Directors speak about their vision of the world and the complex, diverse themes they explore in their films at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Weaving in and out of interviews at the prestigious event, the documentary explores how filmmakers from the four corners of the world have captured the essence of our time.

Éclats du monde: regards croisés de cinéastes

This is a scar born from a knife strike in the back of the young Mizoguchi, coming from an enamoured jealous prostitute. This event enabled him to become the great cineast of women, and much more !

Kenji Mizoguchi, le cinéaste à la cicatrice dans le dos

Star actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Ida Lupino establish herself as a director after World War 2. Here's the portrait of an independant filmmaker, whose films, imbued with dark realism, have to be rediscovered.

Ida Lupino, une cinéaste!

A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), author of films both playful and profound, of an impressive richness.

Jean-Pierre Mocky - Libre et sentimental

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.