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Affaire Daval : Les secrets d'une garde à vue

On October 30, 2017, the body of 29-year-old Alexia Daval was found in a wood near her home in the Gray area of Haute-Saône. The young woman was strangled to death; her body was partially charred. Two days earlier, her husband, Jonathann Daval, 32, had reported her disappearance while jogging. After three months of investigation, he confessed to be the author of the murder. This documentary retraces minute by minute the custody of Jonathann Daval. A tense, intense and uncertain camera session, told by the gendarmes themselves.

Affaire Daval : Les secrets d'une garde à vue

8.0 2022
Schwankt, wie das Licht

The way in which fleeing shapes and changes a person is not only related to the experiences made in their country of origin, and certainly not to their own motivation and strength. LGBT*I*Q+ people who have experienced forced migration encounter a lot of violence and exclusion in Germany and in supposedly "safe" countries. The arrival in Germany is truly complicated, challenging, and layered to say the least. Four BIPoC Queer/Trans*/Non-Binary people sensitively share their personal experiences, their feelings, and their hopes and dreams.

Schwankt, wie das Licht

NR 2022
The Palace

A surreptitiously filmed conversation between my Dad and my Nana in Ashington, Northumberland, about the age-old British tradition of breaking into royal residences. The conversation is overlaid with Super 8 footage shot by my Grandad in the 1960s and scanned by me after my grandparent's deaths, shots I filmed on an iPhone while retracing the steps of their family visit to London, and a 16mm reel with views of the city centre and Buckingham Palace in the '30s, found in a junk shop I don't even remember when. The contrasting eras of film, as well as relatively recent footage of my family (one of whom is no longer with us), spliced with shots of their much younger selves turn the piece into a short meditation on expectant youth, and the locked gates that most of us meet as we quickly age.

The Palace

NR 2022
Les choses qui nous échappent

A young musician girl in family rupture, a maricidal woman in talks with her conscience, a clergyman out of norms and a disillusioned gangster. Four colorful characters meet in necessarily bizarre circumstances. After a period of mutual distrust, they gradually get used to each other and even end up finding a common passion, music. No doubt because music knows how to give a soul to our hearts, strong bonds are forged between the characters. Along the way, they try to manage the present, finding "original" ways to deal with material necessities. But the past is not always so easily forgotten. So many things escape us.

Les choses qui nous échappent

NR 2022
Hong Kong: City on Fire

Taking us from Hong Kong's 1997 handover from British rule into Chinese administrative control, all the way to 2019, when a controversial extradition bill is greeted with massive street protests, this urgent film beds in with Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrations, offering a frontline portrait of four young protesters through a year of struggle. We see their hopes for a freer life and feel their fears as the authorities crack down. Pulse-racing scenes bring the viewer to street level, where peaceful protest is met with fury and tear gas. Clear-eyed about the complications and contradictions that come with a movement that changed Hong Kong forever, Hong Kong: City on Fire is a brave document of troubled times.

Hong Kong: City on Fire

3.5 2022
Six Feet Over

When a young gay couple discovers that one of them has been declared dead by mistake, rather than reporting the error they decide to fake a funeral and flee the country with the money instead. After staging a failure of a funeral cover up, and bribing a doctor they soon learn there was more than a clerical mistake, and there is in fact a body in the casket. Now on the run the pair find the tensions in their own relationship rise, and one has to prove their dedication to their relationship in a final sacrifice.

Six Feet Over

NR 2022
Choices Voices

In 2022, Paragraph 219a, which prohibited advertising for the termination of pregnancy, was finally deleted without replacement. Paragraph 218, which makes abortions a punishable offence in Germany, has now been in the penal code for 150 years. In the documentary, 50 people who have had an abortion have their say. They are women, trans and non-binary people who describe the choices they had and the obstacles they faced. In the face of a emerging shortage of doctors, a strengthening network of Christian fundamentalists and a worldwide attack on reproductive rights and the right to bodily self-determination, a very important thematic debate

Choices Voices

NR 2022
Dafne Is Gone

On a cold winter night, a snow storm rages outside the window. While the window is open and slowly twirls the curtains of the room, a young woman is laying in bed and with a glassy gaze seems to look into nothingness, lost in her thoughts, more and more convinced of what she is about to do. When she regains control of her body, she gets up and goes to the window. In the seconds before her fall, a vision of her in a dream becomes real: the woman relives the encounter with her inner demon, the personification of that suffering that is causing her to commit suicide.

Dafne Is Gone

NR 2022