Most Popular Jean-Michel Humeau Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
The Lion Child Trailer (1993)
16 June 1993
In the village of Pama, Sirga the lioness and Oule the young boy, born the same day, grow up together as sister and brother.
Voyage en Capital Trailer (1978)
18 January 1978
On a flight from Algiers to Paris, an Algerian worker returning to his job meets a young Algerian woman born in France, who is visiting that country for the first time.
He! Viva Dada Trailer (1965)
05 September 1965
Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965.
Sans Soleil Trailer (1983)
02 March 1983
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Tsahal Trailer (1994)
09 November 1994
The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience.
River Niger, Black Mother Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
River Niger, Black Mother follows the 4184-kilometer-long River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali, Niger and Benin to Nigeria.
The Magic of Nigeria Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
Balogun's last film shot on 16mm, The Magic of Nigeria is a documentary that explores the culture and traditions of Nigeria as they are expressed in religion, art and everyday life, accompanied by a poetic voiceover.
Réunion 67 Trailer (1967)
07 July 1967
Under the pseudonyms of Jo and Freddy Kant, Jean-Michel Humeau and Robert Destanque are making a documentary on independence movements in Reunion Island.
Chronicles of Hope Trailer (1993)
03 June 1993
In july 1936, the civil war began in Spain, and it would last three years. Since then, it has constantly been a subject for fascination and controversy.
The Mask Trailer (1986)
06 September 1986
Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has been forbidden to do so.
Yeelen Trailer (1987)
01 July 1987
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
Gloria Trailer (1999)
03 November 1999
Gloria is set against the backdrop of a rural landscape slowly disappearing in modern Portugal. The small border town of Vila de Santiago, once a booming trade center for illegal trafficking, is about to become a ghost town, as a new motorway is to bypass the city and the railway station is being closed.
Les paradoxes de Buñuel Trailer (1998)
29 April 1998
Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections highlighting Bunuel's contradictions --"Surrealist and Moralist," "Iconoclast and Traditionalist," "Sadist and Sentimentalist.
Ile Flottante Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Île flottante is not an island, nor a dessert, but a somewhat unusual cinema, floating, that's for sure! While in his booth, a young projectionist, nervous about launching his first screening, panics a little, at the entrance to the building, whose contours are difficult to make out in the foggy night, a queue forms, resembling a huge centipede of impatient people.
Melodrama Sacramental Trailer (1965)
01 May 1965
The Panic Movement performed theatrical events designed to be shocking, as a response to surrealism becoming petite bourgeoisie and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty.
China, My Sorrow Trailer (1989)
24 May 1989
In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng.
The Unshod Man Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Everything started at the lighthouse bar, during Booz's concert. Ben, the trumpet player, dies onstage.
Article 15A Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
In Kinshasa, rumor has it that the constitution includes 14 articles. And in order to face the increasing poverty of the people, politicians who have abandoned them are said to have promulgated an Article 15 proclaiming: "Citizens, get out of the mess yourselves!" But as the social situation disintegrated even more, a second Article 15 was apparently added and immediately adopted: "Citizens get out of the mess all over again!" Article 15A expresses the loser's triumphant laughter.
Kabala Trailer (2002)
06 April 2002
When an elderly man reveals that his son Hammala is the illegitimate son of a purported witch, the ugly side of social customs rears its head.
Douglas Bravo Trailer (1970)
21 February 1970
Douglas Bravo talks about the guerrilla war in Venezuela.
