Richard Copans Movies

“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,...

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

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

"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...

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who...

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...

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

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

A trip to the seaside campsites, along the coast from Spain to the Camargue, like the other side of society, a cleverly mixed deck of cards. Each...

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

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003,...

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

18th century. Anne, grown up, has to "change her clothes" because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and has a great love affair with...

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

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...

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

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use...

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

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...