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"The Mutan tree, well we say tree, but originally it's a liana that uses the tree to climb. And its grasp ends up killing the tree." In Sarawak, one of the two Malaysian states on the island of...
International Short Film Competition
Although Jack returns to Encarnación, the village in Paraguay where we imagine he spent his childhood, it is first and foremost the triggering event for a stage. A voyage like a passage. In his...
Focus Afrique du Sud
Nelson Mandela: a name that rings out with incomparable power across all four corners of the world, a unique figure in the history of modern society, both martyr and hero of Apartheid. For South...
International Medium Length Competition
10 January1946, the antennae of Camp Evans emit a short signal with very great power towards the Moon. Barely than two seconds later, they capture a slight echo. It was the first success for Project ...
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...
International Short Film Competition
The glory and decadence of the Mongolian ethnicity. Climate change and the economic and urban transformation of China have seen the steppes turn into desert and its inhabitants forced to leave the...
International Medium Length Competition
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he takes the train to go and see her, not even knowing if he will be welcome. The...
International Feature Film Competition
Lech Kowalski returns to Utica, where he grew up, in a multicultural district inhabited by the descendants of migrants from the European continent, into which “white proles” are also crammed. The town...
Regard Neuf
Boureima, from Niger, met Lo Thivolle at university in Toulouse. Later, they met up again, on the bench of a public square, where the former rules as “King of the foreigners, those who live on the...
Premiers Pas
Calais, a border for the migrants who are trying to reach England, is also a peaceful port city in which people walking on the dunes, a roaming helicopter and a mobile ice cream seller coexist....
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...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The acronym GRA means Grande Raccordo Anulare (Great Ring Junction). A ring-shaped, orbital motorway that encircles Rome. Its circumference measures 68,2 kilometres. The acronym derives from the name...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The film takes place in a motel somewhere along the U.S. / Mexico border. A man sits in an armchair. A black mesh covers his head. In his hands lies an empty copybook in which he draws and writes...
Atelier Stéphane Breton
Edited from black and white shots taken by four photographers from the Vu agency, Stéphane Breton's last film plunges us into an awakened reverie, in search of a contemporary Nadja (André Breton)....
Atelier Stéphane Breton
At the end of a path, somewhere in Russian Siberia, stands an immense forest, modest protector of “those who have earned their last refuge with it.” In the bordering hamlets, we meet hunters, drunks...
Atelier Stéphane Breton
Riding. Sleeping. Riding. Sleeping. Stéphane Breton travelled thousands of kilometres aboard a train, a journey that would become the feature-length film Quelques jours ensemble (VdR, 2014). Like...
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...
Maître du Réel
“A surly, clever and sensitive cobbler, Léon Maghazadjan has been repairing shoes in his district for 47 years. He's a star. With one hint after another, he announces his forthcoming retirement....