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In Portugal, a luxury eco-tourism sector is developing on the unspoiled Alentejo coast. But behind the promise of environmentally friendly tourism lie serious problems: soil depletion, concreting over protected areas, and more. This new El Dorado for wealthy tourists is disrupting the region's social, cultural, economic, and natural balance... and thus, forcing the region's locals to leave.
A young witch falls in love and decides to create her own love potion. After a long process, she manages to offer the flowers sprinkled with the potion to her future beloved. However, a surprise awaits her
Why do we have so many customs and rules to see our loved ones off in the afterlife? A child fascinated by the customs of a funeral in a Moldovan village forgets about the funeral. We follow the child’s imagination assimilating the folkloric traditions, trying to understand what is going on.
In the Serranía de la Macarena, in the north of the Colombian Amazon, lies “Río Rojo”, a mythical river that runs through the middle of the forest, also called “the river of the seven colors”. Young Oscar, grandmother Doña María and the Indian Sabino live peacefully in the region, in communion with nature. But this area, once preserved by the conflict with FARC, is now victim of its beauty and threatened by the arrival of new visitors…
An urban landscape is decomposed and recomposed through the movements of a robotic camera.
Our story begins with Victor, an apprentice plumber, having a sexual identity crisis. Going to a gay bar for the first time, he meets Gabriel, a confident real estate agent. A love affair quickly develops between our two young characters. But during an event organized by the association AIDES, one of them will discover his seropositivity, an ordeal that they will try to overcome together.
A simple nurse's aide and mother of three children, Sonia is committed to fundamental rights. She is convinced that the crisis that France has been experiencing since the beginning of the pandemic is more political than sanitary. Sonia founded the Blouses Blanches, a collective working for fundamental freedoms, and is opposed to the mandatory and systematic vaccination of caregivers and children. From her point of view, both have been sacrificed on the altar of the pandemic. For several months, Maga and Ariakina Ettori met with scientists, doctors and politicians in order to understand what this health crisis reveals about our health system, our society, our collective values and our democracy. A balanced and nuanced journalistic investigation.
Guided by a book by Néstor Almendros that he acquired clandestinely in Havana in the 1980s, Ricardo Vega filmed in 8 mm and edited the images in Paris three decades later.
There is a parking lot, a stadium. A wood and men. The Ardèche river flows. Habits, appointments and messages on the trees. Patrick, his voices, his fingers. Christian, his flowers. The water crosses then the stone, the green. There is, there is, there is.
An anthem of civil disobedience in the face of climate disaster.
The piece centers on Jean-Baptiste’s cousin Lucas, who was brutally murdered ten years ago at the age of 18, while at a birthday party in Cayenne, French Guiana.
This film reveals the genesis and secrets of the Thai capital through the religious and civil monuments built on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.
One night, 21st June 2016, a man finds a memory card on a cycle track. Two days later, he finds out that a girl from his town has gone missing. He decides to go looking for her.
A poignant revelation of the City of Light's dark side.
The Semperit plant in Argenteuil. Faced with the molten rubber, bodies engage with the cogs of the machines. The hammer drops: off-shoring. Then a symphony pursues the account: rising from the destruction of the machines, of the walls…and of a surprising community.
This documentary tells the story of the passionate and thwarted loves of four actresses who were stars in their times. Lya de Putti, the star of Phantom by F.W. Murnau (1922) and Variété (1935) by E.A. Dupont, loved her profession but died when she failed to make the transition to the talkies. Mireille Balin, irresistibly seductive with Gabin in Lady Killer (1937) paid dearly for her love affair with a German officer during the Occupation. Belinda Lee, the English actress who became a star at Cinecittà and a mainstay of la dolce vita, died shortly after her separation from the Prince Orsini, one of the great names of the Italian aristocracy. And Laura Antonelli, the star of Malizia and a long-time companion of Jean-Paul Belmondo, who did not survive her breakup with the last love of her life. Stars, celebrities and adored, but women above all…
In a clearing, amid tall grasses or in the king's orchard, wonderful worlds lie hidden: enchanting gardens and lush forests often reveal magnificent secrets. Hidden from view, insects, birds and even children enjoy extraordinary adventures.
Two mice meet by chance in a landfill. They will try to lead a normal life in spite of their environment, under the permanent threat of a machine.
The story of two young men, one white and one black following exactly the same day, having the same habits and dating. It is during the meeting with the police that their day will be postponed. While the first character will simply follow a police check and continue his life, the second will start a descent into hell.
In the heart of Brittany, a passionate photographer invites us to discover his universe on his lands in Morbihan. After several years in deep connection with nature, he decides to share his secrets, by plunging us with him in a wild immersion.
Warren O’Connor, exhausted and unarmed, has been on the run in the desert for several days. He is being hunted by a highly regarded but mysterious bounty hunter, Brittle McIntyre.
A wary man arms himself to defend himself against bloody stuffed animals.
Progression of 122 words through their sound and meaning, pared with 60 found footage clips from 1950s TV-commercials. Each of the inserts appears twice as a pattern of déjà-vu cognitive associations, evoking a multitude of emotions from banal dailiness, flashbacks, or behaviors, slowly leading us from one particular feeling to its opposite.
A melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster
A dance of light and shadows, textured grayscale expanding across the landscape of an apocalyptic city. The sun is moon and light. It unveils itself by means of visual pulsating dynamics, unstable frequencies and vibrating rhythms; until it disintegrates into particles and pixels, and vanishes into darkness.
Figure skating star Sarah Abitbol was raped by her coach when she was only 15 years old. Three decades later, she has decided to speak out. First in 2020, in a book entitled Un si long silence. Then on television. Finally, in this documentary by Remy Burkel and Emmanuelle Anizon. She started skating at the age of 5. Propelled in Paris to try her luck, the teenager meets this famous coach. "He scared everyone", she will admit. He is a great man who has a hold on her. During the stretching, the behavior of this man is unhealthy. But it is at the age of 15 that everything collapses. Sarah abitbol will write down these two years of sexual violence in a small notebook. She will never throw it away. It is at the moment of revealing herself, at 44 years old, that she finds it unexpectedly.
A journey into the viscera of the cosmos.
17 years old Victoria decides to take her own life, after enduring deep sufferings for years. She writes a letter and leaves it to a friend, for him to convey her story...
Filmmaker Paul Heintz sets off in search of Winston Smith. When he publishes a classified advert in the English newspaper The Sun searching for namesakes of the hero of George Orwell’s novel 1984, he causes a collision between fiction and reality. The daily life of these illustrious strangers becomes dystopian, absorbed by the imagination of each and every one of us.
On an estate, Sadia engages in a mysterious traffic. Arthur, a friend of hers, finds out what she is hiding. He will have to make a choice...
A staging of Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" by Fabio Ceresa. Recorded at the Opéra de Rennes.
Régis, an old widower living alone with his canary, whom he loves more than anything, leads a quiet life that is disrupted when a noisy neighbor moves in across the street.
Marianne and Antoine have been a couple for a few years and a routine has set in. Through this routine, Marianne realizes that consent is not really there anymore, which Antoine refuses to hear.
Following a murder in the town of Beaugency, a police captain, comedian in his spare time, will be appointed to lead the investigation. Accompanied by a chef who is just waiting for his retirement, a colorful colleague and a promising policeman, our four characters will have to investigate a historical intrigue mixing coat of arms, music box, mysterious sect and parchment which dates from the 15th century.