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A film as an occasion to get closer to someone. In this case, that someone is the director’s brother, Arnaud, who seems to have gotten on the wrong track quite a while ago and has developed an alcohol problem. It affects everything from gay parties with friends to getting pissed on his own in public, on the riverbank, through to lonely sessions in the flat. “We do a thing about me, but what about you?” Arnaud once asks in a drunken stupor.

Thomas is French and has lived in New York for the last 6 years. He feels homesick and decides to return to France with two American friends, Andrée and Adel. He helps them discover his native region, the North of France and Douai, the city where he grew up. There, the celebration of "Gayant" ("Giant" in the regional dialect) takes place. During three days of festivities, a family of giant puppets made of wicker parades in the streets of the city, inspiring the awe of spectators. Thomas and his friends are astonished by the parade, the enthusiasm of the crowd but also by the commitment of the "porteurs", the men who lift the giants. Our friends encounter one surprise after another and meet local figures who share the love of the region, its dialect and culinary recipe. They experience the excitement of parading with those puppets and feel renewed with the assurance that humanity is capable of ingenuity based on common cause and shared values.

Barou and his wife Bibi lead a happy and contented family life with their two children in the desert city of Timbuktu. During an attack by Islamists, their son Kadry is killed. The father's grief and despair over this loss increasingly mix with a loss of reality. When his mother, who has had a formative influence on him, also falls victim to an attack, he completely loses his mind in his helplessness.

A young filmmaker sets off for the unknown territory of an African enclave to gather true stories of its inhabitants. Motionless scenery carries human imagination to heights where unforgettable moments of human life unfold. The meditative character of the film’s imagery captures the unique atmosphere of Lesotho.

Marées is a singular ode to the spirits of the Gaspesian Sea as experienced by its inhabitants.

Four rolls of 16mm film were patiently exposed frame by frame over the course of a stay on Ouessant Island in Brittany. Observation of nature and its phenomena is paired with formal experimentation, altering our perception of the real.

Casablanca. Samir, a young Moroccan, lives on odd jobs. One day, while cleaning a storage shed for a drug dealer, he comes across an injured man. Kai is an illegal immigrant waiting for transit. Hostile at first, Samir ends up helping Kai. A troubling relationship begins...

"My Eyes Are Gone" is based on a true story. After a traffic accident and the death of the woman he loved, Félix reviews in detail the memories of his own damaged and sick body. His words circumbscribe a complex mental space tormented by the obsession to organize and stage his own disappearance.

“Hi, what are you up to?” On the video chat, Periscope, the exchange of images can be enriched by text messages and/or a flow of hearts allowing people who are streaming their video live to see strangers’ comments on their appearance or their conversations. Entirely constructed using these exchanges, National Narrative probes the exhibitionist norm of the enhanced selfie. Spontaneous poetry (“Your eyes they wanna drive me bananas”), a burlesque scene between two loafers who are unable to make out which of them is receiving mocking comments as they confuse left and right on the screen… Far from sparking derision, this montage instead points up the users’ self-derision and the paradoxical coyness of a space where people claim to show everything, from breasts to vomit. How does the immediacy of a chat between strangers integrate into its playful and intentionally exaggerated quotidian, the incommensurable horror when a tragic event intervenes?

Aurélio and his father-in-law Apolinar, both Kallawaya healers, have contributed to several books by German anthropologist Ina Rösing. While the former welcomes urban patients to his native village of Lunlaya at the gateway to the Bolivian Altiplano, the latter has chosen to open a consultorio in the capital, La Paz. Their intertwined trajectories raise questions about the evolution of healthcare practices and the place of anthropological works in the construction of memory.

Jacot would love to be loved, but he has a big problem: he farts and poops uncontrollably! He initially tries to hide his embarrassing flaws in order to win the heart of the beautiful Madame Hai, and in the end he manages to turn his weakness into strength and earn the admiration of the village.

Avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov is best known and appreciated for his formal inventions and his theory of life captured unexpectedly. But he was also a tireless promoter of the cause of women and their concrete emancipation. This film is a personal tribute to this aspect of her work and a militant film tract which raises the question of women's aspiration to a society emancipated from patriarchal archaisms and the alienating weight of religious customs.

From a window I film the isolated, seemingly unchanging valley of Ouzoum. Voices and faces emerge. They haunt this piece of land. The landscape cracks and hollows. Leaning against this mountain, I feel a sense of loss. I converse with the dead, filming those who are still here.

Is Booba the latest great French poet? Yes, there is a lot of vulgarity, but also a unique pen. We explore Booba's poetic legacy through Verlaine and Baudelaire, also delving into literary giants like Céline to unravel "the puzzle of words and thoughts" in Booba's work. The analysis of his punchlines is deliberately conducted in-depth to take the time to reflect and thoroughly explore all aspects of his pen, concluding with an extensive analysis of one of his greatest works: Ma Définition.

In the beginning, earth and sky. Snails move about on the axis of the naked world, during a slow ascension where the ordinary rubs shoulders with the supernatural. In which waters do these creatures, both familiar and monstrous, navigate? There's no answer, but the images haunt.

The cider-making process : an art of knowing how to poetize reality.

In June 2015, Erwann Babin, video artist, bought a field. He begins to shoot a film there, planting his camera there as one plants an agricultural tool in the middle of a meadow. He will stay there for eighteen months, giving free rein to his creativity like in an open-air artist's studio. The resulting film-essay mixes natural browsing, burlesque experimentation and artistic fantasies.

In a popular neighborhood in the Paris suburbs, hours and days following an attack committed in Paris by Brahim, a young man from the hood. His family and friends are shocked and wonder…

What is a man? Everyone has an answer. For many, manliness is a costume to be worn. In this film, ordinary men ask themselves what led them to adopt the various postures of the manly man. Some of them, because they had to overcome an ordeal that questioned the meaning of masculinity, tell how they distanced themselves from the figure of the "real man". With these intimate, amused and sometimes painful testimonies, director Cécile Denjean weaves a sensitive and powerful film. A film of those who move.

Russia is a huge country full of contrasts and contradictions. Big cities, endless forests, steppes, swamps and snowfields deafen, intrigue and fascinate. In this film, viewers will see Russia from an unusual side - through the lenses of modern Russian photographers: Igor Mukhin, Elena Anosova, Danila Tkachenko, Alexander Gronsky, Valery Nistratov and many others who worked in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Urals and the Far East, the Far North and Chechnya.