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Marseilles 15th district, Crottes. The wanderings of a young girl who falls in love with Beethoven, in the misery and heat of summer.

In Martinique, a psychiatric daycare hospital welcomes a young artist-researcher to lead Bèlè dance and music workshops. The film crafts an intimate dialogue between the director’s inner questions, the words of those who learn to live with a psychiatric diagnosis and the ancestral energy of Bèlè.

Capelito the mushroom is a real genius : dreamy, creative and full of mischief, he founds a solution for every problem.

The train stations of Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Lyon are among the most spectacular in France, designed by the most daring architects and engineers. Three colossal monuments, three multimodal hubs, built in France's largest cities to handle millions of passengers. These stations were equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and technological innovations unique for their time. In Lyon, the Saint-Exupéry station takes the form of a bird spreading its wings, its distinctive feature being the 300 tunnel for TGVs passing at full speed. In Strasbourg, a monumental glass roof completely covers the historic façade of the station, built in 1883 by the Germans. In Bordeaux, a giant 17,400 m² hall defies the laws of gravity with spans of 57 meters, five times the width of the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Early 2048, Google, which now owns the bulk of the planet, finds a remedy for death in the form of a digital immortality application. Reserved for a rich and powerful male elite, the programme’s source code is stolen by a group of hackers who make it available to everyone.

From paternalistic and inquisitive bosses to underground miners, passing through emigrant labor and recruiters, through the settlements and slagheaps, we unfold a whole universe that we thought had disappeared while the energy crisis makes us look at coal with a new eye.

Imagine an oasis: it's there in the desert, thousands of years old but forgotten. A grain of sand in the universe. This oasis is Figuig. It was cut in two when France drew the border between Morocco and Algeria. The border also drew a line between two populations and ended millennia of oral transmission.

From the music of French composer Arnaud Rebotini, German filmmaker Helena Wittmann crafts a story of a solitary man walking across a desert. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

A foolish but devious thief spends his time stealing portraits of rich families and selling them to the highest bidder. But a woman investigator knows how to trap him and teach him a lesson. One day, the thief breaks into an aristocrat's house but is surprised by the investigator. She has just taken his picture and stolen his own portrait !

From great plains of Oklahoma to mountains in south west of France, two native cultures match each other. Two women talk about their culture, their threatened language. Isabelle from France in the Osage country, Chelsea from the Osage country in France.

The rejection of the project for a new, more socially just constitution by the Chilean people in 2022 has reignited the conflicts that have plagued the country for five decades. On September 11, 1973, in a bloody military coup, General Pinochet ended the socialist revolution launched by President Salvador Allende, legitimately elected in a democratic election. The subsequent dictatorial regime with fascist features brought great violence and terror to the Chilean people. The accompanying neo-liberal economic system, which made the country one of the richest in the region, led to an ever-widening social gap in society, which in turn fell into a kind of passivity. In 2019, long after the dictator was voted out of office and the democratization that followed, a new social movement is shaking the prevailing order. From Allende's socialism to Pinochet's fascism, this historical fresco in documentary form returns to the origins of the rupture.

Embodying the American utopia of the sixties, the Mamas & The Papas enjoyed a dazzling career, making their soaring harmonies resonate and projecting their desire for freedom onto an entire generation. A look back at the career of a mythical but often forgotten band, whose music shaped the Californian music scene and cradled the impossible dream of the Summer of Love.

A giant bird goes on a rampage against a city.

Between Europe's golden youth and the bloody repression of the Arab Spring in Libya, the inspiring story of Muammar Gaddafi's second son who, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is seeking power in his country.

By committing suicide on the Barikadimy campus, a young student awakened a curse that forces his friends to kill their loved ones.

The film features emblematic figures of the fight against police brutality in France: Ramata Dieng, sister of Lamine Dieng, Assa Traoré, sister of Adama Traoré, as well as Mahamadou Camara, brother of Gaye Camara, Farid El Yamni, brother of Wissam El Yamni, and Awa Gueye, sister of Babacar Gueye. The film also includes rare intimate interviews of young men of color from 'Banlieues' (working class neighborhoods) who expose how they have endured police repression throughout their lives and how it has impacted them.

Jackie Jencquel, author and activist, is not terminally ill when she announces her death date—she simply refuses to live beyond a certain age. This unconventional conversation between a mother and her son, the filmmaker, tackles desire, personal autonomy, vanity and money.

How do disabled or impaired workers perceive global warming? In the North-East of France, a succession of interviews in an ESAT, a sort of factory in a protected environment, leads these atypical people to question climate change and its consequences.

In the 70s, Amanda Lear was a disco queen, pop icon, model and world star. She enchanted Paco Rabanne, Andy Warhol, Bryan Ferry and David Bowie. She lived with Salvador Dalí and went out with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. A born performer, with legendary mystique and charm, she kept her true self hidden behind numerous faces. From Bowie to Berlusconi, from London to Paris: the story of Amanda Lear is also a story of the second half of the 20th century.

Their names are Ilhame, Vincent, Yara, Nancy-Laure, Rouguy and Antoine. They are still wet behind the ears, focused, skeptical, filled with emotion. They are law students at Paris 8 Saint-Denis University and volunteers at the « Legal Clinic », where they advise people answerable to the law. Some of them reminds them their parents, their neighbourg. Their teachers talk about keeping distance and neutrality, but what about subjectivity and beliefs in pratice ? With which thoughts about justice and democracy ?

An "anticipation film" made during performative actions in Paris, Madrid and Rome. Iván Argote deposes monuments, portraying them as symbols of vertical power marked by images of domination. The effigies descend from their pedestals to travel through the city, highlighting the fluidity of historical narratives and sparking surprise and perplexity among passers-by.

A taciturn and homebody young man invites a full of life young woman, met on the Internet, to join him in his flat for a one-night stand. Slowly, thanks to mysterious explanations, she puts down roots in his apartment. An ambivalence begins, between home invasion and desire of loneliness, fear and fascination, hate and love and, most of all, doubts about her real intentions.

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.

Clémence, a flight attendant and single mom, is raising her teenage daughters, with the occasional help of her father, Patou a former-hippie. One day, Dalva, her 16 years old daughter, comes back from school wearing a tiny bra-like crop-top. Mortified, Clémence forbids her to go outside wearing that as an outfit... The visions and feminist battles of three generations get confronted. A story inspired by the #lundi14septembre movement.

When night falls, the city exists only in halos. Vigil or guardian, you must keep watch among the shadows, confusing tiredness with sleep, night after night, scrutinising the darkness even if it means opening a breach in it and stirring the invisible.