A love journey along a side path. From her cabin to the ‘garden of little brambles’, the director engages in dialogue with the beings she encounters. Women, animals, flowers, trees, and books joyfully coexist in this quest.
Migrants try to cross the border between Belarus and Poland. The Frontex offices in Warsaw are empty at night. ‘Don’t you think that the borders of empires, like the roots of a tree, are much more extensive than we think?’
An experimental essay on the technological evolution of the violence and control exercised by Israel over Gaza and the Palestinian people. In three movements, this first-person narrative combines personal and historical archives.
What remains of the Natzweiler Struthof concentration camp, established by the Nazis in the Bruche valley in Alsace? The last remaining witnesses share their stories. Between topography of places and memory mapping, the accounts bring fragments of resistance back to light.
The mourning for a father and the absences, intertwined with what remains. Letters, written by birds that used to visit the filmmaker when she was a child, now reveal secrets to her son, whom she watches grow up.
A pioneer in sound recording, Ludwig Koch was suspected by the Nazis of complicity in the Reichstag fire. After taking refuge in England, he specialized in recording birdsong. Blending contemporary imagery with his sound archives, the film retraces his journey.
A father dies; his family cares for the deceased and prepares him for his next life. The American setting and way of life intertwine with Buddhist beliefs and customs in a Tibetan family exiled in the United States.
A patient reverie on water in all its states, guided by the thought of Gaston Bachelard and Jean-Christophe Bailly. A journey for the eye towards the most penetrating of contemplations, where the transformation of the gaze that guarantees the preservation of living things takes place.
Hayk, withdrawn and aloof child, lives on a farm with his aunt Narine. Local teenagers mock him, deeming him strange and weak. Narine cares for him as if he were her own son. After a lengthy stay in another country, Hayk’s mother Anahit, a beautiful woman in her late twenties, returns to the...
In a Brazilian favela, perched above Salvador Bay, Mônica’s open-air restaurant has become a viral hotspot. Young people from the community bring influencers and tourists to its terrace, hoping to share in the buzz.
Amid endless takes caused by the lead actor's mistakes, Mungi finds himself seated across from Dohye, a fellow extra, who shares a quiet secret about the set.
Ji-sook, a middle-aged woman living with her elderly mother, fears she will one day develop the hereditary illness passed down through the maternal line. One day, after seeing a TV program claiming curry helps with the condition, she prepares it for dinner.
After the death of his mother, Mario faces an intense crisis of violence at the hands of his father. Desperate and seeking comfort, he discovers that his only way out is to connect with the memory of his mother every time he puts on her dress.
A woman and a man investigate, persist, and sing: ‘We’ve always lost something, we’ve always lost something, but we’re looking for something small, and that’s enough for us day after day’. Between hieroglyphs printed by birds on the sand of the Camargue and an equation borrowed from...
Two high-mountain guides trudge in the moraines of the Mer de glace, a famous glacier in the Mont Blanc massif. The images capture their dances with the void, the verticality and instability of the ground. The sound materializes this moving and unpredictable environment.
Summer, the Pont d’Arc, the Chauvet cave, tourists: the film presents a lively territorial study with musical accents that open up gaps in space and time. This is a dream chronicle of a drift along the Ardèche, between canoes and underground caves.
An eight-year-old girl is found dead, killed by her parents. The investigation reveals a life of abuse. The filmmaker reads Frédéric Boyer’s eponymous book dedicated to this true crime story. From the story of an infanticide unfolds a meditation on our relationship with evil.
