Grand Angle
From Lviv to Odessa, from the Donbass to the Crimea, Vitaly Mansky paints a sprawling and very nuanced portrait of post-Maidan Ukraine, ripped apart by contradictory aspirations. The history of...
Premiers Pas
A tattoo parlour in Torre del Greco, a city outside Naples. People walk in to have their bodies rewritten following their lives or dreams. The act of tattooing becomes one of tribal sorcery or social...
Grand Angle
In China, in the village of Dafen, all the inhabitants make their living from oil painting. In small family workshops, dirty but bustling with life, all day long, and for much of the night, they paint...
Grand Angle
For a long time, Anita, Rita, Ricardo and Andrés have attended a school for children with Down syndrome. In this protected environment, which their families sought so that they would be able to...
Grand Angle
Giallo Dozza is not your usual rugby team. Its team members are all inmates of Bologna's penitentiary. Max is their coach and he is a tough one. He wants only the best from his team. Therefore, he...
Helvétiques
In Xiamen, in eastern China, a copy of Cadaqués, Salvador Dalì's village, has been constructed. Built in a foggy bay, the replica of the original village is embellished with towers, all with a view,...
International Short Film Competition
The “Kappa Crucis” star cluster, nicknamed the “Jewel Box” (in reference to the multi-coloured flashes of the stars comparable to a collection of precious stones), is visible to the naked eye in the...
Grand Angle
In the verdant village of Kells, Ireland, there is the only Irish boarding school for children aged 7 to 12. Worn and weathered, ancient and noble, but coated with a special brand of magic. At the...
Regard Neuf
New Zealand. The scientist Di Tracey explores the seabed in search of intact coral reefs that have survived the ravages of industrial fishing. The sound artist Bruce Russell, founding member of noise...
International Feature Film Competition
There is a new mayor in Messina, Sicily. A Buddhist one. Old politicians have lost for once, and there is an outpouring of new hopes and energies. People around the newly elected mayor try to reshape...
International Medium Length Competition
A Russian girl, a Kurdish father. The father lives in Syria, in a town near the Turkish border. The girl joins him to meet her new family and... to find her lost roots. Everything moves forward in...
Helvétiques
A minuscule bar-grocery in the industrial city of Kawasaki in Japan is the meeting place for regulars busy drinking cans of beer, chatting about this and that, and betting on bike races. The velodrome...
Special Screenings
Solitude, far from the crowds and worldly life, is a way of reconnecting with the world. This is probably the feeling of scientist Aušra Revutaite, who has been living alone for thirty years on the...
Grand Angle
In a stadium filled with an army of fans swinging glow sticks like a single person, around sixty Lolitas, dancing and singing heady melodies, come on stage under an explosion of lasers. The girl band...
Grand Angle
“I wondered how, in a place where people are taking care of other people, the work itself could cause illness.” (JLM) In the surgical department of the St-Louis Hospital in Paris, the personnel are...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The island of Lampedusa is a mirage of freedom for the thousands of migrants and refugees stranded on its shores. Over the past 20 years, it has also become the symbol of Europe's greatest...
Special Screenings
Some adventures seem to have been invented so that they can be brought to the screen. The crazy bet of going around the world on board a plane powered only by solar energy is one of them. 43,000...
Doc Alliance Selection
The film captures the moment when refugees from Syria are trying to reach Europe crossing through Greece. Stopped at the border between Macedonia and Greece, the Syrians had to face once again fear...
Premiers Pas
In the vast fields of Altai, a territory at the other end of the world, some isolated teenagers search for meaning in their life. The possible answers to this existential question seem doomed from the...
International Feature Film Competition
Tuxpan, a town located in the State of Veracruz, is the closest commercial port to Mexico City. It is home not only to several wheats, corn, and soya import-export activities, but also to several...