In Paris, at an exhibition on the French writer, photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), Jean-Henri Cabrera thinks he sees himself in a specific shot of the short film La Jetée, directed by Marker in 1962.
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a group of friends traverse the French...
A few months before he died, Jean-Louis Comolli meets up with Dominique Cabrera for some free conversations with Isabelle Le Corff. They talk about cinema, life, love, death and Chassagne-Montrachet wine. There is laughter and smiles. One is not really serious at the age of eighty.
In 2002, on the occasion of her brother’s wedding, Dominique Cabrera begun to shoot the gathering, and decided to continue over 10 years, time imprinting its marks on her family and "becoming the film" as she expresses it. Halfway between Agnès Varda and Alain Cavalier, Dominique Cabrera...
The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her. Written by Anne Charlotte Leffler (1883), one of the preeminent authors of modernism’s...
This movie tells the common fate of the meat workers in the big industrial slaughterhouses. At the beginning, we think that we are not going to stay. But we change only our post, department. We want a normal life. A house was bought, children were born. We obtine, we lean. We have pain in the...
