A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to keep her company, louise must rely on her past to help her survive the present.
In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.
Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky...
Anatole is always dragging his little pan behind him. It fell on him one day, for no reason. Ever since, it gets caught everywhere and prevents him from going forward. Anatole is fed up, so he hides. Luckily, things are not that simple.
I can tell you about my father's voyage on his boat, because I was with him all the time. It was a rather strange voyage, with no ocean or sea crossing, not even a lock to pass through... The boat stayed at home and so did my father. But that does not mean there was no adventure...
Three sisters are facing an impending disaster: the imminent flooding by the sea of the lands where they live. In the midst of such chaos, the sisterly union is shaken up and each of the sisters experiences the imminence of death, in their inner selves, in a different way.
Paris, Montmartre, 1883. Seraphine, 12 years old, leaves a monotoneous life with Jeanne, the grumpy seamstress who raised her. She is obsessed with finding out who her parents were. Flanked with Mistigri, a street child whom she takes under her wing, Séraphine retraces the secret of her origins and finds it in the battles led by the people of Montmartre.
In Mexico City, amongst the fervent devotion to adulated saints, a fictional cult arises to disrupt the ancestral relationship between believing and creating, between art and religion.
Following her parents’ separation, a little girl learns how to tame her fears by opening herself to the world and to others. A fantasy journey through her emotions teaches her to rely on herself and on friendship. And make peace with the new family situation.
French trench line, 1918. After being shot in the head and surviving, soldier André Musil deserts to search for his beloved twin sister Fernande, who has suddenly stopped writing. She’s a dancer at Les Ballets Russes who is rehearsing “L’après-midi d’un faune”, directed by Nijinski. But when André arrives in Paris, he finds out she’s vanished after crossing paths with a man named Lucien Guillet, aka Landru.
In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.
For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs to a sick old woman. Flesh, for gold. Little by little, necessity gives way to the lure of gain. By selling her body, it is her whole identity that she alienates.
The perfect "Granny or Grandpa" poster face is what the photographer from Discra, an adult diaper company, hopes to find as he approaches a retirement home, camera in hand. A quick look at a couple of "nice old folks" and that should be it. But it's just the beginning of the story (or rather stories). While the folks he meets are a bit long in the tooth, they have a lot to say. With Pumpkins and Old Lace, Juliette Loubières joins the classic tradition of puppet animation films, creating a sincere, whimsical fairy tale with a moral that reminds us that old age is sometimes a mask guarding the treasures of our souls.
Three Hundred Thousand Kilometers per Second is an experimental, interstellar road movie. A journey backwards in time, where we retrace the history of the universe towards the mystery of its origin. The film tells the story of two parallel spaces. That of a woman and a mysterious source of light. Attracted by the source, the woman tries to seize it. But the light, in perpetual transformation, remains elusive. The closer she gets, the more its transformations make her tremble, as if she's tuninig into tis energsy. The two words begin to interact, blending into one another in a chorography of connection, until the ultimate pulse in unison, merging space into a single entity.
An old woman and her granddaughter sit around a table and go through old family photographs. The old woman tries to resist looking at these pictures, yet she cannot resist what the past evokes. During the time of drinking one cup of Turkish coffee, we witness the story of a little girl who hung on to life.
