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Two sisters set their world in motion. The older one pulls the younger one along: through the playroom, childhood, and from frame to frame in the animation. The younger one follows until she can determine the direction herself. She now takes her sister with her.

Several difficulties stand between our movie watcher and his reward: the extraordinary popcorn.

Insde the frozen hell of children's parties and American cultural imperialism. A comedy short from Make Me Films.

Candela, a girl who has always been masculine, is questioning her gender expression and how that affects her sexuality.

A refugee washed ashore finds himself in the body of a donkey and captured by a man who tries to sell him for labor as a packhorse.

In the face of the climate emergency, so-called "green" finance is multiplying ethical, sustainable, and ecological investments, often veiling outright deception. A biting investigation into the inner workings of a cynical system.

Divorced policewoman Maren and her daughter Amelie live together in Bad Tölz and are a close-knit team. Not just mother and daughter, but best friends. But then Amelie starts to study, falls head over heels in love with her fellow student Erik and moves in with him in a shared student flat in Munich. Without Amelie, Maren not only feels very alone in the apartment, but also in life. She has to realize that she has been hiding behind Amelie for the last eight years after the divorce and hasn't had a life of her own. So she slowly goes "back on the ice". On the uncertain, slippery and sometimes painful ice that is called "life".

A companion piece to Mum’s Cards, For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical university lecturer Dan O’Neill. Filmed in an eco-community in Queensland, the film impressionistically documents both the friendship between these two young men and sketches a partial political history of Australia in the early 1960s.

When Jason storms out on his wife, he seeks refuge in a nearby forest. Little does he know the forest is plagued with lost souls manifesting as his darkest desires and innermost fears

Fun-loving Anna and her brittle lodger Mr. Kurtz are already living under the same roof as an old married couple. The balance of opposites threatens to tip when Anna's helper syndrome kicks in twice. Her friend Gundi, who has injured her knee, needs help with her everyday life and a barrier-free home, but she can hardly afford a new apartment on her meagre pension. Anna's ex Willi needs a place to stay even more urgently. Soon there is the danger of a senior citizens' flat share.

Jews were called "the main secret of the Soviet Union." For seventy years they existed in the zone of silence, but this silence attracted a burning and constant interest. Some were sure that the Jews had penetrated everywhere, up to the top of the Soviet power, and ruled the entire USSR. Others looked for Jewish allusions in popular books, songs, films. Still others saw Jewish secret signs everywhere and everywhere. Where are the real facts, and where is the fruit of a sick imagination?

Sonny, a 13-year-old with autism, reflects on what it felt like to be in and out of school during the lockdowns.

"Sobre vivir" is a documentary about suicide. It aims to make visible the problem and what it represents for a society like ours; it also aims to help break the taboo and stigma surrounding mental health and suicide. As it is a multifactorial issue, we wanted to make a photograph as complete as possible and we have testimonies from up to 60 people, including survivors, family members, psychologists, psychiatrists, associations, politicians and journalists. Some faces are familiar, but most of them are people who have told their story for the first time in this documentary. Suicide is a reflection of the society in which we live and its multiple problems: loneliness, precariousness, stress...

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Claude, a dancer in her twenties, is anxious to see a competition coming that could change her professional career. A health problem will very quickly endanger his passion and his relationship: Claude suffers from hypoesthesia. Unable to feel the slightest sensation through touch, dancing becomes impossible for him, and loving unbearable.

1937. Pepita and Mari Carmen spend every afternoon together trying to cope with the loneliness of the war. Between buttons and balls of yarn they talk about life, desires, dreams and love, but that afternoon they did not know what destiny had in store for them. In the end, they will prove that life is like sewing and singing... everything is a beginning.

World explorer Willi Weitzel embarks on an adventurous journey through Egypt, Bolivia and Panama to research the habitats of frogs. He is inspired by his 11-year-old neighbor Luna, who is fighting for the frog pond in her village.

