Le Jardin

A magazine for gardening and history fans, featuring some of Quebec’s most beautiful historic gardens, both public and private.

The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.

A feature-length documentary about the impressive attempt of Senegalese farmers, to outwit one of the greatest mass murderers of our time.

In a tropical-like park in Algiers, Samir, a young director, helps his actors rehearse. His next movie tells the tale of young people of a besieged city. While they are working, the film crew faces with the same questions as their characters.

Film starring Henri Billen, Simone Laffely and Adrien Nicati

She is not very brilliant, Eponine's career ... But what, there is not only the theater in life! Good year bad year, rouspous and vehement, she manages to find a good life, surrounded by her sister, of her mother, her dog and her doves ... And above all, in the middle of her wonderful piece of garden which she cares for with love ... Originally it was a play written by Maria Pacôme, premiered on September 25, 1981 at the Comédie des Champs Elysées (directed by Gérard Vergez). This piece was specially recorded (without audience) for television in March 1984, at the Buttes-Chaumont and broadcast on Antenne 2.

In a park, a lunch on the grass, by the water and with the family. Rayane Mcirdi's aunts and mother, born in the 1960s, recount their childhood memories, their passage from the slums of Sartrouville to the Mourinoux neighborhood, and their attachment to the city in which they grew up.

Thérèse cultivates a Creole garden in Guadeloupe. She resists against some invisible poisons. Her hands are confused with the soil. Her face with the light.

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem. The uncle's will instructs Danny to find the rest of the statue, so Danny, who speaks no Russian, embarks on a trip that takes him (and the Golem's hand) to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, fumbling with hotel clerks, taxi drivers, and bureaucrats, following leads, and making discoveries about myth, story telling, art, and hope.

In a beautiful garden called Ecos, there are a variety of creatures there who neatly fulfill vital roles in the healthy ecological system of the area. However, this state of reasonable environmental harmony is disrupted when a new species of grub like creatures begin to ravish the land of a needed fruit. This folly leads to the disruption of the environment of the garden while this greed leads to a series of events that have tragic consequences.

In the middle of summer, a couple waits in a green garden for a fish growing on a tree to reach maturity. The wait is long, but the fish is finally red and the young woman can pick it.

Short film by Olgra Roger.

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approaches her but fails to kill her. Instead, he falls in love and becomes her lover ...

Roumanian born conductor, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996) refused to record any of his performances. This documentary tries to provide some insight into the character of this man, allowing the viewer to come to their own conclusion about whether the man was a megalomanic or guru. Music includes: Mozart quartet in D minor (K, 421); symphony in C major, 'Jupiter' (K, 551); requiem in D minor (K, 626). Also, Haydn symphony no. 92 in G major 'Oxford', Beethoven quartet in D major, op. 18, no. 3; Schubert symphony #5 in B flat major, Bruckner symphony #9 in D minor and, finally, Bartok concerto for orchestra.

Cannes Festival 1975

Directed by Ousmane Sow.