Movies: Nicolas Klotz

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business....

During a party, Camille speaks about her body that’s in love and that science passes through, about time breaking down, and looks at the future....

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy....

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This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons....

First part of a "trilogy of modern times" (the second one is La Blessure, and third - La question humaine). Paria follows the path of two characters, Momo and Victor. Momo –remarkably played by Gérald Thomassin– lives in the streets, while Victor, on...

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisi...

Winston Tong and collaborators are interviewed during a busy day at the recording studio....

Men and women are dancing feverishly for a long time. The dance of bodies turns into a filmic trance, fleeing turns into running away, with braided motifs that get revived with every race. The men who don’t dance talk, recite, tell their own stories ...

Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they...

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying...

Intertwined interviews of filmmaker Pedro Costa and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy....

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« In the shadows of Low Life, a secret ceremony dedicated to thirteen guardians of humanity’s common treasures, love and resistance, youth and poetry, equality and difference, insurrection and revolution. Saxifrages … These rootless plants’ windblown...

When Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of the Schaubühne in Berlin, decided to go to Ramallah in September 2012 to stage Hamlet at the invitation of the Al-Kasaba Theatre, he knew that the Shakespearean verses would find a particular resonance the...

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A portrait of the unforgettable actor Michael Lonsdale, already starring in La Question humaine: one last performance, between Artaud and Plutarch, before turning into impalpable stardust....

In 2009, Klotz and Perceval visit Jean-Luc Nancy at his home in Strasbourg, where they record a conversation in three intervals, in which the zenith of political discourse blends with everyday life. A lesson that is reflected in the communities at th...

In the beginning, Elisabeth picked yellow flowers. On the green hill, facing the sea, between a bunker, the glare of the sun, and the radiation from the wars in progress. In these times of confinement we film an hour a day, less than a kilometer away...

Charged with the turmoil of the (not-so) distant war in Ukraine, COSMOCIDE 2022 is akin to an audiovisual bouquet of glimpses from the fervent present that are deposited on the tomb of history. Both avant-gardist and primitive, the film bristles with...