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- Twenty-two-year-old Issa does a favor for his best friend Elie and, despite his upright and honest character, accepts to deliver a bag of cannabis. Issa falls immediately under the charm of Alma, the client. Taken by surprise and in order to continue to rub shoulders with this bewitching young woman, he pretends to be the dealer he is not.
- Crystal is a twice reincarnated girl who survived an attempted suicide with an electric razor. She reads the future in a Nescafé and discovers the man of her life: Marc. However, he doesn't have the same feelings for her. He's a depressed lawyer assigned to defend a killer named Julian who dismembered his wife into 25 pieces. And he lives with Greg, who loves musicals and is about to come out to his parents.
- On poems by Aimé Césaire and Léopold S. Senghor, the sun gives birth to the great fetish that spreads life in the world. The views are taken in the reserves that surround the extraordinary Kilimanjaro. Giraffes, gazelles, rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, birds reintroduce us to the days of grace of paradise. A running man whom we see periodically repairing, starting from the bush to arrive in the city, will serve as a link for the evolution of the images. Scenes of palaver at the threshold of the huts, make-up: "These glasses to see in yourself, to have ten eyes". Millet pounding, tam-tam, balafons, dances with extraordinarily beautiful costumes. The colonial era is symbolized by the struggle of a fierce spider and an insect, a snake and a chameleon. Masks "with absent gazes which express, without moving their lips, phrases of oracles". Time passes but where is the time.
- Forty-year-old Anne is going through a bout of melancholy. She has run away to Limoges, a city that she doesn't know. Due to a combination of circumstances, she is taken in by Jules and Péthuel, two underage pickpockets, smart and sunny, who will try to inspire her so that Anne likes the taste of fries once again.
- Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is oriented in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project.
- After filming the construction site of the Berlitz Palace (2nd), Pierre Chenal shows us in contrast other contemporary architectural achievements which, using the same technical processes, do not sacrifice the structure of iron and concrete for decoration. A documentary to the glory of the modern designs of Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier.
- An acrobatic circus has just been born in Conakry, thirty boys and girls street children, school dropouts; gifted dancers and percussionists. March 1, 2000, the Circus Baobab troupe is ready to undertake its first tour throughout Guinea. A great tour, six weeks, three cities, four thousand kilometers to the depths of the country. Curious heterogeneous convoy covered with laterite which stops in the middle of a stadium in the bush. Then, as if by magic, a huge stage rises from which emerges a surprising Baobab, built from metal, teak and mahogany. The first trapezoids are attached to it. In this village where electricity is scarce, the limelight suddenly lights up. A colossal crowd is at the rendezvous for the event. The Djembes get going, the dancers spring up, the trapeze artists fly, the acrobats contort themselves, the fire-eaters light up the night, the spectators cannot believe their eyes. The deeper the tour goes into the heart of the country, the more the young city acrobats of the Troupe discover that a circus is also about learning about life.
- Lenz returns to Paris to find his only true love, Madeleine. As his search for her continues, he finds himself getting sucked into the dark and cruel underworld of the porn industry.
- Mamady Keita, one of the great masters of African percussion (a djembefola), returns to the country, to Balandougou, in the Malinké region (Guinea). Emotion of reunion, meetings mixed with laughter and tears, music and dance with artists but also villagers who helped him become this artist of international stature.
- At 16, Ugo falls in love for the first time. Her name is Emma. He never spoke to her but tonight she will be at Louise's party. Ugo is not invited then with the help of his best friends Bram's and Karim, he will do everything to go there and conquer the chosen of his heart.
- Murder witness Jacques joins the Foreign Legion in Africa, where he and a motley crew, all on the run from their problems, stumble through misadventures.
- Max is a kind of modern Zadig embarked upon an existential and sentimental quest. Jewish and Russian all rolled into one, he quickly feels cramped in his native Ukraine. One day, he leaves his parents, family and enemies for the city of his dreams: Paris. He discovers the capital and the occasionally ferocious and complex ways of its natives.
- Fafai, a young boy, lives with his grandfather on the island of Glamador in the Camargue. To help the old man who can no longer work, Fafai finds a job as a caretaker. He must tame wild horses. But during a storm, they escape and swim to the island of Glamador. Fafai leaves for the island to bring back the herd... Glamador is none other than the island on which Folco and Crin-Blanc end up arriving after their escape, told in Crin-Blanc. This film is the sequel to "Crin Blanc".
