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The elephant trains on a trampoline, defying the laws of weightlessness. In 2004, the film was released under the title " 7 Tonnes 2", and later was finalized by the author and received the title "7 Tonnes 3".

Nearly two hours of biting sketches: fake news reports, TV show parodies... You'll also find cult characters such as Michaël d'Amour, Françoise Moisie... and of course three sketches with Brice de Nice, a brand new sketch from Nous Ç Nous, and a blooper reel...

Little Men is about two sympathetic losers with good looks, about groovy tunes and dry slapstick humour.

Léa and Luc were living together. During the day, Léa would take photos. At night, she could not sleep and oftentimes looked out the window. One day, Léa told Luc that a man was watching her from the opposite building. But Luc did not believe Léa's stories.

A passenger takes a journey in a taxi.

It is a mild winter and Martin has just settled into the isolated house that was his father's. One night, at the edge of the woods, a strange man called Haruki appears before him. He invites Martin to lose himself in the forest in order to encounter a stranger. The stranger comes in the form of Yoshido, a peculiar Japanese filmmaker, who, assisted by Mathilde, is preparing to shoot a film based on Haruki's unfinished novel La Vie lointaine.

On the heights of the mythic Mount Olympus, a young girl unleashes a dangerous monster from a mysterious box. Will he scare the little devil that sets him free?

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument. Returning to Senufo country 40 years after his first encounter with balafon music in 1958, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp recalls memories of this and subsequent visits in the early 60s, before participating in a musical event of startling impact. Six orchestras, playing simultaneously but independently, circle with the dancers around the deceased person, who is swathed in fabric by the men before being buried.

A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.

Sancho Panza enters a movie theatre in a provincial city. He is looking for Don Quixote and he finds him sitting off to the side and staring at the screen. The theatre is almost full; the balcony is entirely occupied by noisy children… La proiezione è cominciata (The Projection Has Begun) is an adaptation of The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema by Giorgio Agamben. It is a portrait in 24 daguerreotypes per second.

By subjecting fragments from the film 'Rashomon' by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d'amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.

Film scholar Jean-Pierre Berthome discusses Max Ophuls' original script for his 1952 film LE PLAISIR and its relationship to the three stories by Guy de Maupassant on which the script is based.

The film focuses on fragments of history, pre-European contacts, interactions, and colonization of the Kelowna region (south-central British Columbia) through the stories of several N'Syilx'cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers. It traces the links and correlations between periods of extermination/disintegration, assimilation, and marginalization up to their present day and their context of belonging to First Nations. Sites of social and historical significance are juxtaposed with the current realities of the region's "landscape." An experiential video that lends itself not to an exhaustive study, but to a sifting through the layers of time and the present, to inconclusive but incisive speculation, in a history that has been lived and survived.

Documentary about Sri Lankan filmmaker Lester James Peries

The story of the crew of the Odessa, a Ukrainian ship blocked in Italy because of the bankrupcy of its owners. For several years now they are stuck without a salary in a foreign land, taking care of the ship while it waits for a buyer.

The history of Amos, a town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec).

Fiction-documentary about the short life of the photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) who used to photograph herself, mostly naked in strange places, until she committed sucide. American photographer Francesca Woodman is best known for black-and-white pictures of herself and of female models, which still draws new fans. Many of her photographs show young women nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or with their faces obscured. Years after her suicide at the age of 22, her photographic works became the subject of much attention, including many exhibitions and books.

First film of the artist, Appolénus is a selfportrait in which he directed the beginnings of a debate on gender identity. From pictures of his childhood and shop windows exciting her femininity, he dresses gradually as a woman in front of a mirror, with music punctuated by agonizing laughter.Oscillation of an identity between Apollo and Venus, which ends with a gender reversal of of a famous painting.

The vacuum... or the story of a woman who no longer loves all that she loved before. However, people around her still love. She sees them loving, she hears them loving and that gives her a headache.

A man wakes up from a bad dream only to realize he is in yet another nightmare. The most worrying thing is that it does not seem to stop. If only these dreams could stop... getting shorter and shorter!

A founding member of the Lettrist movement with Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître describes here the genesis of the movement, his friendship with Isou, their discoveries in filmmaking and their inventions of infinitesimal and supertemporal art. Shot in his studio in Montmartre, we see him at work and showing his paintings, sculptures and films.

When the tsunami comes, he is strangely enough perfectly calm. In the boundary between life and death, the details become so important.

Twelve-year-old Pierre becomes troubled by his older sister's changed behaviour.

Very little was left of the film by Anne Prat, a brilliant student who studied cinema with me at the University of Paris in the 1970s. Anne Prat was not just any student. Three weeks before summer break in 1976, even though she had not taken part in any of practical lessons, she presented a short film, shot in the Brakhage style, which surprised all of us with its technical mastery. She informed me she was going to stop studying and go to Australia, and that her film was just the beginning of a larger and more complicated cinematographic work. She had left me the material for her film at the university, in a big box, and asked me to pick it up. At that time, I had no idea I would never going to see her again… (C. L.)

This opus could be interpreted as a long and elegiac version of the Danse des primates au musée d'histoire naturelle.

Alice, having trouble with her self image, tries to hide her weight and eating disorder from her school and parents.

Rey's first feature film begins as a stylish quasi-verité documentary about everyday life in a modest French ski resort. Gradually the film's attention shifts and discovers the dominant presence of the aluminum industry in the area steadily reshaping the region and threatening the resort itself. Shot on grainy 16mm treated with extreme photochemical techniques, the fable about industry and capitalism is an exploration of landscape as a hidden set of signifiers of power. - Harvard Film Archive

Short student film by Osman Cerfon

In 1992, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Gun Club lead singer, was living in London. He didn't have any contract with a record label anymore and hardly enough to live. And his health was deterioating.

A look at the history of the UFO phenomenen

We met Rashid during the summer of 2002. Like so many others, he waits, sitting on the sand, his eyes fixed on the horizon where the lights of the English coast shine. Like every evening, he hopes to cross to the other side. But, on the beach at Sangatte, only the days pass, and these men continue to wait, on the threshold of a new life.

Documentary about Cuban's involvement in African politics.

A tribute to the great Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, who died at the age of 94 on 17 June 2025. An acclaimed performer of Beethoven, he leaves behind him a musical legacy spanning more than sixty years. His performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 at Lucerne in 2005 was a highlight of the festival, conducted by Claudio Abbado, another icon of classical music.