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Short film directed for a project on the theme "Love", by a student of GOBELINS "Character animation and animated film" They worked for 5 months (from January to May). This exercise was meant to learn the 3D pipeline on Maya.

This documentary situates the start of filmhistory a century before the Lumières. Without Robertson, Reynaud, Plateau, Muybridge and Marey: would there be cinema ? The pioneers of optical toys and photographic studies of movement are given their due in this playful media-archeological essay.

Every day, Sophie sees her husband Augustin leaving the house to work for his small dairy farm. He gives all his strength to his work. Yet, since some time now, his farm production is not sufficient for his family to survive financially anymore. Sophie does not know the situation, but for how long ?

A young man travels across America hopping from one freight train to another.

Linda is a little girl rejected by other children and by her family. She lives in a small town where a serial killer is prowling. But one day, she sees a strange character on the street carrying a bag with an arm hanging out of it.

An escort girl is walking alone down the street at night. A maniac suddenly appears and kidnaps her. She will be his plaything for the rest of the night, but her revenge is within reach at the first opportunity...

A peaceful neighborhood, a peaceful home, a peaceful couple who is about to celebrate the arrival of their new piece collection of African Art.

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.

Paris, 2009. More than 6000 undocumented migrants (sans-papiers) go on strike to demand their legalization. Despite being illegals, Mohamed, Diallo, Hamet and others have worked and paid taxes in France for years in restaurants, cleaning companies, or construction. They have invested all their energy in this battle: now that their status has been disclosed publically, there is no way back.

In Senegal, two young wrestlers compete to seduce Madame Tyson, an influential manager with dreams of a political career.

While the world knows of the KGB spies and agents who crossed over to the West, few know of this tale of secret dissention from within. There is one officer, Viktor Orekhov, who went from repression of dissidents to joining their cause. After months and months of searching, the filmmaker tracked down Orekhov and now brings his story to the world. Illustrated with the unique testimonies of Viktor Orekhov, now 65, archives and accurately re-enacted sequences, the documentary tells the story of a man who braved an impenetrable system and dared to challenge the KGB.

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman, a tenacious troublemaker: the life of Johannes Gutenberg (circa 1400-68).

Highly original and superbly executed short about the life of a film noir shadow that manages to free itself from its flesh and bone Wearer. The director sourced clips from 56 classic BW thrillers to make the film, cleverly combining them to create an original story by adding the shadow to each scene as an extra character. The film is a prequel for a feature script and the director is looking for producers.

My neighbour committed suicide. He was car tuning at the end of his life. I played football with him. Child. And also ping-pong. Herepaired our computer. He was called Gilles my neighbour. We cannot play any more. In a room, a boy reminds himself his dead friends.

At 10 years old, we all dream about our adult life. But Thibaut had a very precise idea : one day, he will become a musher. Except that Thibaut grew up in the North of France, in a family which hate dogs, and he never left his native region. Today, he's 41 years old, and he's giving himself a challenge: be part of the biggest european trainee dogs running, in the north of the Polar Circle. This means that he will have to leave his family for three months and fight the "Great White Silence" loneliness and dangerousness.

This documentary on the making of JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING features director Claude Berri; actors Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu; assistant director Xavier Castano; editors Hervé de Luze and Arlette Langmann; executive producer Pierre Grunstein; and composer Jean-Claude Petit.

We follow the film journey of director Viollaine de Villers and traveller Jean-Pierre Outers around the Chinese interior during the late 1980s. In a fragmented sequence of archival shots, vignettes of local culture gradually emerge, including everyday work, leisure time moments, and reflections of ancient myths. But it’s not just another of the countless travel documentaries or urban symphonies, but rather a suggestive video essay. The VHS camera becomes a fully-fledged historiographical medium through which foreign culture is revealed in all its myriad facets without crystallizing it into a comfortably consumable image

Juliette, granddaughter of Gisèle Casadesus and Lucien Pascal, is pregnant. She desires a cinematic trace of her grandparents, whom she admires. She asks Ivan to stage The Ghost Sonata in Lucien's retirement home in the Pigalle district. In this fantastical play by Strindberg, Lucien Pascal plays the role of a very rich man who orders the murder of a mysterious milkmaid. Ivan plays the role of the young man whose father carried out the murder, and who subsequently killed himself. A strange friendship binds the characters of Lucien and Ivan, like a perverse filiation...

Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...

For years, chemical pesticides were considered an efficient method of killing off agricultural pests. However, in the long term, they not only harm the supposed attackers, but also people and the environment. Biological pest control offers an alternative, because who could fight pests more efficiently than their own natural enemies?

Bao and his sister are taking the train like every day. It's always a fabulous adventure for them. But this time, everything will be different.

Late 1950s, the CIA Office in New York after viewing the footage shot by their agent, investigators are puzzled how Marcel Dassault, the French engineer, he managed to build better than their planes? Order of the White House, four officers flew to Paris. Their mission: to solve the mystery Dassault. This man has a unique course because besides being a genius of aviation, it is also patron of the press, arms dealer, MP ...

Salif, an 18-year-old Mauritanian, lands clandestinely in France. His parents gave him a mission: find his older brother who lives in Paris and send him news. A search that will prove to be especially complicated and dangerous.

Young, beautiful Nelly Solaro vacations at Lake Como and is surprised by the arrival of her brother Eugène, after a long separation. They realize of their effect on the wealthy and seduce several. But their dark love catches up with them.

Manu runs away from juvie. Outside, nobody pays attention to him.

To the four corners of the globe, from Chamonix Mont-Blanc to French Polynesia via Châtel, the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees and the Spanish desert of Almeria, the La Nuit de la Glisse film “Addicted to Life” showcases extraordinary feats from passionate athletes within wild, threatening natural environments. A unique encounter of the close kind with men and women who continually push their limits in extreme situations. In search of new challenges and unique sensations, they spend their lives studying their respective environment in detail. Across mountains and oceans, they bear witness to climate changes that affect the landscape and nature’s elements. From the melting snow caps to the dying coral reefs, pollution threatens to changes the backdrop of our global ecosystem.

On a cold winter day, Guillaume, a broken-hearted lover, attempts to regain his honour on a frozen bay.

Get set for loads of laughter with four action-packed adventures starring Geronimo Stilton, the most famous New Mouse City journalist, who's an unlikely, yet loveable action-hero with two left paws. Adventure always comes knocking for Geronimo and his pals, launching them paws-first into exciting capers filled with hilarious hijinks and far-flung antics that take them all around the world in search of the next big scoop.

An impossible love story between the narrator from Paris and a young woman – Ekaterina Tretyakova, descendant of the Romanov dynasty. It takes place behind the Ural mountains. Navigating between poetic illustrations of passion and schizophrenic wanderings in a hostile environment, the film draws an intimate and heart-breaking portrait of Russia.

A journey to Kyoto. In late autumn, as the maple leaves turn red, city dwellers cross paths in the shaded walkways of the Imperial Park.

Bored with the routine? Depressed by the thought of going to bed alone every night? Juliet is the first super-competent companion robot, and she's waiting for you!

This film is an uncompromising portrait of a woman who no-one could have imagined in a position of power a few years ago . A look at the woman and, through her, at the party that continuously raises concerns and stirs up the media.

From their headquarters in Geneva, the lawyers of the Swiss NGO Trial (Track Impunity Always) unremittingly pursue any war criminal careless enough to pass through Swiss territory. These true contemporary crime hunters have in their crosshairs all those with the blood of victims of conflicts on their hands. Theirs is primarily painstaking legal work, but also the emotionally charged fieldwork of collecting shocking testimonies from victims forever haunted by the ghosts of violence past. This film tells the story of their daily struggle against injustice and impunity.

Bob has found the solution to all his problems: he will become an actor, whatever it costs.

The film tells the story of two friends who want to disappear from life. While their country Belgium is falling apart, two lost souls cling to each other.

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.

The story revolves around the characters of Tess and Anatole. Barely of age, but not exactly adults, they still know nothing of love. Anatole sleeps wherever he is able while waiting for a stable job to come along, whereas Tess is about to start preparatory classes in Paris. They first meet in the surroundings of a port in decline, like a symbol of a country that is suffocating but which still has something to say. He has a tent, she has a car: together they will criss-cross the country’s roads and draw out the summer, to ensure they never forget.