Nicolas Philibert Movies

The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental...

Averroès and Rosa Parks: two units of the Esquirol Hospital, which - like the Adamant - are part of the Paris Central Psychiatric Group. From...

A panel of people representing nothing at all tries to open supposedly easy-open packages.

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He...

Interview with Jean Oury, director of the La Borde psychiatric clinic. Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "La Moindre des Choses" (Every...

Nénette, an orangutan, is the star of the Parisian zoo where she has lived most of her long life. She is a mother of four and has survived...

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place...

A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his...

In support of undocumented immigrants in France, a collective film jointly signed by 200 French filmmakers, producers, distributors, and cinema...

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the...

Excerpts from a reading of texts on the heroes of the Tour de France by Jacques Bonnaffé, accompanied by Louis Sclavis on clarinet and sax....

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them...

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers,...

A film about the preparation of the "Trilogy For a Single Man," about the medical and nutritional monitoring of French mountaineer Christophe Profit...

Anyone who has ever ventured to the "Land of the Deafs" will have been struck by the strangeness of the choreographed signs with which deaf people...

On the occasion of Catherine's 50th birthday, her parents, relatives, and friends step in front of the camera to wish her a happy birthday.

This third opus will take us into the homes of some of the Adamant and Averroes & Rosa Parks’ protagonists, during the visits led by their...

When Nénette watches "Nénette". Eight months after the theatrical release of "Nénette", the director, who had promised to show...

We see how a show, created, improvised and acted by the collaboration of students at Strasbourg's National Theater, is developed from start to...

Every year, thousands of students – mostly female – embark upon courses that will lead them to become nurses. This film follows the ups...