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The disappointments of a filmmaker cloistered in a luxury hotel, finding himself unable to return home.

Little Philippe is impatient to see his father back as he is coming to his hometown to see him. While they spend time together, Philippe still looks up to this man, but he starts feeling that maybe there is something wrong going on.

Installed in their comfortable cocoon, a couple spend an ordinary holiday on the French Riviera. During a night out at a nightclub, the young woman's attention turns to a stranger filled with freedom.

A horde of wild horses, historians who sing songs of the colonial war against the Russian empire, young people dancing on a public square, villagers cobbling together their own museum : in a small Caucasian republic, a whole people remembers. And, all along, the painter Rouslan Tsrimov guides us into the way of living and the thoughts of the Nartes, the mythical ancestors, as recounted by their saga.

Piqued by curiosity, a small cow is carried away in the mechanics of a destructive giant.

The rivers of Croatia are unique within Europe, as their ecosystems provide a stability to the processes of nature. However, the wildlife diversity is threatened as human activity encroaches on their fragile wilderness. This film follows the meandering lowland rivers which drain into the vast floodplains, photographs the mighty cascading waterfalls and frames the picturesque warm, limestone springs and fertile landscape of the Karlovac region. Our camera flies across the interior valleys or 'Karst Polje' which form shallow basins for the annual rainfall that swell the underground waterways to resurface as gentle rivers and streams many kilometres away.We also see majestic Adriatic rivers flow to meet the sea, through the fast moving estuaries of the great Zrmanja canyon or through the mighty Neretva delta.

A young man frustrated by his bachelorhood spends another day alone at home. The day after a strange party, a scratch of unknown origin adorns his arm. The scratch causes unexpected side effects, unleashing the true 'wolf' that lies dormant in his dreams.

Three friends gather for drinks before going out. In a drug and techno music induced atmosphere, there is weirdness in the way two of them try to figure out who’s the secret woman the third one is painfully in love with.

A long time ago, the islands of the Indian Ocean used to form an immense continent. A long time ago, the first man was born in the province of Madagascar. A long time ago, men distorted this history. The time has come to tell the truth.

Sent on a mission by the England Spy Master Agency, Agent Selfish must stop the infamous Igor and his army of waterproof tigers! What Agent Selfish uncovers in Igor's secret base is far more absurd than he had prepared for...

"I wish you an excellent first day of the rest of your magical life, where everything will be magic, enchantment and malice. Well, normally there’s a choreography, but right now, I don’t really want to do it for you." Once upon a time, there was an employee named Wanda who had just started working in an amusement park.

Through diaristic entries, a pair of Burmese and French filmmakers negotiate their changing relationship with Myanmar amidst the country’s military coup in 2021.

"Fortuna" is an island film where the border between land and water overlaps. It is an initiatory and inner journey where men face isolation and expectation. The title "Fortuna" refers to the myth of the wheel of fortune, famous in the Middle Ages. Symbol of changes in social conditions, this circular story teaches us that the world is constantly changing. The first part of the shooting was filmed at the CIAP on the island of Vassivière in a particular context, straddling the confinement period announced on March 17, 2020.

Lost between the trail, the forest and the factory, northern Québec’s youth wander as they ask themselves what the future will bring.

In 1972, two Russian cosmonauts are on a mission to the Moon to bring back Helium 3. One of them makes an extraordinary discovery and is forced to make a choice while solar winds are heading towards him.

A summer camp. From all walks of life, kids meet there. Some hang out in the field, others in the melancholy of crannies. And there are those who seek their place, clash with others, caught up in a furious desire to establish contact.

Pierre is an ordinary 55 years old man, solitary and very shy. He lives in his tidy and quiet apartment surrounded by his favourite figurine collections. However, his job is far from his low profil type. He’s been a Drag Queen Barmaid for the past 30 years, a hard and restrictive work he never really chose. But for him, it’s a job like any other.

