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Under the Sky of Fetishes responds to the complexity of colonial archives. It reinvents the specters of a haunting gaze to tell the story of Mauritian sega—a cultural practice born during colonization and slavery, now mainly seen in tourism. How do we project, literally bring out of ourselves, the narrative of the oppressor? Mixing fiction and ethnography, the film sanctifies the power of the projection as a mental as well as intimate enigma to release ghostly and alienated bodies, including our own.

Ayman and Bilel are street peddlers who trick women abroad with Western Union scams. Bilel is worried as Ayman is scamming the wrong sister. Despite his friend's warnings and a mysterious call to prayer from above, Ayman is going down a dead-end road.

The brilliant self-taught pianist Erroll Garner left his mark on jazz forever. His song Misty, which he allegedly composed between two concerts on an aeroplane, immediately became one of the great jazz standards and is still one of the most covered ballads in the world today. Who was the man behind the ever-friendly smile from the ghettos of Pittsburgh, whose talent brought him to the biggest international stages?

Documentary on the French political talk-show broadcasted live on Twitch.

20-year-old Ousmane Diallo is the new international football star. On a night that will mark a turning point in his life, he has to choose which national team he will play for for the rest of his career.

At a campsite, two couples with complete opposites become mobile home neighbors. Between tensions and shenanigans, their cohabitation turns into a war of nerves.

In the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya drought is a menace to both humans and animals. This documentary follows two Elephant Guardians in their tireless work to protect this endangered species.

A stroll through the Louvre Museum orchestrated by Birds on a Wire with the collaboration of Stephan Eicher, Yann Frisch, Les Chanteurs d’Oiseaux, and the Youth Choir of the Orchestre de Paris.

The documentary explores the Triet method by diving behind the scenes of the film Anatomy of a Fall, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2023. Through the testimonies of Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, and the actors, it invites you into the mysteries of the making of the film, and of the director's cinema.

Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, in order to design a masterpiece that will finally earn him glory and eternal recognition. But his meeting with local artists, from the warm Bagnoule to the skillful Cécile, will somewhat make him deviate from his path, and bring him face to face with his deepest dream: that of simply being a happy man.

Bilal lives off the odd job that the Boy application gives him, but dreams of music. Hired to clean a luxurious villa, he falls under the spell of the mysterious Ulysse, the owner's son. This encounter opens up new horizons for him.

Paul meets Nabil before catching his train. They love each other, but Nabil has never talked about his homosexuality with his parents.

Documentary about sexual harassment and rape cases in French Universities and Superior Education. Many women come forward about their personal cases and how, despite the many reports, barely no action is taken.

Vincent, a truck driver, picks up a young pregnant woman. She turns out to have an unstable temper… and an automatic pistol. She orders Vincent to continue driving, without stopping. When he's out of gas, she'll kill him.

For its opening concert, the 2024 Festival Présences pays tribute to Steve Reich. The event features conductor George Jackson, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Synergy Vocals choir and Hae-Sun Kang with Héloïse Werner.

Through the eyes of the victims, filmmaker Sonia Kronlund investigates to find out who is the man hiding himself behind so many identities.

His father left an heritage... CAPTIVE After the death of his beloved father, Tobey Saint Honoré comes back in the past to find the legacy of his father, left in an distant memory...

Lydie's father is working in an international airport, far from sight. Wandering around the airport as if in a second home, Lydie experiences the limits of her freedom as she comes into contact with travelers.

Sam meets Eliott for the first time in elementary school. What she doesn't know yet is that this relationship will follow her throughout her life.

Sixty years ago, the Canary Islands were the first in Europe to adopt desalination of ocean water to produce drinking water. Often considered a miracle solution, is this technique compatible with sustainable development?

Chava, a Mexican mechanic, must take his son to the moon in order to fulfill his late mother's last wish.

Nneka captures the hearts of the Journeys Through Music audience with tracks that are as moving as they are fully committed. A performance in the wake of the Back and Forth EP released at the end of 2023.

For several decades, filmmaker Catherine Corsini has been filming different worlds, yet all of them are permeated by the same desire for her characters to truly come into their own. With a vitality that is ready for anything, including cheating before finally giving up, the heroes of Corsini's films take every risk, and Corsini understands them.

Lisa matched with Xuân through a dating app, and she is to meet her for the first time. But there is a problem : to appeal to Xuân, Lisa lied and told her that she is fluent in Vietnamese, her native language, despite not understanding a single word. Getting deeper into her lies, there is only one week left before the date for Lisa actually to learn vietnamese. Otherwise, Xuân will find out she’s a fraud.

In a neighbourhood in Bhar Lazrak, Tunis, residents live under the imminent threat of the state, which plans to demolish the area. Built spontaneously during the 2011 revolution by a group of people without state authorisation, the neighbourhood now faces an uncertain fate. One evening, mysterious lights appear in the neighbourhood, breaking the silence of the sleepers.

It’s been 10 years since director and choreographer Juliette Roudet was last in Corsica, where she grew up. Her uncles are tough and surly, and estranged from one another. She wants to question them about events in the past, but when talking doesn’t yield enough, she uses dance instead.

Two limping souls in their sixties collide – literally – on a street corner. What begins as a clumsy accident becomes a quiet spark. Over coffee, they linger. They talk. And just like that, an unlikely intimacy begins to bloom. The Slug and the Snail traces the gentle unfurling of a connection born not of urgency, but of presence of two bodies long ignored by the tempo of the world, finding rhythm in each other. Anne Benhaïem’s film is a tender ode to queer aging, to liminality, to love that doesn't need to shout to be heard. With stripped-down direction and performances that pulse with lived-in truth, the film crafts a space of radical softness. It speaks to loneliness without pity, to affection without spectacle. It reminds us that desire doesn’t fade, it just changes shape. Benhaïem herself plays one half of the duo, bringing a raw, honest magnetism that makes the story feel lived rather than performed. This is cinema as whisper, as mirror, as gentle rebellion.

While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).

“In Gaza you have to get there in the evening, in spring, lock yourself in your room and from there listen to the sounds coming in through the open window.... It's 2018. I am 25 years old and a foreign traveler. I meet young Palestinians my age..”

"Better to die of cancer than of hunger," are words you may well hear on Priolo beach in Sicily. In the shadows of the lovely city of Syracuse lies one of Europe's largest petrochemical complexes. 70 years after the arrival of the first refineries, the area seems to have been abandoned to its fate as poison taints the sky, water and land. Woven around fragments supplied by residents who resist, are resigned or choose to look the other way, the film Toxic Sicily sets out to tell the tale of a place sacrificed on the altar of progress, modernity and globalisation.

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capote (1924-84) spent five years in Kansas researching the murder of members of the Clutter family and collecting the confidences of its two authors.

Women artists of the Second World War often find themselves in the shadow of their male counterparts. But what do we discover if we highlight them?

A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

Jeanne and Walid are two disillusioned high school students who, to escape their anxiety, spend their days hanging out at the foot of a business district. It's into this world that Axel, the boy who makes Walid's heart beat, joins them, transforming the evening into an adventure tinged with desire, tension and transgression. A nocturnal experience that sheds light on the complexities and desires of contemporary youth, in a setting that is both raw and fascinating.

The arrival in France of an invasive species; blue crabs.