Aghilas, a young Algerian, is consumed by a life that offers him nothing in his native country. The prospect of an elsewhere will push him and a group of harraga to accomplish a dangerous crossing.
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Aghilas, a young Algerian, is consumed by a life that offers him nothing in his native country. The prospect of an elsewhere will push him and a group of harraga to accomplish a dangerous crossing.
Raja is being sent away to Indonesia. Clément, his French half-brother, would do anything to join him.
Recorded in May 2024 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. For his first show, Monsieur Poulpe gives his all, combining sincerity and madness. It's a tightrope act to which he invites an audience won over by his gentle madness and his inpredictable world.
Laura endures her narcissistic boyfriend’s rants with silent anger. She feels abandoned by the world and searches for something to hold onto between the dreary blocks of flats – while the music plays elsewhere.
Fifteen-year-old Diamant from Dakar dreams of making films, but her family has other plans for her. To Diamant, however, these are out of the question. She falls into a deep sleep from which no one can wake her.
Since they were children, Michelle and Anna have secretly met once a year, despite the religion that separates them. But this time, their conversation will lead them to a point of no return...
Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic forests. Driven by a dream of freedom, they defied a ruthless empire with few resources but unwavering determination. Through previously unseen archives and the poignant accounts of the last survivors, this documentary reveals their clandestine struggle, their heroic sacrifices, and their legacy, timeless symbols of a desperate fight to escape the Soviet stranglehold and preserve the flame of independence.
At the southernmost tip of Africa lies the Cape of Good Hope, where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet but never mix. A few miles away, in a township built to isolate the mixed-race population during apartheid, Kulsum lives alone with her two children while her husband Phadiel serves a 25-year sentence.
A court, a cell, awaiting a sentence. Two boys: Warda, a Lebanese refugee, and Ange, a white delinquent. An escape turns into a manhunt. A meeting between 2 prisoners who beyond their different languages try to imagine their fate together.
Ghost Resorts is about absence, in places where skiers once frolicked freely. Those moments of joyful laughter on the slopes have been replaced by a mysterious sense of emptiness. But the skiing remains, still. “the Ghost Resorts series is an exploration of the ski culture, of an heritage, a golden age, those places where there was life, that have closed, but where skiing still remains”
Hold on! The boys are back in town, in their third ever vlog-movie motion picture! They want to horrify us, they want to annoy us, and they want... A place to blast! Now another Disney resort has the same problem, the more they blast, the more it becomes funny. They're making sure blasting never happens in the same way again! Eurobnoxious!
Sam, a young lizard without a tail, is looking for a new one to win over the love of her life.
Agathe, aged 90, lives as a recluse in a snow-covered cabin. Frede, her daughter, visits her with the intention of bringing her closer to her in a nursing home in town. But between the disembowelled fox on the doorstep and her mother's disturbing behaviour, the visit takes a different turn.
On the heights of a mountain in North Macedonia, in the midst of a flock of 600 sheep being watched over by huge dogs, stands a refuge. Children's laughter escapes from the precarious shelter. They are a brotherhood, ranging from ages eight to twenty. When they are not hard at work, they are playing and discussing the meaning of life. Is their future really here?
When Mila arrives at the asylum center, Jahia's life changes dramatically. Jahia has previously kept to herself, spending her evenings in the kitchen where she cooks for her mother, who is haunted by memories of their escape from Burkina Faso. Alongside a stern directive that she must go to school, a new girl appears at the center. Mila's forced but genuine optimism breaks through Jahia's barrier, but the wait for the life-altering asylum decision remains terrifying. And one day, Mila and her family receive their verdict. In this deeply unsettling but still hopeful drama, we follow two vulnerable friends who try to navigate an unstable and artificial everyday life, where life has an expiration date. Or a new beginning.
Anton is about 15 years old. He observes. Alone. A phosphorescent green trail descends from the rocky plateaus and flows over the city. No one notices. Not even Kata and her gang, who run, tag, sing, scream. Anton dreams of joining them.
