Filmography  

Actus

Actus

Holly Week, in Spain, stays a very popular festival, despite its ancientness. In this experimental movie, I filmed Holl...

Beyond the memory

Beyond the memory

In 1976, an opera singer from the province of Qinghai is released after spending seven years in a reeducation camp in th...

Jacques Tourneur the medium

Jacques Tourneur the medium

There is a mystery surrounding Jacques Tourneur. Where does this belief in the invisible world and the supernatural come...

China and reality

China and reality

Some say that China is a fiction and it is indeed: The Middle Kingdom has always been and remains to this day the place ...

Half of the sky

Half of the sky

Anne, a divorced woman, mother of a nine-year-old little girl, is going to China to adopt a baby. Very quickly she is fi...

The garden of ages

The garden of ages

On a mountain of Sichuan, in China, there is a tale that says there was a rock, a long time ago, that had children. Beyo...

The strange case of Atom Egoyan

The strange case of Atom Egoyan

An attempt to discover the creative process of director Atom Egoyan and shed light on the most mysterious and unique asp...

The pavilion of peonies

The pavilion of peonies

A young woman from affluent society is seduced by a young man she saw in a dream, one afternoon in springtime. She is no...

The school of the forest

The school of the forest

The story of how people are fascinated by hermits who live in isolation in the forest, a tradition still alive in Burma,...

Lhassa

Lhassa

This documentary was shot in 1985 in Lhassa, the capital of Chinese Tibet, temporarily reopened to foreigners. From pray...

Lifelines

Lifelines

An old Eurasian backpacker dreams of becoming a shaman. A rumor is spreading in South-East Asia saying that nomads hidde...

My chinese sister

My chinese sister

In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teache...

Phipop

Phipop

The diary of a backpacker crossing villages and forests in Laos. The encounter between a beggar and her daughter whose n...

Lost spring

Lost spring

Yen, an ex singer exiled to Mongolia, falls in love with Ling Ling, a young woman of great beauty. He marries her but di...

Rodamorfosis

Rodamorfosis

Shot in Madrid, in a carnival. The subject of the film is suggested by the spanish title. From "roda", I kept 2 connecte...

Memories of spring in Liao Ning

Memories of spring in Liao Ning

Experimental diary shot in 1978-1979 when Alain Mazars was a volunteer teacher in China, 2 years after Mao's death. We s...

On the road to Mandalay

On the road to Mandalay

Shot in Myanmar, this impressionist documentary depicts the everyday life of a Burmese nun, taking us from a convent to ...

A world far away

A world far away

The action takes place in Burma. Thiri, who dreams of becoming a writer, falls in love with a European traveller. Momo t...

Burmese days

Burmese days

Two parallel narratives. The first follows a present-day investigation by a group of Burmese through Mandalay, Maymo, My...

Lost faces

Lost faces

This experimental movie is filmed like the work of alchemist painters through three portraits. The movie describes the f...