Cycles

Nuit des idées 2025

"Pouvoir agir"

20 films

Participez à la Nuit des idées 2025 en programmant des films liés à son thème : "Pouvoir agir". Justice, jeux de pouvoir, actions et enjeux politiques mais aussi luttes et actions sociales, émancipation personnelle... découvrez notre sélection thématique de longs et courts métrages.

Nuit des idées 2025
  • Drama, Historical film, Biopic
  • 2023
  • 1h55
by Cédric Kahn

In 1975 is held the trial of Pierre Goldman, a fiery and controversial figure of revolutionary left-wing activism. Guilty of numerous charges, yet he proclaims his innocence in a double murder accusation. Twenty years before the OJ Simpson case, the Goldman trial reflects the political, ideological and racial tensions that marked the 1970s in France and Europe. Then considered to be the trial of the century, it divided an entire country and widened the gap between the conservative right and left-wing intellectuals.

  • Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h58
by Jeanne Herry

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of offences the opportunity to dialogue through secure systems, supervised by professionals and volunteers such as Judith, Fanny or Michel. Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, sentenced for theft with violence, Gregoire, Nawelle and Sabine, victims of home jacking, robbery and purse snatching. Also Chloe, victim of incestuous rape, all engage in measures of Restorative Justice. On their journey, there is anger and hope, silence and words, alliances and heartbreaks, awareness and regained confidence. And at the end of the road, sometimes, reparation.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 1h34
by Mehdi Fikri

Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.

  • Biopic
  • 2023
  • 1h42
by Nicolas Peduzzi

Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy. In defiance of the imperatives of efficiency and the lack of means that plague the public hospital, Jamal Abdel Kader, the only psychiatrist in the establishment, tries to give back to his patients the humanity they are denied to have. But how to treat well in a sick institution?

  • Biopic
  • 2022
  • 1h49
by Nicolas Philibert

The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. The film invites us to board it and meet the patients and caregivers who invent its life day to day.

  • 2022
  • 1h23
by Patricio Guzmán

“October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.”

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • 1h59
by Blandine Lenoir

A countryside village in France, 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors and women who perform illegal abortions in the public eye, practicing a free, safe and respectful method. Gradually Annie will join their battle, which will bring a new meaning to her life.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • 1h25
by Philippe Petit

Max doesn’t dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of downtown Marseille: a plant area open to all. After years of rejection, his project reached the final stage of an architecture competition. For Max, this is the last chance to offer oxygen to the people who are suffocating in an urban hell, under the beating sun.

  • Comedy-drama, Biopic
  • 2022
  • 1h50
by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Classical symphonic music is everything for 17-year-old Zahia Ziouani and her twin sister, Fettouma. Nevertheless, living in underprivileged Parisian suburbs in 1995 with their Algerian background, they struggle arduously to approach their dreams – becoming an orchestra conductor and a cellist. Driven by determination, passion, and courage, they create their own orchestra, Divertimento. It will be a game-changer. DIVERTIMENTO is inspired by the life of Zahia Ziouani, one of the few worldwide renown female conductors.

  • Comedy
  • 2021
  • 1h07
by Louis Garrel

Abel (Louis Garrel), Marianne (Laetitia Casta) and their 13-year-old son Joseph (Joseph Engel) live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet.

  • 2020
  • 1h36
by Flore Vasseur

Depuis 6 ans, Melati, 18 ans combat la pollution plastique qui ravage son pays l’Indonésie. Comme elle, une génération se lève pour réparer le monde

  • 2021
  • 2h00
by Frédéric Tellier

France, professeure de sport le jour, ouvrière la nuit, milite activement contre l’usage des pesticides. Patrick, obscur et solitaire avocat parisien, est spécialiste en droit environnemental. Mathias, lobbyiste brillant et homme pressé, défend les intérêts d’un géant de l’agrochimie. Suite à l’acte radical d’une anonyme, ces trois destins, qui n’auraient jamais dû se croiser, vont se bousculer, s’entrechoquer et s’embraser.

  • Drama, Classics, Literary adaptation
  • 1969
  • 2h05
by Costa-Gavras

In a country ruled by a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set on erradicating all threats from the political left, a member of the parliamentary opposition is murdered in the street right after leading a pacifist meeting. The official inquiry into the case is entrusted to a young judge who becomes aware that this was a political crime committed by two hired killers. To entangle things further, an ambitious journalist resorts to unorthodox means to pile up evidence against several members of an extreme right-wing party, while these in turn accuse police and army high officials.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2020
  • 1h32
by Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien

Louis is the director of a funeral home. Sworn bachelor at 58 he devotes himself entirely to his job and can't bring himself to retire. Igor is 40 years old, a sharp mind stuck in a disabled body. Cerebral palsy they call it. Fond of philosophy, his travel companions are Socrates, Spinoza and Nietzsche. He keeps himself well away from the world and knows nothing or very little about friendship, sexuality, and real encounters. In a coincidence that only happens in real life, the paths of Louis and Igor cross. They embark on a funeral car for an unconventional road-trip that will teach them to see beyond their own issues and rethink their lives.

  • Drama, Young audience
  • 2021
  • 1h10
by Alain Ughetto

Early 20th century, Northern Italy. The Ughetto family, living through difficult times, dreams of a better future abroad. The story tells of Luigi Ughetto crossing the Alps to start a new life in France, thus changing the destiny of his beloved family forever. His grandson travels back in time revisiting their history, in an intimate dialogue with his grandmother Cesira.

  • Drama, Historical film
  • 2022
  • 1h41
by Sepideh Farsi

1980, Abadan. The capital of the Iranian oil industry is resisting an Iraqi siege. Fourteen-year-old Omid has braved the siege and stayed in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to return from the front line. Along with Omid, a gallery of unusual characters have all remained in the city for their own reasons, and each resists in his or her own way. But the noose is tightening as Omid tries to save his loved ones, by embarking them on an abandoned boat he finds in Abadan’s port, that will become his ark.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • 23min
by Clémentine Delbecq

Rufus and his uncle Alpha, two Ivorians, run an aging hotel in the hinterland of Perpignan. At the beginning of the summer, Alpha returns to the Ivory Coast to sell the family land to relaunch his business in France, before leaving it to his nephew. While waiting for him, Rufus keeps the hotel with Monika, his girlfriend, but Alpha's trip to the country will upset his plans.

  • Biopic
  • 2021
  • 22min
by Claudia Lopez Lucia

Through their locker room chats, training sessions, and the balance they find between coquettish touches and muddied knees, three teenage rugby girls question their own prejudices and those of their social circles toward female and male attributes in our society.

  • Comedy, Adventure
  • 2021
  • 17min
by Juliette Gilot

Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is oriented in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project.

  • Comedy-drama, Biopic
  • 2021
  • 4min
by Valentine Zhang

Alice sneaks out of the family home to take part in a guerilla political flyposting campaign.

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