Premiers Pas
“In Afghanistan, I saw a couple making love on a roof”: we know very little of the day-to-day work of the pilots carrying out “targeted assassinations” with military drones. Four Americans agreed to...
Grand Angle
Aisku, Elsa and Alisa come from different family backgrounds. They are young girls with a passion for hobby horses: a game that is traditionally for smaller children which consists of imitating the...
Regard Neuf
A farmer aged almost 90 years old lives with his cat on his farm, on the North German Baltic Sea. He has been looking after it by himself since his wife is gone, but time seems to be suspended in the...
Regard Neuf
“Pine Ridge is so powerful. It's really hard, really dire of course, people coming to our reservation all the time seeking poverty porn. And they wanna have the same poor, pitiful, pathetic,...
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...
Focus Afrique du Sud
The introduction is direct and abrupt: we are in Cape Flats, Cape Town's huge suburb, marked by poverty, drug trafficking and crime, and controlled by gangsters. It is in this electric context that a...
Focus Afrique du Sud
A fascinating personal perspective of Johannesburg, a contemporary megalopolis shaped by its human and political history. Much like a mirror, its inhabitants and districts reflect the paradoxes of...
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 Feature Film Competition
“A tree moans and moans but never breaks. A strong tree tips over and is gone.” Embracing a fabric of places, times and stories—the Sweden of the 1930s, a Siberian work camp, and contemporary Ukraine—...
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...
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...
International Short Film Competition
What could possibly link a village nightclub where a musician mindlessly recites popular Western melodies, a mute black man delivering flowers in a Hussar uniform, and a yoga class attracting people...
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...
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...
International Short Film Competition
A farm deep within the United States, at nightfall. A bearded and long-haired man, with a feverish look. A wild, red-haired girl. He plays the organ, sculpts old bones and walks around the fields with...
Grand Angle
At the foot of the Moon Mountains, in the Kibale National Park in south-west Uganda, Sabrina Krief and her team closely follow the traces of wild chimpanzees. This distant cousin of the human being...