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Mass Hysteria

Somewhere in a theater, a woman gets ready to play "A Love Supreme", a play that depicts the end of the line for a stripper in Pigalle. The resemblance to her own life resonates strangely with what she feels as an actress.

A strange stranger walks down the street.

November 2020. While we live under an exceptional regime which hinders our freedoms, the French government chooses to pass - following the emergency procedure - a law "on global security" which increases the control mechanisms and surveillance.

Eli comes back to her hometown, finds her ex lover and her young stepsister. Within a day and a boat trip, while she tries to seduce Zack, she will have to face the harsh reality and reveal herself.

After two years of being silent, Guillaume reveals to his friends a secret who might change their relation for ever.

In the cars that pick him up as he hitchhikes, the voice of a young man we’ll never – or hardly – see, describes in detail the depression that brought him to the medical health centre. Although the story of his troubled life follows a fairly coherent thread guided by a few undeniable obsessions (birds and cars, for example), in contrast, the image is a brisk montage of a succession of increasingly astonishing shots and extremely diverse registers.

Amadou is a young Gambian who arrived in Italy after a long journey. After working in the fields, he decides to continue his paths to Rome where he meets three Italians of his age. They sympathize and join a party to dance the night away. The meeting took place and will take them even further, to the border crossing of the Alps.

Meet Doug and his friends. They rap, play football or order sandwiches from the shady snackbar owner. His daughter charges more, every time. Then a mysterious entity grabs their attention. Quirky genre film and hip hop musical with a supernatural vibe.

Set in a Tuscan eden, Rocca Dell’s short film “Calcio” develops a contemporary digital mythology by setting four “calcianti” – players of Florence’s historic form of football, the Calcio Storico Fiorentino – against the rich and harmonious landscapes of Tuscany, while expanding both space and time in order to convey the artist’s very personal dreamscape: a hybrid of the natural world, or rather a synthetic, artificial interpretation of it.

The Diggers is an observation journey into various artisanal mining sites in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film shows the arduous and surreal labor of adults and teenagers extracting coltan, tungsten and black tourmaline. Our camera captures their repeated movements, their picks, their sweat, fatigue, their faces tense by the effort, their breathing. Their tirelessly repeated gestures compose a kind of bitter-sweet symphony. We enter makeshift tunnels and follow the men who have to arch their backs to advance to the deposits. Our camera is in no hurry to allow the spectators to live and feel this difficult work. The light falls and the workers leave the mining site little by little towards the evening refreshments, before returning to the same routine at dawn.

Musical film based on a song by Chloé Delaume. On a weekday evening, Adelaïde drinks alone in her apartment, watching a 1940s black-and-white film and flipping through the glossy pages of a fashion magazine. Increasingly intoxicated, she projects herself into these erotic and imaginary worlds, even if it means going through the looking glass.

It can’t be denied that our planet is burning and the NGOs seem overwhelmed by the number of catastrophic situations to be managed... As soon as one fire goes out, another one is lit on the other side of the world. While Greenpeace had obtained a moratorium on deforestation in the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s coming to power was enough to undo the long and patient work of the NGO. Now activists of a new kind are planning to file a complaint against the Brazilian dictator, in the name of nature. It is advocates and lawyers taking over; white-collar rangers whose clients are rivers, forests and wildlife. They militate for nature to be recognised as a legal entity, in order to file a complaint on its behalf and represent them in court. Indeed, they look for all the loopholes in the laws and attack the enemies of nature on their own ground.

Like Reger – the character Thomas Bernhard placed on a museum bench in front of a painting by Tintoretto, an ‘old master’ if ever there was one – an actor finds himself alone and stranded after a notorious virus closes theatres indefinitely. Here he is, wandering through an empty theatre, walking through pointless backstage areas and stumbling onto a street haunted by masked passers-by. Having convinced a fireman to look after him and his explosives, he tells him and the silence around him of his disgust with, amongst other things, the Heideggerians, the lack of punctuality, people who admire as opposed to respect and the State’s appropriation of children. In the overlapping of film and theatre, despair and survival, 1980s Austria and 2020s France, Bernhard’s text gains fresh resonance, “…and as far as culture is concerned, in this country your stomach is only there to churn.”

