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Don’t you hate it when your roommate brings a guy home in the middle of the night? You’d hate it more if the guy claimed he could read your thoughts.

Two journeys take place in two different periods. One is a train journey across two continents. The other follows an old family photograph back to life during wartime. The rhythmic swaying of the train reveals a forgotten memory.

In 2013, Mario Colonel photographed the nomads of the Kham mountains, a region in eastern Tibet. Near a monastery, he encountered a little girl on a pilgrimage with her family. The photograph he took of this young nomad quickly became iconic; it evokes a powerful emotion, thanks to the beauty and strength emanating from her gaze. He exhibited it in his gallery in Chamonix and sold it regularly. Magazines bought it for their covers. Eventually, it slipped from his grasp. In 2017, Mario wanted to find this little girl to tell her the story behind the image and share it with her. He decided to return to Kham with the photograph in hand to find Droma, whose first name was all he knew. This film retraces this quest in this mountainous region, this human adventure filled with encounters and original, endearing characters, far removed from idealized images.

In Patagonia, in the heart of Chile's Strait of Magellan province, a gold prospector, a truck driver, and a young security guard cross paths with tourists in search of the ends of the earth. Amidst the debris of history, grandiose landscapes, and shopping malls, they reveal what does not appear in tour operator brochures: a violence deeply rooted in this land, which comes to light when a strike paralyzes the region.

As a portrait of a housing project with astonishing shapes (La Maladrerie near Paris), SONGS NEXT DOOR by Flavie Pinatel is a documentary of a different kind, since the protagonists express themselves through songs and not through speech. Implicitly, Flavie describes poetically how people live together in France in 2016.

No one imagined another race with a new development as captivating as 2016, but it was: Toyota lost their cars one by one in incredible circumstances. Porsche lost their solid lead when their cutting-edge car abandoned, with André Lotterer at the wheel, at the end of the Hunaudières. A Chinese LMP2 from actor and star Jackie Chan’s team was in the lead 2 hours from the finishing line. The second official Porsche made an amazing comeback in the last hour taking the trio Bamber-Bernhard-Hartley to victory. 2017 is in the annals as an action-packed, thrilling battle in each category: LMP2: 2nd place in the general classification and class victory for Jackie Chan Racing. GT PRO: Aston Martin’s victory in the last lap, beating Corvette. Experience the mechanical and human adventure from the inside. Relive all the highlights and comebacks with commentary and interviews and spectacular images.

Antonionis L’Eclisse as a room installation. The camera, mounted on a model railroad, passes through a dark landscape of screens. The images, showing Monica Vitti, all sprawling into the room and on the surfaces, undermining illusionist effects in this “cinema hall”. Originally made for the Locarno Film Festival's Movie of My Life competition.

In a town where supernatural beings are part of everyday life, two roommates face a recurring problem: their house spirit was devoured by an unknown creature overnight. They go on their way to find a replacement spirit and a solution to their pest problem.

A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.

The great hours of the Renaissance, told in a lively, educational way. In two parts, this documentary looks back at one of the most fruitful periods in European history.

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Rousseau

In Tunis lives Aya, a smart little girl, with her Salafist parents. But one day a special event disrupts the life of this family.

Disaster! Baby Owl has fallen from the nest. The squirrell takes him under his wing - so to speak - leads him through the forest in search of his mother.

The "Uberisation" of the world is upon us, as we’re all aware. But it might be only a foretaste of what awaits us in the near future: will it be an unprecedented disruption in the history of mankind or quite simply the end of most of the working population? Unlike the industrial changes of the last two centuries, the huge shift of the 21st century deals with the brain, and its playground is the services and tertiary sectors. What will the consequences be for employment over the next ten years? "A Jobless World?" offers an investigation into the genesis of this new world.

An old rusted bridge is repaired by an engineer. Alone in the middle of nowhere, this man executes every day his endless task but his role seems to be taking end now.

After violently attacking one of his classmates, Nicolas speaks to Claire, a psychiatrist.

In the intimacy of a small family-run funeral home in Burgundy, filmed twenty years apart. Part chronicle of daily life, part observation of funeral rites, this documentary tells the story of the passing on of a vocation and the evolution of our relationship with death.

A young black man is killed in an altercation with a vigilant neighboor and the police. An indignant crowd gathered together. The feeling of injustice is high. A group isolates itself. Emotion engenders riot. In the absence of words, can the body take its revenge?

Mum breaks up with Dad while on vacation in Florida and flies back to Montreal. The kids, Jonathan and Florie, two immature and impressionable twentysomethings, only have a few hours to figure out how they'll welcome her back.

