Thomas Hakim

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.

All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Look On the Bright Side

In an age of wire and string, futuristic visions anchor in lithic time. In the dark, people are driven to shine in the most spectacular ways. Light, emitted from our digital extensions, has roots traversing millions, even billions of years.

The Moon Also Rises

Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins.

Ninon O'Clock

Andréa spends the summer writing in a holiday home. Inconsolable after a break-up, she urges her sister Ninon to join. But her ex-girlfriend Elise unexpectedly shows up to patch things up. And it’s already too late to tell Ninon not to come. Let the full game begin.

Where the Sun Sleeps

Octave and Flora have been in a romantic relationship for a long time on an online game without ever having seen each other. While Flora burns with desire to meet her virtual lover, it is not the case of Octave, deeply complexed by a burn ravaging half his face. Weary of the situation, Flora gives Octave a date so that they can finally meet. Will their love survive this meeting?

Koban Louzoù

A house in the French countryside as a miniature of society: When Audrey arrives, she is confronted with a lecture right away. The landlord tirelessly underlines how progressive he is, and what a unique space he has created outside the urban centres. While his utopia doesn’t seem to leave much space for others, he is surrounded by three other volunteers who work for him. The house isn’t very large so all of them find themselves unable to avoid each other. Starring the remarkable independent filmmaker Virgil Vernier in a blissfully awkward performance, Brieuc Schieb navigates humour, irritation, and intimacy in his meticulously composed first feature – all to face a question not just today’s art world is obsessed with: Who can really bear living in a collective?

Broken Heart

Octave and Flora have been in a romantic relationship for a long time on an online game without ever having seen each other. While Flora burns with desire to meet her virtual lover, it is not the case of Octave, deeply complexed by a burn ravaging half his face. Weary of the situation, Flora gives Octave a date so that they can finally meet. Will their love survive this meeting?

A Night of Knowing Nothing

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.

All Hands on Deck!

An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.

Daughter Of The Baltic Sea

Anastasia is a russian women, born in the ashes of the Soviet Union and in the early days of internet. She lives in France for several years. As her father suddenly died, Anastasia feels the urge to find her place, somewhere, in this new reality.

Shānzhài Screens

Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.

Lucia in Limbo

Sixteen-year-old Lucia wants to get rid of two things more than anything: her lice & her virginity.

Diminishing Shine

It's been one year since prince Diong has mysteriously vanished. As a revolt is rumbling, his sister Pauline receives a message from him.

Hearths

A slow movement through a residential neighbourhood, with empty streets, plain facades, as though artificial. A man recounts his story about the first time, attraction, desire, dizziness of the ignition, forgetfulness, complete blackout. The monologue is composed from transcriptions of psychotherapeutic sessions with arsonists, from the period 1960-1980.

Still Waiting

Every day, Anton waits for the night to come. Every night, Alexandre comes and visits him. But this situation can't last, the living and the dead are not meant to meet.

Gabriel

An adolescent participates with his class as they search for Gabriel, a missing classmate, in the forest.