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- A lonely teen's friendship with a free-spirited British neighbor pushes her to break free of the bonds of childhood.
- While on a book tour in Japan, Sidonie Perceval, still haunted by the ghost of her late husband, begins an affair with her mysterious Japanese publisher.
- After his wife dies, a 75 year old retiree has to put up with the intrusion into his idle life of other family members.
- Gus spends his vacation reading comic books, helping his father who has invested his entire savings in a modern battery henhouse, and running free with Mado.
- As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.
- Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.
- Happy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are heading
- Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
- Continuation of the Arabian Nights stories by the structure were adapted to modern life in Portugal in three innings and the third chapter "The Owners of Dixie" has three chapters.
- Lulu, Chiara and Joe are on the verge of adulthood and dream of a world of freedom and equality. With the hippie wave everywhere, they see how their conservative village is lost among drugs, seeing the damage of excess and addiction.
- The final trilogy of adaptation of Arabian Nights story by the structure in Portugal modern life between 2013-2014 in three chapters.
- Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he's on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. Profoundly shaken, betrayed by a system to which he gave his all, he has to progressively question himself to save the one connection that still matters to him: the bond he's managed to maintain with his youngest daughter, Mathilde.
- Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal's recent past.
- A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing their way on the competition highway.
- A father slaps a disobedient child. Then a bystander threatens to report him for abuse.
- Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.
- Adopted by a well-off Swiss couple with slightly older son and daughter, Vinh never cut off links with his country of origin. Postcards from the adoptive family regularly conveyed to Vinh's mother in Vietnam reassurance about the warmth and nurturing environment that she always wished for her boy. Now grown up, Vinh is getting married; after so many years, the wedding is the ideal opportunity for his mother, accompanied by uncle Dac, to visit the adoptive family. Nothing would cause a greater consternation among its members. The parents underwent a less than amicable divorce, the father is bankrupt, the sister estranged, the elder brother brooding, the model family broken up. What can be done to prevent the unavoidable and profound disappointment of Vinh's mother and uncle Dac when they discover the fiasco?
- Saoud is the king of his neighborhood in Saint Etienne, France. A rumor comes up that he might have stolen money from the local mosque. Saoud faces a violent series of accusations which will lead to his fall and exile.
- Thousands of abandoned children, doomed to die on the outskirts of cities - Each year, 20 of them find themselves in the arena of a reality TV show. Determined not to fall back into poverty, they face a fierce competition to win the jackpot and be adopted by a celebrity couple. But this time around, the rules are changing.
- A successful woman's life is disrupted by her mother's decision to move away to write poetry.
- Helped by his old friend Fernand, Sami tries to make Julie realise that she is the love of his life.
- She is alcohol-phobic. He is a deep alcoholic. After their passionate night, Suze will find out she is allergic to her new friend. In this hyperbolic world, pathological characters are in search of tenderness. They suffer from bodily disorders : sentimentality for Suze and Dallas is manifested through violence, allergic reactions, occasional gunshots - "Suze" represents love as I have dreamt it: dramatic, kitsch, naive, but always sincere.
- Children play war in this summer camp, a war opposing the Indians to the Commandos. Two brothers are separated in-between the two rival groups. The elder promises the younger that he will go look for him on their first night.
- An atheist, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon managed to convince four mullahs, all believers in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to come and stay with him for two days and engage in discussion. In this confined space, daily life is combined with debate, an unremitting demonstration of the problematic issue of how to live together, when each side's understanding of the world is so contrary?
- It's summer but life remains complicated for Sara, 15. Together with her little brother, she is being sent to spend some time with her mother. His father insists, even though he got dumped. Her mother stays at a camping, in an RV. What a strange place to start a new life... Thankfully there is the beach and the boys. But will they just let her be...
- Part nightmare, part fantasy, Ivul tells the tale of Alex, who bizarrely moves out onto the roof of his house and refuses to come down after a false abuse accusation. From there, he watches the family he loves, but can't live with, as it destroys itself from the inside out.
- For three years, Mehran Tamadon immersed himself into the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran (the Bassidjis) to understand their ideas.
