The reconstruction of a dissolved house community. An experimental, historiographical look behind the scenes of a Paris building.
A French expat businessman in Taipei with a hole in his head who is lost in thought is driven over the edge by his obsession: the smell of fried fish.
Long-term observation of a successful integration: From an illegal caravan camp the Romanian Romani Salcuta made her way into French society.
The lives of young war reporters who travel to crisis spots at their own expense and risk their lives to shoot the picture that will change everything. A precarious job.
A long-term observation of the upheavals in China, exemplified by a group of resistant islanders. They refuse to be resettled, they defend their homes, they achieve …
A banlieue film outside of hackneyed stereotypes in which we meet remarkable people. A confident statement on the history of European labour in the past half-century.
Two French filmmakers trawl the unconscious for clues to find the ghosts of India’s colonial past there. Therapeutic, hypnotic, richly emblematic.
A filmed reading, the past evoked. A historical-political essay about how to deal with German guilt, based on texts by the French resistance fighter Robert Antelme.
Northern France’s former coal mining region, now afflicted with poverty like an infectious disease. Two boys practise strengthening their immune system.
Two women searching for spiritual healing in the world of the Venezuelan warlocks, shamans and soothsayers. Lots of black magic and even blacker humour.
Exploring a virtual world: the illegal marketplace for drugs and arms, but also a space for new economies and political opposition. Dangerous and visionary.
A summer in the Camargue. 14-year-old Théo works as an intern on a farm for half-wild cattle. Monosyllabic, still lanky and boyish, he dreams of a future as a skilful Manadier.
Daniel lives on a Breton beach, smoking cigarettes in spite of his lung cancer and writing poetry. An old man and the sea, silence and the power of nature.
Deceptively real-looking drawings of everyday utensils in jolly formations: pincers, pliers and screwdrivers in an obsessive choreography.
A pupil and a teacher, alone in a bare classroom. On the surface this is about the girl’s hairdo. But what exactly is it that unfolds around the long pigtail: a power game, a showdown, or just a fantasy?
