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At the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe rivers, Saint-Aubin Island is a fragile natural area: how can the interests of agriculture and tourism be reconciled while preserving the remarkable flora and fauna that it shelters?

During the first week of the great confinement, behind our walls between father and son, we talked about us, family history and these constructions which rise too high not to collapse.

"Years ago, my mother sold her house in Woodstock, Ontario. Hundreds of high dynamic range digital photos were taken to provide to the real estate agent for the online sale listing. The images were left on an SD card that was strangely stored and subject to firmware incompatibility (or some other manner of environmental degradation). Disassembling each damaged, barely-there high dynamic range photo into its light and dark component parts, I built a VHS cascade of house pieces (never quite reconstituting what was). " –C.L.L.

On a Magical Night director Christophe Honoré shares a short film while quarantined in Paris.

"Lumen" (meaning "light" in Latin) is a sensory film shot on Super-8 that portrays a young girl with oculocutaneous albinism. Despite the hypersensitivity caused by this genetic disease, the depigmentation of her skin and eyes gives her an extraordinary aura.

In this new expedition, which this time takes him to the heart of the Amazon jungle, Eliott Schonfleld retraces the unfinished journey of writer Raymond Maufrais. In 1949, the 23-year-old Resistance fighter set off alone across French Guiana to reach the legendary Tumuc-Humac mountains. Everyone tried to dissuade him from this madness, promising him hell and death, but he never turned away from his dream. Raymond Maufrais never returned from the expedition. If it hadn't been for the miraculous discovery of his notebook by an Indian, Emerillon, on the banks of the Tamouri River in 1951, we'd never have known what happened to him.

Several families living on an island in the Mékong Delta have chosen to develop a tourist area built on a community-based model. Each person has their role to play in making a success of the project by acquiring new skills. But this success stirs up envy.

A video about caress and sensitivity

In the heights of the Kurdish mountains between Iran and Iraq, Helia and Sama decide to take up arms clandestinely so they no longer have to endure the violence suffered by Kurdish and by women in Iran. Inside the Komala party’s encampment, they begin their political and military formation...

1983: Acadia terrorized by the monstrous lobster-bat! The filmmaker recounts the time that he and his music group found themselves in a completely sealed apocalyptic past. A true story.

A rainy day between sounds and lines.

Seven farmers families tell their daily life through analogue pictures they took of their farm over a year. Through photographies, live action footage and animated pictures, the portraits build themselves as their stories go by.

It’s almost a habit. I take a story from Perrault that I love so, I put it in the blender of my dreams, and flies the stage to the lands of childhood, the ones I prefer, as well as to adulthood, also in me, to be honest. From "The Sleeping Beauty" there remains a lot, the wood, the spindle, the 100-year sleep, the fairies, good ones and evil ones, and obviously a prince who moves. But also the cauldron filled with snakes, and the very evil ogress. To be clear the title often makes us forget that the kiss that wakes from the magical sleep is but only the start of the tale. The worst, the very worst, is to come, since the Queen, mother of Prince Charming, is nothing less than an ogress who dreams only to devour everyone, but firstly her daughter-in-law and grandkids, which, evidently, is only seen in stories, she dreams only to take her son as husband to create little ogres. Long story short, a very nice momma. She'll end up in her cauldron, like in the story…

Winter 2017, Ana and Amara, a young couple from Bucharest, make a radical decision: in order to finance treatment for Leo, their 3-year-old son who suffers from insufficient oxygenation of the brain, Ana will become a "camgirl." In these fascinating video chat studios—as fascinating for her colleagues as they are for the hundreds of "members" who follow her around the world—Ana becomes "Blue Flower."

1998. A child taps with his pelvis on each corner of his desk. Aloud, he lists multiples of 5. It is the space between the desk and the wall that obsesses him. He is not as he should be. And leaving things as they are, accepting a slight shift, would be putting his world at great risk. In the world, in fact. 2019. Mathieu is 33 years old. Sometimes still, his pelvis seeks the corner of the office. But he learned to give it less importance, to accept the slight shift, thus discovering that between the desk and the wall, indeed, there was indeed the world.

The Grolls, victimized minions of a dungeon, are relentlessly attacked by knights in search of adventure. Exhausted, they go on strike to demand better working conditions.

At the age of 13, Hận left his family to work on the River Mekong. He has held a variety of jobs and his life is written like a chronicle that flows with the river.

Mélas de Saturne is set in a fictional space where the oceanic abyss and the Darknet merge. We are introduced to ‘Persona’, a fictional character who embarks on a journey to discover their algorithmic origins, which they hope to find among the ‘Meta population’ living in north-east Cameroon.

Displayed one after another, found images produce an animation that evolves throughout the frame: anonymous people merge with old and contemporary celebrities along surprising transitions, and a meta-face seems to emerge in a new heterogeneous and disruptive space, which continues self-generating. The visual component of big data is thus transposed in a playful way in the form of an image-by-image animation, mirroring the cinematographic device at its origins.

A man wanted by police leaves in hurry his newborn child to Louise.

A woman, grieving for a future she’ll never know, travels into her dreams of science fiction and infinite cities. A new era, inspired by the past, takes place. A resilient and sustainable world, where the time goes slower and love lives longer.