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Everything seems written in advance. In the spring of 2026, forty one years after the wrapping of the Pont Neuf by Christo and Jeanne Claude, the artist JR returns to this iconic location with a monumental and ephemeral work. For several months, an extraordinary collective adventure takes shape to give birth to a spectacular installation: a huge mineral cave that seems to emerge from the oldest bridge in Paris and invites the public on an immersive journey.

The film documents this creation from its initial idea to its opening, following the entire process of design, decision making, and manufacturing. Without making JR its sole character, it adopts a choral form that accompanies those who take on this human, technical, and artistic challenge: artists, engineers, sailors, various technicians, officials from the City of Paris and state services, teachers, local residents… or simple passersby.

From the city of Vannes in Brittany, where the fabrication workshop is located, to the Pont Neuf, from the salons of the City Hall to the banks of the Seine, the camera follows the different actors mobilized by the project. Meetings, tests, calculations, administrative constraints, artistic choices, doubts, and enthusiasms gradually reveal the complexity of a work where each step depends on the others.

At the same time, the film focuses on how this creation is already spreading through the city. Students discover the history of the Pont Neuf and the upcoming work, while the first debates emerge around a project set to transform, for a few weeks, the Parisian landscape. In mirror image, the archives of Christo and Jeanne Claude remind us how much any artistic intervention on the Pont Neuf is an adventure of freedom, conviction, and dialogue with the city. Everything converges toward a single date: that of the opening to the public.

But a few days before the inauguration, the narrative shifts. A violent storm, accompanied by wind gusts and an exceptional hail episode, hits the Pont Neuf. A significant part of the installation is severely damaged. The opening is postponed. In just a few hours, several months of preparation seem compromised.

From that moment on, the nature of the documentary changes. What was supposed to be the story of a work’s creation becomes that of a collective that refuses to abandon it. Artists, technicians, companies, and production teams reinvent their organization, work day and night, and face doubt and urgency to allow the work to exist despite everything.

Nine days later, the cave finally opens its doors. The film reveals the invisible adventure that made it possible: behind the artistic event, a story of solidarity, inventiveness, and obstinacy then appears.

Through this ephemeral work, The Cave of the Pont Neuf tells as much about the birth of a creation as about the commitment of those who support it. In dialogue with the archives of Christo and Jeanne Claude, it shows that while a work can transform a place, it above all reveals the strength of the collective that allows it to happen.

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Theme : Art and culture
Format : 52′
Original title : The Pont-Neuf’s caverne
Director : Vincent Lorca
Streamer : France Télévisions
Language :  FR
Year of production : 2026
Produced by : Together Media

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The killer phrase

This documentary invites you to (re)discover, through footage, the best one-liners, punchlines, and roasts that have shaped the history of French-language comedy. Punchlines that pack a punch, roasts that sting, and archival clips that still hit the mark. From Audiard to stand-up comedians, from Baffie to rappers, and even politicians, are you ready to open the floodgates?

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Theme : Culure
Format : 90′
Original title : Punchline: The Art of Witty Replies
Director : Clara Oudy
Streamer : Canal + Comédié
Language :  FR
Year of production : 2026
Produced by : Seventine

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«On October 19, 2025, a daylight heist at the Louvre Museum shocked the world.» In a brazen seven-minute operation, a commando unit breached the historic Apollo Gallery, escaping with royal crown jewels valued at €88 million. This high-stakes documentary thriller unravels how the world’s most secure museum could be so easily compromised. It is a global investigation into the fragile boundaries separating priceless human history from international crime.

The investigation soon exposed a staggering web of security vulnerabilities, revealing that even global institutions are dangerously unprotected. By tracking the dark networks of the global art market, now the third-largest illicit trade after drugs and weapons, the film explores if these treasures were melted down or bought by a shadow collector. Drawing parallels to the infamous 2010 Paris Museum of Modern Art theft, the documentary reveals how cultural heritage has become a disposable currency. Through an immersive blend of CCTV footage and exclusive interviews with international investigators, the narrative transcends the heist itself. Ultimately, it poses a haunting question to the global market: how do we protect our collective memory when the past can vanish in seven minutes?

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Theme : Culture
Format : 52′
Original title : Art on the run
Director : Bénédicte Loubère
Streamer : Muséum TV
Language :  FR
Year of production : 2026
Produced by : Seventine

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« The Great Wave off Kanagawa » is Hokusai’s most famous print. But its creator, like the rest of his prolific body of work, has remained in the shadow of this now iconic image. Yet the unique work of this « old fool of drawing », as he called himself, deserves our attention.

Landscape prints, including the 36 Views of Mount Fuji series to which The Wave belongs, sit alongside other sublime representations of life, forming a dazzling collection. Discovered by Europe, and in particular by French artistic circles shortly after his death in 1849, he fascinated with his lines and the colors of his prints, becoming a source of inspiration for Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Bonnard, and gaining worldwide fame.

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Theme : Culture
Format : 52′
Original title : Hokusai, impressions of the Rising Sun
Director : Lise Baron
Streamer : France Télévisions
Language : FR
Year of production : 2025
Produced by : Les Nouveaux Jours Productions

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For the very first time, international singer Yael Naim reveals herself in a documentary co-written with director Jill Coulon. Filmed over a period of five years, YAEL NAIM, A NEW SOUL tells the intimate, sensitive and poetic story of the liberation of a multifaceted female artist.

« YAEL NAIM – A NEW SOUL » takes the opposite tack to the standard biopic. It gradually paints a portrait of a free woman in mid-life who questions her choices and the promises she made in her youth: ‘Have you become the person you promised yourself you would be?’ Through this intimate and universal journey, the film transcends the framework of the musical documentary. It questions the balance between creation and motherhood, the desire of the absolute and everyday anchoring, artistic identity and social pressures, whether they come from patriarchy or matriarchy. With modesty, poetry and intensity, the film captures an inner voice that tries to remain true to itself, to assert its independence and to spread its wings, whatever the cost, whatever the price to pay.

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Theme : Culture
Format : 52′
Original title : YAEL NAIM, A new soul
Director : Jill Coulon
Streamer : Arte
Language : FR
Year of production : 2025
Produced by : Talweg Productions