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- A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
- Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The players reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
- As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.
- The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- In a small town in the Midwest, Suzanna, age 23, is transitioning into a man, Coby, while his family struggles to cope.
- The heart of a raging forest fire in northeastern Siberia, brought on by climate change. Left to their own fate, the villagers join forces.
- A 10-year-old boy for more than a year as he confronted a decision which potentially would have a huge impact not just for his own future but for that of his island.
- January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.
- After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.
- A policeman in a small village in northern Italy whose boring days barely conceal a growing melancholy in the town a world whose contours are just barely discernible.
- In Appalachian Kentucky, the uncertainty created by the loss of the coal industry inspires Brian Ritchie's poetry.
- In Georgia a man in his 40s, Levan, is waiting in a clinic for an MRI examination. He needs to find out what's causing the pain in his shoulder. He's nervous. By the time he leaves the hospital he's not the same man. His anxiety quickly spreads to his wife and well-meaning friends. The family courtyard becomes the scene of an informal advisory council, where everybody suggests magical cures and must-see specialists. Soon Levan's savings are gone. He's scared of losing his job, his heath and his wife, who has started to come home later and later. But suddenly, out of nowhere - a serendipitous event occurs.
- Powerful rivers flow between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic, known as gaves. Human activity is altering the water cycle and its biodiversity. Men and women look curiously and lovingly at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster.
- In the urban jungle of Kinshasa, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging.
- A fourteen-year-old boy's life in the mountains is about to end as he is soon to enroll in catering school. The institution he attends is renowned for its strict rules: the lessons on cooking, dining etiquette, and religion make each student daily confront their weaknesses, insecurities and skills.
- What does it feel like to live in France without speaking French? How does it feel to be uprooted and isolated when you were well integrated into the life of your native village ? Such are the kind of questions journalist Fatima Sissani asks her mother thirty-three years after she left her Djudjura mountains. Before her camera, Zahra tells her daughter things she had never said before...
- We follow Fernand, a former worker at Renault, in his allotment in the heart of the most famous industrial wasteland on the Île Saint-Germain, an island located in the Seine, in Issy-les-Moulineaux in the Hauts-de-Seine near Paris, France.
- A collection of five short films about an indigenous people living in the mountains of Mexico.
- Near the Dead Sea, in the middle of the desert, Marianna, Bulos, Suleiman, Michael and some more share their stories and questions and give an insight on life's paradoxes and the power of doubt: the salt of our fragile humanity.
- Nioumoune Island, Senegal. Boniface, a young priest torn between his desires, escapes from his parish. The edge of his makeshift boat, it crosses a disturbing maze of mangroves. In search of freedom, he began a journey that will confront his past, his hidden desires and the vastness of the Mauritanian desert.
- Faces just out of childhood, concentrated, incredulous, moved. They are named Ilhame, Vincent, Yara, Rouguy or Antoine. They are law students at the depreciated University of Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, and volunteers at the "Legal Clinic". They advise litigants from popular districts who often remind them of their parents and friends. Professionals teach them about distance and neutrality. But in reality, what to do with your subjectivity? With your experience and convictions? With what idea of justice and democracy?
- Following the steps of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South to North Water Transfer - the world's largest water transfer project, stretching between southern and northern China.
- In the open intimacy of public gardens, women and men talk to me about their stories of love and sex. Together, we draw a map of what one can reveal about one's way of loving, about norms, and about taboos that limit speech.
- 2014, Cairo. Marshal Sissi took power in Egypt. Hana, a young French-Iraqi woman has lived there for nine years. She gave up activism. It's a time of disillusionment. I met her in Brussels six years earlier. Extremely activist, she organized conferences to inform western people about what happened in Iraq under US occupation. Trying to defend a country, which she couldn't return to, she felt like a prisoner of an oppressive actuality. In January 2011, I join her in Cairo when the revolution is about to break out. The unprecedented movement unfolding in the following days will change everything for Hana. And it is for political reasons that she will leave activism. A portrait of a young woman through time, traversed by politics. Kairos looks for intimate resonances of an historical event that was followed all over the world.
- This film traces, through the common destiny of a village and a factory in rural France, the story of a symbolic brand: Formica, which brought interior designs to life with their full array of styles in the post-WWII western civilization.
- "Avec Naomie" is a family story centered around the social Haitian tradition of placing young poor kids from the countryside in wealthier families in the city, to perform various domestic chores. This is the story of the director's cousin.
- A man has been living a secluded life for the past thirty years in a forest in France. He digs deep underground galleries adorned with primitive carvings. They are supposed to outlive to the forecast planetary catastrophe and enlighten the future inhabitants.
- A poetic and political portrait of a working-class suburb in the process of change, "Ash and Ember" invite us to meet its inhabitants: a journey from dusk to dawn where, while speaking of their lives, they also express their revolt and their quest for freedom.
- Filmmaker Sarah Benillouche came to film the Compagnie Les Nez Fastes, a group of clowns, and then one day, she also put a red foam clown nose on her face. Don't we say that to be a clown is to have the curiosity of angels.
- At exactly 17:30, anywhere he is, the musician and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine, declares : Whisky Time. It's time that we choose to land at home with a bottle each time different. We drink together and what happens is unpredictable. The film is essentially a reflection of becoming drunk, on the art of drinking, on Art, on what escapes us. Including deep discussions, laughter and intense concerts.
- The director follows in the footsteps of her grandfather, Bernard Tucom known as Alban, killed in a wartime bombing in Lyon on May 10, 1940. On the remains of a former air base, we will go to the end of his story, unexpected but hoped for.