Juliette Barrat

The Orchards

In 2015, in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi district and its orchards were razed to the ground as punishment for the population's uprising against the regime. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood.

Dahomey

Thousands of royal artifacts of Dahomey, a West African kingdom, were taken by French colonists in the 19th century for collection and display in Paris. Centuries later, a fraction returned to their home in modern-day Benin. This dramatized documentary follows the journey of 26 of the treasures as told by cultural art historians, embattled university students, and one of the repatriated statues himself.

Little Queen

Stéphanie is a jovial and strong single mother. She shares everything with her 13-year-old daughter Léna: their passion for Angèle, their clothes, even the teenager's diary, in which Stéphanie corrects omissions... As they go to an Angèle concert with Kali, Lena's best friend, Stéphanie will realize that her baby has grown up.

Sans Regret

For a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a writer, returns to Caen where she lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches at the university. As they reconnect, she begins to be disturbed by presences in the house.

Achewiq, the Song of the Brave Women

Kabylie, in the north of Algeria, is a region where Berber culture is still very much alive. The residents know that life can be hard, but last summer was exceptional: fires reduced entire hillsides to ashes, and even ancient olive trees perished.

Castells

After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.

Young Hearts

It’s hot and the holidays are coming to an end. Arthur, Yuna, Lucie and Jurijn are restlessly circling each other, desperately trying to connect. A film about the drama that is puberty, as unpredictable as the emotional roller coaster of these adolescents.

Cold Beds

On a winter night in a ski resort in the French Alps, Mona, a young Italian seasonal worker, has locked herself out. She is struggling in the cold while looking for shelter. Her nighttime journey takes her near an unknown presence.

Nina and the Robots

The breath of the machine fills the air, where the singing can flow. Nina stands in front of the wiggling robot. The soft bodies measure up themselves, sometimes harmonize. The breaths dilate the organs, which swell and fold; transmute the synthetic movement into vital impetus and the vulva into mouth, which inflates until it spreads.

Va-t'en tristesse

Clara and Marina are seventeen years old and live in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes. One of the pair doesn't go out much. Something makes her unhappy. The other lives only for boxing; she dreams of becoming a champion. They don't know each other but something brings them together.

Va-t'en tristesse

Clara and Marina are seventeen years old and live in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes. One of the pair doesn't go out much. Something makes her unhappy. The other lives only for boxing; she dreams of becoming a champion. They don't know each other but something brings them together.

Malgré eux

In the french neighbourhood of Rosières, a police officer shot a mother during an intervention. Since then, Mory, Toussaint, and Ali, the victim's son, have been trying to continue living.

Na tout pour elle

The story of a son who would do everything to fulfill his mother's last wish: to die in Mali.

The Bird and Us

In 1926, a Brancusi sculpture is stopped at the American border. Non-figurative, this artwork is classified as a manufactured article and its owner forced to pay a duty. The artist, Constantin Brancusi, appealed the decision. Judge Byron Waite, a former member of the Customs Board, is chosen to process the trial.

Is It Dancing Between Us?

Students of dance schools from many countries gather for one week and get to know each other through their bodies. Welcome to an epicentre of freedom where movements and rhythm are the main langages.