Wracked with guilt, a former hitwoman tries to erase her past, no matter the cost.
Sofia left her hometown of Kramatorsk, went through a difficult process of adapting to a new place, and dreams of becoming an actress. Bozhena, fleeing the war, found refuge in Truskavets, where she became the voice of children who, like her, had lost their homes. Marko and Maria live in Kryvyi Rih under constant shelling, but they continue to fight: the boy is learning to accept his history through creativity, and the girl is actively involved in community activities and building her future in Ukraine. Anna from Kharkiv dreams of becoming an architect and rebuilding her hometown. Veronika, who survived the occupation of Chernihiv, is healing through equestrian sports, and Valeria, whose parents took her to Germany, is still looking for an answer — whether to return or build a future abroad.
French pianist Alexandre Kantorow invites you on a musical journey from the Baroque to the modern era, with stops along the way at Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Franck, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. At just 28 years old, the exceptionally talented Kantorow is considered one of the most promising pianists of the early 21st century.
Alex is a dazzling young French EDM artist who’s in Japan to shoot music videos for her new album. During the shooting, she gets close to her pretty Japanese assistant Mia. The burgeoning love story is suddenly stopped when the director decides to shoot Mia instead of her. As jealousy settles stronger and stronger, little by little Alex falls into paranoid madness…
In the playground, the boys monopolize the space and the soccer field. But a group of girls, "Les Mousses," has a plan to remedy this.
This Dublin quartet is acclaimed for its radical reinvention of traditional folk. Combining the richness of ancient ballads with dark, cinematic, almost industrial soundscapes, Lankum blurs the boundaries between Irish music and contemporary experimentation.
A young man consumed by the guilt of being a potential pedophile, is about to confess everything to his wife.
During a seemingly ordinary encounter, Julie senses something is amiss with Thomas, a host too perfect to be real. As the atmosphere becomes oppressive, she finds herself trapped in a game where every detail seems anticipated... but by whom, or by what? Lors d'une rencontre en apparence ordinaire, Julie sent que quelque chose cloche chez Thomas, un hôte trop parfait pour être réel. Alors que l'ambiance devient oppressante, elle se retrouve piégée dans un jeu où chaque détail semble anticipé… mais par qui, ou par quoi ?
The true story behind the origin of HC Gottéron’s famous dragon legend.
It took seven days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.
Bêka & Lemoine continue their Homo Urbanus series of films about various world cities and their inhabitants, this time exploring the humans of Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.
Filmed and recorded in July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs captures QOTSA as you’ve never seen or heard them before. This utterly unique once in a lifetime experience features a carefully selected setlist spanning the QOTSA catalog, each song chosen and epically reimagined for the Catacombs. The result is an unprecedented incarnation of QOTSA at their most intimate, yet surrounded by literally millions of human remains — “the biggest audience we’ve ever played for,” says Joshua Homme. Every aesthetic decision, every choice of song, every configuration of instruments… absolutely everything was planned and played with deference to the Catacombs—from the acoustics and ambient sounds — dripping water, echoes and natural resonance — to the darkly atmospheric lighting tones that enhance the music.
Jowee Omicil casts a spell over the Jazz à Porquerolles festival with a spiritual and festive maelstrom combining jazz, gospel, Afro-Haitian rhythms and hip-hop.
In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.
Philippe de Villiers embarks on a personal quest to “rediscover the trace and image” of Saint Louis, a 13th-century king both powerful and deeply human.
When his novel Bound to violence was published in 1968 by the Editions du Seuil, Yambo Ouologuem was still a young Malian writer, a complete stranger to the general public. However, that same year, he became the first African to win the prestigious Prix Renaudot, and he skyrocketted to fame. But soon after, the young man faced accusations for stealing from great authors. He was boycotted, shamed and even insulted. His life and work is a tragedy, and a source of inspiration.