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After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.
Aug 2022
Liverpool, 1995, the dockers are on strike. Nine-year-old Siobhan has only one thing on her mind: to see if Oasis will win the pop duel against Blur. But an argument breaks out with her older brother Rory, leading the little girl to run away at nightfall. As she wanders, the decaying city takes on an unreal allure.
May 2025
Estelle and Juliette are a couple who share an unhealthily close bond. And yet, their relationship seems phony. In a violent moment, Estelle decides to go to the village of Vourkoti.
Nov 2018
Joel, hardened into stone, hiding his feelings for so long. With the return of an old love, cracks start to bloom in his armor.
Aug 2025
It could have been a normal day for Virgile, but that's not the way it turned out. After being the victim of a strange attack, the young man is then forced to share a dressing room with Robert Lesmur, the main actor of the play in which he plays an extra. A disturbing character, Robert stimulates feelings in Virgile that will quickly overwhelm him.
Jun 2019
Hugues and Anaé live in two neighboring buildings, each on the eighth floor without an elevator. They have set themselves a challenge: not to speak for twenty-four hours. But a major event jeopardizes their commitment.
Jun 2024
The man who leaves prepares his departure.
Jun 2020
One summer in Ostatenham, a synchronized swimming competition is broadcasted on television. On a street, a child, a teenager and an adult meet through their dreams and nightmares.
Nov 2023
Eighteen-year-old Victor loses his parents in a car accident three months before his baccalauréat. He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a chateau with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.
In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.
Jun 2023
Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?
Aug 2015
After a long absence, Max returns to Paris and settles in with his father in the lively Belleville district. He wanders the streets, curious about others, eager to meet new people, but soon finds himself confronted with a profound malaise.
Gladys, a woman in her fifties, lives on the fringes of society, without a home, without a health insurance card, without a bank. Nothing matters to her, not even sex, alcohol, or dancing, which she practices with a joyful frenzy. One morning, she meets Eugénie, a friend from high school, by chance. Eugénie tries to help her against her will.
Despite Lise's advice, Claire decides to celebrate Christmas with Leon, a young outcast who claims to live outside the system. They agree to organize an anticapitalist Christmas Eve, prohibiting all expenses. Meanwhile, Mathias delivers presents as Santa for a well-paid temporary assignment.
Feb 2025
Since the death of their mother, Jonathan and Adrien have never spoken of this brutal loss.With their father, they try to mourn, but the silence gnaws at them from the inside. Jo' is sure that his future lies elsewhere.
Oct 2024
Marie Losier invites us into the world of The Residents, an iconic figure in American avant-garde music for over fifty years. Hidden behind their anonymity and iconic costumes, this San Francisco-based collective revolutionised the underground scene with their sound experiments and daring aesthetic.
The father of seventeen-year-old Elias suddenly dies. At school as well as at home, his friends and relatives await his reaction, which doesn't occur. Elias continues his life as if nothing had happened.
Jun 2022
Who remembers Pierre Céran? Nobody except Louis, his old friend, who is worried about not having any news. Especially since the last time he saw him, Pierre Céran was not well. Louis goes to look for him.
Territorial dispute have always been in the center of most human conflicts. The territorial notion thrives for possession and power, resulting in invasive actions and occupation. UIP is the abbreviation for "United Israel Palestine". It is a title referring to a possible future scenario for Israel and Palestine set in the year 2027. In this scenario the international society, governed by the United Nations, is the new occupational power and therefore an international court administers the conflicts. Through this court the film unfolds and it is from a juridical perspective that all territories, bodies, ownerships and legacies are viewed. In contrast psychological relations, both private and public, appears painfully clear.
Oct 2015