Projections Spéciales
One year of life in Lampedusa, the Sicilian island whose shores refugees from North Africa reach in desperate conditions. For all of them, Lampedusa is the gateway to Europe. Closer to Africa than to...
Doc Alliance Selection
In 1308, the workers for the Duomo of Siena commissioned from Duccio di Buoninsegna a monumental Madonna in Majesty featuring saints and, on the other side, the Passion of Christ. Although, throughout...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the Second World War, a Lithuanian farmer found the bodies of three dead soldiers — two Russians and a German — near his house. Fearing reprisals, he quickly buried them in a ravine where he...
Projections Spéciales
11th September, the memory of a loved one, a dog called Lolabelle... What are the stories? How are they told to us? Heart of a Dog is a film about forgetting and remembering, about language and...
Regard Neuf
A collective fresco on the fringes of war: the town of Marioupol in Ukraine is resisting through weapons and its ferocious will to live. Day-to-day events are intertwined here with deeds of war,...
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...
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...
International Feature Film Competition
This is Rocky Balboa. In real life. Karim Chakim is 38 years old. He is madly in love with his wife and children. Boxing is a tricky mistress but he steps in the ring again. Maybe for...
International Feature Film Competition
A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. The path to...
Grand Angle
Winter 2014. Edouard Philippe, a forty- year-old loyal to Alain Juppé, cam- paigned to keep his place as Mayor of Le Havre. Laurent Cibien, one of his school friends, films him during his public...
Focus Chili
This film retraces a little-known chapter of Chilean history for the first time: after their exile in Europe, militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) returned to the...
International Medium Length Competition
In a mountainous and arid region, Samir lives off oil smuggling. He trans- ports the merchandise on the back of a mule from his Algerian village to the Moroccan border. Filmed by his uncle, Samir...
Helvétiques
Riace is a small village in Calabria. Once there were warriors roaming the land. Today it is a safe haven for refugees. A small community and its idea of utopia in the heart of a growing...
International Short Film Competition
It is not easy to be a white collar worker in a highly competitive world and tough working environment such as the post- modern Japanese capitalistic society. “Girls just want to have fun” (as the...
Premiers Pas
Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia; gypsy enclave and birthplace of flamenco. They get together every day at the “Colegio”, a former school converted into a ‘peña' (club), to sing with hearts ablaze....
International Short Film Competition
With a camera, Manue wandered a while along the corridors of the psychiatric hospital where she stayed when she became “unscrewed”. The words that she pronounces in a warm and slightly husky voice, to...
International Medium Length Competition
“I am a star butterfly and I love baroque dancing”: Aurélia attends a Parisian psychiatric day hospital. With other patients of the same institution, she is taking part in a...
International Short Film Competition
The diagonal void is the imaginary line linking the North-East to the South-West of France and crossing the regions with the country's lowest population density. A few fields sprinkled with electric...
International Short Film Competition
Alessandra Celesia trained as an actor. It is this experience, on stage as well as in front of the camera, that enables her to guide her characters along life trajectories that are real and imaginary...