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France, summer 2019 the Japanese artist Tetsuo Harada has just turned 70 years old. He has spent his life carving works for peace and respect for nature. In his 3000 m 2 workshop, he works tirelessly on new projects. This year, an exhibition is dedicated to him in Niigata, the snow country of the famous novel by Yasunari Kawabata, his native region. But the project that occupies his thoughts is something else, he, who always carve monumental stone works to link countries with each other with his famous Earth Weaving is about to revisit all of his work and career with a new ephemeral installation project: The Peace Weaving.

The idea is simple. I went to ask men and women of all ages and from all walks of life to pose for my camera, with their favorite object, with their Rosebud. By way of introduction I told them the following: Choose an object with which you have a special connection. A unique bond. Almost superstitious. An object that represents you. Who would be like your double. An object that participates in your identity. An object that talks about you like no one has ever talked about. An object when you are no longer there that will take the place of you. It doesn't matter what. Regardless of its price, its rating. It may or may not be a work of art. The main thing is the strength of the bond that unites you. Its truth.

"R E F" is a film that is built from interviews of philosophers, writers, scientists on the train of the "new world". It is also a small manual for the use of the resilient. Excerpts from interviews with: Jean-Marc Jancovici, Jean-Luc Nancy, Isabelle Stenger, Alain Damasio, Bernard Stiegler, Pablo Servigne.

A meeting of several myths: shadows in movement, which the filmmaker associates with cave paintings; the voice of the "sacred monster" Sarah Bernhardt, the world's first star, as she delivers the monologue of Phèdre a hundred years ago; an attempt to exit the labyrinth.

A staging of Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" recorded at the Palais Garnier.

Through a critical look at the dynamics of the municipal council of Saint-Nicolas, in Liège, the system of party and power games is called into question, while denouncing the few truly political issues that emerge from it.

Over the past fifty years, the Mange-Garri chemical plant has drained more than 30 million tons of toxic sludge into the Mediterranean Sea while producing aluminum oxide. The surrounding area has quickly become a major dump, now covered in dark red ooze. The film draws attention to the unstoppable process of human self-destruction through a series of carefully selected shots of the industrial environment and the eyewitness reports of local residents.

To celebrate the coming summer and say goodbye to the dark days of winter, they leave their cities in droves to worship forgotten gods in the heart of Brittany. This documentary recounts the last edition of the Feux de Beltane (Beltane Fire Festival), a secret celebration meant for Black Metal fans, through a portrait of 6 festival-goers.

Starving man takes action to get his paycheck back

Ninon is a young enviromentalist living in Lozère with her mom. One day, her brother Mathiue, CRS at Montpellier, comes home with big news

Three characters are depicted recounting the same event. None of them have the same version of the facts...

Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors’ home where 14 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakeable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.

An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

An unpredictable duck matches wits with a hunting dog.

Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after years of struggling with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals in the field rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.

Inspired by the wind in the grass, the song of birds, the tapestry of the forest, two bodies of water and natural erosion, two dancers and a filmmaker explore the beauty of the Memramcook valley.

2018 is the decisive year for Abdel, an 18-year-old footballer who has been an intern for five years at the training center of Le Havre Athlétic Club, one of the best and most demanding in Europe. His future will be decided in just a few months. Negotiations will lead to a first contract, with the promise of glory and money, or back to square, with no diploma and no prospects.

In the depths of the image and imagination hide bodies suspended between perception and projection, a shadow-space for collective dreaming. Meticulously constructed on 16mm film and structured around Balinese dance and Gamelan ritual, Anagram pays homage to the work of pioneering dancer and filmmaker Maya Deren, who carried dance into the heart of cinema.

This short piece is an autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and memory film. It explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between past and present, between dream and reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.

In this meditative self-portrait, the director films herself in the process of reclaiming her people’s language. As she learns, her wanderings around Montreal segue into a return to nature and traditional music.

An ordinary woman's day is becoming more and more stressful: neither on the street, nor in the office, nor in the bar, she can feel at peace and safe until she reaches the point of no return.

‘Atalaya’ is the Spanish word for watchtower. It’s also the name of the Chilean islands where in 1998 debris was found from the boat belonging to my seafaring father, Gerry Roufs, lost at sea.

In the Yamal peninsula, in the northwest of Siberia, the Nenets live to the rhythm of seasons that are now out of order. Faced with increasingly mild winters and an unstable ice cap, these nomadic reindeer herders are forced to delay their transhumance, caught between a food that is drying up and the risk of drowning in the Ob River. Elsewhere in the Arctic, signs of global warming are mounting.

Éve is a drag king fulfilled in her profession. Only one thing is missing to be happy, that her father accepts her as she is.

magic, magic, on the wall, press me short and press me tall in your service I would fall, cubicular or as a ball. - Lionel Ziprin

Cochonou is going through hell at school because his classmates are harassing him.

In the wilderness, a giraffe couple puts on a performance every night at twilight. Animals come to listen, and take a well-deserved break to eat, and be eaten.

Documentary examines the production history, style, and lasting appeal of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, as well as the evolution of the French crime thriller during the Melville era

Obliged by her mother, Elsa must go to her grandmother to make her a touchy revelation, which will upset her.

In France, in a contemporary city, a circle of friends practices the recitation of Virgil’s Bucolic text. Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori. Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

While her tower block is burning, a 7 year old girl is consumed by guilt thinking she started the fire

Olivia and Aude have played rugby sevens together for a few years. After the new girl's first game, Oli only has eyes for her.

A matriarchy rules on one of the Bijagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The tribe of the same name lives on Orango, one of the most populated islands in the archipelago.

An outlaw convinces his well-established brother (a banker) and sister (a model) to rebel against the "System" by robbing a finance company and flee the country in a deadly road trip.

Logorrhea mixes archives from the 20s to the 80s. A purely sensorial and ethereal exercise, also very unsettling.

Two people meet on a Parisian bridge and a love story begins, for better and never for worse

"The Becoming" is a fast-paced collage of animated photographs of ink paintings as well as video material of extinct and living species of fish, reptiles and birds. The superposition of different life forms with nature expresses the idea of regeneration. This moving collage becomes increasingly vibrant and ends with an explosion of shapes and colors.

To remove a tampon is a private action. I have always removed them by myself except once.