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- Emilie Muller a young petite woman goes to her first audition, the director asks her to talk about what is inside her handbag. Then she shows many objects (photographs, book...) and tells what those things remind her.
- What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
- A few high school students are organizing a demonstration in the bar where Serge is working as a waiter for his father. He tries to join in...
- Following a legal disaffection demanded by his father, Thierry Chartier, 18 years old, lives with his grandmother in a small village in the north of France. He works in the fields and is thinking about taking over a farm. To improve his everyday life, Thierry and his friend Rouillé -the local outcast - steal meat at the nearby slaughterhouse for various restaurants. One night, without Rouillé, Thierry frees all enclosed piglets. Though he hides this to his accomplice, the news spreads around the area. One of their customers wants to take advantage of this and tries to cheat them. Rouillé goes mad, Thierry can't stop him. Rouillé shoots down the restaurant owner. After five years in jail for murder complicity, Thierry, now with a diploma in English, a extra tattoo, and everlasting guilt, can leave on probation only if he goes back to live with his parents.He works on the markets, becomes the lorry drivers'buddy, when adversity hits again. He witnesses a murder. The policeman in charge of the case accuses him. If Thierry rebels against the obvious his only issue is to escape. He ends up in a small sea resort where he meets Fontaine, a café owner who doesn't care to know anything...
- A traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature.
- Feest (Feast) is all about the budding love between Peter, a fifteen-year-old boy from the fourth grade of the gymnasium, and the girl Anja with the tails from the second class.
- After being laid off from their fish deep-freezing factory, two workers, Esther and André accept a temporary job offer. They are assigned to look after the turtles of a well off couple while they are on vacation. After a couple of days spent in the luxurious villa, Esther and André neglect the house and spend all their time in the garden. They finally take French leave and join a groups of fishermen, by the side of a lazy river.
- «My friends in Beirut freely recount their most secret, ardent and obsessive sexual experiences, in minute detail», confides Danielle Arbid, a filmmaker who has already won numerous prizes at Locarno. Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension.
- Once upon a time, in a village nestled in the heart of nature, lived a blond-haired girl, an embroiderer named Colbrune, who felt like marrying Bjorn, the tailor living across her house. The young man accepted her proposal but on one condition : Colbrune was to make an embroidered belt identical to the one his mother once gave him. Unfortunately the task was awfully difficult and Colbrune did not feel up to it. One day, she happened to help a stranger who had lost his way. To thank her, the passing lord gave her a belt that was the exact replica of Bjorn's mother's belt. But he too laid down a condition: Colbrune had to remember his name, Heidebic de Hel. If in a year's time she had forgotten it, she would belong to him forever....
- It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long
- Pierre is 17. During the summer, he escapes from his family to meet his friends. On a river, they play tricks to scare each other. This is when the accident happens.
- While watching the TV news, two young men, a student and a photographer, learn that their pets do not correspond to the new norms decreed by the government. They accept to get rid of their animals. But, as they soon realize, this is only a first step. A series of new measures now apply to the citizens of the country...
- Léone, a disabled woman, lives alone in her house in helpless isolation. Day after day, she watches her neighbor Andreas'every move. Deep in love with this tormented, self-destructive man, Léone is reduced to fantasizing about his face, his skin, his body... Shall the twains ever meet?
- The film is at first a documentary about the early days of French television. The various techniques of the new medium are explained through the filming of a flamenco show. The second part is an exercise in futurology. Basing himself on René Barjavel's revolutionary ideas, Raymond-Millet imagines all the ways television might be used in the days to come. His finds foreshadow the videophone, the cell phone, the Internet, electronic surveillance as well as virtual images. The whole thing is presented in a humorous unpretentious way.
- The water of the canal flows peacefully. Kids play on its bank.They are the children of the lock keeper, who brings them up alone. This family seems to be cut off from the rest of the world, their only connection with it being the barges that stop at the lock. But one day this uneventful life is turned upside down: there is something in the water. Something unusual... something terrible...
- If you want to know how Yvon Marciano became who is now, just look at this film. He tells us about the artists who influenced him the most, he very sincerely lists his admirations, his affinities, his passions. Like Georges Pérec, he remembers...
- She is asleep, dreaming. Suddenly the phone rings. On the other end of the line her lover asks her to come. The submissive woman obeys, adorns herself in fine feathers and takes a cab. Once in her lover's apartment, she lends herself to his demeaning erotic games. Is she still a woman or a sex toy? Anything better than a hen?
- George is shooting a film as a teamwork with the students of a Brussels high school. The theme suggested by Saïda and Julie is tricky: they want George to film their own love story. He accepts and tries to impose the issue of lesbian love.
