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Ali Al Gazzar - a Sufi sculptor - encounters a visitation at midday. The guest spurs Ali to return to his creations, igniting him with the spiritual imagination of Sufi peasants, peripheral objects and rural animals in Cairo’s City of the Dead.
Through the story of an underground militant in the armed struggle, the miniseries recounts 60 years of misunderstandings between Corsica and Paris through the voices of the story’s protagonists.
In the heart of the Beauce plains, strange phenomena are reviving memories of a local star: the Aérotrain. The memory of this revolutionary invention, which some had wanted consigned to oblivion, is kept alive by a handful of enthusiasts and model makers. Théo Audoire pays tribute to them in this crime thriller born from an unlikely mix of genres.
Nineteen-year-old Enzo and his twenty-year-old sister Carla have been left to fend for themselves for several years. When their father, Anthony, is released from prison, Enzo sees the fragile promise of a family to rebuild, unlike Carla, for whom the idea remains inconceivable. Haunted by his past, Enzo must confront a truth he has kept hidden for far too long.
From mouth to cave to fire to screen to war to skin, a 16mm portrait of an increasingly chaotic present, one whose political contours are affected by everything and nothing all at once. In the words of Zadie Smith: 'Time is not what it is / But how it is felt'.
Radio Galère, an independent radio station in Marseille, has been on the air for over 40 years, giving voice to what we hear far too little of: the anger, the struggles, the hopes, and the stories of those whom society renders invisible in their daily lives. Through its volunteers and staff, the station is a place where speaking out becomes a political act and a tool for empowerment.
Short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight Lineup.
Marion, Gab and Luce, three friends including a couple go on a week-end in the marseillaises creeks, with a goal in mind. This place opens a painful breach in Marion's memory. Witnessing her friend's love, they try altogether to create new memories in this place apart from the world.
Having grown up surrounded by my mother and her friends, I wonder about celibacy, loneliness, and the place of friendship among single women. Through joyful discussions with my own friends and exchanges with three women I meet, the film paints a festive and contrasting portrait of loneliness.
Two brothers reunite in their childhood home to speak about the incest one of them suffered there as a child. Over the course of a single day, their conversation intertwines the most difficult questions with the boldest theories, delving deep into our religious and mythological history.
"You always cling to what you see, when you should seek to see the invisible. You stay on the surface of things. You should travel, dive back to the Stone Age. Can't you see anything ?"
With a nod to E.T. and Peter Pan, JB Chandelier offers an intimate and moving film, a true visual ode to freedom. Renowned for his impressive proximity flights, the paraglider reveals, through a highly poetic style, the sensations he experiences while flying. But above all, he reflects on the wounds that have shaped his life choices. An invitation to listen to our inner voice, the one that pushes us to achieve our dreams and live our lives to the fullest!
A drag performer with sadness marked by his scar tries to find himself through people he envies
After a heist is committed in the year 6769, Inspector Jugar is tasked with tracking down the culprits. To achieve this, he uses a time machine. But through a clumsy mistake, he finds himself in the home of an innocent family. No one expected him to change the course of history.
A young person make a dream about the passing of his best friend.
Along the fragile border that separates and unites life and death, men and women cross the extreme landscapes of ending, searching in the silence of the contemporary world for one last fragment of meaning.
In the waters of Colombia’s Pacific coast, life is celebrated through a particular kind of song: the Arrullos. This music honors life in a territory marked by violence and armed conflict, where enslaved people once found refuge at the end of colonial rule. In these same waters, each year, thousands of whales arrive from Antarctica to give birth. Pacífico weaves a polyphonic narrative around birth in an aquatic space where body, territory, and memory are deeply intertwined.
Nelly Arcan published her autobiographical novel *Folle* in 2004. She took her own life in 2009. She died because she was made to feel crazy. Because she was made to feel like a woman. Because when you’re a woman, madness lurks in every slightly too intense expression of emotion, in every behavior that deviates from prevailing patriarchal norms. We’re all crazy at some point. And the stigma stems from everyone’s discourse. Do you feel like you use the word “crazy” a lot?
From Kabbalah to negative theology, from Walter Benjamin to Jacques Derrida, from lightning to thunder, fragments of a witty reflection on the notion of beginning.
Claire and Agnes struggle to live their passionate love in 1970s France.
Twenty years after her mother’s death, Laura returns to the family home in Cauca, Colombia. Born from an absence, the film moves through women’s voices, silences, and echoes of the past. A gesture of remembrance, between lingering light and the darkness of oblivion.
Two movers. One grand piano. One very uncooperative staircase and a passion they never saw coming.
