Ethan Renault

The Ice Tower

1970s. From her high mountain village, 15-year-old Jeanne dreams of leaving her childhood orphanage and discovering the world. Fleeing to the city of lights, she finds refuge in a shed. In the morning, the Snow Queen appears to her, dazzling. The shed turns out to be a studio where a film adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Snow Queen, is being shot. Cristina, the star, who embodies the Queen, reigns supreme on the set. Fascinated by this cruel woman with a disturbing charm, both powerful and vulnerable, Jeanne becomes her protege and her confidante as the trap closes in on her.

When Fall Is Coming

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

Jim's Story

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.

Nos Cabanes

A group of friends reunites three years after sharing a profound chapter of their lives; Chiara, Louis, and Rose spend the evening in Reda's workshop to watch the images their friend took three years earlier. The replay of old discussions brings the past to the surface and reveals that things are no longer the same. Even though the group is still together, it becomes clear that one event has changed everything.

Fragments d'un Antoine amoureux

Antoine plays Gaspard in the end-of-year film of a guy from his school. On his way out of the film, he runs into Zoé, a friend from high school. Is it better to be himself at the risk of displeasing, or to play Gaspard at the risk of losing everything?