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A jelewer tells his children the diamond’s history. Next to the story of the diamond size évolution, that moves towards the uniformization by rejecting all impure rock, we see his children grow up and the father’s fear of their own uniformization.
In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.
Hiding death does not make it disappear. A little girl who suffered from the silence of adults felt dispossessed of her right to mourn. As an adult, she recounts the tender gestures that bind her to the dead.
During a thrilling massage, a lady is going to seduce her masseur. Through different rooms of a thermal cure, a seduction game would take place. A maze of sensation, flesh and steam which lead them to meet again.
Welcome to My Life is a glimpse into a day in the life of Douglas, aka T-Kesh, a Monster-American teenager. He’s doing his best to fit in, and make it through high school.
A hand, a bamboo. Humanity and nature. They are meeting during a dreamlike journey, from the emergence of life till our own civilization.
It’s a starry night in a poor neighborhood in Latin America. Oscar is sleeping in his room when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window, he sees a little goldfish in a dirty puddle gasping for air.
A whimsical illustration of the poem Walking Grainy by Henri Michaux. While reciting the poem, Francois Vogel “walks grainy” on the stairs of Montmartre, in Paris.
A tiger escaping his hunter ends up in a space station occupied by an astronaut and his goldfish.
In our urban world, the system pins down people to the ground with disregard. But seen under a new angle the city becomes a new space to be rediscovered and to be reconstructed…
Paris-based director Mélanie Tourneur’s eerie hand-drawn animation accompanies Victoria+Jean’s sultry track Until it Breaks.
For ages, teddy bears have been locked in a war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will usher in a new era. A beautifully animated journey from the humiliations of teddy bear bootcamp to the psychedelic horrors of the Magic Forest.
This is the story of a guy who’s gonna die. Maybe.
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days is about the special relationship between Regina Pessoa and her uncle. The film is a testament to her love for this eccentric, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.
In a faraway land where the rain never stops, six-year-old Kyna spends her days playing carelessly with her dog Nana under the protective “umbrella beard” of her father, Din. He let it grow in order to shelter Kyna, who developed fear of rain on the day she was born. One night, Kyna’s life turns upside down when Nana disappears. To find her, Kyna will have to embark on an adventure of self discovery and she will be bound to face her great fear, the Rain.
Amidst fields of Arabica beans, Hurle, a young woman, dreams of a future beyond the coffee shop where she works to support her mother. Her life is disrupted when she goes in pursuit of an eccentric petty thief who will turn her daily life upside down.
Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything…
As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.
Some people are different, in spite of themselves. All they want is to resemble other people, to blend in with the crowd. Some spend their lives trying to do so, denying or trying to hide their difference. Others assume it and thus stand tall, thereby obtaining the place that they dream of in the hearts of others.
After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.