The Kingdom

Honoré and Grégoire prepare their mother’s funeral. They are faced with the common and individual expenses inherent to funerals in Porto-Novo (Benin). Money is the nerve of their concern.

Standing by a movie theater – recently renovated but desolate – a filmmaker approaches people in the street to speak with them about cinema. Thus, an "Algerian reality" is highlighted by spontaneous conversations and improvised situations.

Daily life in the years 2016-2019 in Krymske, a village in Ukraine not far from the front line, after the Minsk agreements were broken. There is no background music in this film, only real sounds: footsteps in the snow, engines, people talking. A life that seems to have come to a standstill.

Three Tajik brothers, Ali, and Kamil Fedor, settled 150 km from Moscow in a makeshift hut, hidden behind a fence. Their life is hard, they speak Russian poorly and live away from their families. Their job is to cut and transport the wood from the forest next door. Every day life is punctuated by the hard work, the daily tasks, card games, drinking and bickering with the Russians in the neighboring village. The film speaks of economic exile, bitter life out of another time, double family for some, and the feeling of not quite here nor longer quite out there…

Every fifteen days, Antoine, five, spends the weekend at his father's house. Time is counted, limited, condensed. For them, two days to do, to do again, to learn, to understand one another and to each other is little ... The father opens his son the initiatory territory of the forest where to kill is not playing. But on the return of the hunt, the father and son are equally disarmed: Antoine refuses to learn to read, and his father knows that this unknown forest of life is even more dangerous if one loses oneself.