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20-year-old Chloe leaves her dysfunctional family to follow a group of romantic outsiders and help the forgotten of society. During her travel through a shattered Greece, she will dream, fly, and fall in love but also she’ll realize that the true rebels are always alone.
Jun 2025
Even though Gaby turned 18, she still hasn't had her period, so she decides to take matters in her own hands.
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Clotilde and Aude are 18. They have always been best friends, growing up together in the same small village in the South of France. Despite their differences, they have a strong and exclusive friendship. With their contrasts they attract each other, and they seem to be enough for one another. But Clotilde, looking for something else, decides to leave to study in Paris the following year, after the baccalaureate. She takes Aude along with her in this departure far from their roots. Refusing to admit that their paths are separating little by little, Clotilde and Aude persuade themselves that their friendship can survive anything.
Aug 2014
Mathieu is a marine biologist. He spends his time on his microscope, cutting tiny marine organisms corpses. He’s unhappy. His true wish would have been being on the sea. But an event will abruptly change his life : Christine, his mother in law, runs away. Attracted by this impulsion, and curious to understand her, Mathieu starts looking for her. He’s going to find her in a house by the sea and will share the same desire of regaining control of his life.
Jun 2016
Mar 2017
15-year-old Emma, pregnant after a rape, defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of the village and the spectre of World War II around her.
Jan 2026
A film in three chapters, with earth glasses, colonoscopies, scams, a mountain... and many other surprises. Directed by five directors without complexes with a shabby hero. Which starts badly but ends well. Or the opposite.
May 2014
Laurent has to undergo a colonoscopy. Nothing is more worrying than a doctor who tries to reassuring you. However, it is next to nothing: Just a camera which goes in your colon.
Jul 2016
Apr 2017
At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team. In the ring and in a man's world, there’s no room for weakness.
Mar 2026
Nathan is thirteen years old boy. Driven by his new friend Malik, he prepares himself for a strange ritual to become a member of a teens gang.
Sep 2021
While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.
Mar 2008
Tom, a Flemish comedian and cartoon voice actor, spontaneously fills in for a dubbing actor friend. He finds himself on a French porn movie shoot. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom is supposed to play the plumber.
Oct 2016
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Mar 2023
Jean-Paul is different. His father is his mother. He deeply loves dogs. But he prefers beer. When the moon is bright, Jean-Paul lit up too Tomorrow he won't remember anything.
Oct 2011
After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.
Jul 2024
Boys and girls from the colourful West-African Fulani people are raised separately on the savannah. Their daily activities are regularly interrupted by rituals that lead to adulthood. Filmed up close, you can almost feel the pain and endurance that accompany the rituals and daily experiences.
Jan 2017
Celine and Brigitte are tired of organizing tupperware parties.
Sep 2013
Andrès is a truck driver for a small transport company in Europe. As he puts in the hours, stuck in a race for profit, Andrès serves as a cog in a system that exhausts the men who make it function, and in so doing exhausts itself.
Oct 2025
Remy and Sandra can't have children because they suffer from the "Past Loves Syndrome". To heal, there is only one solution, they must sleep with all their exes once.
Sep 2023