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Will close? Won't close? At the small sugar factory in Colleville, we are waiting for the decision with a mixture of anger and resignation. The factory like a monster. The noise of the machines, the dashboards flashing, the smoke from the cookers, the routine of the clock and the night shifts. And the men at work, the confidences in the locker room with the friends, the stolen aperitif on the schedule,... these thousand ways to tame the plant so that it does not devour your life. Everyone here knows that the days of the candy factory are numbered. This year, next year, basically, what difference does it make?

The Blue Walk is a silent, experimental narrative fiction film by Olivier Fouchard.

2009 documentary by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd, set in Belgium, Senegal, the Ardennes and Western Sahara.

A documentary about the issues that confront homosexuals and transvestites in Haiti. The various caracters in the documentary have their own explanation as to why they are gay (all the interviewed people are male) and how the majority of them feel that the Voodoo godess Erzulie has made them into what they are.

Documentary about AJEP, a organization that helps children who lost their parents in fight against AIDS, in Burkina Faso.

There are also film-shots, like "L'Envers", admirable montage between 1988 and 2005 from the voice of Jean-Luc Godard, Bob Dylan or Marlon Brando. (Nicole Brenez - Portrait Arte - May 2006.)

Akif left Germany to join up with the PKK guerrilla fighters. His diary records the doubts, dreams and political discussions that the fighters share as they march through the mountains, and in the meetings where the women criticize male prejudices.

The story of one man's suffering for coffee and the search for God.

Ganeden, in Hebrew, signifies the «Garden of Pleasures", paradise, Eden. Our images of an imaginary journey, in this enchanting place, this place, according to the author, is an original reflection on the theme of travel, that the filmmaker sees, not as a tiring and vain disturbance, amongst the illusions of reality, which are sometimes dangerous, but as a movement, an action, an undertaking, an adventure.

Beirut – or indeed maybe any city, anywhere – is at war with itself. Here, no conflict is ever resolved, and no wall is ever repaired. The explosions resonate better in this city full of holes. Young men who live here are caught between military service and religious affiliation. I visit some friends, gather their suicidal testaments. No one goes anywhere. I cross my city in every way possible, day and night. 16mm

The show eponymous from Lemire propose a review of the actuality that evolve each night, as news come, as well as a stand up part and twelve sketch with is characters, like Uncle George and Ronnie Dubé.

Joseph the obsessive, Roberta the tomboy, William the monobull, Francis the depressive, Jérôme the mongoloid, Conception the nun, and Roger the head, are 7 friends who live together.

The human face, from original black to full light. Haptic cinema, the camera prolongs the body looking for these moments of confusion where other opportunities emerge. Shot in Super 8, the film has been upgraded in a self made fashion by re-filming inside a projector.

"Broken Windows" consists of the last footage shot with a digital camcorder - these are the dying gasps of the camera. On one level, the piece might serve as a de-mystification of the digital image itself; the degradation of the image broadly implies the processes by which the real world is interpreted as video. Video’s constitution of the world as image is laid bare, and it is disconcerting to see the torturous decay of the image as the camera fights to maintain its simulation of the world. On another level, however, the piece implies the impossible mystery of most technology for most viewers. The functioning of the camera, evident in the image only when it fails as here, is something which most of us can’t - or don’t want to - understand. We understand technology so little we must engage with it on a purely aesthetic level as a source of magic or wonder, as we do here.

Every day, with the help of a small chick, a little girl with dog ears tries to hide eggs in order to keep them from being eaten.

The artist breathes life into handmade dolls as she recreates a scene from Vigo’s L'Atalante.

"Bayini is a great spiritual woman she started to talk, to dance, to sing. She made everything around, all that comes from history. The vision and the dream she was seeing is the Anchor". Murrmurrnga Burarrwanga, his grandmother Gaymala Yunupingu, and their family established at Bawaka, Port Bradshaw, in North Australia, tell a story related to a precolonial (at least several centuries ago) experience of trade between their people, the Yolngu from Arnhem Land, and "fishermen from South-East Asia: the Macassans who used to collect trepang in exchange for rice, tobacco, pipes, knifes and canoes". Body language, paintings, songs and dances accompanied by the didjeridu give us an insight into their system of knowledge based on a very complex network of spiritual connections between people and the environment.

Paving stones in the heart of Nantes.

This feature documentary tells the story of 2 teens who head out west in search of self. Like a quarter of Vancouver’s itinerant youth population, Mélo and Ti-criss made the trip from Quebec, hopeful for a better life. Still minors, the pair seeks escape and adventure, perhaps the meaning of life. From east to west, from the streets to a hotel, with a welcome interlude in the country, they seek their place in society.

Poetic and melancholic evocation of a few fleeting moments in the life of Fernand, a little boy who lives with his mother Josette, his aunt Louise and a facetious dog, Colchique.

After the defeat of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, 4,500 Eurasians from the love affair between colonizers and colonized were repatriated to France. They poignantly evoke their tear as children torn between two cultures. UNKNOWN, PRESUMED FRENCH is the very first film to discuss a subject that has long remained taboo in French society. These Eurasians were born during the Indochina War, to a Vietnamese mother and an “unknown, presumed French” father. Rejected by both the Vietnamese and French communities, their mother entrusted them to FOEFI, an association whose aim is to integrate them into French society. Fifty years later, these men and women tell their painful story. All the testimonies agree, it was their solidarity which helped them to rebuild themselves and live in this world which was not theirs.

13 min documentary on Bernadette Lafont (26 October 1938, Nîmes, Gard, France)

Jordan Kazinetz offers us a story less gore-staining, but no less hallucinating

The wolf has returned to the Vercors plateau... A menace to the shepherds and the breeders ? A precious object to be protected by the guards ? A fascinating symbol of authentic nature for ecologists ? As many visions of the mountain, as many projects for the wolf, the sheep, the forest, the prairies... Inspite of all the divisions, everyone can see that a new mountain is begining to come to life. A mountain which erases the traces of history and offers new approaches to nature and the wild.

The DVD that reveals all the dirty tricks in French rap! Over 100 minutes of footage and revelations. "Menace sur la planète rap" is the only DVD to reveal the images that rappers want to hide from you.

Three young people decide to spend a night in the woods but without knowing that they are already inhabited by a sort of monstrous zombie.

An original portrait of a mentally handicapped man in his environment – an employment rehabilitation centre. In his particular relationship to the camera, Yves exists in a time and in a rapport with the world that are inaccessible to us but which challenge ours.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.