Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Images (snow-covered roads, empty corridors, objects, TV programmes, inte- riors of houses or hotel rooms, etc.) are shown on a screen split into four, while a voice-over fills these spaces with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A new world order, control systems, the financial markets, the collapse of the economy, survival, hatred of politics, the Bible and the Constitution, Christian fundamentalism, instructions for...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto of the At-Work collective appears onscreen,...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A man appears onscreen, announcing the end of the patriarchy and the coming of the matriarchy in the United States. Immediately afterwards comes a parade of women. They are in distress. They are...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“My anger protects me!” Sat in his car, with a long beard and dishevelled hair, Joetalk100 talks to the camera. He has just got out of prison. He has diabetes. He keeps drinking cold coffee and...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
“The whole life of these societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of ‘spectacles'. All that was directly lived has become mere...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A film built on lies, assuming the end of the world on 21 December 2012 as the greatest of them. Conquering fear by manufacturing scares: that's what the teens in Hoax Canular do with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
The filmmaker's daughter looks at herself on a computer screen, using it like a mirror. She is surprised to see the colour of her lips…A searing indication of the future generation's relationship with...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
In his previous film, Hoax Canular (VdR 2014), Dominic Gagnon revealed the obsessions of a western youth tempted by nihilism through a montage of ama- teur videos posted online by...
Grand Angle
NPO Sales
Should we eat meat or not? Marijn, a journalist for a consumer programme and a young mother from Amsterdam, would like to stop. The ecological impact, the industrial scale conditions of production...
Helvétiques
Armed with a camera and plenty of reckless enthusiasm, two childhood friends decide to take on the adventure of spending the summer at an alpine pasture. The two plan mainly to revive their friendship...
Projections Spéciales
The sperm whale suddenly appears a few centimetres away from Leina Sato, while the free diver is swimming alone in the waters of Mauritius. The animal, deprived of central vision, cannot see her from...
International Feature Film Competition
In the Aysén region in Chilean Patagonia dwell a population of 90,000 isolated souls sharing the harsh landscapes of an area about the size of England. Here where beauty seems to be...
International Medium Length Competition
In a region steeped in history, a lost country: former Yugoslavia. Brankica lives the nomadic existence of sellers of entertainment and “dreams”, follow- ing the rhythm of the fairgrounds; a modest...
Premiers Pas
They belong to the generation born after the bloody separation of former Yugoslavia. Carmen Jaquier and Nagi Gianni filmed them on a promontory that overlooks the Kovači Muslim cemetery in...
Regard Neuf
Sélim Mourad traces the portrait of a family in which he is trying to find his place. The last descendant, losing his fertility, attracted to men, he is won- dering about filiation and confronts his...
Premiers Pas
On the heights of Sarajevo, in the fog, we discover men who are milling around an abandoned house. Who are they? What are they doing? What tracks are they busy trying to erase? In one movement, a slow...
Helvétiques
In Pristina, everyone knows Kadri Batusha's house, a concrete and steel castle that arose without plans, archi- tects or permits, and shelters some 300 residents on the heights of the Kosovar capital....
Regard Neuf
At the La Borde psychiatric clinic, founded by Jean Oury, implementing the principles of institutional psychotherapy, the therapy is established around everyday gestures and living together, in the...
Regard Neuf
At its creation at the beginning of the 20th century, the role of the IBIS mari- time school was to take in orphans who had lost their fathers at sea, offering them a home and nautical training....