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Browse 24 movies from Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Inside an ecosystem strange beings interact. Both organic and mechanical, certains communicate and exchange, some reproduce their biological cycles while others fight for their survival…
Jan 2021
Summer is coming to an end. A little girl on the beach remembers the days spent giggling and dancing with her friend. The goodbyes and memories intertwine in a mesh of sorrow and joy.
Feb 2019
Aug 2015
Communication is complicated. He tries to talk to her, but she seems unreachable. It’s unimaginable: she’s right on the other side of the table. When she tries to talk, it’s the same. At a time when “communication” is one of the great leitmotifs!
Strange places take shape in a torch’s beam of light and the sound of water droplets hitting the ground punctuates our footsteps. In the distance, we hear muffled music, where does it come from?
May 2024
Gerald is dealing with an unwanted sex change.
Jun 2001
Jan 2025
Graphic research inspired by photos and travel souvenirs made with oil pastels.
Feb 2020
Andréa wants to become a K-Pop idol. Elise, Fiona, Anna and Léonie meet up every Saturday to perfect their choreography. Guiliana practices Baton Twirling. She spends her days at Étienne’s, in this bedroom full of Black Metal prints. Kathleen is daydreaming while listening to music. With her friends, they’re getting ready for this upcoming party, taking pictures of themselves, fantasizing.
Mar 2021
June 2013, it’s time for the eagerly-awaited event at the Youth Cultural Center in city Brique-sur-mer: the end-of-year drama class show. Through a chain of untimely events, the two stars of the play find themselves stuck outside the theatre hall.
Jun 2025
Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year's eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.
Jan 2019
After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reconnecting with the sensations of their body.
Sep 2025
Apr 1998
A young girl describes her father and his relationship with all his pets that he never really knew how to look after.
Nov 2021
Jan 2006
May 2020
A collection of stories which explore the differences and resemblances between the life cycles of trees and humans.
Jan 2012
A reclusive ogre lives alone in a large garden where he spends his days eating and gardening. One day, he meets a tiny woman who has fallen from the back of a swallow. An unusual friendship is born but their nature takes over again: TommeLise wants to leave while the ogre's appetite wakes up.
Dec 2018
Deprived of light, the earth's activity slows down, cools down, falls asleep. Heat is followed by cold, agitation by calm. When the atmosphere stops diffusing the sun's rays, it lets the stars appear and the true sky, deep, black and unchanging. The short and vivid cycles of earthly life give way to cosmic eternities. This is the moment that a tiny soul, that of a cat, chooses to leave the earthly plane.
Jan 2018
In the heat of summer, children and wasps gather around the same meal, but sharing is not on the daily menu.
Dec 2021