Misia Films

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

A man lives alone on an island in the Mediterranean. He will see his habits turned upside down by the sudden arrival of a mysterious swimming woman. Unable to communicate, a strange bond develops between them, between fantasies, dreams and unfulfilled desires.

People is a film shot behind closed doors in a workshop/house on the outskirts of Paris and features a dozen characters. It is based on an interweaving of scenes of moaning and sex. The house is the characters' common space, but the question of ownership is distended, they don't all inhabit it in the same way. As the sequences progress, we don't find the same characters but the same interdependent relationships. Through the alternation between lament and sexuality, physical and verbal communication are put on the same level. The film then deconstructs, through its repetitive structure, our relational myths.

In a near future, during a relentless summer break and the imminent arrival of a solar eclipse, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place among her family and other girls her age. As the moon seems to “eclipse” animals and people around her, she searches online for some escape. She discovers “shifting,” a practice done by teenagers who believe they can cross into another reality through lucid dreaming. As the nights grow longer and lonelier, Bego takes solace in the virtual world.