Browse 37 movies from oriGine Films
After swimming class, two 12-year-old boys, Jules and Noam, chat and discover that their grandfathers fought in World War II. One, a German soldier; the other, a Jew.
Sep 2016
How many ways are there to commit suicide? Can a suicide attempt be considered successful? Makis over-analyzes this subject, struggling to achieve the most ideal result.
Oct 2013
Mar 2022
One day in Osaka, Chisato evaporated without a word. Paul, who had crossed her path, sets off to Koyasan, a sacred mountain, in the hope of finding her.
Aug 2022
Charles is an old and lonely cemetery keeper. One night at closing time, a visitor calls him out: He's looking for his biological mom's grave. Charles doesn't recognize the dead woman's name, but confronted to that man's distress and determination, he decides to help him. There starts an unusual night for both of them.
Oct 2021
Vince is a 13-year-old drummer. His father, Fred, is 48, and a faded guitarist and singer rock "star." He’s going to play with him one of his old tunes at his middle school summer party. The trouble is chain-smoker Fred doesn’t really have a voice any more. Besides, Fred is not really his father…
Feb 2016
Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.
Jan 2023
Like every year, Mathys accompanies his mother to the local stock car races. With his friend Titouan, he spots a driver who seems familiar, perhaps his father who abandoned him when he was little. Intrigued, Mathys doesn't take his eyes off him and follows him. To get noticed, the young man will take all the risks during a wild race.
Jul 2022
Arturo is a talented interpreter, a solitary, pragmatic and conventional person. For some time he has been having trouble carrying out his work; he has gone out of sync. Sounds are delayed according to what he sees. His affliction is degenerative: the delay keeps increasing day by day. Seconds become minutes, minutes, hours.
Oct 2022
Camille has disappeared into his own life. Days follow on one after the other, steady as a metronome, between his work at the factory and regular visits to his grandparents. One evening, when he is dining with them, he is projected a few hours later into his own future, without recalling anything. Hours that he has nevertheless lived through, according to what the people around him say.
Nov 2018
Summer 1996. A small town nestled in the shadow of a gigantic factory. Ben, a shy eleven year old boy, lives there alone with his mom when she leaves him to strike. The coming of the troubling Eva in his bunch disturbs him a little bit more, especially when she mentions the legend of a mysterious creature hidden under a nearby lake's pontoon. As a game, Eva challenges Ben: walk through the "pontoon of the death", and come back. But Ben fails miserably. At night, the Creature appears to him.
Jun 2017
Tom, a Flemish comedian and cartoon voice actor, spontaneously fills in for a dubbing actor friend. He finds himself on a French porn movie shoot. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom is supposed to play the plumber.
Oct 2016
Apr 2023
"Surrounded by dozens of soldiers like me, I was led by bus to a remote camp in the desert, a place I knew nothing about. As a military photographer, I collected fragments of moments in my photos, serving as solid evidence for me." Shivtown is the story of an ordinary soldier who, in an intimate and courageous act, revisits memories from his military service through the still images he captured with an analog camera.
Mar 2025
Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism will defeat their relationship.
Jean, a well-known but casual actor, arrives on set freshly shaved while his director had asked him to come with a four-day beard. This innocuous gesture is a disaster for the filming and, for Jean, an opportunity to finally pay attention to the world that surrounds him.
Oct 2020
“Santa Claus is a capitalist. He brings toys to children of the wealthy and sweaters to those of the poor”. Nikos, aged five.
Aug 2017
A man follows a group of workers coming for daywork in an industrial area. Soon, he’s stripped from his clothes and identity, dressed in a military uniform and armed. His determination not to fall behind the others is then tested by a series of unsettling events.
Nov 2019
Music is the story of a father and son. Or, rather, the story of the reunion between a father and son who have hardly seen each other over many years and who clumsily attempt to renew bonds. Unfortunately, too much time has already passed and it will be impossible to strengthen the ties. But although they lose each other again, the father will nevertheless pass on a legacy to his son: the love of music.
Sep 2019
Five hikers go looking for adventure in a Canadian national park where the black bear lives. What’s the worst that could happen?
Apr 2015