Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's...
Summer in Corsica. In a Corsican village nestled in the mountains everyone experiences summer in his or her own way: children play, teenagers flirt, and the elders comment on the passage of time at their local bar. In the August heat, it doesn't take long for tensions to rise as one family...
Seventeenth century. Set in a small village, nestled between the sea and the mountain, the father of Alan, a young fifteen-year-old boy, has sold himself for two years to indentured service. Alan is forced to take the place of his father and struggles to support his family.
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from...
Vannina, a young filmmaker, starts writing a screenplay about the life of Beatrice Virga, an Italian actress and cinema icon who died at the beginning of the 1960s when she was thirty-four years old. To be closer to her subject, Vannina goes to Corsica to write, in a hotel where the actress often...
End of August. Corsica. Elbe, 17 years old, deaf since birth, is vacationing at her older sister Mathilde. One day, during her visit of the Revellata lighthouse, she catches a glimpse of a man who is coming out of the sea after scuba diving.
In Corsica, during a summer stay, thirty-year-old Alice feels her connection to the territory and to the people who come from it. The two men she desires are the strong embodiments of her relationship to her land, the island of her childhood. But her physical and amorous relationships upset...
