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At the After-life service, the soul Gaspard doesn’t have enough Karma points to reincarnate into the beautiful peacock he wishes to become.

The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino; the story of the atypical destiny of an international nomad: from the Parisian cabarets to the stages of Broadway and the Hollywood studios. The rise to fame of a multidisciplinary genius who became a king of the screen.

Blondie Maxwell is a future anticipation thriller. It explores the consequences of unreasonable use of technology and artificial intelligence while addressing concepts of the ultra uberisation of society and the privatization of justice.

An ode to the melancholy of machines.

Two cousins ​​discuss love and relationships during an eventful night.

Once upon a time there was a Parisian dog, naive and passionate, called Chien Pourri (rotten dog). With Chaplapla, his faithful gutter companion, Chien Pourri walks the streets of Paris, truffles blowing in the wind. No matter what disasters it causes, it always gets back on its feet! So much so that other dogs are starting to find it suspicious ... A program of five short films to follow the crazy adventures of Chien Pourri and his friends and introduce the poetry of Paris to the little ones! By the Panic in the Village and the Grand Méchant Renard (Big Bad Fox) teams.

In the United States of America, lobbyists, corporations and billionaires invest millions of dollars to ensure that a suitable candidate, one inclined to support their personal ambitions and economic projects, wins an election, which inevitably affects everything, from the selection of local officials to presidential elections, creates countless conflicts of interest and undermines what supposedly used to be a model democracy.

A couple since high school, Charlotte and Adam have just had their first child. But they're not happy, and habits are gradually replacing enthusiasm, to the point of driving them apart... Hoping to recapture the momentum of their early days, they decide to become guinea pigs in a revolutionary treatment designed to strengthen their bond and desire.

While in a small Parisian theater, Hans-Peter Hansel (aka HPH), a former glory of the subsidized theater, prepares the sulphurous staging of "Antoine et Cléopâtre", Gina Monte-Fiori, the queen of the boulevard of the Parisian theater , has always dreamed of playing in a Shakespeare tragedy. But, disappointment, although she spoke of this wish to the press, no proposal followed. Yet someone heard his wish. It is about Gino di Lucca, American producer, former lover of Gina. She wants to play in Shakespeare! He has the money! He wants to see her again! He wants to resuscitate his youth! He is going to do it ! He contacted HPH and offered to produce it in the largest theater in Paris. Only condition: that Gina Monte-Fiori plays the role of Cleopatra.

Sixteen-year-old Logan is an adolescent uncomfortable in his own skin. Only his science fiction dreams of a better life on Mars draw him away from his ordinary life, which is as equally difficult at home or at school, where he's only seen as an aggressive loser. One evening, he receives a visit from a mysterious man who insists that he has come from the future and that he is also Logan, but forty years older. He then asks the younger Logan to carry out a mission as unexpected as it is important: to save humanity.

It is the story of a couple who could not have children and who had hundreds. This is the story of Yvonne and Roger Hagnauer, whom everyone called Goéland et Pingouin. It is the story of intellectuals, anarchists, pacifists, trade unionists, feminists. This is the story of a couple of resistance fighters that some wanted to believe were collaborators. This is the story of the Sèvres children's home, a unique experience of freedom, education and openness to the world. And that's a bit of my story, since my mother, saved by this couple, spent in this house all her childhood.

Paris, in a bourgeois apartment, Lumina, an ageless Vietnamese woman, dreams of another life.

Julie doesn't manage to fit in at her school. The arrival of Émile, an autistic child, will change all that.

Facing the massive interruption the world went through during the lockdown months, the artistic community did a lot of thinking, about solitude, emptiness, fear of illness and implicitly of the future, and the relationship with domestic space and technology. A group of Swiss film directors turned these themes into the shorts that became the national project known as Collection Lockdown by Swiss Filmmakers. The Locarno Film Festival is showing nine of these films on the big screen, showcasing the work of filmmakers who continued creating cinema to share their experience from during those days.

Returning to the pond of their childhood, two sisters abandon themselves to a game they once played. Carried by the beauty of the landscape, their reunion leads to a disturbing confession.

