Ecce Films

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actrice, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.

In 2020, the greatest minds in France gather at the President’s home in order to save the country from catastrophe.

Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.

In the mid-18th century, the Beast is hunted around the Château de Saint-Alban. In the mid-20th century, a new kind of psychiatry is invented there. Theatre and madness span the centuries.

While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).

Fabien, former star of a television show, always seems disoriented when he wakes up. He feels abandoned since the disappearance of Corinne, his co-star, whom he loved so much. Nothing surprises him already, not even his encounter with Yoni, a sad young man, who carries in a bag a beautiful and disturbing token of his own loss.

For his first official investigation, Special Agent Van Der Byten is sent to Chelles, a suburb of Paris. His mission: to find the Mozeb. But what is the Mozeb? While his investigation stalls, he is confronted with a series of strange encounters.

Two dandelion balls are the only survivors of a series of nuclear explosions that are destroying the Earth. At the end of their odyssey, they will find a new soil for the survival of their species.

In August of 70 a.H. (Raelian era), Lily and Dominique embark upon their first experience of the European Happiness Academy, under the Croatian sun. For over forty years, Rael has been transmitting the knowledge he has inherited from our extra-terrestrial fathers to a select, awakened, few. Determined to meet their kindred spirits, Lily and Dominique vie for the favours of the charming singer, Arnaud Fleurent Didier, as the Raelian teachings gradually take root.

Céline, Thomas and Maxence always go by three. Just like the republican motto. They want to get married, to get a house, work, good children and eat oysters every day. Rebellious and ill adapted to the furious economical and administrative reality, they ride their burning quad bikes and travel across an afflicted France, looking for new landmarks, deserts strewn with bipeds and moments of ephemeral bliss.

Dragon Dilatation is the union of two filmic essays, Petrouchka and La Déviante Comédie. The first part is a rereading of Stravinsky’s ballet, while the second segment is made up of traces of an unpublished performance rehearsed at the Théâtre des Amandiers.

The story is simply set around a couple fighting at the breakfast table. All is well, nothing out of the ordinary. Steph announces to his life partner Flippy, the mascot bear for Flipp’s cereals, that he wishes to go to Japan to fulfill his childhood’s dream: study at a Ninja school.

In Arnarstapi (Iceland), during a cabaret number, a mistress of ceremonies proposes to us a journey into the center of her organs to go and meet the original being. During the journey, the public enters into a trance to reach the ecstasy.

Éléonore Berthier, 34 years old, keeps living as a teenager, collecting odd jobs and one night stands. Following a burnout, her mother and sister decide to take action to help her make a fresh start.

Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.

A long queue at the cafeteria of a rest stop. A middle-aged man, Emre, refuses to let a young mother - rushing to buy a bottle of milk for her little girl - go in front of him. This simple stand-off opens a Pandora's box when Emre's father gets involved...

Leslie, a young and idle suburbanite, drags his best friend Fox into a shady scheme across the Île-de-France. On a construction site for the future metro line of the Grand Paris, they discover a mysterious artefact. Another opportunity to make a little money. But along their journey, the Parisian suburbs become the scene of strange phenomena.

Sprite, a 20-year-old young adult, returns to Chelles after a breakup. To pay for his driver’s license and please his parents, he joins Allo Nettoyo, a night-time cleaning start-up in the Paris suburbs. Unable to get around without a permit, he adopts the "baise-en-ville" technique—taught by his driving instructor—which involves spending the night at girls' places of girls he meets through a dating app. Sprite struggles with this new approach to seduction.