- XIIth century. Cosme, young monk novice, leaves his abbey to go in search of a father whom he has never known. He crosses, then, the road of four goliard, tramps poets in search of the present. So, by leaving to meet the world, from the outside, Cosme is going to experience the fragility of things, beings and certainties, far from the reassuring feeling of durability and eternity of the convent from which he comes.
- When 83-year-old Madame Aurore, who has memory problems, incorrectly believes that her next-door neighbors, the Sakhos, are her family; 9-year-old Adama Sakho is the only one who dares to deny it.
- A man hangs around an outside tennis court in the 19th district of Paris. On the hard-packed surface, four teenagers play together, then they begin playing with the man a cruel game, from desire and frustration. In the streets which go down towards the North train station, the man follows at a distance one of the teenagers, like a wildcat his prey, or like a fauna his nymph. The interest of hunting is in the uncertainty of its outcome.
- What would you do if a lion cub appeared in your room? Siblings Inés and Alex, have to face this dilemma when they find King, a trafficked cub who escapes from an airport and finds refuge in their home.
- A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage. He never took care of his son, married to a singer, even less of his granddaughter Colette. The chances of life mean that the grandfather is obliged to take in Colette for a while. This works wonders, unmasks the cousin conniving with cronies, unravels the intrigues, thwarts the machinations and reconciles all the members of the family.
- The day of David's wedding, Robert, his eighty-two-year-old father, who is physically ill and who is beginning to go slightly off the rails, asks for his son's help in finding him a woman. Struggling to understand this incongruous request and balking at betraying his mother, David is evasive, then hesitates.
- In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
- Slow motion cinematography of the wild horses of the Camargue region of France.
- Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.
- Socially conscious and realistic treatment of hard working coal miners in the north of France, and a struggle between a younger and older engineer.
- Damiano Fontana nous fait partager ses rencontres avec des personnes exceptionnelles, Henri Corderiy du Tiers et Manon Altazin, des pilotes sourds malentendants qui ont réussi à rendre accessible le monde aérien. Ils nous confieront leurs combats, leurs obstacles sur cette accessibilité dans un contexte où les pilotes entendants communiquent avec une radio.
- It's the end of the afternoon, Ana and Océane, both seventeen years old, are waiting in front of their small local movie theater. They've planned to see the latest blockbuster with Théo and Samy. More than a simple outing, this is a date for four. Although Ana and Samy are already dating, for Océane and Théo, it's their first date. Maybe the first of many more to come. But the session for the chosen film is full.
- Yuri is a sculptor. Since the death of his wife, 17 years ago, he has been working hard to re-fabricate her. He misses only one element, the eyes. When he falls on Andreas it is an evidence, he has his eyes. Yuri will be stroked by this meeting and what it represents: the end of his quest.
- 1814. The encounter between Mathurin Thouars, a lieutenant in Napoleon's army, and a young conscript suspected of simulating epilepsy in order to avoid military service. The two men are both from Brittany but one, already marked by battles, sets out again for the front while the other, who has never known war, may escape it forever.
- In Malmousque, a former fishermen's district in Marseille, new residents and bathers from all over the city mix. Virginie wanders the streets looking for her cat, while Elina is convinced that her husband has put spyware on her cell phone. The two friends go kayaking so they can talk to each other without the risk of being overheard.
- A mysterious letter lures a family to Geneva in search of a treasure.
- Ali, a young Algerian student, arrives to study in France and has to stay with his cousin Mo for a few days before starting university. He will not land in the Paris of his dreams but in the suburb of Clichy-Montfermeil in Seine-Saint-Denis. Disillusionment will give way to beautiful, touching and singular encounters in the heart of a neighborhood with great diversity.
- An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest. But a nuclear power plant must be built there. The film was presented in competition at the Thonon-les-Bains festival in 1978.
- Elda Neyis Mosquera, aka Karina, was the only guerrilla woman to have led a Front. She was a romantic, idealistic and loving woman. But when she went to court, she was charged with atrocious crimes. However, things could have happened differently. She could have married and had children with Daniel, a fellow guerrilla. But Elda decided to follow the orders of his superiors and killed him because he was an infiltrator. Since then, she struggles to find forgiveness.
