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Based on the play "Nuda" by Daniele Finzi Pasca, this audiovisual project combines the stage with the universe of cinema by mixing music, acrobatic gestures, images and storytelling.

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

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.

A giant bird goes on a rampage against a city.

On the island of the monks in Brittany, Constant Lucas, a former war photographer, lives in the memory of the one who was nicknamed "the star of Siberia". The old man cannot forget this passionate love that haunts him! His son Sergio suddenly arrives on the island with the little Adela that the old man does not know...

An attempt to capture through film the unique rhythm of our travels, during which everyday life and our work on European medieval and Renaissance art intertwine seamlessly Italian Journey XXI: Brescia, Cremona, Verona, Esine, Pisogne, Bergamo, Bienno, Breno.

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.

Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters—mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?

The story of repetitions of our repetitions.

During a long conversation between two friends, a bet is made. To direct a wildlife documentary, in the french mountains, in only one year, about rare and threatened birds.

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.

As a prisoner in an Auschwitz outdoor commando, Rahmil escapes one day with a comrade. They have only a few apples in their hands and the forest as a witness.

Gum is a sticky sweet and an extraordinary jazz musician. Full of emotion, his heart melts very quickly. An ode to love and... to chewing. A child enters a candy store. There, a music-loving piece of gum waves to his orchestra and begins to sing a beautiful and sad love song: He "falls in love too easily"... The charming "chewing gum chanson" is based on the jazz standard "I Fall In Love Too Easily" by Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics), which was released in 1944 and became famous mainly through Chet Baker's interpretation.

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.

A research-creation essay film which invents a mode of investigation through the body. It’s about performing image analysis while being immersed in it.

Ophélie, a jaded teenager, passes her time cycling and working at the ice cream parlor of a quiet suburban town. When a mysterious woman on a motorcycle arrives in town, her mundane summer takes an unexpected turn.

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.

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.

Every Thursday, a group of students from the University of Ibadan, the oldest in Nigeria, organizes a film club, transforming a small amphitheater into a political agora where they refine their vision and develop a critical voice. "Coconut Head Generation", a scornful expression to designate a stubborn and brainless youth, takes on a whole new meaning when the students turn this stigma around to claim their freedom of thought.

In this reimagined Peter Pan tale, Peter and his best friend, Jim, spend their days hunting adults in the Neverland, where growing up is forbidden. But their world is turned upside down when Peter learns that Jim is growing up, testing the bonds of their friendship.

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.

Mahdia, Tunisia. Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as “machtat”, traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful. Between illusions and disillusionment, Machtat is a powerful and liberating portrait of three women asserting their voices.

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.

On board an orbital prison, two prisoners are surprised by the arrival of two armed and terrified guards. The guards reveal a horrible situation: the prison has been invaded by ravenous zombie-like creatures.