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Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything...

This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…

A collection of four animated short films, around the themes of friendship and tolerance.

A meditation and a reverie upon a city at once real and imagined. Conceptualized as a documentary on the ZUP buildings in France, the film has instead found form as poetic & expansive confrontation with the psychogeography of a contemporary Europe in crisis. A requiem for a city dreamt between its past and present.

Alex and Nico came to surf. For the brothers, everything would be perfect if it weren't for this huge shark stranded on the beach.

Mathieu Collette, a passionate blacksmith, renovates an abandoned heritage building belonging to the City of Montreal to create a blacksmithing school. Sixteen years later, after turning the building into an internationally renowned center for the transmission of living heritage, Mathieu is threatened with eviction for obscure administrative reasons, in the very year of Montreal's 375th anniversary. What could possibly justify putting one of Quebec's last blacksmiths out on the street, as the bearer of an unparalleled social and heritage project? Filmed over several years, this documentary traces Forges de Montréal's fight against the disappearance of a part of our collective memory.

The movie is called 14 Millions Screams because 14 millions young girls are forced to be married every year. As of today 700 Million women were married before the age of 15. I hope that with this movie everybody can imagine their own children and realize how those screams are not bearable anymore.

In a shelter, a man waits for the war to end. Outside, silence descends and the war seems to be coming to an end. He opens the hatch and glances outside. A few steps away from him, another hatch opens...

The return of numerous displaced wild animal species to Europe has been observed since the 1950s. Now scientists have decided to accelerate this development even further. The aim: to create new wild regions. The method: "rewilding", which is essentially based on reintroducing large animals such as bison or bears to Europe.

A young man races a steam locomotive through the winter landscape of another time. But what is he running away from?

Hassouna, a Tunisian officer in the French army, is committed to the cause of independence of his country. He transmits information to the independentists activists' networks. Once he discovers a list of Tunisian betrayers, he faces rejection and persecution.

Just when he is about to move in with his girlfriend, Michel is overcome with anxiety. To avoid commitment, he'll convince himself he's homosexual.

Francis, a former gigolo, and Sofiane, a young undocumented prostitute, go to the Morvan to spend a week there on vacation. The day after their arrival, an unforeseen event completely questions this stay.

A hotel room and a few sweets, their wrappers stacked like gold leaf... An interview with Chantal Akerman and ongoing coverage of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and what emerges is a genuine tragedy, as simple as Racine's.

Antoine is a musician. The forties, he suddenly decides to end his career. After a few days of wandering, he gets a job as a janitor. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where he takes office. This is a young retiree, generous and involved, who divides his time between his associational activities and the life of the condominium. One night, she discovers a disturbing crack on the wall of his living room. Gradually, his anxiety grew to turn into panic and if the building collapsed ... Slowly, Antoine befriends the woman he feared to see slip into madness. Between slips and concerns, both form an awkward tandem, humorous and solidarity which will, perhaps, through this bad patch.

In West Africa, Colombine runs a dispensary in risky bushland. A strong-willed, whiskey-drinking religious woman armed with her rifle, she takes care of sick and orphaned children in the region. She sees Mélia arrive, a somewhat imprisoned Parisian MSF doctor, herself an African orphan, but who has never returned to her homeland since childhood. She discovers bush medicine, its difficulties and the dilemmas that caregivers must face in the face of chronic shortages of equipment and medicines. These two courageous but opposite women form an unlikely team. They will have to learn to overcome their barriers and confess their secrets to protect the dispensary and the children from the dangers of the region and a threat that surpasses them.

Nice, France. At dawn, Thomas, an incredulous young man, comes home late and drunk. His mother entrusts him with an important task. But when the time comes, he forgets to wake up.

People who hear voices talk about their daily inner and social struggles. The film deals with “madness” through an acute awareness of reality and echoes our secret suffering.

Maria, 30, is impatient, restless and speaks 5 languages. In Taipei she meets Olivier. He is shy, slow and can speak 14 languages. They fall in love. Then suddenly the news explodes. It's their story, a true story.

An experimental dreamlike video rocking us smoothly through circular moves. The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil and soap liquid.

Cavalier Express offers a new reading of eight short films by Alain Cavalier, conceived and presented in the form of a unique story. A look of the filmmaker on his contemporaries, but also on his own cinematographic approach which, from the 60s to today, has continued to evolve towards a refinement, a stripping, always in the pleasure of filming. Past and present collide, overlap and nourish each other in this new opus of the Une mémoire en courts collection.

Following a pencil line, we witness the love affair beween two women who meet and fantasize about each other, and then lose each other.

