Brive 2015

Cinderella escapes at midnight, leaving behind one of her glass slippers. The following days, the prince won't put his mind off the idea of completing the pair.

A year in the life of Imane. A fictional process in which we are both filming. Her with his mobile phone, me with a camera.

Catherine and Chris have been together for many years. To escape the city and the routines of their everyday life, they decide to go on a hiking trip. Amidst the dramatic setting of the Austrian Alps, their relationship is put to the test when they encounter an abandoned child halfway up the mountain.

The word panchão was first heard in Macao. From the Chinese pan-tcheong or pau-tcheong, dictionaries define it as a Macanese regionalism also known as China cracker. Who inhabits the ancient IEC Long firecracker factory?

Noon on the dot. Marini, flight attendant on the Paris-Beirut line, flies over the Greek islands and is fascinated by a tiny Island. It gradually becomes an obsession, until he eventually decides to go to this almost uninhabited Island...

A tiny seaside resort, out of season. Thomas returns after being away for quite some time. Adèle is an estate agent, who has a tendency to fall asleep. The tide turns towards the beach and the dunes, scooping up jellyfish, sheep and ghosts in its ebb and flow. The tide turns, just like Thomas towards Adèle and Adèle towards Thomas.

One mother and her two children live in a house with a monster locked up in the attic. They decide to flee and take refuge in the wood. In the underbrush, they notice a light in the distance...

Anthony, Orsu and Pierre-Marie belong to Lupino. They grew up here, in these public housings trapped between the motorway and the hills, far from the seaside, far from the city center, far from anything. When summer comes, they go down the streets. They spend together long restless days on public benches and waste grounds, aching for some shadow, for some company, for an escape.

Mother is God. And God has psychotic delusions. Her daughter, the director, recreates them to visual poetry with a psychiatrist as a quirky mirror figure. We encounter the mother's flower language, we meet the devil's birds and we hear about how to marry the wind.

In a bird-warbling prologue, we skim over the green and dense water to reach an undefined piece of land, an old woman's wonderful cobbled-up shelter, a timeless off-the-map place. Motu Maeva is the name of that island from where happy memories, as well as some others we guess are more painful, will spread out: a beautiful life-long trip across Africa, Asia, Polynesia. Without troubling about using any chronology or following a specific route, this portrait wanders unceasingly in the manner of a trip or a survey.

Nugzari has settled down with his family in the ruins of Mutso, his childhood village in the deserted mountains of the Caucasus. Nourished by the epic legends created around this territory, Nugzari tries to pass on to his son his intimate relation to the stones and the past of this sacred hinterland of Georgia.

A hypnotic plunge into the evening horse-racing events at Vincennes. The highly charged energy of the young punters pervades everything in what is now a deserted venue.

Two actresses are rehearsing a play over a weekend in a country house. While walking in the woods, one unearths a strange thing, a creature without cavity, nor members, the size of a seal. The creatures becomes an object of desire for both women, desperate to own the thing. But what they don't know is that they just found 'Our lady of hormones'.

David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys get to know each other between admiration, rivalry and jealousy.

Ten years after the Grande-Synthe racist homicide, we trace the murderer's footsteps. The sound design weaves in a voiceover linking architecture to discourse, past the news item itself.

Nothing is true but love. Tie your heart to whatever comes along.

In a poor village in the east of Ukraine, a group of miners drink while telling about the death of one of their own in an accident. Among them, Slava, thirty years old, hopes to run away soon. He longs to join, on the bank of the Black Sea, the young woman he just met on the Internet.