It was said that the young Sheep would live his simple employee’s life in the Sea Restaurant for three years, and that he would be snatched to this life after a tragic night at Sainte Anne’s local dance. Here is the fragmentary story of his friends, in a small town inhabited with dogs and hopes, contained in little gesture.
Lebanon, a country whose geographical location on several fault lines has resulted in a number of violent earthquakes; The Disquiet makes an analytical approach to the seismic situation of the country while anticipating deeper aspects of an imminent catastrophe.
Lição de Esqui the friendship between two young boys is challenged when, inspired by the accident of a colleague, they decide to simulate a fight so that one of them can be hurt and the other fired and they both can use the insurance money to learn how to ski in faraway Canada, where one of the boys’ aunt lives.
Que je tombe tout le temps? is the search for a seed by a young man who emerges from the underground where he hangs out with his friends; together they’ll embark on a long digestive trip.
The man who mistook his wife for a hat uses only charcoal and three sheets of A1 paper, to adapt Oliver Sacks’ seminal work, describing a unique neurological oddity.
Los Guardines is about the way of life of a place, and how that are reflected in the landscape, at houses, in the names of people and how to name them.
La lamp au beurre de yak is set in Tibet where a young itinerant photographer and his assistant invite the local nomads to be photographed in front of various iconic backgrounds.
Les jours d’avant tells the stories of Djaber and Yamina, two young neighbours in a housing project south of Algiers, in the mid-1990s, during a violent outbreak; in a culture that doesn’t encourage proximity between boys and girls each of them can only fantasise the other’s life.
Théodore Casson is a flâneur, a dreamer, and a photographer who is taken in by Doctor Spielvogel and undergoes a bizarre transformation.
In As Figuras Gravadas na Faca pela Seiva das Bananeiras the postcards sent between the island of Madeira and the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique create a fictional colonial memory.
Through the hawthorn is an animated triptych exploring the difficulties of communication in a session between a psychiatrist, a schizophrenic patient and his mother.
Un roi sans divertissement is inspired by the work of Jean Giono trying to recreate the atmosphere of the novel where in the whiteness of the landscape one probes the darkness of the human soul.
Working to Beat the Devil introduces the ageing scientist Guy Shewring who uses the words of Charles Darwin to discover the secrets of creation and life, and to build an imaginary world in which science becomes fiction.
In Yearbook a man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
Une vie radieuse is a fiction set in 1952 when the Radiant City of Marseille receives its first occupants, attracted by Le Corbusier’s ideals; upon arrival, a couple experience the location, facilities, and space allotted to them.
Mille Soleils documents Mati Diop’s journey to Senegal where her family story, the story of cinema and that of the country meet.
Pouco mais de um mês follows the recent romance of the director and his girlfriend, in an intimate yet fictional portrait of a real relationship, while the outside world is moving on the ceiling through the effect of a camera obscura achieved by the light that comes through the narrow space between the window and the curtains.
Quelqu’un d’ extraordinaire marks the directing debut of Monia Chokri, actress some of the films by Xavier Dolan (the film’s editor); this hilarious comedy focuses on a socially crippled 30 year old girl who is forced to join a bachelorette party of an old friend, confronting her with the gap between her and the world to which he belonged in adolescence.