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Omar makes a living with his wife and their children thanks to the modest sums he earns by selling used clothes. His life changes when he comes across a bundle of currency buried in the merchandise. From this moment, Omar will plunge into a phase of anguish and will try to bury this secret. Omar finally decides to exchange these currencies into dirhams. This is how he meets a young employee named Fatine in the bank. He falls in love with it. He will thus lead a double life. In front of his wife, he is an honest and modest man, but when he is with his mistress Fatine, he is spendthrift and reveler. But, Omar does not know that Fatine is only taking advantage of his naivety to extract even more money from him. How long can Omar survive this situation? Will he continue to lead a life on the verge of schizophrenia? Will the mask fall one day to finally unlock the secret of his sudden enrichment?

Fascinating guided tour around Kingston's crumbling musical edifices, the old studios and theatres where it all happened in decades past, your guides the estimable veteran guitarist Chinna Smith and Kiddus 'Graduation In Zion' I. Director David Commeillas examines reggae's musical and spiritual legacy, as laid down by Bob Marley, and asks whether the younger upcoming generation of artists carry it forward. Is the Natural Mystic that Marley sung of so evocatively still blowing through the air in Kingston? He asks. Features great footage of the Mighty Diamonds, Chinna, Natty King, Doniki, Ken Boothe, Ijahman Levi, Richie Spice, Leroy Smart, Fantan Mojah, Chezidek and many more.

This documentary on Godard's Le Mépris features, among others, a contribution by Godard's former assistant director, Charles Bitsch, who discusses the genesis of the film. Interesting points are made about Godard's use of colors, his references to antiquity, and to Le Mépris as a work of self-reflexive cinema. Godard scholar Alain Bergala explains how Godard had intended to posit Le Mépris at a turning point in film history, "perhaps the last 'great' film", with its emphasis on characters as "instances" (the young couple, the American producer, the great German director).

In disconcerting silence, black-and-white pictures speak eloquently of people living on the edge of society. They have a quotidian quality as though they are being played out at a seemingly different time rooted in one moment without history.

Super 8mm / color / silent / 1S / 3' 00

In South West Corsica Crossing Ajaccio's Gulf to Sanguinary islands on the edge of the boat waterline. The sun burst the blue of the Mediterranean sea, and scum it shines a thousand crystals. This is a pure detection film.

Light & hands, movement in the dark.

Anémone, a girl raised with strict Christian values, must deal with a harsh new reality on the eve of her wedding.

Michel and Charlotte are preparing to sail round the world. Michel is the adventurer. He has already been through several zodiac endurance tests and has already sailed round the world once. Charlotte is the wonderful "crew". She follows the skipper and she films ! That surprising and outstanding couple is sailing toward adventure on the Berani 2 !

16mm experimental 2005-2008

A group of students studying political science came to "La santé" prison in Paris every week over a year to work on the "Search for other ways of looking at the world" workshop project. They looked at images and experienced the sensations and act of filming. Boiling depicts a special moment of this way of moving towards others.

We dive into the past of the memory of an event that continues until today and whose atoms still impress the whole landscape...

Experimental stroboscopic effects

At the foothills of the empire, people fish, cruise and pass time. Cigarette after cigarette, the world’s problems get sorted, smoking embers are stirred into flame. Across the way, the weather is beautiful and a lost paradise can be seen. Is it a mirage? People wend their way through the streets, calling out so as not to be alone when they’re afraid.

The do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK in Grenoble, France is the cradle of the performance group Metamkine, but also for instance of Lafoxe. Etienne Caire and Gaëlle Rouard are the driving forces behind the lab and have developed a 16mm performance with its very own signature. The basic material for Lafoxe came from old Hollywood films. After extensive processing in the lab, these bits and pieces are put on the silver screen again using several film projectors at once. The result is a dynamic form of widescreen, which they have dubbed hyperscope. The sound is a live mix of the original optical soundtracks.

A travelogue of the places where Nietzsche lived and wrote his major works.

In Ouagadougou, Konomba Traoré, master balafonist, introduces his son to the making and sanctification of a balafon. Material is transformed, knowledge is transmitted and ancestors are informed thanks to this extraordinary character. Konomba is authoritative, funny and passionate all at the same time. The film gives to see and to understand phenomena pertaining to the intangible cultural heritage as conceived by Unesco. Konomba Traoré is Living Human Treasure of Burkina Faso.

Experimental filmic exercise: analyzes the sun rays with the «eyes shut» vision and with «blinking» eye lids. This «hallucinative mechanic» is also symbolic and intends to celebrate a Revolution, that of the earth around the sun...

Short by Nicole Blachon.

The small ethnic group of the Wana Wewaju live in Indonesia in the eastern part of Sulawesi (Celebes Island) among the dense equatorial rain forest of the Tokkala Mountains. The film documents the traditional healing practices of the Wana shamans. This film is the result of fifteen years of research and constitution of ethnocinématographic archives about the shamanism of Wana People from Sulawesi (Indonesia).

The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in order to win over their neighbours. They send a last letter to their dead who have abandoned them and who may have emigrated to a rich country from which the film-makers come.

An animated tale about a lost nomad’s search in the desert, with his camel, for his lost shoe.

From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public. This video features Mirha-Soleil performing pregnancy by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and an audio recording of her mother speaking about the ups and downs of having a baby. Created as a part of Mirha-Soleil Ross' performance art cycle: The Pregnancy Project. The Pregnancy Project explores some transsexual women's relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood and hopes to foster community discussion around controversial reproductive technologies.

Selfportrait. Video without computer. Sound but silent (no speakers). Pain can express itself by a visual shriek, and no words.

Best friends and roommates, Agathe and Alexandre share everything. After a boozy and smoky birthday party, they end up sharing too much, the vivid colors of Agathe's world splashing against the pale tones of Alexander's.

If it is films which reveal ‘the choreographic fatality of cinematographic intervention’(Dominique Paini) this one henceforth very much belongs-dance gestures, in slow motion, distorted, halted, impregnate the film procession in a commentary-magnificent-by its own unfolding (back and forth). In the tradition of the great Adebar (Peter Kubelka, 1957), Danseurs à la Gay Pride 2001 probe the origins of cinematographic movement from a photogrammatical treatment, based on the ecstatic effect that the repetition of a movement procures- hands, faces, hips- shown in slow motion.

This performance plunges us into a universe of strange poetry haunted by shadows whose movements play with the silhouette of a dancer in a trance. The black and white aesthetic of shadow play and the light takes us back to the origins of cinema, until the magic of its lanterns. The film is being made, in front of the viewer. The haunting music suspends time. Kami Hitoé is a tensioning of the body and the imagination.

Documentary on a group of female Kurdish and Turkish guerilla fighters in the Kurdish mountains.

Nobody is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf anymore. Since he is only a shadow of his former self, he has become completely harmless. Peaceful and homely, he is now a vegetarian. Unfortunately, some have decided to take their revenge and make life difficult for their former enemy. Together with his grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood is preparing a demonic trap. The Three Little Pigs, armed to the teeth, also intend to take revenge. As for Little Thumb, he is sowing his stones to better lose the wolf...

An audience is guided through a forest. Invited to settle in a clearing converted into a "cinema", they discover a nocturnal film that begins like a kind of animal fiction, but gradually offers a disturbance on the moment lived. The film is an mise en abyme, a deforming mirror: the reality lived and its temporality are slightly twisted.