What if the World Trade Center attacks could have been thwarted? This is one of the theories put forward by Bill Binney, former technical director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), who resigned after 9/11. Long before Edward Snowden, he denounced the intelligence services' inadequate methods in the fight against terrorism, particularly the massive collection of data. Drowned in a continuous flow of information, analysts are unable to exploit the data quickly. In the 1990s, a program called "ThinThread," implemented by the NSA, was supposed to allow targeted searches by focusing solely on useful metadata for tracing the communications of suspicious individuals. But a few weeks before the 9/11 attack, the project was abandoned in favor of private financial interests. In the United States, the surveillance market is thus 80% owned by private companies.

Examining the translation of poetry told as a kind of endless hide-and-seek with beauty, this film is following three virtuoso literary translators who take on the challenge of recreating poetry in another language, here French.

"I'm black, born Haitian, French and Jewish by adoption... I feel all of those things, but people don´t look at me like that. It´s normal, but that makes it harder for me to find my place". At 34 years old, David dreams and, at the same time, fears going back to Haiti, where he was adopted a year after he was born, by Claire, a French and Jewish woman whose entire family died in concentration camps. From her solitude, another was born; one in the process of redemption.

Director, screenwriter and actor, Gurwann Tran Van Gie has assumed his homosexuality since he was 20 years old. In 2013, the violent homophobic reactions of the supporters of the "Manif pour tous", which he hears from his balcony, make him fear to be targeted for the first time. That year, attacks against homosexuals increased sixfold. Gurwann Tran Van Gie explores the roots of homophobia as he looks back on his life. He presents the work of the association Contact Rhône, which tries to maintain or renew the dialogue between lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and their families. As for the association Le Refuge, it takes in underage homosexuals driven out by their parents, of which there are 1000 each year.

What happens when a couple of dozen Femen meet the iconoclastic eye of Bettina Rheims? Memorable sessions in the studio, moments of unique insight into this feminist movement created in Ukraine in 2008, whose scope is now international. Bettina Rheims knows how to listen to these women, to reveal their strength, their sensitivity and their beauty, transforming these political and media actions into artistic work.

The film retraces the atypical journey of Gilles Clément, gardener and landscape architect, but also a writer. Marked by ecology, he questioned the art of gardens at the end of the XXth century, with the garden in movement, the planetary garden or the third landscape.

In France, river navigation is booming. Today, it is the least polluting means of transport and the most respectful of the environment. It has become a real alternative to road transport. More and more young people are attracted to this very particular way of life. To embark on this path is for them a real adventure. Allison, Valentin, Jérémy and Clément are four young sailors' apprentices. One week a month, they take courses at the CFA in Internal Navigation. The rest of the time, they sail on the Seine, twenty-four hours a day, aboard a ship transporting goods or passengers. Under the responsibility of their apprenticeship master, they learn the trade in the hope of one day becoming owners of their boats.

At the end of the year, Linden got dumped by his girlfriend. He lived with her in her place, in Germany. He is a tap dancer and now he has no place to go. So he plans to perform a concert moving around the world with friends. But he gets a call from an old friend. And he cancels the plan. Instead of that, he decides to come to Paris because she moves to Paris. He wants to meet her with an unknown desire. But every time, they make an appointment to meet up, she breaks up the promise. Even though, he meets his cousin, friends and new people, he always feels empty and lonely. And his desire to meet her is getting stronger. The year changes though, his situation doesn't change. She calls him that she is going to Spain. He decides to go to Spain. On his way, he is having a good time with people by listening their stories. But he can't stop thinking about her. He increasingly gets tired and mad at her. Unluckily he lose everything he has because of a swindler. And he calls her again...

To prepare his conference, a man explains to his partner the words and phrases that he hears in the rain beating against the window, in the birdsong and the wood snapping under his feet.

An unknown virus that turns people into dead people, ravages a large part of the world's population, leaving stranded survivors to the land for their survival, and fighting to preserve it.

French author Sylvain Tesson pays tribute to the heroes of the Russian Revolution as he crosses the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan, which boasts a multitude of peaks at more than 7,000m. They will have the occasion to look back on some of the major figures and events of the Revolution. Lenin Peak, Revolution Peak, Karl Marx Peak, and also the October Glacier and the Soviet Officer range – all names which evoke the Revolution in these remarkable yet little-known locations. He is accompanied by two friends, author and lover of all things Russian, Cédric Gras, and the former Soviet mountaineering instructor, Nicolay Taran. Along the way, the author and his traveling companions observe the traces left by the former USSR on daily life here, and they listen to the memories of the populations who live in the Pamirs, whether Kyrgyz nomads on the high plateaus or Ismailis in the valleys. For Sylvain Tesson, the journey will serve as a source of inspiration for his future writing.

A bear sneezes so hard that a huge boulder falls across the entrance, trapping him inside. Who will help?

Atmospheric images accompanied by excerpts from *Solitude* by Guy de Maupassant (1884) * a melancholy study about loneliness inside and outside a gay relationship.