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A mystical journey of a powerful shaman from the deep jungle to the cosmos, based upon a very ancient Peruvian legend. The old man wanted to find a way to heal people’s souls more profoundly so he sat under a tree and started to meditate for such a long time that at some point a vine sprouted from his chest and climbed on the tree up to the sky, becoming a link between the Earth and the Cosmos. The vine was called Ayahuasca and the people from the village discovered that combined with the chacruna leaf, it had great healing properties.

An ordinary day of an ordinary girl may be interesting if we change our point of view?

In the heart of the 80s, two childhood friends reunite thanks to the consequences of a butterfly effect.

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

This is a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director of fiction in cinema history. Alice Guy was Léon Gaumont's secretary at the beginning of the last century and she was the first woman to ever direct actors in front of the camera. In 1895, the Lumière brothers introduced to the world the "Cinématographe", the first camera. Léon Gaumont decided to sell this revolutionary new device. Fascinated, Alice asked her boss for permission to use the camera to make her own films. Mr. Gaumont agreed only under the condition that she “would be able to keep up with her mail.” This short film is a poetic reverie that Alice Guy might have had in her time if only society at the time hadn't presented her with so many challenges.

This is a piece of dramatic fiction resting on a subtle balance between social realism and highly stylized theatrical directing. In her first film, Emily Barbelin depicts the lived experience of a bunch of sex workers in a microcosm ruled by male desires that form the pattern of their nights. These men are barely seen, for in fact they are fleeting figures, either sleeping or caught in violent frenzies. In a voice-over, a woman calls out to some faraway mother, as a wintertime landscape is passing by from the window of a train, echoing the words.

A young bee must overcome her condition if she is to survive the destructive hornet that has invaded her hive.

A personal journey through Veneto, facing the 6th mass extinction.

In Corsica, the inhabitants of a village witnessed a gigantic fire. A memory leads the filmmaker to this event that changed the course of their lives and left its mark.

The film questions the sacred relationship to objects and the different statuses conferred on them throughout their lives. Precious objects - votive offerings from the National Etruscan Museum in Villa Giulia - ornaments from churches or Roman sculptures, as well as contemporary detritus come together and evolve together in a kind of amniotic fluid. Usually inert forms have evolved into autonomous creatures: these composite beings interact, gesticulate, attract each other, react. By adopting the point of view of objects, by infusing them with a dose of desire, by giving them a semblance of soul, the artist reconsiders the border between the living and the non-living.

On the day of the summer solstice, before the harvest, villagers gather to throw away their debris. At midnight, the pile is burned. Three women talk about what they would have liked to have disappeared in the fire.

This is the story of a Geneva family of 4 children who gave up everything to open a pastry shop in Tokyo, without being in the business or speaking Japanese. All told by a teenager.

A telephone operator in a suicide prevention center, Charlotte recognizes the voice of an ex-girlfriend, Lucile, whose determination to end her life is confronted with feelings that are soon rekindled by their reunion.

Over the last few decades, systematic concreting and the use of chemical products have seriously damaged the biodiversity of cities. In Strasbourg's old historic city center, on the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Mathieu Baud, in charge of the conservation of the building, watches over the remaining representatives of a rich and unsuspected wildlife. Collaborating with filmmakers Pauline Bugeon and Cédric Chambin, Mathieu embarks on an investigation to document, inventory and attempt to preserve the wild species that populate the most visited religious monument in France, the Cathedral of Strasbourg.

Whether in cabaret or in labial synchronisation, one of the most enjoyable games is to make yours someone else’s voice. Ventriloquized by a series of famous media voices the viewer can have fun identifying, the actor of Il faut se tromper moves from room to room and character to character over the course of a sunday wander through his appartment. Beyond the confusion of identities, Valentin Dilas’s magisterial performance, skillfully directed by Jean Boiron Lajous, speaks of how we incorporate the discourses of others and how their inner pathways structure our attitudes, including the very way we walk. (Claire Lasolle)

Ragtag is a chronological timeline collage based on a wide corpus of footage taken from the so-called classic era of American cinema which 1950s, après la lettre, French critics labeled film noir. The decoupage- based work covers roughly twenty years, or 310 noir films, spanning from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

An eager little bear is waiting for his birthday guests to arrive. Slowly he realizes that he has been rejected. But the determination to celebrate his birthday is still strong, and, free as a bird, his hunt for company begins.

Born in 1925 into a modest Guyanese family, Auxence Contout studied in Paris on a scholarship at a time when few ultramarines were so fortunate (a decade after Léon Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire). He has dedicated his life to exploring the Guyanese Creole culture, a counter-culture born of the deprivation of the basic rights of slaves from Africa, which has been enriched by Amerindian, European, Indian and Chinese influences... A man of transmission, he has tirelessly shared his knowledge of tales, proverbs, language, dances, carnival... In order to find its origins, he had to undertake a fascinating journey into the cultures of the whole world.

Following the creative process behind choreographer Bouziane Bouteldja's show TELLES QUELLES / TELS QUELS, Othmane Saadouni has created candid and moving portraits of dancers in their everyday lives in Casablanca and Meknes, and in the professional world they are gradually entering.

On two medieval-arty releases, from two streaming giants.

Volana (Moon in Malagasy) is a Black Transmasculine dreamer who hides their emotional and physical pain in the shadows of a club. One night, when everything seems fragile and close to collapsing, Volana gets stuck in another space where they meet Tia who will show them the multidimensional aspect of their being.

Marcel made a big mess at school. His Mother is summoned to the Principal's office, but his Grandmother gets there first. Marcel's mother and the Principal have more troubles ahead.

Like every evening, Mélanie tells her daughter a story before she goes to sleep. Seeing her inattentive while reading, the young mother decides to tell her a completely different story... That of her father.

Detroit. USA. What is left when the mythical capital of the automobile is dying? A field of ruins, old memories of struggle, snow and Motown. And a fire that still smolders, fragile, because some people have not left and are trying to understand as well as to rebuild.

One October evening in Paris, 1961. A man leaves his room to join a peaceful march for Algerian independence. A photograph reconstitutes the offscreen dimension of the event using fragments of a daily life in suspended time.