In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Several years after being separated by prison, Louis and Annette revisit the memories and places that challenged their …
Nostalgic, mysterious, enigmatic. This experimental short film navigates between the idyllic days the filmmaker spent i…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
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