Wendigo Films

A fifth-grade teacher in Belleville turns her classroom into a kitchen, guiding students to explore culture, identity, and community through cooking, family recipes, and connections that foster empathy and understanding.

Alexia, 32, is from Fécamp, a small fishing port on the cliffs of Normandy. In this city in decline, this young maid, flirtatious and lonely trying to escape his daily life. Legs gathered in a large tail covered with scales, she plunges into the sea and escapes. A secret ritual, until the day she decides to register for the Miss Sirène France contest. For a year, she trains tirelessly, doing pool training, jogging in the early morning on the cliffs. As the competition approaches, Alexia opens to the world, exposes herself to the eyes, makes dream, amuses sometimes or disturbs some.

In a world that underestimates the power of the elderly, Micheline, Francis and Yves lead a group of older activists on a daring journey to revolutionize senior living, challenging stereotypes and judgments while redefining the notions of sex, love, and aging.

Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes, chasing the promises of the mother lode. We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens, where reality and magical thinking blend together, as he discovers that the myth of wealth is built on sacrifices that become ever more tangible – while the boundaries between victims and oppressors get progressively vague and blurred. Mother Lode is a fable about the banality of the descent to hell in times of neoliberalism; it is a paradigm of a relentless world in which everything can be sacrificed in the name of profit.

In a neighbourhood without a certain future, some peoples are willing to offer a last show...

All over France, Anne, Françoise, Huguette, Joseph, Lucien and Sylvie are always full of love. Hada, a young nursing assistant in a nursing home, also notices this. They love their friends, their family, their lifelong lovers, their childhood sweethearts and sometimes even several lovers at once. Despite illnesses, difficulties and assigned roles, love in all its forms protects them... from 7 to 97 years old.

In the National Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, thousands of files await inventory, including those of victims of political violence during the Years of Lead. Among them is Fatna El Bouih, who was disappeared and tortured as a 21-year-old student in the 1970s. Now 67, she continues her fight, pursuing her “dream of change,” active in prisons, advocating for gender equality, and sharing her experience with Syrian survivors of Sednaya prison. Fatna, a Woman Named Rachid follows her activism in Casablanca, in particular at a film festival at Oukacha prison, and blends past and present to portray El Bouih’s journey as a pioneer of women’s engagement and her intimate struggle to exist.

Hans, Heidi, Mario, Martina and Frank are of different ages and from different walks of life but share a nostalgia for the GDR. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they tell us about their disappointments, their discomfort and the still vibrant memory of this past time.