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  • In the light of current events in Russia, ARTE Distribution proposes a selection of in-depth documentaries to understand geopolitical stakes. Our films take a closer look at Russia's geopolitics, Poutine's strategy, territory disputes and everyday citizen life.

     

    CLICK HERE TO DISCOVER OUR RUSSIAN CURRENT AFFAIRS LINE-UP

  • We are delighted to announce that LIVING IN GERMANY AT WAR has received the Best French Documentary Award at the 2021 SFCC Awards.

    This film, consisting entirely of archives, recounts the daily lives of both German civilians and soldiers during the six years of WW2, from its start in September 1939 up to the months following the German surrender. A dive into the private lives of a people on the path to self-destruction.

  • We are thrilled to announce that PARIS OPERA - A (VERY) UNUSUAL SEASON has won the Audience Award at the international documentary film festival FIPADOC Awards 2022.

    With this film, we invite you behind the closed doors of the famous Paris Opéra Garnier after the 2020 lockdown, when ballet dancers were rehearsing without an audience, until the reopening in June 2021.

  • We are thrilled and extremely proud to announce that ARTE Distribution has 2 documentaries selected among the 3 finalists for the 2022 TV Export Awards by UniFrance (DR. JACK AND MR. NICHOLSON & THE TRUE STORY OF KING TUT'S TREASURE). Your support is very important, so please vote for us until 25th January!

    2022 TV Export Awards - Documentary category 

    DR. JACK AND MR. NICHOLSON: No one can resist his killer smile. With his immediately recognizable physique, Jack Nicholson is a far cry from the Californian playboy, at once undeniably sexy, yet singularly scary... How did this common young man become the icon of counterculture overnight?

    THE TRUE STORY OF KING TUT'S TREASURE

    Almost 100 years after the discovery of King's Tut's Tomb, it is time to tell the story in a new light. This film uses 2D and 3D imagery to reconstruct the tomb, the mummy, the funerary objects and the topography of the famous valley of the Kings. 

  • THE UNGEMACH EXPERIMENT, A STORY OF EUGENICS has been selected  in official competition at FIFAAC, FIGRA, FIPADOC and Pariscience !

     

     

    In 1924, a garden city was inaugurated in Strasbourg, called Ungemach, reserved for couples selected as being "healthy and fertile strains". This eugenic experiment was approved by both political and scientific authorities and continued until the 1980s! Discover the genesis of this project and revisit the history of eugenics in England, the United States, Switzerland, Japan and Nazi Germany to see how it still poses many ethical questions that are becoming increasingly complex.