A visually impaired painter lets nature take shape on his canvas.
Social & External
Le Peintre
Léonard is a victim of bullying. One autumn morning, a storm prevents him from taking his bike and forces him to board the school bus.
Lost Mind is an experimental short film, written and directed by Lucas Donnat, that explores the perception of time and memory through the staging of a man's death. The film questions the boundary between reality and imagination. Here, time is no longer linear: the past becomes the memory of a future, and the future becomes the altered continuation of a past already rewritten. Currently in production.
A grieving choreographer tries to connect with her deceased partner through ritual dance, pushing her body beyond its natural limit until it breaks.
Every year on a poignant anniversary, two girls reunite outside their old elementary school.
After waking up next to a lifeless body, Drika, a trans woman, revisits her past in search of her freedom. The experimental short film guides us through the thoughts and anguish of a woman who murdered a man.
A film written and directed by Adam Paradisio. —For all those who have stopped believing.
Through the opposition of two temporalities, Succession questions the parallel yet divergent evolution of humans and plants. The film explores the confrontation between two living beings, one gradually taking over the other.
Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong is a 35mm film that utilised and appropriates footage from a documentary Henry Moore exhibition in Hong Kong, through over-dubbing, painting directly onto the film and other gestures, Mok turns the material into an incendiary address to Hong Kong's youth. Intercut with newly filmed material creates, the film also functions as a personal diary of Mok's political activity throughout the 1970s.
This film is a portrait of hypnotist and artist, Marcos Lutyens. It examines the idea of incorporating hypnotism into art through the filmmaker participating in a hypnotic induction.
Falling petals, flying snowflakes, fragments of memory…all are transient just like our dreams. Without thoughts, there need not be a concrete plot or captivating story to tell. Just as philosopher Zhuang Zi wrote--the fools think they are awake. Each scene and image exudes illusion and fantasy. The absence of plot and dialogues allows freedom in interpretation and clarity. The symphony of images becomes a poem for the audience to treasure. Cinema is dreamy in nature, allowing the true poetic spirit to thrive—when we rid ourselves with thoughts.
If a tree falls dead, does it cease to be alive? Like a deep breath in the forest, Siob explores the different textures of wood, from its life in nature to its rebirth as a musical instrument. And what if, in human hands, wood found its voice again?
An experimental fashion film exploring the euphoric beauty and horror within a hair salon.
After {Fauna} ends an unwanted pregnancy, {Flora} decides they must embark on a surreal journey through which they face the intricacies of friendship and grief.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and psychotic breakdowns gradually plunge the shoot into a chaos of pure light.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