Sébastien dreams of finding the love of his life. He remembers Simon, Sasha, and Timothée, his summer flings he had whilst visiting the various sunny corners of France. Then he returns to Paris with this romantic nostalgia that fades away.

How to cure oneself of panic, distrust and manipulation in the time of the global pandemic? The Congolese director, sound designer and musician Franck Moka has one answer: humanity. In Home Sweet Home, he remixes personal and collective experiences into confident and heartening beats and lyrics.

In September 2020, a trial opened at the Palais de Justice in Paris to judge those who participated in the murderous attempt to destroy a newspaper. This historic trial is that of those days in January 2015, when France witnessed live the assassination of the editorial staff of "Charlie Hebdo", the very person who had revived the newspaper in 1992. In 2020, it is in a bunker in Paris, that a new editorial staff still keeps freedom of expression alive. Starting with the trial of the January 2015 attacks and immersed in the current editorial staff of the newspaper, this documentary returns in archives, testimonies and drawings on the history of "Charlie Hebdo".

After a shocking event, a man gradually begins to lose the use of his senses.

Lilian is Michael Jackson's impersonator. He performs in clubs borrowing Michael's gestures and face. In Sweden a teenager is selected to embody Santa Lucia in a religious parade. The destiny of Lilian and the girl intermingle freely. Their respective icons slowly invade them to literally take control of themselves.

A man on a dinner date with a beautiful woman learns that she's vegan. If he has any chance of hooking up with her, he has to try to hide his love of meat.

Get the official behind the scenes look at the final season of Henry Danger featuring Jace Norman and the rest of the cast in 'The Danger Documentary'! Follow along in the Dangerverse through Henry's final battles in Swellview, all the way through to the introduction of the new Danger Force team led by Captain Man (Cooper Barnes). Get ready for unseen footage, interviews, and behind the scenes content that is sure to blow your mind!

Shot in Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny (France) this film is a search for its cusp — a possible point of passage, set at the limit of the scope of representation and at the beginning of the animal and the vegetal realms. The film shows the microscopic ecosystem that constitutes Monet’s “pictorial Garden”. It is an attempt to capture it from a non-perspectival point of view. Shot as a single sequence running the duration of a 400-foot reel, it features views of the edges of water-lily’s leaves and of Monet’s iconic green bridge, until the lens of the camera is intentionally removed to place the analogue film directly in contact with the environment, recording its presence with no interface. The abstract image resulting from this process captures the shimmering lights and movements of all beings during this quiet summer night.

Psychotherapist doctor and ethnologist filmmaker, Michel Meignant goes in 2015 to Brazil with his companion Anne, suffering from a cancer, to visit the medium João de Deus, famous for his miraculous healings. "It is not me who heals, it is God with the benevolent Entities" affirms João de Deus. Following revelations, the medium is tried and sentenced in 2019 for the rape of numerous women to 59 years in prison.

A film resolutely turned on the side of the bees, full of hope, enriching, committed, exciting and politically incorrect ... which will transform our view of this insect and the living world. Our relationship with the living world must change if we want to safeguard our environment. Changing our view on nature, working with it and not against it, are values that this film wants to share.

After discovering his HIV status and leaving his football club, Theo met love with Lukas. Will their love survive the stigma attached to being HIV positive?

Hannah, a young woman who is both phobic and hypochondriac, lives alone in her mansion and spends her days relentlessly hunting down dust with her army of cleaning cloths. Her maid, Louise, faithfully assists her in this never-ending obsession. Everything must be clean... Clean... Clean... Driven by an unceasing quest for cleanliness, the young heroine is constantly searching for the ultimate miracle product. When she receives a promising new disinfectant, she eagerly tests it on herself without hesitation. But the experiment unexpectedly transports her into an extraordinary world.