Richard Copans Movies

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

I saw this happen : Raye left home. Why ? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe ! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean...

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s,...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

Cédric is a child like millions of others. The only difference is that the little boy is seriously ill and must spend six months in a...

Hervé Le Roux discovered a short film about a strike in a battery factory. Now he's looking for one of the workers seen in this film: a young...

A small Algerian town, off the beaten track of the war that is tearing the country apart. At the heart of the crisis that is destroying it, two young...

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the...

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the...

Film director Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb...

Norman Mailer frankly discusses American culture, politics, literature, and his own tumultuous life.

One hundred and twenty years of film history in a warehouse in Paris. In the reserves of the French Cinematheque, where thousands of cameras and...

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

"Bania" is an exploration Russian society through its bath-houses in the city, the countryside, in a monastery, a factory or a prison. The film plays...

“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are,...

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.

A documentary film by Canadian Director Debra Kellner, produced by Frank Giustra, Serge Lalou, and Richard Copans. Inside My Heart chronicles the...

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an...