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Browse 20 movies from Wombat Films
Fifty-year-old Sabine is a truck driver. The sudden buyout of the company she works for by a large German corporation will upset her usual habits. Apart from the new rules, she also has to adapt to working with a partner, Manon, a young woman who is prepared to sacrifice everything to stay in the company. Fearing she'll lose her job, Sabine accepts to go on the road with Manon.
Nov 2018
A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.
Aug 2017
After receiving a call from his mother’s nursing home, BAPTISTE, 40, drives to Carpentras. His mother is in very critical condition. When he arrives, the nursing home staff tell him that, due to safety measures related to the health crisis, they don’t know when he’ll be able to see her. Torn between guilt and helplessness, Baptiste finds himself waiting.
Oct 2021
Luna, 11 years old, lives with her big brother, Julien, 17, and her two adoptive fathers. It’s the end of summer and the heat is stifling. They are impatiently awaiting the solar eclipse that everyone has been talking about. The sun disappears behind the moon…it does not reappear.
Sep 2024
Mama Bobo is a widow in her 80’s. Day in day out she heads towards the Gomis street bus stop, in Dakar, Senegal. While sitting on the bus stop's bench she recollects her past life and her long gone husband. One day the bus stop disappears into thin air…
Feb 2017
In a near future, Nicolas, a retiree who enjoys his independence, loses his autonomy after an accident. His son Gabriel, a technophile submerged by his professional responsibilities, then imposes a robot to assist him. But this decision may be fatal for his father.
Nov 2019
Skander is 11 years old. Taken to the neighborhood pool by his little sister's babysitter, he enters the men's showers for the first time. Skander experiences his first erotic shock; he won't believe it.
Apr 2026
Oct 2023
“Where’s Dad?” wonders 11-year-old Leonard. He’s been missing for several months now. As if he’d vanished into thin air. And what’s going on with the compost pile in the garden? It’s been acting strangely lately. Leonard feels magically drawn to the pile of dirt. What’s more: the compost speaks to him. But neither Leonard’s mother, who has been acting very strangely lately, nor his little sister believes him. The compost pile grows, and with it, Leonard’s distrust of his mother.
Mariam lives in a remote Armenian village where there are no men. On her birthday, her hopes of having a reunited family are shattered, but she must put aside her own crushed dreams and build up her friend Anush's hopes of an idyllic life as she embarks into motherhood.
Oct 2022
In a country house, Armando, a proud and somewhat macho grandfather, loses his bearings when his wife falls ill. He will learn to accept help from his son and granddaughter despite the underlying tensions.
Mar 2024
After an accident in the French countryside, Helene, a city dweller, is facing events that are beyond understanding. She becomes “the doe” in order to survive.
Mar 2020
Léto, a young trans and gay man, lives in a small, social housing apartment near Tours. During the day, he kills boredom on his phone from the ticket booth of a movie theater on its last legs. But where he's looking for feelings, he's only offered sex. So at night, he flees disillusionment by heading for the stars. The roof of his high-rise building is like his moped: a refuge, an escape. However, one morning, the parking lot of an ice rink becomes the setting for a life-changing encounter when he comes face to face with Hamza, a solitary employee with an enigmatic charm. The emotional disturbance is immediate. With all due respect to the scoundrels!
Aug 2020
What Clint can't express in words, he sings it with those of others, run through by the songs as if by a shiver. But when you're a musician, if you want to shine, you have to compose...
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Sylvie, a car mechanic, is raising her rebellious teenage daughter, Léa, on her own. During a freezing autumn, the animals' behavior suddenly changes: nature is in revolt. In their isolated house on the edge of the forest, mother and daughter have only themselves to rely on.
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