Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check...
30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is plagued by guilt and depression. But he sees a way out, looking to otherworldly forces as a means of liberating both himself and his sister from the corporeal prisons in which they are confined.
Madeleine go with her mother, a mobile esthetician, at new customer's home in a fancy neighborhood. The 8 years old girl is sent in the game room and three girls invite her to play around a board game. But she has to bet money, which Madeleine has not.
At her grandmother's funeral, Charlie learns that she already has a place reserved in the family vault. In search of an escape, she herself delivers the crate of disco vinyls her grandmother left to the wine merchant in a village in the south of France. In the deserted seaside resort, the records bring back bitter memories of lost loves. Here, time has a different value, and people are more bored than busy. Charlie only has eyes for Marina, the waitress at the pizzeria. Nothing predestined clumsy, overly sincere Charlie and wounded tornado Marina to mend fences together. But sometimes destiny reunites lost mermaids.
Dreamers is a film directed by Noelle Deschamps in 2012. Creation was always imagined as a mysterious process. Following these filmmakers, brings to light their passion, their imagination and their magical process.
Julien is autistic and dreams of finding love. His brother Malo is so devoted to him that he writes his messages on his dating app. Until one night, when they cross paths with Mia.
Anthony, a young gendarme with the IGGN, the gendarmerie's police force, infiltrates the platoon of Major Jansen, a corrupt officer who is none other than his father. Part police investigation, part personal quest, Ses Bras Sont des Serprents takes us to the heart of French Guiana and the souls of characters both beautiful and disturbing.
Thomas, a (not so) broke young musician, accepts an improbable mission: to find a mythical guitar, the Moderne. A Scottish con man, a wacky Elvis impersonator and limited US cops get in the way. From Paris to Memphis via Mississippi, a quest apparently based on true events.
After years spent under the yoke of her violent and mafioso husband, Nunzia flees to Switzerland in search of shelter. Along the way, she crosses paths with her husband's henchman, Aitano. It transpires that he's a lover absolutely besotted with her.
In the near future, despite years of training and sacrifice, Killian, a young athletics champion, is beaten at the world championships by a disabled athlete wearing revolutionary prostheses... This unexpected victory marks the beginning of a new era: from now on, the "augmented" are more successful than the "valid"... But Killian wants his revenge. To take his title from his rival, he is now ready to do anything. Including becoming an "augmented" himself.
Southern Italy, 1960s. Everything changes for the Bocchiarelli family when father Mario forces his wife Teresa to sell their small plot of land, the family's only source of income. With nothing left to live on, they left Italy. Being Communists, they were forbidden to enter the Americas. Out of spite, the Bocchiarelli family settled in France. Through the eyes of Ornella, a naive and enthusiastic 6-year-old girl, we experience the daily life of this family, with its many cries, tears and a few nascent dreams. As her family struggles to integrate, Ornella sings and confines herself to an imaginary bubble of hopeful poetry...
After a long journey through the circuit of international Islamism that took him from France to London via Bosnia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Hamid returns to his hometown in northern France. Everyone thinks he died in Bosnia and he doesn't want that to change. But he can't help but see Rafiq, his little brother.
Sixteen-year-old Jessy lives in an isolated village in southwest France, where he divides his time between fishing and playing rugby. Over his head, an ecological bomb threatens him: the factory and its dioxide emissions, which employs his mother and killed his father.
Together, Damien and Max vow to make it off the streets. But when they are expelled from their camp, Damien injures his hand. To save it, he must navigate a world that seems determined to work against him — and ultimately faces a harrowing choice.
I've been living in France for 20 years and I'm Algerian. My residence permit expires in less than a year, but I don't want to just fill in a naturalization application form. I want to document my journey, my emotions, my hopes and my questions about my dual identity. I want to become French, out of love, desire and envy. But does this choice imply renunciation?
