No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
Country
France
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A young couple embarks inot a new life, dragging their old bathtub on their back. Hollow Land is a movie at the same time absurd, dark and full of humor which highlights the pressures which undergo the exiles, the refugees and all those who have difficulty in finding a place in the world.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Two brothers entertain themselves with a game of hide and seek. As one counts, the other hides in a small cabinet. Seconds pass… then minutes… years… and decades. HIDE is a heartrending and prescient story about family and disconnect, in a world that is increasingly fragmented and unrecognizable.
- Drama
- Family
- Horror
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A troubling moment in the balminess of a summer in the countryside. While gardening, a young man sees his mother as a woman for the first time.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!
- Comedy
- Family
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A little boy speaks about hedgehogs all the time to everybody.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
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Aria gives birth to a son, Léo, but the happy event turns into a nightmare when she discovers that the newborn is covered with thorns. Caught up in feeling guilty about being a bad mother, she hides the truth and can’t manage to bond with her child, searching in vain for a solution in a gardening handbook.
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Adrienne goes back to Poland, where she was born, to see her grandmother and ask her family about communism. In her aunt and uncle’s cosy kitchen she will learn that communist spirits aren’t the only ones to haunt the Polish imagination, and that there are many unexpected and old means to face them.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Coming-of-Age
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Nara and Tayra grew up in Guaxuma, a beach in the north east of Brazil, but as a teenager Nara had to leave this place of freedom. After an unexpected shattering event, Nara returns to Guaxuma but she doesn’t recognize the virgin paradise of her childhood anymore. Is it the beach that has changed or Nara herself?
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
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Four elderly women recall their youth, when relationships between men and women were very different. Their voices merge into one — that of Grandmother Vera, who tells her story. Her memories reveal the position of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.
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A brush makes watercolors appear on a white sheet of paper. An everyday object takes shape, drawn with precision by an artist's hand. Then two, then three, then four... Superimposed, condensed, multiplied, thousands of documentary drawings in successive series come to life on the screen, composing a veritable visual symphony of everyday objects. The accumulation, both fascinating and dizzying, takes us on a trip through time.
- Experimental
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On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he’s dead.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
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Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colourful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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The story revolves around an old Japanese lady who gets stuck during her morning routine of preparing bentos in her shop, nested in the bottom floor of a supermall. Her young assistant decides to take it upon herself to help her by bringing her to a chiropractor a few floors above. Sounds simple enough, right?
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
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One night Reine, a young and solitary person, sees in the urban chaos a lively and vibrant movement, a kind of guide.
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In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instinct.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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In a small town, a funeral is held after the death of a gardener. Three brothers find themselves lost in their imaginations on the day of the burial.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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Cambodia, 1975. The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.
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Burn-out at the office? Thousands of photocopies follow each other in this stop-motion music video made for the French post-punk group Frustration.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Aghilas, a young Algerian, is consumed by a life that offers him nothing in his native country. The prospect of an elsewhere will push him and a group of harraga to accomplish a dangerous crossing.
- Drama