- Olivier, eleven years old, hardly sees his mother, but he hears her at night, when he is awakened by moans. Olivier's parents are divorced. Her mother works a lot and comes home very late. Olivier often finds himself alone. One day, his father gives him a Netcam. Olivier hide it in his mother's room and discreetly connect it to his computer to spy on her.
- A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.
- After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he had to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pépito cookies.
- Victor loses his parents in a car accident three months before his baccalauréat. He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a chateau with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.
- In a totally isolated rainforest. A group of 5 boys take a long walk to meet a mysterious healer. Following an injury they find themselves stranded on the edge of a river with strong current. On the other side of the river they see a rather strange camp that seems occupied by 3 girls. It is absolutely impossible to cross and communicate.
- Umut wants to participate in a football tournament.
- Bachir, twenty-five years old, is looking to leave, why not to France. He waits every morning for the postman to come. The visa response is slow in coming. Bachir is bored, going around in circles. A rumor then comes to fill this void: the possibility of the change of the weekend. Saturday Sunday should replace Thursday Friday.
- Joaquim is a musician, but it doesn't enable him to earn a living. He has another talent, which offers him an opportunity to change his existence: working with his brother in the very closed circle of traders. To celebrate this new path, he goes out - and encounters Zoé, a young violinist. The spend the rest of the night together, talking and singing. He finds himself obliged to make a choice: ensure his future, or live his passion and this blossoming love. But is any of this real?
- Sasha crosses Marseille from her building on the city's heights to the port. On her way, she encounters men's insistent glances. The city is beautiful, lively, sunny, concrete. Sasha's walk is a tangle of glances, strained silences, and city gusts. Arriving at the Mucem pier, she waits for someone who doesn't come.
- An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
- One day, Ovidiu makes a strange discovery in the pond next to his house: a stained woman's jacket. This discovery will push him on a quest to find a body and force him to look towards a distant, forgotten shore-that of the Danube, the bloodiest border of communist Romania.
- A little island off the coast of Brittany. Silhouettes, a tree, a house, a walker - The wind blows, dark clouds fill the sky.
- A reality that jumps out at you, an immersion in the life of Louise and her mother. Louise's life is that of thousands of children in France, and of millions of children around the world. Being autistic is not a crime, being autistic is to be different, a difference that scares many. Being born autistic in France can be a catastrophe if the parents do not have the strength to fight against the system that says that an autistic child has no place in school. The inclusion of autistic children in school is a myth.
- For several years now, a walking competition lasting two days and nights, and during which contestants cover more than 800 miles, takes place at a track in Bucharest. The night before the competition is due to start, Yon Holban, from Bucharest, is bowled over by a pick-up truck. Winner of the last four competitions, he is now out of the running. His daughter, Camilla Holban, a French-Romanian, traumatized by this brutal tragedy, hangs around the track, making a nuisance of herself. The race is in full swing, at the stadium and along the track. The competitors driving themselves hard, encouraged by their trainers. With Holban out of the way, his usual rivals are now hot favorites for first place. But the competition is a truly individual contest, a personal challenge testing one's own limits. To win, competitors must give it everything they've got. The trophy isn't much, a car. What's really at stake is being able to transcend the barrier of the self. Hakim Mazou and other contestants are participating in the Romanian competition for the first time. Unlike the hot favorites, no one knows the newcomers' capabilities, how they'll hold up. Andrei Manuc is top of the list of competitors and it's predicted that he is destined to win. But many unexpected incidents lie ahead in this race full of surprises.
- Twin Island East and Twin Island West are two twin islands governed by two kings, where the inhabitants follow the cult of symmetry. Therefore, everything goes two by two. But one day, the queen of Twin Island West gives birth to an only child, to her husband's utter dismay.
- Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.
- Lulu, at the age of ten, wants to be the one to slaughter the family pig. But the same day, Vincent, his mother's new man, moves into the farm, welcomed by Lulu's entourage. The slaughter is entrusted to this newcomer. Then, as the animal is cut up, a muted struggle breaks out between the two men. Lulu doesn't want to give in.
- An initiatory journey among the Fangs of Gabon and the Shipibos of Peru, this film takes us to the sound of consecrated instruments such as the mogongo (mouth bow), the sacred harp and the Icaros, to encounter the wisdom of traditional peoples. This inherited wealth, known as shamanic, reminds us that we are joyful beings, connected to nature. We follow the stages of initiation and the teachings of Sandra Ingerman, world-renowned shamanic author.