Languages: Film

Discover the delights of 'The French Experience', with this television series accompanying the best-selling BBC French course which gives the real flavour of France. Filmed in Paris, Normandy, Strasbourg, the Pyrenees and Toulouse, the programmes offer a rich and varied mix of basic language teaching with travel and cultural information, including insights into lesser-known aspects of the country and its life. Ideal for beginners or those wanting to brush up their rusty French.

Tintin is no doubt one of the 20th century's greatest travellers, an intrepid, big-hearted adventurer, who explored the whole world. Through this documentary series, we rediscover the world through Tintin's eyes. From the forests of Peru to the mountain-tops of Nepal, from the arid Moroccan deserts to the mysterious atmosphere of Shanghai, it is an invitation to travel in the form of a road-movie, with Tintin as our travelling companion. We take the same means of transportation, we encounter the same difficulties, we see the same places, the same cast of characters we relive the stories in the albums. Tintin tries to take a vacation, but while on his cruise ship a mystery unfolds! He meets Dr. Sarcophagus who leads him to the undiscovered tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh.

A sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin follows a mysterious lead to China on the trail of a smuggling ring. Will Tintin find the criminal mastermind?

A can of crab meat turns out to be a small clue to a big mystery! Tintin meets Captain Haddock in his escape and his plan to track down the crooks takes him to an exotic desert city.

Tintin discovers that one of the last Incan descendants has kidnapped his missing friend, Professor Calculus. Tintin and Captain Haddock follow the kidnapper to Peru--can they save Calculus?

One day Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Himalayas. When he discovers that his friend, Chang, was on board, Tintin travels to the crash site in hopes of a rescue.

In Moussa Toure's powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that head towards Europe via the Canary Island, he reluctantly accepts the job, knowing full-well the dangers that lie ahead. Leading a group of 30 men who don't all speak the same language, some of whom have never seen the sea, Baye Laye will confront many perils in order to reach the distant coasts of Europe.

This play is an adaptation of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the most translated book in the French language (more than 250 languages) and one of the best-selling books ever published. In this staging by Maroccan Stella Serfaty, the blond litte boy is a Black man because for her, this tale is a social criticism of our civilization, in which people are sheeps. This theater play for adults, with video, music and a sand artist plunges us into a world, where the time to draw a picture is as important as the drawing itself