Browse 9 movies from Girelle
Theresia stays by the bedsides of the dying, praying for them and helping them pass away in peace. At the bedside of Varkichan, a wealthy farmer, she urges him to repent and forgive, but the stubborn Varkichan has no intention of dying this way, nor does he want to show any weakness to his son George and George’s wife, who have returned after ten years and are now waiting for him to die. How can the long suffering and inherited anger that have tormented everyone in the family finally be brought to an end?
Oct 2026
A starry-eyed goat decides to build a cabin in the jungle to live there, but this means she'll be sharing with some dangerous neighbours. The goat manages to make new friends, but it comes at a heavy price.
Jun 2023
Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...
Aug 2021
Apr 2019
An assistant professor at a medical college balances her roles as a professional, a mother and a teacher. Her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student.
Nov 2021
Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
Mar 2019
On a drawing sheet, a brush makes colors appear in watercolor. An object of everyday life is drawn precisely by the hands of an artist. Then two drawings, then three, four, ... superimposed, condensed, multiplied, hundreds of drawings of immobile objects succeed one another on the screen. Grands Canons is an animation short film based on a series of observation drawings that, like the work of 19th-century entomologists and naturalists, systematically lists all the everyday objects that "go into the household."
Apr 2018
Back country of Provence. Summer 1972. In the distance, a fire. Alain leaves with the men of the village to fight the fire while waiting for the firemen to arrive. Left alone with her son Simon, Chantal must continue to run the cheese dairy and look after the herd. The fire is getting dangerously close to the family farm... and no news from Alain.
Oct 2022
Sep 2019