Third part of a French TV series about the creation and building of the town of Cergy-Pontoise.

Labarthe was very much in the orbit of the French New Wave—he appears as an actor in Godard’s My Life to Live—and his collaborator, Janine Bazin, was the widow of film theorist and Cahiers du cinéma co-founder André Bazin. Yet by 1964, five years after the explosion of the movement onto French and international screens, doubts about the true impact of the New Wave had emerged. Labarthe and Bazin assembled an intriguing round-table made up of Cinématheque Française director Henri Langlois, and filmmakers Alexandre Astruc, Pierre Kast and Agnès Varda to discuss the past, present and future of the movement.

1969. July, 21. 3h56. Man sets foot on the Moon for the very first time. Since the achievement of the Apollo program, he has not returned to Earth’s satellite. But things are about to change. The Artemis program marks the beginning of a new chapter in lunar exploration. 　　Launched notablyin 2022 by NASA, this enormous endeavor requires the collaboration of more than 30000 researchers from around the world. The third phase of Artemis shall mark the return of humankind to the Moon – and this time, it is a woman that will walk on lunar soil for the first time. Its main aim? To create a permanent base by 2030 which would ensure major advances in space research. Could the Moon become a springboard to Mars? 　　Combining archive images, impressive CGI and interventions of those who work on this colossal mission, this film tells in detail the history of the Moon’s conquest, from the first Apollo expeditions to the latest milestones steps of Artemis. 　　Production:ZED, ONE WAY FILMS & NHK for France Télévisions, ZDF Terra X, SVT, PTS & RTS