Films produced by Les Ateliers Varan

An elderly woman, a boy and a dog. With a cart, they wander around the city collecting boxes and papers, and only return when everyone else is...

The father and mother of a little boy are both motorcycle cab drivers. The boy is often left alone in the single room that is their home. Produced by...

A secret figure in French underground cinema, Maria Koleva has filmed all over Paris, written about Marx and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Serge...

Manuel raps about his life, his thoughts, his whole world of revolt, surrounded by the kind attention of the villagers who welcome him into their...

What does the people in the street think of nuclear physics today? These men and women do not walk far from the imposing Cité des Sciences et...

In Paris, there is a network of men married to young Filipinas, chosen through an international agency. Here is the portrait of a couple from this...

Thi was born in a traditional family in the country. Her parents are teachers. She came to Hanoi to study languages. Today, she works as a...

Documenting the transformation of Bưởi Road in Hanoi, from a labyrinth of houses and small businesses to a highway, with demolition crew...

It's back-to-school time, and three-year-old Oona really, really doesn't want to go to school.

War wounds body and soul : it divides a country, Yugoslavia, it splits families. A Serbian family with six children, who had been living in France...

After the demolition of the shacks and the construction of new buildings to resettle the residents of the old Curraleira neighborhood, an empty space...

A look at the life of society's outcasts through three locations: the Fleury-Mérogis prison, a low-income housing project in the Paris region,...

Wakis, a lumberjack in the Central African Republic, works with his family collecting wood to process into charcoal. But faced with its increasing...

The grandfather tries to explain the family history, the traditions, privileges and duties of the eldest son to his grandson, who agrees to stay on...

Armel, Ahmed, Antoine, Ezechiel, Rougeot and Issa are motorcycle cabs at the Ahougnansou train station. Criticized and marginalized, they show...

The day-to-day battles of patients who reinvent their lives in a small alley near their hospital in Hanoi, far from their villages and families.

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the...