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On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineastes make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story. What should it look like? Who should be in it? For whom is it made? Faire-part is the search of four filmmakers for a way to portray the city. Through filming artistic performances in public space, they paint a provocative picture of Kinshasa and its relations with the rest of the world.

'The Coasters" is a character driven feature documentary that explores the lives of the people living on the Lower-North-Shore of Quebec namely: the Coasters. Anglophone, francophone and first nations innu communities share the isolation of this barren land where there are no roads to the outside world. Every season brings a different challenge for these hardened canadians who live of the land and the sea. They all wait for winter, for when the frozen water and the snow offers the proper conditions for snowmobile travel. Then, the world is theirs. For almost a century, hockey tournaments, carnivals and dancing nights take place every weekend all up "The Coast" in a different village. People that left the region for lack of work comes back for this moment frozen in time, knowing that everytime they come back home, might be the last.

Opera artist Hira Gasy from Madagascar, Emeline Raholiarisoa tells the story of this unique art that an international group is proposing to include as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Born in an artist's village, the author evokes the life of the troupe founded by her father Ramilison (known as Dadamily, Basigara) and more than six centuries of history of her country. The film is also haunted by death: many of the people filmed died of illness or road accidents, because in Madagascar, the health system is in ruins, the bush taxis are rolling coffins, and the drivers, who most often have bought their license, know neither the code nor safe driving. Why so many deaths? In this country, if you are not rich, and you are injured or sick, you die. A rebellious film that invites us to change things profoundly in the largest island in the Indian Ocean.

Alois Brunner, member of the Nazi Party and SS officer, is particularly known in France for having directed in the most brutal and perverse way the camp of Drancy from where he sent to the death camps, more than 20,000 Jews, a third of the Jews arrested in our country, sometimes with the complicity of the French authorities.

Nicolas has been dumped by Louisa. He decides to take off his clothes and not leave his ex-girlfriend’s flat in the hope of reconquering her. A joyous comedy that knows no boundary.

They come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Eritrea. Accompanied by their parents, they fled war and persecution. Thrown onto the roads, these children of exile had to face, despite their young age, many dangers to reach Europe. Others never made it to the end of this journey, engulfed in the waves of the Mediterranean, the cold of the mountains or the networks of slavery. But once in Europe, in Belgium, how can you rebuild yourself, create a place for yourself in a setting that is completely different from your city, your village, in the countryside, in a Red Cross reception center? There is also this long wait for recognition of refugee status. In this space-time filled with hope, the film reaches out to the children and takes their word for it.

"Tennis Courts" completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told.” In this fairy tale, a stranger visits the remote mountain village of Slon.

From his office at La Borde Clinic, Jean Oury recounts a life spent hosting madness. Valuable testimony of one of the major players in twentieth century psychiatry, this film invites us to share the quality of a meeting whose stakes exceed the clinical field from all sides. By drawing us closer to a subtle knowledge of psychosis, He sends everyone back to an essential reconquest of humanity.

A monkey lives in a suburban house. Strange little men are trying to end such madness.

Rémy retreats to his parents' house in the snow to live in harmony with nature. But the peace does not last. His parents harass him to repay his debt, and winter becomes increasingly threatening. To escape this nightmare, he hopes for a visit from his best friend.

Charlotte and Sophie have been a couple for a long time. One Sunday, while they are having lunch, Sophie places a rock on the table claiming that it's a meteorite...

With a rushing smear, a cyclist begins his race.

Today, despite decades of technological and scientific progress, the future inspires more fear than hope. What strength can we draw on to remedy this? Do we need to re-read Simone Weil, of whom Camus said: “she is the only great spirit of our time”. This documentary retraces the astonishing life of this young middle-class girl of Jewish origin, driven by a thirst for the absolute, who started out in philosophy to go towards God. Simone Weil left no field of thought untouched; she dealt with everything in search of the only truth. As she herself said, “you have to write eternal things to be sure they're topical”. What if we were to talk, with her, about the spirituality of work?

Three girlfriends enjoy Halloween night during a slumber party while Evil lurks in the shadows.

After three years of war, Yemen is facing its most serious humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War. 'Yemen, Chaos in silence' is an unprecedented journey which tells the story of a conflict taking place virtually without exterior witnesses. From Aden in the south to Sanaa in the north, via Taez, the front line, this film explores a devastated country eroded by political and religious divisions and ravaged by cholera.

