In “Fifteen”, the poor reality of a suburban life also determines its characters’ actions – albeit a desire for fantasy and personal happiness.)
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“Koza” once was boxing at the Olympics. Twenty years later, he’s still dragging himself in his hometown with his manager, a wife and a small kid. A second pregnancy makes him put on his gloves one last time to fight for his baby’s life — and his own.)
“Horsepower” looks at the decay of friendship and the refusal to keep up with old traditions.)
“I for Iran” unites a teacher and a student around their native language (Persian) in an empty classroom to look for freedom behind it.)
A story which might take place in anybody’s life. The death of a person starts a chain reaction which involves the neighbors. A satire of the world we live in based on a true story.
Sandrine and her aunty Irène, both of Russian origin, drink tea and reminisce about their mutual ancestors. Irène recalls her painful childhood at the moment the ruling regime collapsed. Sandrine drifts off on daydreams inhabited by two imaginary characters: Irinka and Sandrinka.
In Paris, a young woman who has just broken up with her boyfriend wonders about the nature love. As she drifts through various places, real and fictive memories of her past loves intertwine.
In the single-channel video Hybred, artist Christine Kirouac translates a conversation with her mother into an exploration of the stereotypes and subjectivities surrounding her Métis identity (Cree/Irish).
In “Moonless Summer”, the countryside is the background of a delicate portrait on the loss of innocence and a last summer vacation before becoming an adult.)
A seventy year old aesthete is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extremes, to a collector’s exoticism.
In May 1969, a fourteen-year-old Beatles fan invited himself into John Lennon’s hotel room and convinced him to do an interview.
“Object” travels through the underwater world with the help of a rescue team.)
A dog fights for freedom against human indifference in “Of a Forest” until his heart burns.)
A strange calmness seems to come from the separation of an old couple in “Off the Highway”.)
David Epiney takes us through the words of Blaise Cendars in “Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne de France”.)
A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. …But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence… R. M. Rilke
Frankie is fifteen and preparing for fatherhood. He is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realise how impossible this will be for him.
A man gets out of prison. Like a modern Ulysses, he will undertake a homeless journey into a contemporary, mutilated Athens. On his way, he will meet a woman and a little girl. Are the three of them members of a broken family or just victimizers and victims of a violent and conflict-ridden society that prevents them from living together?