A French adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt", staged by David Bobée.

Julien ia a young student on a traineeship at the Departmental Archives. While he always believed that his grandfather had been a member of the French Resistance, he has doubts about his family's past. When he discovers that what he has been told is not quite the truth, he uncovers a family secret that leads to the collapse of an entire value system that had been maintained by a silent complicity.

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exceptional singular styles and visions.

On October 17, 1961, in response to the curfew imposed on Muslim Algerians by Paris police prefect Maurice Papon, the FLN Federation of France organized a peaceful demonstration in the streets of the capital. The demonstration turned into a bloody crackdown: unprecedented violence, thousands of arrests, hundreds missing, and dozens dead. Today, much is known about the violence of that night: at least 200 Algerians were killed, beheaded, beaten, or thrown into the Seine; 11,500 others were arrested and often tortured. Hundreds were deported back to Algeria. Long silenced, the repression has been acknowledged thanks to the work of remembrance and eyewitness accounts.

Dan, a pious man is tasked by Sarah to examine her husband Eli. Dan thus brings together a "Minyan", a group of ten Jewish individuals, in order to perform an exorcism according to a strict and tiresome ritual.

Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self portrait, showing another side of the director of legendary films BAD LIEUTENANT, THE KING OF NEW YORK and THE ADDICTION. Ferrara is joined on stage by past collaborators, including composer Joe Delia, actor-singer Paul Hipp and his wife actress Cristina Chiriac for concerts at the Metronum in Toulouse and the Salo Club in Paris in October 2016.

Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.

A sanctuary in the depths of the forest. Masks are waiting and getting ready. Music begins... a cage is brought. Inside, attached, is the victim. The ceremony can begin: a joyful celebration of spring.

A portrait of lovers at Night, in the summer of the Mont-Royal park in Montreal.

In Burning Heart, adolescence, the passage to adulthood, is depicted as a loss of innocence following a conflict, ordinary as it might be.

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the other until the recent death of the father of both. Now, however, they are half brothers. During the voyage, they meet Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer who will join them on the journey.

Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.

Two years in a clown school. Against all odds and trends, learning how to make people laugh out at the human condition.

A growing city, where nearly 7,800 people lived, will be destroyed by 50% in February 2016. How will the 4,000 migrants expelled from the South zone reborn from their ashes in the northern zone. Before the state decided to annihilate the entire territory in October 2016 and to disperse its 11,000 inhabitants, to the four corners of France.

A territory becomes independent. Accompanied by his advisor, and in the presence of a journalist, the president of the new state tries to write a speech.

Fragments from a portrait of Jean-Louis Costes - sincere artist, versatile designer, poet of excess -, a man forever atoning his anguish through singing, performance, drawing and writing...

A star comedian of the 90s, Dieudonné has become, within a decade, a "devil of the Republic." An anti-establishment hero to some, a dangerous militant to others, the man himself speaks of a conspiracy aimed at making him disappear.

After bedbugs invaded their apartment, Sarah and Juan finally return to their home. An exterminator has turned everything upside-down to make sure the couple can reclaim a bug-free life as well as their intimacy. Sarah, who is paranoid that the bedbugs might return, decides to leave the apartment after an argument with Juan. Juan, on the other hand, is attempting to save his relationship whilst also getting rid of the nasty insects. When Sarah decides to finally come back it seems like not all bedbugs are gone...

Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.

Driven by her love for horses, Sophie-Catherine Laflamme became an accomplished rider destined for a brilliant career. In April 2012, her life was turned upside down during a routine practice session. When her horse refused to cross an obstacle, Sophie fell and hit her head violently. Doctors tell her that she won’t be able to breathe on her own, nor move her limbs. From the first moment following her fall, the young woman has been determined to regain her autonomy and climb back in the saddle.

Beatrice, young heiress has run an ad promising a 'substantial reward' to the man who can 'be of interest to the move and seduce. In order. ' After hosting then returned ten candidates, Beatrice meets Jean, a hunter experienced premium. Determined to win the award, it will lend itself to this puzzling game until the game gets out of hand.

Angélique is a nursery school teacher. She loves the children: other people's, of course, and those of her partner Damien, who is going through a divorce. It is then that she realizes that she has contracted a very rare allergy... to children!

Irrepressible French comedian Fadily Camara weaves jokes, vivid characters and physical comedy into a lively stand-up show at La Cigale in Paris.

Georges (Grégory Gadebois), teaches school in Montreal – he and wife Emma, (Monia Chokri) have just moved to the countryside. One day, he surprises a young intruder Zack, (Noah Parker), rummaging through his things.