- -Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis embraces Oskar's success and requires him, no matter what, to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.
- Three best friends, Jimmy, Samy and Sofi, have the idea of a lifetime: transforming a chocolate vending machine into a pot-vending machine. Also, there's a dog in the film.
- A short film accompanying the three young friends Margaux, Louisa and Théo during a party night while carnaval time, which at the end holds ready totally different experiences for everyone of them.
- Ze - a 50 year old alcoholic - works in the port of Lisbon where he loads and unloads containers. Ze never left his neighborhood and is hiding his savings so that one day he'll be able to board one of the huge cruise ships he sees everyday. When his jealous wife steals his money, Ze will do everything to fulfill his dream.
- Nathan was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Now he's better, before he was much worse. He films himself, his relatives at the hospital, his bipolar best friend, his father, his sister, his mother and his love between 2011 and 2018. For him, everyone is a "loulou", in his own way. It is thanks to them that he finally begins to become a man instead of a madman.
- 8-year old Alice and her brother, the 5-year old Lucas accompany their parents to visit their beloved grandfather in the hospital where he is to be dying. All baffled, they observe the adults wearing each other down about a situation that seems so evident to the children. They decide to take matters into their own hands...
- Catherine lives idly to the father's house. But one evening, this one returns at home with a young woman who takes some influence. Catherine tries then to push aside him to get back to her liberties.
- Anna and Maxime are sitting in facing seats in a carriage on a train. They observe the countryside passing by. Not talking, hardly exchanging a glance, their movements and gestures reveal a faltering affection between them. They have chosen to hike up the mountain, re-igniting memories of previous summers, those summers when they were simply full of the joys of love.
- Cloud, a young man with a particular penchant for wandering and daydreaming, lives in the center of the Creole slum of Lisbon.
- The routine life of Stephanie, a support worker, ill at ease with herself, but totally dedicated to her work, is overturned by her experience with Tamara, a -white trash Lolita- who is at war with the entire world.
- Florence and Etienne visit Florence's dead father's house. He has hung himself from a tree. Etienne will soon discover that the couple's excursion brings up the challenge to open up to each other about unspoken truths.
- Leandre goes looking for a stranger named Tristan in order to give him some bad news about a mutual friend. However, when they meet, Leandre fails to deliver his message, which makes Tristan believe that they met by pure chance. They form a bond, but the true nature of what links them to the same boy remains ambiguous.
- Alban lives in a ski station with his mother. Every night, the teenager runs off to be with Julien - the boy who, strangely, shares a first name with the hero of the novel he's avidly reading.
- Straight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can't get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts to think that he might have been better off in the clink...
- A road journey through a series of landscapes.
- A young man finds shelter inside a cornfield. There, he meets a little girl and her father: the land owner.
- WOMB is a film in motion, an immersive cinematographic object. Designed and conceived for 3D technology the film deploys an immersive strategy. Three characters emerge from a womb to discover the volume of the world. Always moving forward, abstract analogy of the unfolding of life, they progress through a long sequence shot from one stage to the next. The luminous set created by Sylvie Fleury and the spatialised composition by Franz Treichler (leader of the internationaly acclaimed rock band The Young Gods) combine with the complex textures of costumes by Jean-Paul Lespagnard and choreography by Gilles Jobin to create an unusual dialogue in space. Performers and stage sets, stereoscopy and choreography, visual arts and music combine in an enhanced stereoscopic experience for the viewer.
- A French woman stranded in Switzerland during WWII had sought out her father, who had relocated to China, in 1975.She returns 45 years later to search for his other family still there and learn about their own historical suffering.
- Every year since 1948 the Swiss Institute in Rome has hosted six artists and researchers who benefit from an ideal environment in which to develop their cultural competence and enhance their career under the aegis of the Swiss government. A privileged site for the training of an elite or holiday camp at the public expense? This is what Donatella Bernardi sets out to discover, on the occasion of the Institute's 60th anniversary, through interviews with several of those present for the event and have made the Institute what it is.