Obsessed with the memory of her love affair with Alfred de Musset, George Sand can not write anymore. She will have to turn the page and finish her novel.

Thanks to his experiments with brushstrokes and impasto, Camille Pissaro came to be known as one of the fathers of Impressionism.

Gigi, Marie-Claude, and Jocelyne. Three retirees whose daily lives could be peaceful. But the trials and tribulations of life have decided otherwise. Widowed or divorced, they are single. A word they endure every day. In the land of fairy tales, "Rêve de princesse" tells the story of women who, at the dawn of their lives, face one of the taboos of our society: love after 60.

Flight memory is a film on false memories. The experience proposes to attend the scrolling of film transfers made from the 35mm trailer of the film Flightplan by Robert Schwentke. While projecting the idea of a mental dismantling (undergone by the main actress of the film), the video leads the spectator in a game of forgetting or reminiscing of a "déjà-vu" film.

Diving into the interior of a small forest, up to its clearing at dusk, A treetop rising catches sight of the disappearance of birds and stops at hollows left on tree trunks.

When death haunts a high school in a small town in the late 1990s, everyone is forever transformed. In this gentle, prismatic film, Samara returns to the town she fled as a teen to re-immerse herself in the memories still lurking there, in its spaces and within the dusty boxes of diaries, photos and VHS tapes. 1999 is not a ghost story, but the ghosts are palpable at every turn. The snow-covered streets, the school's hallways and lockers are preserved as in a dream. The absences left by the relentless teenage suicides still shimmer with questions, trauma and regret. Samara encounters people who are as breathtaking as they are heartbroken, and, finally, 16 years later, the community strengthens itself by sharing the long-silenced memories. Ultimately the film weaves together multiple voices in a collective essay on how grief is internalized-and how, as children, we so painfully learn to articulate our desire to stay alive.

When the pink varnish peels off from the pitted earth, how do you experience a homosexuality that is both radical and rural? How to reinvent your sexuality in the middle of a desert?

Strasbourg, 1518. The city suffers from hunger and plague. Faced with despair, the inhabitants are struck by madness and start dancing until their death.

Kostia, a young Parisian dancer, tries to put on a show that brings together his two passions: dance and French variety. The relationship created between him and his dance teacher will teach him to assume his homosexuality.

Mickey and friends run a service station.

At a time when the LGBTQ+ community wants to be more inclusive of the various identities, the RLQ/QLN - Quebec Lesbian Network wishes to put forward the realities of sexually diverse women. Whether feminist, lesbian, queer, pansexual, trans, etc. these women go well beyond the labels in their ideologies, identifications and daily occupations. This short experimental film highlights the complexity of this reflection while giving visibility to sexually diverse women.

Ophelie is a successful star chef, but she cannot find love. When Joelle, a young florist, comes to deliver flowers for Ophelie's new menue launching party, it is love at first sight. However, Arian, Joelle's suitor, does not intend to let this love blossom.

The bedroom is an empty place while the garden is full of huge and weird familiar entities. In these spaces, the astonished character begins a disturbing self-analysis.

A man uses an automated funeral homes company to bury his mother.

A youngster from the Marseille ghetto chooses to become a member of a local mob to avenge his best friends' death.

José Antonio Sistiaga is one of the greats in Basque contemporary art. Through lively exchanges begun in 1993 with his Salvadoran friend Manuel Sorto, we plunge into Sistiaga's intellectual intimacy and travel through a Basque history, following the steps of this experimental filmmaker and artist. This nearly two-decades-old project was taken up again in 2011, with the filming of the installation of Sistiaga's retrospective exhibition in San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.

BURKINABÈ RISING: the art of resistnace in Burkina Faso showcases creative nonviolent resistance in Burkina Faso. A small, landlocked country in West Africa, Burkina Faso is home to a vibrant community of artists and engaged citizens, who provide an example of the type of political change that can be achieved when people come together. It is an inspiration, not only to the rest of Africa but also to the rest of the world. Through music, film, ecology, visual art, and architecture, the people featured in this film are carrying on the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara. After assuming the presidency in 1983, Sankara was killed in a 1987 coup d'état led by his friend and close advisor Blaise Compaoré, who subsequently ruled the country as an autocrat for twenty-seven years. In October 2014, a massive popular insurrection led to his removal. Today, the spirit of resistance is mightier than ever in Burkina Faso.