- Newly married couples go on a honeymoon. Not Solange, who goes on a... breakup trip. Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Saint-Michel-des-Bois, le Mont-Saint-Michel, all the places she visits echo the name of the one that has left her. Little by little, Solange gets rid of the venom of frustration and eventually comes back with a newfound serenity.
- Come take an avant-garde walk in the Montparnasse of the late 1920's. This district of Paris, filmed in a most unusual way, shows how dedicated it is to art. Visit its art galleries and exhibitions, take a glimpse of famous painter Fujita, of Luis Buñuel eying the legs of beautiful Parisian passing the terrace of the café where he is sitting, of three Italian futurists, Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo. But besides being a cosmopolitan hub for creators, Montparnasse is also a popular quarter, busy with the lives of its ordinary inhabitants, with its markets and flea markets, with its brats looking at a street circus show. Don't miss the goats crossing the street for the unexpected is always possible. And complete the visit with a good cup of coffee at the Rotonde or at the Sélect on the Boulevard du Montparnasse.
- A high school student in detention is not necessarily resentful or bitter. At least not the one the film revolves around. He looks rather lost in happy memories. For the price of his punishment is low compared to the wonderful four days he spent in his town of Tours. Fed up with the monotony of school life, the teenager had decided to know more about an event taking place in his hometown: the Short Film Festival. One morning, leaving the school he starts wandering through the streets, not knowing how to be part of the festival. But a miracle happens : he meets by chance Betsy Blair, the American actress. Touched by the young guy's wish to learn about short films and to rub elbows with celebrities, she arranges to get him into the Sanctum Sanctorum...
- Impressed by those guys who sway their hips to the sound of digital rhythms? How on earth do they go about finding such personal choreographies? Just have a look at this dance lesson and you may find yourself less admiring. Or maybe more!
- Fanny and Simon flee an industrial area and climb a mountain where they hope to take refuge. Something has happened in the factory in which they worked and the incident has drawn them close to each other. A feeling that is reinforced by their common adventure in the beautiful mountain. After a while, when they feel certain they are not being pursued, a new event occurs: the discovery of a mysterious object that could change the course of their lives...
- The tribulations of a TV junkie whose addiction affects his everyday life and his relationships with his life companion.
- A man is questioning his role as a human being on the planet. As he tries to wash his face and clear his mind with fresh water from the tap, black water covers his face and transforms into an oxygen masks plunging him into nightmarish visions...
- Near the Bois de Boulogne, Daniel meets Charell by accident. The two men haven't seen each other for twenty years.
- Unfortunately, Nesbitt Spoon has just received the grievous news from his doctor that he is about to die--not in a year or even a month; but in the next five short minutes. Now, what would you do if you had less than five minutes to live?
- Arthur Rimbaud was a wonderful poet but also an eccentric. And eccentricity is still present in 2006 in Charleville-Mézières, his home town. Rimbaud's grave has become the place where weird rituals take place. And in the town itself, off-beat and quirky fellows perpetuate the spirit of the poet in their own fashion, be it a homeless book-lover or a an amateur archaeologist able to read in the fossils he finds in the forest. The placid witnesses of this lunacy are the two employees who look after the cemetery.
- Funny, quirky, galvanizing and tongue-in-cheek, Jacques Mitsch's films make him an emblematic director in the very creative world of short films. Here are compiled 16 films by the filmmaker, plus many bonuses.
- The film depicts the day where Yosi (73), the father of the Korman family, redeems the family dog Shula from agonized dying of numerous diseases by putting her to sleep. Yosi decides to take Shula's inanimate body with him and bury it in the sands, nearby home. The participants in the film (the director himself, and the members of his family) play themselves in a cinematic story based on true event.
- Didier, 39, an unemployed artist, depressive and hypochondriac, is persuaded he is going to die within one or two months because of the asbestos contained in his radiator. That's why he decides, as a testament destined to his retired father, to have himself filmed in the places he and his parents used to go to for their Sunday escapades when he was a kid. But, after leaving Bastogne, he hears on the radio that Marc Dutroux, the pedophile-torturer-murderer has just escaped the police forces. Totally upset, Didier decides to fork off to Grâce-Hologne, a little village close to Liège, to protect a potential victim of Dutroux...
- Young Mathieu has come back to his native village where he is put up by his father Jean-Marie. The latter, who is retired and widowed, is happy to see him back but also somewhat worried about him. Indeed why has he renounced his acting career? Why does he seem so sad? Jean-Marie tries had to re-establish contact with his son, who, although not unpleasant toward him, remains elusive.
- In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung specializing in feminine hysteria.