Isabel Pagliai

Tender

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

Tender

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

Tender

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

The Park

Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love. But as the sun goes down, it is time to separate... And a dark night begins.

Orfeo

A waterway, at night. A beach, children. During the day, people strolling along the river bank. A poem in three parts, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and the filmmaker’s childhood landscapes on the Franco- Swiss border.

Orfeo

A waterway, at night. A beach, children. During the day, people strolling along the river bank. A poem in three parts, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and the filmmaker’s childhood landscapes on the Franco- Swiss border.

Isabella Morra

What's the link between the wild stories of Adriana, a young girl of today, and the poetry of Isabella, accused of treason by her brothers in the sixteenth century? Here, Adriana recounts, Camille grumbles, and Océane strives to declare her never-ending discourse to her doll. The trace of a program, or, on the contrary, the hope of a possible emancipation?

Motu Maeva

A portrait of Sonja, adventurer of the twentieth century, living on an island that she built by herself: Motu Maeva.

Realisation

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her.

Neverland

What does the waitress at the Haebangsan Hotel bar in Pyongyang dream of while her customers wander the streets of the city? Having just turned 30, can she still hope for a better life? She, who already lives in Neverland, the place « the Lost Boys » dreamed up, where a little country girl and her grandmother will soon venture and get lost. In North Korea, where all stories seem to be written in advance, I will invite these three women to reimagine Pyongyang as if it were their « Neverland » and to become its main characters in adventures that take them through the city. Following this experience, will the grandmother and granddaughter wish to stay in Neverland, a timeless place where you can experience the power of imagination? Or like some Lost Children who sometimes wish to return to the real world despite the dangers of the journey, will the waitress seek out a new horizon? True to Peter Pan’s words: « To die would be an awfully big adventure! ». Isabel Pagliai