"Director: Nicolas Philibert"

• Etre Et Avoir | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £6.20   |  Saving you £13.79 (222.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year 'Etre Et Avoir' takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters aged 4-10 are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single teacher. A master of quiet authority he patiently navigates the children towards adolesence cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems with extraordinary dedication.

• Every Little Thing | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic an asylum in the truest sense of the word where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients and staff work together in rehearsals and preparations for their annual summer play. This year they perform the modernist absurdist classic ""Operette "" by Witold Gombrowicz whose dialogue is more nonsensical than that of the patients themselves.

• Etre et Avoir | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, 'Etre Et Avoir' takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single teacher. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigates the children towards adolesence, cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems with extraordinary dedication.Soon, however, he will have to say goodbye to those older students, who are now ready to go onto the state school in the local town. Winner of a host of international awards, Etre et Avoir is a unique meeting of a director of remarkable talent and a man whose assured approach to teaching will have an impact, not only upon the lucky few children who share his wisdom, but upon anyone who sees this extraordinary and heart-warming film.

• In The Land of the Deaf | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  I look so I can hear... Nicolas Philibert's documentary about deafness captures and celebrates the expressiveness of language without a voice. As the camera lingers on the graceful choreography of signing it seduces the hearing viewer into acknowledging the practical and emotional limitations of verbal language.

• Back to Normandy | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £9.56   |  Saving you £6.43 (40.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1975 director Nicolas Philibert (Etre et Avoir) was a young assistant to film-maker Ren'' Allio. Together they made 'Moi Pierre Rivi''re ayant ''gorg'' ma m''re ma soeur et mon fr''re' ('I Pierre Rivi''re having cut the throat of my mother my sister and my brother') a little-seen film based on the disturbing true story of a peasant who murdered his family in 1835. All the main parts in 'I Pierre Rivi''re' were played by non-professional actors from Normandy. Here thirty years after the film's release Philibert takes his camera back to the region to learn about the lives of its stars during the intervening years. Weaving through time - between 1975 the present time and the nineteenth century - Philibert creates yet another captivating documentary.

• La Maison De La Radio | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £9.85   |  Saving you £6.14 (62.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From acclaimed documentarian Nicolas Philibert a documentary that takes us into the depths of one of France’s most popular radio stations - Radio France

• Back To Normandy | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £4.68   |  Saving you £15.31 (327.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1975 director Nicolas Philibert (Etre et Avoir) was a young assistant to film-maker Ren'' Allio. Together they made 'Moi Pierre Rivi''re ayant ''gorg'' ma m''re ma soeur et mon fr''re' ('I Pierre Rivi''re having cut the throat of my mother my sister and my brother') a little-seen film based on the disturbing true story of a peasant who murdered his family in 1835. All the main parts in 'I Pierre Rivi''re' were played by non-professional actors from Normandy. Here thirty years after the film's release Philibert takes his camera back to the region to learn about the lives of its stars during the intervening years. Weaving through time - between 1975 the present time and the nineteenth century - Philibert creates yet another captivating documentary.

• La Ville Louvre | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This portrait of the venerable stone corridors, galleries and chambers of Paris’s Louvre Museum and its city of inhabitants shows the director’s fascination with work in all its wondrous detail.Nicolas Philibert has a keen sense of how man’s artifacts comment on him differently when estranged from their habitual context.

• Nenette / Un Animal Des Animals | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £9.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (66.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Born in the jungles of Borneo forty years ago, Nnette the orangutan is now the most senior inhabitant of the world’s oldest zoo – and the star of this awe-inspiring, tender and funny film, from the director who charmed the world in 2002 with the BAFTA nominatedEtre Et Avoir.Also includes Un Animal Des Animaux, in which Phlibert visits Paris’ legendary Museum of Natural History and records the painstaking work of artists who repaint, re-feather, fluff and retro-fit a menagerie of stuffed animals.

• The Nicolas Philibert Collection | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £25.63   |  Saving you £4.36 (14.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From acclaimed filmmaker Nicolas Philibert. This set contains four of his acclaimed documentaries. Nnette (2010) Nnette the orangutan is now the most senior inhabitant of the world’s oldest zoo – and the star of this awe-inspiring, tender and funny film. Un Animal Des Animaux (1996) Philibert visits Paris' legendary Museum and Naturak History and records the painstaking work of artists who repaint, re-feather, fluff a menageries of stuffed animals.tre et avoir (2002) A documenatry portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students are educated by a single dedicated teacher. Le Ville Louvre (1990) This revealing behind the scenes look at the world's most famous art museum.