Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals through the eyes of artists who evoke the Saint Laurent attitude of confidence, individuality and self-expression. The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp, it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening. Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.

Alexandre Desplat is one of the most famous film music composer of today. Innovative artist with a singular expression, he is the successor of french masters of film music: Georges Delerue, Antoine Duhamel, Maurice Jarre. Writing music for films gather his two passions: music and cinema. Between working sessions, confidences, films and personnal archives, Alexandre Desplat offers, through this documentary, a great record on the creative process and today’s cinema.

Go backstage with French rap duo Bigflo & Oli in this intimate music documentary, then join the superstar siblings as they embark on a major tour.

In the mid-1950s, Denis Pantis, the son of Greek immigrants, became obsessed with rock ’n’ roll. His dream was to be the next Elvis, but instead he became Quebec’s most important record producer of the 1960s. Jukebox looks back on the career of “the king of the 45.” A new generation of stars, producers, musicians and lyricists emerged alongside him, establishing an independent recording industry unparalleled anywhere in the world.

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

In collaboration with AIDES, an association fighting against HIV, this feature film brings together over 30 artists to explore the freedom to love beyond stereotypes. Desire, passion, break-ups, Grand Amour or the modern version of the freedom to love. All stories are told across genders and sexualities.

Jean-Claude Van Damme drives a car into an empty out-of-the-way parking lot. As the song Ultrarêve begins to play, JCVD gets out of the car and begins to mildly dance--as if becoming attuned with nature.

This 135-minute documentary offers to reopen this magical parenthesis which has seen the birth of a whirlwind of artists with very different styles. From Chantal Goya to Annie Cordy, from Pierre Perret to Carlos. They knew how to bring each in their own way generations of children into their poetic universe.

"L'Argot Sous Un Garrot" is the first documentary dedicated to the work of rapper Booba. How is this major artist considered by society? Writers, journalists, linguists and students decipher the hidden face of the greatest French popular artist. Titled after a line dropped almost twenty years ago on the song Repose En Paix, the documentary aims to revisit, not Booba's life, but something rarer, his music as such.

Go backstage with beloved rap superstar Gims in the year leading up to his major 2019 Stade de France performance in this up-close documentary.

In 2004, Gregory Lemarchal won the Star Academy live in front of more than ten million people who communicate with him on his an incurable disease, cystic fibrosis.

A young lizard named Clarence steals a precious plane while the whole village is distracted by the greatest concert it has ever seen.

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter Sevdaliza mixes electronic, indie, trip-hop and r'n'b. In Passengers, she performs from her latest album Shabrang at the Arts et Métiers Museum in Paris.

"Hip Hop Symphonique" features French rap's greatest hits, arranged and performed live with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Hip-hop is quick to use codes to its advantage, and has found its own tempo thanks to concerts given with the complicity of Mouv'. The fifth edition features Lous And The Yakuza, Maes, Meryl, Passi and Soolking.

Melody Gardot performs her new album Sunset in the Blue, from the Radio France studios accompanied by a trio of musicians and 40 instrumentalists from the in-house orchestra.

A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance work.

Vitaa and Slimane are the hottest duo around right now, enjoying months of success. The two artists met on the judging panel of The Voice Belgium and scored a hit with their joint single “Je te le donne.” Riding high on their success, they continued their collaboration, releasing their album “VersuS” in August 2019. While waiting for their tour, they are offering a unique concert, surrounded by their musicians. During this unique and intimate creation, they perform all their greatest hits, including “Le temps,” “Ça va, ça vient,” and “Avant toi.” It's a concert where they tell their stories, show themselves, and reveal their close bond.

In an apartment, a party is in full swing. Sitting on a sofa, Perez is hypnotized by a group of four girls facing him.

IAM, Soprano, the Fonky Family, Jul, and a dozen other rappers, composers and producers recount the genesis and blossoming of the rap movement in Marseilles, a leading musical attitude for more than 30 years in the making now.

The first part of the musical short film Halfway.

A vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, who has become a symbol of freedom and power for all African American women.

1964. In the midst of the Cold War, ten young promising musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist regimes. They invent a whole new genre: Afro- Cuban Music and become the iconic group 'Las Maravillas de Mali'. New Year's Eve 2000. Richard Minier, a French music producer meets a former member of the band in Bamako and decides to bring the band back together.

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau’s opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly revolutionary duo – Jeanne Candel and Raphaël Pichon – get to grips with this work for the Opéra Comique.

Thu Yen, 35, came to France to get married. However, things did not go as planned when she arrived. Her encounter with Marianne, a maid with a tormented past, will change her destiny.

Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buffa. A native of Venice, the cradle of the commedia dell’arte, Damiano Michieletto is sensitive to the burlesque vein of Rossinian music. He transposes the action of this "unnecessary precaution" into a contemporary Seville inspired by the cinema of Almodóvar. Bartolo’s monumental building, in which Figaro swirls in free electron, allows the director to give free rein to his crazy imagination.

The breath of the machine fills the air, where the singing can flow. Nina stands in front of the wiggling robot. The soft bodies measure up themselves, sometimes harmonize. The breaths dilate the organs, which swell and fold; transmute the synthetic movement into vital impetus and the vulva into mouth, which inflates until it spreads.

A look back at the violent conflict between the two leading figures of musical modernity, Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky, in the first decades of the 20th century. Although Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky both had a decisive influence on the fourth art, their creations remained diametrically opposed. While the Austrian developed the dodecaphonic method, placing the twelve notes of the chromatic scale at the heart of the composition technique to the detriment of tonality, his Russian rival based his practice on stylistic eclecticism. Their supporters formed two opposing camps, and the two composers - one the father of the Second Viennese School, the other of Neoclassicism - became, in the wake of their successes, the figureheads of a conflict that marked the history of music by its duration and intensity.

The film traces the career of some of the winners of this new generation nicknamed the "K-Classics Generation", including the 2 recent winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the soprano Hwang Sumi and the violinist Lim Jiyoung. In Korea, where it all began, and in Germany where most of them have settled.

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sleepless nights and loud music, a noise-injected collage composed of diaristic footage, a found narrative (memories of a popular 60s band), original music and field recordings.

We travel with the head of a wild boar on a cosmic adventure through the homes of others to learn about family, ghosts, and what it means to be.

Sébastien Tellier is a singular artist with multiple facets: Darling of the Paris electro scene since the turn of the century and yet able to represent France at the kitsch fest of the Eurovison song contest in 2008. Performing at the ARTE Concert Festival on November 13 2020 at the release of his latest album ‘Simple Minds’

Two aliens transcended by human music decide to come on earth to find out about its creator.

He was the first (blond) fallen angel of rock. By disappearing at the age of 27, drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969, Brian Jones inaugurated the macabre list of rock’s shooting stars: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, all decimated at the same age by a too toxic lifestyle.

French artist Sébastien Tellier serenades Paris from one of its highest point of view: the roof of Le Théâtre du Châtelet, in the heart of the city.

On 22 December 1808, four works by Ludwig van Beethoven were premiered at a major concert in Vienna: Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, known as the ‘Pastoral’, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4 and the Fantasy for piano, choir and orchestra. Philippe Jordan and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra recreated this historic musical moment on 11 January 2020 in the Vienna Konzerthaus.

When Johnny Hallyday died in December 2017, thousands of orphaned fans felt the need to come together to revive their idol. At their request, the Madeleine Church opens its doors and organizes each month a tribute to the intention of the missing singer.

A live concert from Disneyland Paris.