Night has just fallen. It's time to sleep, except for Sandier, whose hard work is just beginning. On his bike, with a large canvas bag filled with sand on the back, he crosses the city to put the children to sleep. Standing in front of a house, ready to enter, he discovers that he has clumsily forgotten his bag on his bike. He turns around and is stunned to find that his bike has disappeared.

When Dany, a rich heir making up for his existential emptiness by the unbridled consumption of Magic'Powder - a drug with psychedelic and annihilating effects - meets Karl Marx by chance when going through withdrawal, the latter enjoins him to destroy capitalism in order to save the world of men. For better or for worse, Dany yields to his request and turns into a superhero. But, without him noticing, the mission gets out of control and soon escapes him.

Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality.

Two young chameleons hunt a beetle in an African desert. This chase will take them to an indetermined and unsettling place.

In Portugal, the daily life of a bronze foundry, specialized in the semi-industrial production of spare parts for the naval field, is compared with the freedom of spirit characterizing the "pottery of monsters" on a village square where everyone gathers.

An exercise about long distance relations.

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world. Project after project, the museum has been transformed to modernize and welcome more visitors, while preserving its historic character. Challenges taken up with each new project.

Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian. Her battle was Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State with 300,000 inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war. An engineer by training, mayor at just 30, immersed in a world of men, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there. An extraordinary mission. A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her. In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book.

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

In A Radical Film, Canapa experimented with thin slices of black radish on unexposed film, a reference to film's roots. Further Radical is the same material taken to its logical extreme on an optical printer. An effective explosion of light goes right through the dark photochemical emulsion.

On board shared vehicles, destinies that intersect. On their way to a shopping center, a festival, a wedding, or simply for an accompanied driving session, drivers and passengers test and reinvent their bonds of love, friendship or family...

It is winter. The snow is falling heavily on the mountain. Heidi, Lucie, Léonie and Nickie, the yodelling marmots, are looking for a shelter to hibernate in for the next five months. On their way, they meet Denis, a solitary and taciturn mountain goat, who just wants calm and peace.

The second part of the musical short film Halfway ( 9 months after the first events).

In 2004, Gregory Lemarchal won the Star Academy live in front of more than ten million people who communicate with him on his an incurable disease, cystic fibrosis.

Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he goes on vacation to a beach in Charente Maritime. He cannot swim and sees the sea for the first time. It was there that he met the director Rodolphe Marconi who decided to devote this sensitive and gentle portrait to him, plunging us into an agricultural world in crisis and into a life often lonely and made up of hard work rarely pays off.

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.

An odyssey through years, continents, and moral principles in a quest to rebuild life.

In the summer of 1996, life throws a curveball in the face of Keven Guénette; and it strikes. Guided by his paraplegic baseball coach, Keven discovers the mutation, sex and love.

Leo’s family was blown up by a tragedy but he still has his buddies. Together, they spend their days zoning out, occasionally robbing supermarkets, and their evenings drinking and smoking. But that doesn’t appease Leo’s desperate rage, as he gets up every morning without knowing if he’ll see the end of the day.

A short love story in Paris

In a small town on the Celtic coast, an ancient legend haunts the lives of the inhabitants. Young men are disappearing at sea. Some see it as the work of the devil, others blame a sea creature from the ancient world. All the clues seem to lead back to the city of Ys. Léon and his friends decide to investigate, even if it means descending to the depths of the abyss.

Sam is a shy, mysterious and inconspicuous teenage girl, who falls in love with Troy, leader of an ultraviolent teenage gang, who does not feel physical pain, nor knows what love is. Together, against everyone and everything, they will face a series of obstacles trying to separate them, meanwhile figuring out what love and pain are. Debuting at Curtas, French filmmaker Elsa Rysto presents a love story mediated by ultraviolence, in a modern variation on the classic story of Bonnie and Clyde – or of the more contemporary Mickey and Mallory from “Natural Born Killers”. “Love Hurts” is a simple yet sensitive narrative about the so-called growing pains.

For his first official investigation, Special Agent Van Der Byten is sent to Chelles, a suburb of Paris. His mission: to find the Mozeb. But what is the Mozeb? While his investigation stalls, he is confronted with a series of strange encounters.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this art documentary brings us back to life of the journeys made by Matisse that influenced his art. And particularly his last trip to Polynesia in 1930 which will bring him to the threshold of contemporary art with the invention of his gouache cut-out papers.