In the 60s, in the heart of a village, Robert lives with his mother Odette. About fifty, balding, paunchy, Robert spends most of his time locked in the garage where he tries to develop a teleport machine. Robert will try to teleport himself, but a fly is stuck in the machine, and the scientific apprentice will gradually turn into a giant insect. Robert will little by little dehumanize to become a beast able to climb the wall, pushed by an insatiable search for food.

One doesn't bounce and other one doesn't have a sound.

Wagner does not exist. At least not officially. However, after months of investigation and for the first time, Alexandra Jousset and Ksenia Bolchakova plunge us into the heart of this secret army. This film is an investigation into the Russian private military company Wagner. Deployed on all the hot spots of the planet. Its thousands of mercenaries are the armed arm of a Russia that dreams of being great again, applying the recipes learned by Vladimir Putin at the KGB: destabilize and disinform.

1 in 3 women are victims of violence during their lifetime, i.e. 1 billion women worldwide. Their names are Myriam, Adèle, Clémence ... They are 20, 35 or 48 years old. They are victims but do not always have the words to speak and to find help ... Since January 1, 2020, 11 women have died killed by their spouse or ex-spouse.

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.

What happens if a group of old people, who see their world collapse around them, instead of giving up decide to fight back in a brilliant and courageous way?

London is being terrorized by Christian white supremacists. While a broken man is groomed for the next attack, a boy from Brixton sees the world in a different way. But seeing things differently can be dangerous.

Thunder live at Hellfest festival, Clisson, France on 23rd June 2022.

Photographer Anja Niedringhaus was 26 when she came to Sarajevo in 1992 to report on the war. It's bitterly cold there, there's no electricity, hardly any food, and everyone's lives are constantly in danger. Spanish photographer Sergio takes her under his wing and shows her how to survive in a war zone. Anja reported on the scene with interruptions for almost three years, later she worked in Kosovo and Afghanistan, among other places. In 2001 she switched to the most renowned photo agency in the world, the Associated Press . Her photos end up on the front pages of the major international newspapers, and in 2005 she received the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting from Iraq. In Kabul, she meets the AP's chief correspondent, Kathy Gannon, and the two soon become an inseparable team. But then a devastating attack took place during the Afghan presidential elections in 2014.

Pierre Crom reports. In 2014, the photojournalist traveled to Ukraine to document the imminent conflict on the eastern border. Juri Rechinsky shows Crom in an extensive interview, which together with his haunting photos and an unnerving score quickly develops an extremely grim pull.

At a family party, Matthias and Cosmo try in vain to say something. While waiting for family friends, they playfully seek closeness. but unspoken fears of family and the future collide.

In a lower-class neighborhood in Rome, there is a barber who believes in conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock of his family but also at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police.

Ascanio's lonely life goes unstable when he accepts to meet an attractive man known on a gay dating app.

Sainete in two acts. Part of Project Zarza: zarzuela made by youth for youth.

Spring 2020. In the midst of the pandemic, Diego has just turned 18. Although he's named after his father's idol, Maradona, he doesn't really like football, nor lives in Naples anymore. After his mother's death, he moved with his father Franco in a Roman suburb, but he's having an hard time integrating and seems to get better along with the African immigrants living next door than with his new classmates. Things change after Tea, a unconventional young woman who's guarding an important secret, bursts into his and Franco's lives. Their forced coexistence will fuel Diego's coming-of-age journey.

Pedro Urraca, Spanish policeman and Gestapo agent led the persecution of numerous Spanish Republican loyalists exiled in France during the Nazi occupation. The portrait of a sinister character through the testimony of his granddaughter.

The Senegal River forms the national border between Mauritania and Senegal. In 1989, war broke out between these countries, along and around the river. Both sides committed atrocities. Senegalese filmmaker Alassane Diago was just a young child at the time. Now he brings together his “Senegalese and Mauritanian family,” all victims or witnesses of the bloodbath, so they can talk in detail about their traumatic experiences. He wants to find the truth, and to bring about reconciliation. Why did they slaughter each other, and why were so many people “deported”? Was there systemic racism involved, under the white and Arab elite? Was it a case of ethnic cleansing?

