992)

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use. ...

Opening Essay (1988)

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle. ...