Richard Copans Movies

Amos Gitai explores the international traffic in contract labor through parallel movements of Thai women in the sex trade and men migrating to the...

From 1954 to 1962, during the Algerian War, French citizens provided concrete assistance to the FLN in France: sheltering refugees, forging...

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

Mourning his boyfriend Frédéric's death from an overdose, the French filmmaker David Teboul goes to Siberia on a ritual journey. Out...

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

"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...

A filmmaker, armed with a small digital camera, discovers a city through a handful of characters acting as guides. He entrusts the task of narrating...

An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared...

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

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing,...

Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is.

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a...

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

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has...

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

A documentary following 12-year-old Paul and his brother Germain during a transformative summer in rural France. The film explores the loss of...

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.