In one of his dreams, Don Quixote is fighting monsters. Having vanquished them, he goes to put on his armor, only to be met with a succession of strange events: first the armor appears occupied by a creature with stretching limbs, then a lovely young woman appears and sprouts butterfly wings. As Quixote approaches her, the wings become giant tentacles and attack him. Just as Quixote is fighting back and reaching for his lance, he wakes up to find himself pummeling his servant Sancho Panza. This film is currently presumed lost.
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The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside.
Exhale
Alone in a dark room, a mysterious woman dreams while surrounded by phantoms.
The Chamber
Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...
Back in Crime
Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon another worker disappears.
The Site
RED RIDING HOOD and BLUE BEARD are opposed in a dark fairy tale of lights. "Curiosity, in spite of its appeal, often leads to deep regret....it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all"Charles Perrault.
Red Tale
Coeur Pyromane
This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operator is exhibited.
Magic Dice
Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
Jessica Forever
Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.
Paper Cock-a-Doodles
1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa Claus with Méliès's fantasy style and a modern touch, followed the adventures of a young girl, Polly, one Christmas night, as she escapes kidnappers, travels to Santa's palace, and—by changing places with a large doll—goes with Santa on a giftgiving journey by airplane.
The Living Doll
France, 1910. While her mother seems to be suffering from an illness she wishes to hide, the young Cassandra feels a growing presence in the family home ... But what shadow is hidden in the silence of the dark room?
The Dark Room
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Life Is a Dream
A professor and his protege's search for Dracula leads them to a group of nuns who have held a young woman captive, so she can be married off the vampire.
Dracula's Fiancée
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Parade Nuptiale
As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer then has a large box brought in. It is opened, revealing a very large folding fan. When the fan is spread out, the designs on it begin to change and move. And this is far from the last of the surprises that the conjurer has in store.
The Wonderful Living Fan
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the continent. They took refuge on a mysterious island, and founded a kingdom. Men who dared approach the island, were devoured by these sexually voracious Atlanteans, and thus they were called "gobblers".
The Greedy Ones
The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn when the monster chops up his servant for a steaming pot of stew. But the Bogie Man’s guilty conscience weighs on him, plaguing his sleep with even more fantastic visions of just deserts. (Max Goldberg, Fandor)
In the Bogie Man's Cave
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year's Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, the flame shows her what's beyond.
The Little Match Girl
Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.
She Is Conann
What if it were possible to meet one another in our sleep? One night, three strangers find themselves in a Hotel of dreams. They must navigate this strange world together before dawn.
Midnight Hotel
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
The Astronomer's Dream
A young peasant leaves his cottage after a quarrel with his wife, and meets a witch. She takes him to a cavern, where after a series of encounters with goblins and other elusive creatures, he is presented with a choice of beautiful women of various races. Finally the witch makes his wife appear.
The Bewitched Shepherd
Règle N°6
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
The Wonders of Aladdin
Our Sleeping Beauty is now a prostitute and her three protective fairies are Drag-Queens... Metamorphosed into a top-model, will she escape from the dreadful virus that hangs over her?
Bug
An astronaut lands on the moon with a simple goal: to capture an alien. But things don't go as planned...
Kiki’s Missing
Alice returns home. A stomach ache is tugging at her, but already a more mysterious ailment is infecting her. Something like a hole.
Trou
'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
The Dance of Reality
1908 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.
The Wonderful Charm
Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.
The Tender Enemy
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
Gwen and the Book of Sand
On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them on the floor. Then, taking a banjo he multiplies himself into seven different troubadours, each playing a different musical instrument. A moment later, they all vanish and we are left with the troubadour who we were first introduced to at the beginning of the film. He explodes in a puff of smoke, and an enormous fan appears and unfolds. On it appears a vision of a castle tower with a maiden in it, and the troubadour outside the tower window, talking to her. The vision dissolves, and the troubadour bows, thus ending his performance.
The Troubadour
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
The Lilliputian Minuet
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
The Electric Hotel
A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.
A Fantastical Meal
ÉPOPÉE TRISMÉGISTE : L'ÉCOLOGIE
The beach. Sky blue sea, white sand. Its attendants tanned, blackened, reddened. Amongst this crowd, no one fat. He remains cloistered in his den, sheltered from the sun and the noisy masses of people. Behind his curtains, he contemplates Marie, young and beautiful vacationer... and awaits the night...
Ogre
In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld.
Destroy, She Said
A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman. This film is a blatant remake of Georges Méliès's "La Chrysalide et le Papillon d'or" (1901).
The Charmer
Seven-and-a-half-year-old Lio grows up in a fragile family, a precarious balance that increasingly worries her and plunges her into strange dreams where imagination and reality merge. When the announcement of an impending storm strangely coincides with one of her dreams, Lio finds herself alone facing her anxieties and the urgency of the situation.
Lio in the stars
L'OUBLI : COURT MÉTRAGE EN 18 PLANS
Two sisters are playing cards in a field, an angel and a unicorn are watching them, a rabbit looks at his clock, time passes, the girls grow up and their world disappears.
Le Monde Ne Survit Pas Aux Horloges
Torn by the farewell letter of his boyfriend, Samuel tries to change his ideas in nature. The forest will bring him a strange and sensual consolation…
Because You're Mine
Ada is an eight-year-old girl living in a climate of ongoing tension between her parents. One evening, after a particularly heated argument, she witnesses her parents turn into Monsters. Ada will do everything she can to escape them.
Ada
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.
The Monster of Nix
Dr Faust is continually obsessed with his quest for knowledge and absolute pleasure. One day, the demon Mephistopheles appears to him in his study in human guise and offers him a deal: a lifetime of total pleasure in exchange for the life of his fiancée Margaret. Faust accepts but is soon forced to realise the impossibility of crossing the boundaries of knowledge and the limits imposed by God.
Faust
L'illusion
At the beginning of the XXth century, in an isolated mountain village, a little girl must accomplish a rite of passage to join a group of teenagers. Away from the village lives an old shepherd, solitary and mysterious, around whom rumors swirl. When strange phenomena occur, suspicions turn towards him. But everything changes the day the little girl disappears, the village ignites and everything flares up.
Le Berger
The devil performs his magical powers.
Diabolical Physics
In a daydream, a shy bank clerk is led by a fairy into a subterranean world where people transform into animals and waxworks come to life. Lucie, his office crush, follows him but a bad fairy is intent on keeping them apart.
The Imaginary Voyage
A young girl falls into a mysterious, magical world, until we discover that it is not what it seems...
Little Sea Death
Popcorns
Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own.
Pinocchio
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
The Three Kings
A bed sheet devouring bodies, a radio contaminating minds or a chicken refusing to be butchered…Kraken storms into an apartment building, where everyday soon plunges into bizarre…
Kraken
Faeryland
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
Lancelot of the Lake
In this silent, surrealist fantasy, thick clouds in a scorched sky prevent the sun from reaching the earth. Only a group of children in this gray world have access to a source of light which is in the wintry woods. They collect it into small boxes that they use to revive people imprisoned in pictures. A young woman grieving for her lost lover goes in search of these children so that they can bring her beloved back to life.