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A group of troubled teenagers are going for a religious retreat in the woods with the Father Loosehead to try to forget the past and find Jesus. But Harry Fordson, Mich Robertum, Sandra Ursuless and their friends will meet the Disco Killer instead. Now they' ll have to fight back if they want to have a future. The Disco Killer will use his Groovy weapons to dispatch them in the most ridiculous way possible, but always with style and Music.

A young man shut himself up in a house on sea shore for two weeks. He brought only music recorded tapes. He wants to write on music, the main question being for him: what represents music for man? He tells eight experiments done in different places or occasions (in a car, at the opera, at a rock gig, listening a walkman,..). He expresses how the way you are listening can affect your feelings and reflection. His voice and his written words appearing on screen are the mental counterpoint of silent images.

From the Bagdad School (14th century) to the Qadjar School (19th century), Persian painting has always preserved an extraordinary vitality. Court art essentially involving book illustrations, it had its schools, its royal ateliers, its secret techniques, its great masters. The focus of this film is one of the finest work from the department of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a collection of Five Poems (Khamse) by the great 12th century Persian poet Nezâmi. The examination of papermaking techniques, make-up, calligraphy, drawing and painting affords an opportunity to discover a fascinating civilization

This visionary documentary, produced for the program L’Oeil du cyclone, examines what we now call fake news—the explosion of the wildest rumors in the public sphere and the speed at which they spread virally.

"Viejo pascuero" is the namer under which Santa Claus is known in Chile. Through the comical letter written to him by a poor Chilean street boy, we're invited to think on the situation of extreme poverty in the country.

Flea market found footage with sound from the French radio bought low priced at the Emmaüs of Grenoble in 1995. This film is about desire... And the desire of making films.

They are twenty years old, there are seven of them - four boys and three girls - and they decide to start a musical group (rather jazz). Their rehearsal space is a disused hangar on the port, which they are gradually furnishing. They work on their music assiduously, while living complicated, unsatisfactory romantic relationships, and repeated conflicts. Under the influence of the most passionate of them, the kind creative hobby becomes a fascinating activity. Until one day, at the end of their first public concert, they decide to live completely in the hangar and devote themselves to recording a model disc. Internal tensions and an external event will not take long to disturb the apparent harmony of their life outside the world.

A film about a prisoner's execution.

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

A re-enactment of a tale of the Dogon people of Sanga, Mali, showing how the Dogons conceive criminality, justice and the death penalty.

Separation of the functions and circulations in architecture and town planning: DES DALLES (FLAGSTONES). Ironic, methodical and critical journey of these places: DEDALE. Cinema is critique of reality. When this reality is already ideologically "mise en scène" (directed), a function of the cinema is to dislocate this scene to find its reality.

"Replis" highlights the latent matter of the videographic image, made up of dense strokes and layers of colors and time.

A terrible evening when Francine learns the hard way that you should never take money from the ATM when a beast from outer space is on the prowl. This film by Marine Poirson and Lionel Richerand was produced in 1995-1996 as part of the post-diploma "Image and Computer Workshop" at the National School of Decorative Arts.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

The premature death of a 12-year-old girl, Emma, moved the filmmaker to reunite a group he had filmed ten years before. Filmed both as children then as young adults, the film questions the very nature of what it means to be a teenager.

A few teenagers who live in a suburb from which they hardly leave between the family apartment and the high school will become united, thanks to the arrival of Damir, a boy refugee from Sarajevo. By giving the young people of this suburb a look at themselves and their future, he will strengthen their unity and open, through his experience of war, the small space of the streets to the world.

All their life two brothers have cherished the same passion for film. They brought along with them their spouse, Marinette and Marguerite. For over 50 years, in some villages from the Hérault region, they managed 3 cinemas built from their own hands.

This film was inspired by a surrealist poem composed by Henri Michaux. The sombre and austere decor represents an arid mentality, in the midst of which a living creature is continually transforming itself, reinventing itself, being reborn ... and resisting its overwhelming surroundings. This process is conveyed by a fluctuating means of displacement, which changes from shot to shot.

In the Baruya tribe on the highlands of Papua, far from the sea, men make vegetable salt and pass on this knowledge from father to son. But this salt is not a food, it is their currency; a currency that attracted the lust of the first whites arrived in 1951...

Roveros Manthoules, one of the most important mediators of cultural relations between Greece and France in the audiovisual field, created this documentary in 1997 for the French cultural channel Arte (in co-production with FR-3 and NET), which makes use of rare film footage (from the Democratic Army's film crew, the BBC, and the archives of both opposing camps), as well as testimonies from individuals who fought on one side or the other.

"By bicycle (A vélo) may be an imaginary life in Ukraine, among forests and river and plane noises above our heads, riding a bike. Cinema is a reel of desire." (the8fest)

From the vaporous material of Super 8, a disturbing character emerges: a spirit, a ghost, a sorcerer? A visual chaos of superimpositions, transparencies, and fragmentations that evoke the trail of a murder, a suicide, and then hope. The image takes on an organic, almost cellular, vibrating dimension. A pulsation that makes it almost alive.

Looking through a camera obscura during an eclipse of the sun, he said : "How funny...I can make a bigger hole, but it doesn't work as well. It's funny how pale the image can be on a sheet of paper. Isn't it fantastic?"

Shot at the estate of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Nude men adorn the castle-like ruins.

An experimental reflection on the nature of sex using a montage of words and images.

First, he scratches the right cheek, then, on the seventh try, the director's ass takes to the air and floats away like a prick.

Since his start from karting to his last championship world title, this documentary tells us about the career of the best French driver ever.

Stone cold and black in appearance but stone / ivy, like a labyrinth blinded by the rain which shimmers in lines of light, stone / ivy which diffuses a little geological water.

This feature documentary paints an engaging portrait of Oumar, an auto mechanic from Burkina Faso. Always ready to lend a helping hand, Oumar has become a vital, central part of his community, in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood. People tend to gather round as he works, and talk often turns to weighty issues: feminism, polygamy, politics, religion. In eight months’ time, he is due to return for a visit with his family after six years away, so he is searching for hundreds of presents to take with him. Back home, when you leave the nest, it’s to look for wealth. Otherwise, failure awaits…

With the departure of the other, absence, lack and above all forgetfulness are established. The memory then tries to fix a last image. The fairest. The memories collide, disjointed, and only manage to recompose a disparate-looking character.

The story of a ski jumper who pricks himself from Olympus ...

When Kodak developed the Super 8 films, the reels were mailed back to the author. At the bottom of the stamped cover, a drop of a few photograms, foreign to the reel, was there. Cornu kept these caps containing images of films from other users and compiled them into the film

In Africa, they hollow out tree trunks and blow their breath inside them to call forth the words of their ancestors