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Hervé runs the Librairie Aléatoire in Amiens. In 2020, despite the pandemic, he made a liberating decision: “stop Amazon”. From the depths of his cellar full of books, which he came to prepare at night to sell them on the internet, he definitely emerged to find his shop and his regulars. Today, guided by the literature that shapes his thoughts, the bookseller dreams of a bookstore in the shape of a boat. It will float between the worlds.
A man goes for a walk and speaks his mind to a camera
Father and son. Secrets separate them, unspoken and unembraced grudges. A wall that keeps the silences, the held back tears, the glances and shy contact. Lack of communication. Despite this, the longing to embrace him, all because they are the same story.
A dog meets a special balloon.
We meet a young woman on her windowsill in the early hours of the morning, while she is in conversation with her late grandfather, The Coal Man, who lives in the clouds above and communicates through radio waves. Priob is a film about our inner children and the people who raised them, wherever they are.
When their car breaks down on the way back to London, a young couple hitch a ride with a lorry driver. The journey reveals the cracks in their relationship as three worlds collide in unexpected ways.
"Cremantique" is a supernatural short film exploring isolation, sleep paralysis, and that haunting carnival of late-night anxious thoughts, ringing like an operatic chorus line of evil puppets in your head.
Documentary looking at one of the most high-profile miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Colin Stagg was wrongly charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, it would take 14 years for the real culprit to be caught.
A short film that tells the tale of the inextricable tie between three generations: father/grandfather, daughter/mother, grandson/son. A bond so strong as to transcend the boundaries between Life and Death, the Earthly World, and the Afterlife, in an atmosphere of compelling magical realism.
Archives reveal the impact of the Queen's choice of words.
Rob Rinder takes a unique look at the battle of wits between police and suspects in some of the most disturbing US and UK criminal cases in recent years. A team of experts analyse police interviews and reveal the 'tricks of the trade'.
Jaden is loose and ready to kill.
I’m trying to film everyday life and its repetition, its accumulation. So that these videos become a viewpoint for our perception of reality – violent, touching, dirty and magnificent.
A popular figure in 13th century Christian folktales, the Wandering Jew is said to have been condemned to wander the world forever because he denied Jesus of Nazareth a brief respite on the threshold of his home.
Ingmar Licht collects messages from a bygone era. Shopping lists, letters or ads which people put in books and then forgot about. The senders of these bookmarks are long gone because the literature comes from estates that the relatives wanted to get rid of. Ingmar Licht sells these books. This has become his job after almost anything in life went wrong. Alcohol, bankruptcy, looking in trash cans for returnable bottles. He tried to hide for a long time, but that's different now. "Seen in the light" is a film about seeing and being seen. Ingmar Licht observes the lives of others with an alert eye, just as he explores the stories behind the notes, the postcards or newspaper clippings, he discovers in the old books. - He wants to show himself, despite and because of his story.
Steve is in an abusive relationship, but a strange encounter might just change his life
Lebenslaute is a nationwide network of mainly classical musicians who meet once a year to blockade a "political hotspot". In the summer of 2020, several concerts were In the summer of 2020, several concerts blocked the shift change at the Rheinmetall weapons factory in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony. The film tells about the rehearsals and the action training of the musicians during the preparatory camp and accompanies them during the action. and accompanies them during the action.
Suspected spy John Stonehouse MP faked his death in Miami Beach, and was found alive in Australia. Despite being arrested and charged with fraud, he never faced charges of being in the pay of an enemy power. This documentary explores the peculiar case of John Stonehouse and considers if he really was a spy for the Soviet bloc
Daniel’s not going to the office today. A dying man asked him to deliver a letter, so he’s doing that instead. Though he’s not sure who the dying man was or where the person he’s delivering it to is. Or what, if anything, it has to do with his new neighbours, The Illuminated Brotherhood of the All Seeing Eye.
Marcel made a big mess at school. His Mother is summoned to the Principal's office, but his Grandmother gets there first. Marcel's mother and the Principal have more troubles ahead.
It happens whenever Hakeem Adam is at an airport, or just about to leave or arrive in Ghana. In this place of transition, between going there and being there, he can get just enough distance from his homeland to ask what it means to be Ghanaian in the 21st century.
What does it mean to make an animated film accessible to people with impaired vision? Can audio description convey what’s happening on the screen and what is, especially in animated film, often entirely a product of the imagination? Anne Isensee (Golden Dove for “Megatrick” in 2017) tackles these complex questions with a light touch, humour and verbal wit. She pulls off the feat of producing a concentrated cinematic investigation into the multi-layered quality of (all) perception.
A stunning circular pictorial history of church domes, mosques and synagogues treated like clockworks.
A film about recovery and familial love. When John walks in on Matty's attempted suicide, the two brothers drive up to the Scottish Highlands with the hope of finding stability in nature, and in the life they have shared.
A film about spit, tears and austerity. Dating apps, late-stage capitalism and broken hearts. An experiment in immediacy. A salacious piece of gossip.
In the evening, when the buses have finished their routes, they are brought to the depot. There Nurcan and Marinko wait together with 5 others. Nurcan is Turkish. Marinko is from Croatia. The others are from Portugal, Albania and Syria. Every night they care for the buses – cleaning, washing and refuelling them. Into the early morning hours. Again and again. Refuel, clean, wash - and wait. Until all the buses have gone to sleep. Every night.
Diana, a young woman, embarks on a journey to understand her history. To do so, she will meet Virginia, a key person in her past, to find answers.
Ten Minutes To Midnight asks the question: how do you meet other people? Like an invitation to rediscover Levinas’ ideas, the film traces a path towards a face, the revelation of the infinite and the home of the whole of humanity.
A short film that reaches deep into the roots of a singular trans man's experience, opening up the conversation around what we all share rather than focusing on what separates us.
Filmed between Argentina and Naples, this colorful documentary looks at the legacy of Diego Maradona by meeting the people whos’ lives he touched in a way or the other.
Thaumatrope n°1 is an avant-garde non-narrative animation created physical using the Victorian optical toy. The thaumatropes are made through a combination of illustrations and photographs. It aims to portrait anxiety and explore ways to expand cinematic language.
In this ménage à trois, there is Hortense, the painter whom her husband calls a smudgy starlet, then Philippe, the anthropologist who pampers his mammoths more than his wife, and finally... Max, who can't take the other two anymore and loses his temper!
Like every evening, Mélanie tells her daughter a story before she goes to sleep. Seeing her inattentive while reading, the young mother decides to tell her a completely different story... That of her father.
Born in 1925 into a modest Guyanese family, Auxence Contout studied in Paris on a scholarship at a time when few ultramarines were so fortunate (a decade after Léon Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire). He has dedicated his life to exploring the Guyanese Creole culture, a counter-culture born of the deprivation of the basic rights of slaves from Africa, which has been enriched by Amerindian, European, Indian and Chinese influences... A man of transmission, he has tirelessly shared his knowledge of tales, proverbs, language, dances, carnival... In order to find its origins, he had to undertake a fascinating journey into the cultures of the whole world.
The real lives of four hikikomori guys are linked by an animated movie to the outside world.
Crap disappears so invisibly and odourlessly into Santiago's innards that it seems as if it had never existed. Now it demands to be freed from its dark sewer and to come out into the light.
