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With a few shots, Denis Cointe introduces us to a luxurious garden plunged in deep silence, quickly interrupted by some fragile notes mixed in with the birdsongs. Like an interior music, these sounds accompany a long fixed shot showing us a woman in a wheelchair, her hand wrapped in a handkerchief.

A man discovers there’s another meaning for “recycling” in this ingenious fusion of mock doc, workplace satire, and stop-motion animation by Trinidad Plass Caussade, Titouan Tillier, and Isaac Wenzek.

In the heart of Marseille, a collective decided to shelter isolated minors and families seeking asylum: the Saint-Just squat was born. In the former convent that shelters it, a real solidarity district is set up: for 18 months, more than 1000 inhabitants come and go, mutual aid movements are created, minors are schooled, cultural actions are born, access to care is structured... and so much more.

A team of researchers explore the forgotten, hidden history of Nazi concentration camps on British territory, where thousands of innocent Jewish people were sent to die.

In a dark subterranean world an extravagant man tries to bring back some colors and happiness in people's every day life.

Natural History film. Crocodile fishing on the Klang River in Malaysia. Fishermen setting the bait, and later hauling the captured crocodile ashore. A final title tells us his hide will be sold to make fancy leather-goods.

Now that humanity is in decline, Earth is rebirthing and survivors will have to learn to communicate.

Sometimes tales for children are turning into nightmares... « Arthur » is an awareness movie about children's rights, to learn how to look at them, to listen and to protect them.

They are old enough to enter the third grade and already have a reputation of being irredeemable. For months, they have lived far from school, almost completely cut off from school life. In Grenoble, a unique class in France called "Starter" opened its doors to them. During this particular year, Un bon début filmed their adolescence, which was difficult and rough - but whose course can still change.

This documentary makes us see the behind the scenes of the next album of Yann. A touching immersion into the world of rap.

Hervé runs the Librairie Aléatoire in Amiens. In 2020, despite the pandemic, he made a liberating decision: “stop Amazon”. From the depths of his cellar full of books, which he came to prepare at night to sell them on the internet, he definitely emerged to find his shop and his regulars. Today, guided by the literature that shapes his thoughts, the bookseller dreams of a bookstore in the shape of a boat. It will float between the worlds.

Through their fieldwork, scientists bring to life a lost and unknown chapter of ancient Egypt, and write the next of the greatest adventures in the history of archaeology.

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation and community organising. Combining shot footage, oral histories and archive material from both sides of the Atlantic, the film follows a tangled thread of personal and collective memories to interrogate the church’s contribution to a Black radical tradition.

Harassment, abuse, loss of meaning in work... lead thousands of employees to suffer at work, fall ill, or even commit suicide! This marks the beginning of a real struggle for these victims or their families to have their suffering recognized as a "work accident" or "occupational illness" and, where appropriate, to have the employers responsible convicted in criminal court. Through three situations emblematic of these strategies of denial, this film shows how social mobilization and solidarity enable victims or their families to say: "We won't give up!"

In April 2018, the new Paris Courthouse, a 160-meter glass tower by architect Renzo Piano, opened at Porte de Clichy. For several years, this working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris has been undergoing an urban metamorphosis. In the surrounding buildings, the inhabitants are living this transformation on a daily basis, between resignation, adaptation and aspirations. Through a back-and-forth game between intimate trajectories and the metamorphosis of the city, the film sketches moments in the lives of several of its inhabitants, drawing a portrait of a neighborhood at its turning point.

EMBODIMENT is an experimental film, retracing the autoethnography of a transmasculine member of the Chinese diaspora. This short film is the first of a series to come, it is born out of my political self-recovery and reflections on the meaning and crucial importance of racial passing in the context of a white-majority country.

In the near future, a pandemic devastates the world. A video revealing the truth about the virus circulate on networks. It shows Sarah, the one who found the truth about the virus and Jane, the one who created it...

Inspired by the last essay Charles Darwin wrote on the action of worms, Anna Marziano crafted a film where the cultural and political action is placed in continuity with the work of earthworms, digesting and feeding the soil microscopically day after day. The film intertwines direct observation, video projections and the decay of some film negatives buried in the ground in the attempt to keep visual traces of the life of micro-organisms.

Between the dazzling first shot—burning debris falling from a satellite entering the atmosphere—and the final sequence merging underwater images with others generated by a specially created camera, a path is sketched out which, in the manner of a reverse science-fiction journey, leads from space exploration to a cemetery in the middle of the ocean.

Facing writer’s block, a resourceful young girl summons the powers of a chicken-pencil. Together, they embark upon a colored trip. Destination? Imagination.

The story of the social ascension of a young man from the suburbs, who is offered a place at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand. We will follow the adaptation of this young man, in a world more and more strange.

A woman experiments with a Dreamachine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.

Born of a Breton father and a mother who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union, Adrian Herpe is a young pianist trained in the Ukrainian school. To hope one day to perform in prestigious concert halls, he will have to take a step to the West and join the benches of a European conservatory. His family, strangers to classical music, accompanies him from east to west on the road to success.

A documentary focused on the proliferation of bedbugs in Marseille.

Tryo - Live XXV 2020

An experimental film by L.L. de Mars.

Portrait of the being who has been with me for a few months, accompanied by a reflection on the state of the world...

Franck will have to face his demons in an attempt to save the people he loves.

A film about men and women who have won battles that seemed lost in advance. Blocking a nuclear power plant, sabotage to stop pollution at sea, ZAD to protect the forest... sometimes in non-violence, sometimes in clandestinity, all have in common to be victorious in their struggle.

His footsteps in the stairs are mixing up with his heartbeat.

The Universal White Brotherhood is a community whose philosophy lies in opening their hearts to the light and to channelling a supreme cosmic rhythm through dance.

Shortfilm - Artistic school Project A film about the confrontation of power against rulers, and the people of different nations and times. ____________ Artistic intentions: Theme of the art project: "choose a medium through which you will stage a family and personal object, creating a context around it in the History of Humanity. You will have to stage this medium according to a drawing (or drawings) of this object." Chosen object: English Gold Sovereign of 1911 Theme: A film showing both sides of the coin, from 1911 to the present day, i.e. the point of view of the coin. Heads: only a minority of men rule, and the consequences this has caused during the 20th century. Tails: the legend of Saint George slaying the dragon, which I interpreted as the people rebelling against their rulers, or standing together. The sleeve throwing the coin represents the member of my family, military, who bequeathed me this coin.

Mathilde Parquet revisits Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece, "Stromboli," for Court-Circuit in a one-minute animated film.

A young disabled man realizes his dream of being an actor. But blinded by the artificial light of success, he loses his inner light, until he tries to find it in real life. An avant-garde high school puts the spotlight on the forgotten people who are disturbing, abnormal, handicapped, old, fragile, different, who are said to be maladjusted. And yet they are much more likely to be happy.

Welcome to your guitar master class! Guitar hero Michael Schenker comes to Hellfest to defend Universal, his brand new album.

Grace offers us hope and teaches us beauty. This is the life that Marie-Louise, Pascale and Annelise have decided to lead. Accepted, fantasized, rejected: they chose to put their hands in the dough, their feet in the earth, and to believe in this peasant way of life. Winter, love, spring. A cycle between childhood and old age. Over three generations and 50 years of evolution, they tell their story and their vision of the peasant soul.

A young Parisian woman who's being harassed in the streets and a creature who can shrink her opponents by roaring join forces to deal with overly pervasive men...