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Daniel Torres enlisted in the US Marine Corps before being arrested and deported to Tijuana in Mexico, upon his return from the war in Iraq. After winning a lawsuit against the US administration, he is now trying to help those who, like him, were banished from a country for which they put their lives on the line.
This film-poem is composed of visual and sonic fragments in which landscapes, everyday gestures and distorted songs weave an inventory of loss. Between silence and vertigo, the past resurfaces. Pain, resistance and beauty persist within the absences carved out by colonialism.
With no more stories to share, SAM and RAPHAËL let boredom settle in by playing little silly games. An unexpected question starts to wonder in SAM’s mind : can we assign gender to what isn’t gendered?
Naël is 13 years old. On the surface, he lives like any other boy his age. But behind the mask hides a boy living a nightmare—a nightmare fueled by silence, the fear of speaking up, and the dread of what might happen next. Elias and Adryen, his best friends, can feel something is wrong. They watch their friend change, without truly understanding the reality of what is unfolding. The short film follows this internal struggle: the story of a teenager trapped by what he dares not say, and the fragile thread that still connects him to those who could save him.
The portrait of a woman and a practice. At 24, Elisa opens her pole studio. More than a career, it’s a step towards healing by reclaiming her body.
The documentary tells the story of the creation of a community project that involves rewriting and redubbing Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010), a film known for its poor quality and questionable French dubbing. By following the different stages of the project, from writing to voice recording, the film highlights the exchanges, disagreements, and commitment of the participants. Through this collective process, the documentary questions how a film can be reclaimed, transformed, and become a space for shared creation.
Amalia learns that her mother’s cancer is getting worse. Tonight, her mother will pass away. Amalia lives far from her because of her studies. Will she manage to reach her in time to share her final hours?
In a university controlled by a totalitarian regime, Lucas gradually becomes aware of the oppressive world around him. Guided by Elena, he discovers an underground network that is trying to save books by digitizing and distributing them.
A former pro cyclist embarks on a heart-pounding, visually breathtaking journey into the thin air between success and failure.
Up bright and early with their pet in tow, Zohra Bouderbala and her five children are heading to the beach. This is not a drill! In Algiers, the coveted front row spot waits for no one, but it’s not this family’s first time having to beat the summer seaside crowds. The unmotivated and out-of-luck masses who arrive too late will be left to a viewless laze in the sun, the alleged horizon blocked by a fortress of parasols and flowing canopies.
The films ventriloquize the machine, tracing the movement of people, things and ideas across precarious value chains as a way of understanding how the world works. Moscow Hotel is Sick of Your Tears observes the migration of the sacred onto platforms — from 9th-century Sabian talismans to TikTok divinatory filters, the sky has yielded to the screen and algorithmic feeds now function as constellations one consults to seek advice, demand justice, curse or heal. First Phone then summons an NPC animated by an AI egregore, observing climate collapse and geopolitical violence as background noise within the data stream. Finally, Plastic Pilgrims takes this logic to its conclusion: a stolen, resold and repaired phone narrates its long journey in the first person, circulating between Shenzhen's electronics architectures, second-hand markets, repair workshops, smuggling networks and streaming platforms.
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo celebrate the memory of composer Kaija Saariaho with a performance of one of her last works as well as Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
Two Chileans adopted in Europe embark on a journey. Daniel was declared dead at birth; Juan dreams of a wounded woman. Both seek to understand their origins, find a mother, and reconstruct their stories. Landless Children is an invitation to a journey—both mental and physical—into the depths of a forgotten land.
Stéphane is a drifter, a man passing through, who quietly slips from house to house. One evening, he pushes open the door of a large estate and comes face to face with a corpse. With Christian, a stranger he meets there, they decide to bury it.
In Roswell, New Mexico, aliens are everywhere — they’re the local mascot, the identity of this small town that claims to have witnessed the crash of a UFO in 1947. More than a search for answers, this is a film that carries us in its pocket and hurls us into the surreal.
The Amsterdam-based psychedelic folk combo Nusantara Beat takes the ESNS festival on a psychedelic journey to their Indonesian roots with a performance of their eponymous debut album.
While spending the afternoon with his grandmother, Solange, Noah receives a call from his boyfriend, Théo. Théo brings up their breakup, accusing Noah of not fully embracing his sexuality. Noah decides to go see him in an attempt to save their relationship. Solange decides to tag along, hoping to finally meet the "girlfriend" Noah rarely talks about.
Raghu and Megha wander through a hushed forest, silence heavy between them, until unspoken truths fracture their bond. Songs the Woods Sing unfolds as a haunting meditation on love, loss, and the invisible violences that echo in the spaces between what was and what can never be.
The toilets, a quiet place... or almost. The flaws of an ordinary techno party.
Roya is one of Denmark's biggest pop success stories. The duo bring their heady electro-pop to the ESNS festival stage.
After fleeing her villainous husband on-screen, a silent film star manifests in the real world. Now a fish out of water in the 21st century, she must navigate a world of sound and color to find the love she was always promised.
A man pays to be beaten by a dominatrix in an unsanitary location.
"Vieyra, The Innovative Pioneer" imagines a virtual encounter between pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and his grandsons during a visit to a museum retracing his life, highlighting his childhood, his encounters, his studies, and his work.
L’Art du Bigidi is a short documentary exploring the world of Gwoka — a Guadeloupean tradition of dance, music, and resistance, rooted in the island’s colonial history and natural upheavals. At the heart of the film is dancer Lena Blou’s philosophy of the bigidi, a Creole term evoking unstable balance; the precarious state of slipping without falling. It’s a way of moving in a place where the ground literally and figuratively shifts - a metaphor for life in Guadeloupe, shaped by slavery, colonisation, earthquakes, tornadoes, and droughts. Two dancers - Lena Blou and Ovide Carindo - embody this principle. Their bodies tremble, almost fall, then recover, improvising in response to the surroundings. Sonny Troupé, a contemporary Gwoka musician, composes to their movements, echoing the traditional drum-dancer dialogue in which the dancer dictates the musical score. Together they weave the mesmerising vision of a radical philosophy from a land that knows how to dance with uncertainty.
A leading figure in French music, Albin de la Simone revisits his repertoire alongside Jozef Dumoulin and Fabrice Moreau. These songs are waiting to be rediscovered through the lens of jazz at Jazz sous les Pommiers.
Experimental short film
Théo Lellois, a popular actor, is beginning to succumb to the pressure of his status.
