Social & External
The people behind it
Thomas Guillou
Sébastien
Hugo Cattin
Axel
A man wants to smoke a cigarette. His lighter doesn't work. He has induction cookers. Today, alone, an average man in his home, how does he make fire?
ISLANDS explores a cinematic journey of two astronauts. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere the structure transforms. The spacecraft becomes the meteor from a myth of a tribesman; it triggers an old lady’s memory of a lover from her past. As these diverse characters converge in a plane of reality, we confront a particular form of gravity we covertly feel—falling in love.
Lazarus Heroification is a tale of distinct characters who have an invincible demand for attention developed due to their hopeless and lonely existence. Kaustav is a labourer working for a capitalist for undue hours and carrying loads for him. He is now willing to fight over carrying an extra sack of sand. Deepak has been in a one-sided love affair for years and decides to propose the love of her life a day before her wedding. Aakansha who is an Athiest gets to know the 'Idea of God' on her visit to the church. An Artist who has been portraying beauty for a long time has found irrational means of satisfying his Egoist personality. When a memory unites all of their lives.
In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
A metro driver with colorful hair is unexpectedly chosen as the face of a public transport advertising campaign, blurring the lines between the visible and hidden.
Uriel is a man haunted by regret after losing his friends and recalls the one time one of his friends got lost to maybe find a clue on where to find them, looking at the time where his friend 'Santi Hammer´ got lost and how that was the last time he saw his friends.
After Maribel Cruz Mejía's death, all that remains is a recording. Through it, a woman tries to preserve the memory of the greatest love of her life and of the person she once was.
Upon the announcement of another UK national lockdown, Flo and Rob find themselves stuck in their house in London. Meanwhile, Flo tries to maintain a brand-new relationship with Evelyn, who had to abruptly leave to her hometown in Mexico.
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Robin is a bit clumsy in life and struggles socially. When he finally gets a friend, Lilly, it becomes difficult for him to cope with the fact that his one friend has more friends than just him.
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."
Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member's rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new assistant.
About a hedgehog who dreamed of a miracle on New Year's Eve.
Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's down-going.
After a failed attempt to connect with his son, Andrés confronts an entity that feeds from his loneliness.
Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home.
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
In the near future, during a health crisis, novelist Clarissa Katsef visits the Ludovico Foundation housing complex in search of inspiration. With the help of her AI assistant Dalloway, she finds fresh inspiration as she immerses herself in her writing.
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a bomb-disposal expert, who works for a NGO with Fred. She just got back from a mission in Ukraine and, while she's used to face dangerous situations, with the children's lives on the line the stakes have never been higher. Along with colleagues Igor and Camille, who came to the rescue, Sonia and Fred have 30 minutes to defuse the bomb and work out who could be the mastermind behind this. Will they stand united until the end or will the family implode under pressure?
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Matt, a charismatic coach, captivates crowds until he spirals into a disturbing downward spiral.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Three storylines, spanning thousands of years, intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life.
A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