In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experience was endorsed by both political and scientific authorities, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s! To understand the genesis of such a project, it is necessary to revisit the history of eugenics. We will first go to England, where the concept was born and developed in the 1880s. Then to the United States, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, Japan, where, since the 1920s, large-scale sterilization policies have been implemented to eradicate health and social "defects", long before Nazi Germany. This question of eugenics is a universal one; its implementations were numerous and it still permeates ethical debates on medically assisted procreation techniques or Transhumanism today.

She hunts. She seduces. She captures. A flash and in a few seconds the victim dies. During a stormy night La Madone meets David, a blind young man; a sensitive man.

Three employees of a foundry meet up with themselves in an abandoned quarry in Charente. Affected by work, the workers remember the sequence of the gestures that they do every day.

3 friends come back from college annoyed, and disgusted with the world in which they live. But everything will change when one of them, in an excess of childish madness, will become the leader of a giant hide and seek in the middle of nature, which will become the scene of an interior journey during which real and unreal will merge...

How did the human race appear? In Kromdraai, South Africa, the French paleoanthropologist José Braga discovered the remains of two children dating back 2.5 million years. These are the oldest bones ever found. One is human, the other paranthrop, a hominid that is our closest cousin. This archaeological investigation is the starting point of an unprecedented scientific adventure, which could finally lift the veil on the origins of humanity.

In each of her films (including many of those that have been shared here at FIDMarseille, over the years), it seems as though Sophie Roger has given herself a rule that is unsettling for anyone else: nothing guarantees that the secrets hidden in each work are revealed to the author, let alone anyone else, in a definite way at least. In addition, perhaps this time more than usual, we are confronted with a riddle – in two chapters.

After several years of exile in Europe, Stéphane, Léo, Cheikh and Boye Gaye emerge from their silence. From disillusionment to disillusionment, they ended up returning to their country of origin (Senegal, Cameroon). Their return is perceived by their loved ones as a failure.

In the heart of central Europe are some of the world’s most impenetrable military strongholds. In France, 160 megastructure fortresses still line the country’s borders 3 centuries after they were constructed. As solid as ever, how did they withstand attack after attack? Was the secret in their materials? Their shape? In fact, the strength and resilience of these megastructures is due to the genius of one man: Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban.

Sticks, cubes, supremes, medallions, rillettes, shredded, sliced: surimi comes in all forms. Having appeared on the European market about twenty years ago, its success has been meteoric. Each French family eats an average of three kilos per year: France is the second largest consumer in the world after Japan. Neither fatty nor too high in protein, surimi contains neither crab nor fish waste. Yet, originally, this product is an art. Called Kamaboko in Japan, meaning "fish flesh," traditional surimi contains almost 100% fish. From five-star Japanese surimi to industrial crab sticks, the secret of its recipe begins 600 meters deep in the ocean.

Debilitated by the death of his father, 22-year-old Maxime suddenly decides to leave his provincial hometown, his mother and two sisters, to look for work in Paris. Sales assistant, waiter, dishwasher, any job will do. But with no qualifications, he knows the odds are against him. Ready to do anything to support his family, the naive young man gets mixed up in prostitution.

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During a holiday in Corsica, Lucie, a 13-year-old girl, meets Léo, a dehydrated boy who is always in need to be in the water, but Lucie fears the sea. Their teenagers’ games are immersed in an atmosphere of innocence and mystery.

"Heavy Metal in your veins, Fury in your brain !"

The film "Trouble" addresses the theme of the mental disorder experienced by the artist's mother.

A man walks through nature, thinking about his life. During this internal monologue, he introduces himself, recalls his past, and imagines his future. The viewer gradually discovers this automaton walking backwards, speaking with an artificial voice but racked with personal and human questions.

In the Purépecha and Mazahua regions of Mexico, the legacy of colonization unfolds through enigmatic landscapes, evocative music, and the narration of the 16th-century Relación de Michoacán, bridging the past and present in a story of enduring resistance.

A starving schoolteacher reprimands voracious children at the cafeteria. Until… she surrenders to some blasting mayo-shrimp.

When the director left Naples, he knew it was forever. He would never come back. Though he left a part of himself there: in those streets, on that beach, beneath the ruins.

Everyday, a 7 year old indonesian boy, performs a long trip to reach his destination on time.