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At the Riviera, a private apartment building, it’s nap time. The heat is dreadful, but Mr Osganzi and Ms Carmen, true to their habits, are sunbathing near the swimming pool. In his shadowy living room, Monsieur Henriet tries to entertain himself by looking at his neighbours…
Feb 2019
With fine watercolour strokes, Daniela de Felice paints the portrait of a young woman in love and with a true passion for politics. The film takes us back to the Italy of the 1990s, between Berlusconi’s rise to power and the final reverberations of the 20th century. Ardenza is unexpected and moving, with riveting sensitivity and sensuality.
Apr 2022
Red boards the train. If she could vanish right then and there, she would. Everything is off, unreal. Memories blend together with the landscape. Time and space collapse. A little girl runs towards a creaking house. Wild grass grows in the train. Red wades through and confronts her past.
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A 12-year-old boy faces bullying due to his weight and decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and trying to win the heart of the girl he admires. Through his journey, he learns the importance of positivity and standing against body shaming, discovering that true confidence comes from embracing who you are.
Oct 2024
Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...
Aug 2021
The story follows two half-brothers, Martin (12) and Jiřík (8), who can´t get along. But when their mother Lada gets gravely injured they set off on a journey to find a magical Firebird whose song can heal her.
Benoît built his paradise hidden from view, emancipated in his own way, resolved to face the constraints of a space which, in imaginations, conflicts with his identity. The countryside. One day, he and other queers from the area decide to organize the first Pride of the Périgord vert, because it is time to come out, to take up space to celebrate, heal, and finally open a path.
Mar 2026
It is often said of me: what a sacred temperament this Hubertine Auclert! It's true, I'm a key figure in activism for equal civil rights between men and women.
Jul 2021
Everybody knows Bibendum Michelin, but nobody knows the artist who hides behind this world-famous logo. O Gallop ( 1867-1946 ), contemporary of Émile Cohl, is an illustrator for the satiric press, poster designer, pioneer for cartoon movies and the graphic creator of the Bibendum. The great-grandson and the director of this movie investigates the universe of the artist.
Jan 2009
Apr 2021
Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who's slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.
Aug 2024
Sep 2021
A routine work trip for married couple Hana and Kornel suddenly turns into an adventurous struggle for survival. In a remote forest, far from civilization, they are forced to face not only the wilderness, but also the fragile terrain of their long-term, stagnant relationship.
Apr 2026
The surprising story of how a french law punishing the failure to assist a person in danger was created by Vichy France during World War II.
Sep 2022
In the 1990s, eight-year-old Agata leaves her Polish homeland to take a bus to Belgium by herself. Anxious about the journey, she begins to write a letter to her father who has stayed behind in Poland. When she drops her pencil and it rolls away, Agata is forced to overcome her shyness. Searching for it, she weaves her way between the rows of seats and plunges into a fantastical world inhabited by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. Agata’s perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.
Feb 2025
It's raining in the horned quartet's field. Marguerite, Aglaé, Clarisse and Rosine are grumbling about the bad weather. When it's raining you can't have any fun! Isn't that right Charly?
Jun 2021
On an endless night, the Great One, goddess of the bison, meets the Little One, goddess of the goat. A friendship is born, and with it a new world: the stars, the sun, the earth, and living beings. Animals emerge from the waters, grow, and a lush forest blooms. As the world evolves, the two goddesses are overwhelmed by their power of creation.
Jan 2026
Between the wars, more than eight hundred young Polish women came to Indre-et-Loire to work as farm maids. Their story has come down to us thanks to the letters exchanged by their social worker, Julie Duval. Louis Clergeau, an artisan photographer, whose pictures are scattered throughout this film, gave them a face and a body. This film bears witness to this little-known part of French immigration and tells the bitter fate of these immigrants in the Touraine countryside, whose story still shakes us today.
Oct 2021