International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Clarice has always looked up to her father. But when the time has come to evaluate his political legacy, she gets entangled in a web where good and evil, truth and lies are desperately interweaved....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
The film begins with an amorous promise: I can change. A promise heard too often, a promise we know to be false in advance. Amie-Sarah has fallen deeply in love with Boby, a young Romanian Romani who...
National Competition
Nathalie cannot cope with her son Gobran, who is having difficulties with the police and at school. Together, they go to see Naïma Serroukh, instigator and facilitator of the project called...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
We are somewhere in the north of Spain. After crossing a town, in the rain, at the end of a tunnel, the valley of Solana opens up. The grain and the flickering of the film add a dreamlike quality to...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
While his previous film addressed the question of rural life via the major health crisis of the 20th century (mad cow disease) and in the form of a fiction ( Bloody Milk , César for Best First...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they...
Burning Lights International
One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
A man returns to Bamako, the city of his childhood, and perceives in the streets — fleeing like a shadow in the night — the face of what he was in the past: a lost child. His voice then...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer's is slowing her down. A...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
On the Moon, a group of men await the arrival of inhabitants of Planet Earth. In the meantime, they look after the idyllic forest that they have cultivated on lunar terrain– they water it, they...
National Competition
What is happening in Nuria's head? While doctors carefully examine her brain, thoroughly scrutinised by an MRI, Anna Hungerbühler endeavours to show us the day-to-day of her intriguing...
Burning Lights International
The film begins with a volcanic eruption that stranded the director, Pauline Julier, in a foreign city, among strangers. In turns, these strangers evoke legends about the formation of the continents,...
Doc Alliance Selection
Three portraits, three men, solitary and vagabond. First, Patrick Dumont, who lives in the streets and walks around Paris with a relationship to places that fosters an original simplicity....
Burning Lights International
Chady and David work on cargo ships on Lake Geneva. They are both foreigners in Switzerland. On the oscillating waters of the lake, the young men, who are haunted by the memories of their home...
Cinquante
Naomi Kawase gives this book of cinematographical notes that covers the first 23 years of her life the appearance of an impressionist quest, made of photographs and images she shot herself in S8mm....
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In 1976, the announcement that Guadeloupe's main volcano, La Grande Soufrière, was about to erupt emptied Basse-Terre of its inhabitants. Werner Herzog heads there with his team, his two operators,...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
“Talking about oil: corpse juice” (René Barjavel). Herzog could have made this sentence his own, in the way his “lessons of darkness” evoking the ravages of the first Gulf war constitute a cinematic...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In his quest to understand what motivates humans to surpass themselves, Werner Herzog accompanies two legendary climbers for a dual ascent in the Himalayas. The aim of Reinhold Messner and Hans...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
In his quest for ecstasy, Werner Herzog finds a perfect alter ego in Walter Steiner, a famous ski-jumper from the 1970s. With their shared vision of the sport and the idea of exploits, they both...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
After the death of her father, Selina Weber seeks refuge in Pompei, a city still crossed by phantoms of those struck by the eruption of Vesuvius two thousand years ago. He had filmed her as a...