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The origins, major events and changes of the Cannes Film Festival from 1946 to 2001 - the happenings, the awards, the high points and the low.

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The story of modern cinema is written first at festivals. Following on from "Histoire(s) de festival" and "Les marches, etc. (une comédie musicale)", Gilles Jacob gathers together more elements telling the endless tale of the Festival de Cannes. These are fragments that, when spliced together, create one great press conference; one comprehensive story of film creation over the last 25 years. Thirty of the greatest international film directors reveal some of their secrets; think aloud; resume the state of the world in a single sentence after having fixed it on the lens of their camera.

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A tour of the Hôtel des Invalides, with a focus on the Saint Louis Chapel and Army Museum where François the First's armor and Guynemer's plane on exhibit. Georges Franju, the thought-provoking director of "Yeux sans Visage" et "La tête contre les murs", and his poetic and ironic outlook have turned a documentary into a fierce satire of war. Michel Simon does the voice-over and the music, his first composition for film, is by Maurice Jarre.

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A documentary in which Louis Malle is filming precisely the work of men and women in a French automobile plan and sequences of the Automobile showroom, trying to represent what is repeating the same gesture for 8 hours.

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Here, an average French family watching TV; there, Palestinian freedom fighters filmed as they live, train, and die. Through these images, Jean-Luc Godard calls in question the means of communication while the very fabric of his film is an insight into the audiovisual media.

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Louis Malle goes to India in 1908 to make a subjective and free movie about India, without script neither fiction and overall without preconceive idea. It gives birth to an evocation of India in seven parts: "Walking down to the South", "Madras", "Religion", "Dreaming temptation", "Castes", "Strangers in India", "Bombay".

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A portrait of the city of Istanbul which shows life in the various neighborhoods and its people (street trades, passers-by).

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Jean Reno, his friends and relatives talk about the actor's career and personality - illustrated by documents and film excerpts.

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The art of Kung Fu and its different varieties in New York and Hong Kong. Jean-Luc Magneron, a Martial Arts enthusiast, has filmed old Chinese and Malaysian masters. He was allowed to film Taoist temples which, until now, were off-limits to cameras.