Respiro Productions

Phom Penh, Cambodia, nowadays. Sony, a 10-year-old Cambodian kid working at a discharge, is thrown out of home by his father. Left on his own, he is fostered by an association that is allowing him to go to school and to discover a new way of living. Sony will quickly settle, but on the day of a school outing, he makes an unexpected discovery.

Philomène, a teenager of African origin, loves Bastien, a guy in her class. But with her frizzy hair, she doesn't feel she has the weapons of seduction to challenge those girls with vaporous hair. She gets a weave. Philomène lives this capillary change as a metamorphosis.

After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. While Dino and his daughter, Victoria, travel to Italy for a DNA test, the past catches up with them.

French-Vietnamese actress Yvonne Nguyen dreams of a successful career in musicals, to the great displeasure of her mother, who would like her to pursue a more serious path. When Yvonne has no choice but to move back home, both women are strangers to each other. But, in the intimacy of the Vietnamese family restaurant's kitchen, they grow closer. Meanwhile, Yvonne is still after her dreams and finally gets the chance to audition for a big show.

Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender.

65-year-old coffee grower Victoria challenges a real estate project that encroaches on her land and disrupts her life. Growing friction with her long-time employee reveals a world in flux. As changes swirl around her, she’s compelled to question the privileges that have long sustained her comfortable way of life.

Short film about designer and performance artist Kubra Khademi and her works.

Vitiligo is a « cine-poem » with the Belgo-Burundian slam and poet Gioia Kayaga. This hybrid video, mixing performance, cinema, music, poetry, installation, theater and dance is a non-territorialized act. Vitiligo invites you to experience the mindspace of two women, both plunged deep in an internal questioning of their external apparence.

Emmanuelle and Mirra love each other and dream of having a child born only of their love. When Mirra suddenly becomes pregnant, in spite of all biological plausibility, the surprise is total and the joy at its height. For Emmanuelle, however, things are less clear-cut.