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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...
Jan 2025
In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.
Mar 2023
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.
Feb 2014
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.
Nov 2016
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...
Jun 2009
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...
Jun 2018
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.
Jun 2024
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.
Sep 2023
In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man's identity by taking his head off.
May 2014
Nov 2010
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.
Aug 2020
Jul 2017
The perfect "Granny or Grandpa" poster face is what the photographer from Discra, an adult diaper company, hopes to find as he approaches a retirement home, camera in hand. A quick look at a couple of "nice old folks" and that should be it. But it's just the beginning of the story (or rather stories). While the folks he meets are a bit long in the tooth, they have a lot to say. With Pumpkins and Old Lace, Juliette Loubières joins the classic tradition of puppet animation films, creating a sincere, whimsical fairy tale with a moral that reminds us that old age is sometimes a mask guarding the treasures of our souls.
Mar 2011
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.
Jun 2019
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.
Dec 2013
Mar 2025
A woman is at her window, lost in thought, when a luminous body enters and bursts in the atmosphere. Caught up in the vibrations of this gigantic stellar fireworks display, she sets off on a journey out of her body and out of time.
Jun 2020
French trench line, 1918. After being shot in the head and surviving, soldier André Musil deserts to search for his beloved twin sister Fernande, who has suddenly stopped writing. She’s a dancer at Les Ballets Russes who is rehearsing “L’après-midi d’un faune”, directed by Nijinski. But when André arrives in Paris, he finds out she’s vanished after crossing paths with a man named Lucien Guillet, aka Landru.
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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.
Feb 2021
When Captain 3D puts on his 3D glasses, he discovers a new world where he must save the most charming young ladies from the scariest monsters that only exist in our favourite comics.
Jun 2015