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An acclaimed actor returns to the character that defined his calling: Cyrano. As the play triumphs on stage, the role forces him to confront his own fears and take an intimate look at his craft.
The story obscured by the banner: "Erasing 70 years of disgrace! Full-scale demolition of the red-light district!"
A portrait of 99-year-old polish textile artist Krystyna-Wojtyna Drouet in her day-to-day life in a small studio in Warsaw. Her hands weave wool threads on the loom, intertwining with verses of her poetry, memories, photos from travels and recipes for natural dyes, revealing a sensorial and poetic glimpse into her inner world.
Hoping to impress a date with borrowed luxury, an insecure bachelor invites a date to a backyard pool he's secretly "pool-sitting", only to trigger a humiliating chain reaction that exposes how far he'll go to fake belonging.
When a meticulous, sleep-deprived man becomes convinced his neighbors are violating quiet hours, his escalating attempts to prove it begin to unravel the world around him.
Alone in a crumbling house, a failed filmmaker’s quiet night takes a terrifying turn after a knock at the door forces her to confront everything she tried to forget.
A couple seeks to reunite through space and time, as one relives the first day they met, and the other wakes up in the desert without memory of their relationship.
Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias are heads of Baro d’evel, a celebrated French performing arts company. When the Festival d’Avignon commissions a new piece from them, they feel the need to find a renewed sense to their existence as artists, partners and parents
Workers on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro are experiencing moments of transformation in their routines. An instant of dreams, fantasy and escape from reality as a counterpoint to the sameness of everyday life.
A Tenet-inspired fan film
We catch up with Bar Avni two years after her victory in the La Maestra conducting competition. At the Philharmonie de Paris, the conductor joins forces with the Orchestre de Paris and violinist Ava Bahari for a vibrant concert.
Embark on the Kamak ship, bound for Greenland and its pristine cliffs, following our favorite Belgians: Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, Jean-Louis Wertz, and their newest Swedish recruit Aleksej Jaruta. After 2 weeks of sailing between storms and icebergs, the quartet sets up their base camp at the foot of the Mythic Cirque, a unique spot surrounded by rocky towers rising from the sea. Their goal: establish dream lines on these untouched summits, armed with their musical instruments. An ode to adventure and friendship!
This play is adapted from the last full-length novel by Samuel Beckett, also one of his most obscure works.Set in a boundless wilderness, the story follows an unnamed narrator crawling forward. On his journey, he encounters another wanderer named Pim, and an absurd yet tense relationship gradually develops between the two.In the end, Pim chooses to flee, leaving the narrator alone once again.
The plucky angel Theo tries to convince his pessimistic, ex-assigner Murphy that humans are worth caring about.
A woman wakes up at 3:33 in the morning. What appears to be insomnia reveals a crack in time: fragmented memories, interrupted therapies, and visions of an erased past. As the present fades away, images of her youth as a volunteer in a secret experiment resurface.
If water could speak and we could understand it, we would hear how absurd it finds the categorisations of living things created by human science, the lack of respect for the territory of others, the desire to colonise...
An Assassin is cursed by the souls of the people he killed in the past. Now, he is a Grim Reaper, a demon who receives constant punishment for his sins. Consequently, on a journey to hell, an Entity confronts the Assassin in a philosophical-moral debate about the meaning of forgiveness, the imprisonment of guilt, and the existence of redemption.
