Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle

Les Désancré.e.s

Getting a tattoo removed. This is the reason why our four characters have appointments with the enigmatic Doctor Lanscot. In his office, stories buried beneath the skin resurface before gradually fading away. But the skin remembers, and so does the doctor.

Bobby brûle

Dry grass, scorched earth, this is the end of summer. In La Valentine, a neighborhood in the north of Marseille, Bobby and Melo strive to exist through stories they're telling to themselves.

Midnight Kids

Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit inhabitants, who explore the desolate snowy landscape under the midnight sun and transform their home into a vast playground full of melting glaciers and abandoned ships.

The College Students

A college. His teachers and his students. His conflicts and his lies. His images and his words. His looks and his silences.

Kiko's Saints

Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange new inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the chapel where she's working. Obsessed by such a vision, she will continue spying on those men and drawing them secretly. These drawings will slowly push her towards an encounter that will change her life and break the barriers she created around her.

Cilaos

To keep the promise she made to her dying mother, a young woman sets off to find her father, a fickle man she has never known. On the way, she discovers he is in fact dead, but, driven by the bewitching rhythms of the Maloya, a Reunion Island ritual singing and musical tradition, she does not abandon her goal: she must find her father.

Trinkets and Dark Thoughts

On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.

Night Moves

Lila suffocates in her brother's hospital room, she his the road. Vintimiglia. Women are loading a truck for a food distribution for refugees who try to cross the border. It's ramadan, they must eat before the prayer. Carrying bread loafs in her arms, Lila meets Youssef. Youssef doesn't speak a word of french and he's starving.