Nicolas Philibert Movies

A new shorter and uncensored TV version of Patrons - Télévision (1979). The dates "1978 / 1991" are used in reference to the "missing...

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

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,...

This fascinating French documentary chronicles the reopening of the Zoology Hall in the Paris Museum of Natural History in 1993. It had been closed...

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the...

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

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the...

A TV-special offering more than three and a half hours of the latest standout production in the diverse and eclectic world of short films and...

While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an...

This is a peaceful conversation between two filmmakers, Nicolas Philibert and Jean-Louis Comolli. A conversation, or the pleasure of spending time...

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

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.

Clinging to the middle of the mountain like so many spiders, a dozen filmmakers and mountain guides busy themselves above the abyss to film...

In the summer of 1995, as every year, the patients and staff of "La Borde" psychiatric clinic rehearse their summer play for a performance on August...

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

Staying up day and night and occupying a hairdressing salon at 57 Bd de Strasbourg in Paris, eighteen undocumented workers are on strike since May...

This film was made for the Grande Galerie in the National Natural History Museum in Paris, retracing the major stages of its recent restoration.

Interview with Emmanuelle Laborit, actress and director of the company l'International Visual Theatre (IVT). Complementary bonus film to the DVD...

Interview with Jack Thiney, taxidermist at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Complementary bonus film to the DVD edition of "Animals"...

A visitors’ day in a Parisian zoo is about to end. The last guests, tired with attractions, are going back home. What happens to the zoo...