Author of "Sunny Karukera, stranded Guadeloupe" (1980), Elzéa De Aventurin indulges, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together they trace, not without malice, a family history, sailing from one end of the black Atlantic to the other. A story for lack of silences, pride and revolt.

In the early 1970s, Pompidou-era France, and soon Giscard d'Estaing's France, began to break free thanks to a few irreverent figures. Daniel Prévost, Pierre Desproges, Jean Yanne, Bertrand Blier, Patrick Dewaere, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Coluche, Michel Polac, Professor Choron, and many others: all contributed to a culture whose influence still resonates with today's comedians. This documentary delves into this bygone era that gave birth to the new French irreverence.

Mariana, a talkative and fun young woman, has the opportunity to be sent to university thanks to the charity of a benefactor who sponsors the city's municipal orphanage where she has lived all her life and is an assistant to the institution.

A documentary film that interweaves the lives of two main characters: Sergey and Anna. Sergey is an entrepreneur who provides military tours to foreigners. His story is about the rise of his small empire, from a small company made with the help of friends to a huge money machine that becomes the most successful firm for extreme tourism in Ukraine. Anna is a volunteer who had to escape from Donetsk (her hometown) at the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. She teaches art and games to children and often travels to Donbas to provide them dresses and toys. This life gives her meaning and fulfillment, but after meeting Alex on a night train, she falls in love with him and abandons her ideals. Unfortunately, Alex leaves her when she gets pregnant with his baby. She's alone in Kyiv with no money and no place to live, facing an uncertain fate. Will their paths cross? What do their stories tell us about modern Ukraine?

Rising to fame amid the 1980s alternative comedy boom, Ian Cognito was one of the UK's most popular comedians. His performances left audiences in hysterics - but behind the laughter was a troubled and often controversial figure. This is the story of the comedy scene that nurtured a comedic genius, and the real life of a man famed for his outlandish sense of humour.

It happens every summer in Aulnay-sous-Bois (93). Here, the CAN is the Aulnay Nations Cup. France, Haiti, Algeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Rest of the World... The city's neighborhoods are passionate about this "street football" competition. In good humor and “chamber”, Driss, MD and Bryan defend their team. Who will win the CAN this year? The bets are open…

Detective Inspector Jonas Neimann has been the bodyguard of local politician Magnus Mittendorf for years and is close to the entire family. But one day he finds himself in a dilemma. He has a relationship with the team's new press officer, Katharina Borba, which is still kept discreet. After a team party to celebrate a successful election appearance, Katharina is suddenly no longer available to Jonas. Does he have reason to be jealous?

MIA, a talented art student, with hyperacusis (a condition which causes ordinary noises to be too loud and often uncomfortable or painful) comes into conflict with her neighbour TYLER, who has a passion for loud music.

Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.

Immersed in the spiritual ancestral world, you and two other guides are chosen to accompany Nana Lou on her final journey. On the day her granddaughter Charlotte gives birth in a maternity hospital in Tokyo, Nana Lou has a stroke at home in France. She is in the hospital, marooned between life and death... With your luminous presence at her side, you help her revisit her memories and to pass away in peace.

For 70 years, in Serravalle Langhe, Italy, the world's largest Hide and Seek game has been held. They all hide to honor the memory of the partisans who, during the Resistance, were forced to take refuge in the forest.

Les Malheurs de Sergueï Paradjanov shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film Les Mains d'or that Sergei Paradjanov shot in 1960. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the Armenian master's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, insidiously, to give another life to a major work of art.

The documentary, born in collaboration with the Italian Alpine Club, talks about a mountain guide and an exceptional young pupil. Hervé Barmasse and Tudor Laurini - alias Klaus - venture to discover the Italian territory to spread the beauty of the mountain, promote the outdoor activities connected to it, defend and promote the culture of those who love and respect our planet. An itinerary to discover the values ​​of the Italian Alpine Club.