JPL Films

How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.

A weasel, who’s unusual job is to sell ties, roams around the countryside. Considered a pest and constantly on the move, she decides to try her luck in the forest. Her fate is about to change when a hedgehog intervenes.

Anatole is always dragging his little pan behind him. It fell on him one day, for no reason. Ever since, it gets caught everywhere and prevents him from going forward. Anatole is fed up, so he hides. Luckily, things are not that simple.

Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky...

Joseph is a shy, introverted little boy who collects snails. One day, he is swallowed by his belly button and discovers a disturbing world, that of the belly buttonists: these people, by communicating only with their belly buttons, curl up into themselves and turn into snails...

In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.

A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.

I can tell you about my father's voyage on his boat, because I was with him all the time. It was a rather strange voyage, with no ocean or sea crossing, not even a lock to pass through... The boat stayed at home and so did my father. But that does not mean there was no adventure...

On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.

In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man's identity by taking his head off.

For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs to a sick old woman. Flesh, for gold. Little by little, necessity gives way to the lure of gain. By selling her body, it is her whole identity that she alienates.

In Mexico City, amongst the fervent devotion to adulated saints, a fictional cult arises to disrupt the ancestral relationship between believing and creating, between art and religion.

Three sisters are facing an impending disaster: the imminent flooding by the sea of the lands where they live. In the midst of such chaos, the sisterly union is shaken up and each of the sisters experiences the imminence of death, in their inner selves, in a different way.

An old woman and her granddaughter sit around a table and go through old family photographs. The old woman tries to resist looking at these pictures, yet she cannot resist what the past evokes. During the time of drinking one cup of Turkish coffee, we witness the story of a little girl who hung on to life.

In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.

West Africa, early 1960s. A French officer is assigned to find a missing missionary. His investigation, amid mistrust, silence and prejudice, takes him far away from the glittering shoreline, where day and night become one.