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- A hypnotic plunge into the evening horse-racing events at Vincennes. The highly charged energy of the young punters pervades everything in what is now a deserted venue.
- Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything.
- When her grandmother dies, a young eurasian girl relives the story of the women of her family, from the colonial Indochine to the isolation in a transit camp.
- The house is crammed with objects of no great material value. Years after her father's death, the director, her mother and brother clear the family home, once a promise of social advancement and now a place nobody wants to live in. Can memories be shared? What's left of a life when the next generation attaches a different value to its objects?
- Lens, in Northern France. 23-year-old Chaylla is fighting to free herself from a violent relationship. However, her determination comes up against a part of herself that still hopes to share her life with the father of her children. And if Chaylla, head held high, decides to press charges and reclaim her rights in the face of the society and the patriarchy in which she has no confidence, it is also thanks to the support of a duo of women - her mother-in-law and her best friend - who accompany her on a daily basis. It is with them that she shares her sorrow and passions, that she holds back her tears, smiles softly or sings at the top of her voice. The camera, always as close as possible to her face, enhances its strength, while the expressivity and magnetism of the close-ups are reminiscent of those of Renée Falconetti. Clara Teper and Paul Pirritano have made a magnificent first feature-length film shedding upsetting light on violence against women and the difficulties of finding one's own way to justice. This social drama is infused with the extreme humanity and sincerity of a woman, Chaylla.
- Le caricaturiste André Gill se transforme en Lapin agile pour échapper à la censure. The cartoonist André Gill transforms himself into an agile rabbit to escape censorship. I discovered André Gill's work by watching an animated short film directed by my great-grandfather, O'Galop. It depicted an insane man struggling in his straitjacket. It was a nod to the cartoonist André Gill who ended his life in the Charenton Asylum. The film has fun playing the creator André Gill and his creature, a Gill Rabbit, in order to escape the censorship represented by the police prefects, the government and the allegorical figure of Anastasie. The situation takes place at the time of the cabarets chansonniers of Montmartre, one of which bears his name : Le lapin agile / The agile rabbit André Gill was so victim of the censorship that he represented him under the features of Anastasie. The era was ferocious with artists and freedom of expression was put under the stifle. The film features a Rabbit very much a Gill to participate in the enactment of this Law for the Freedom of the Press in 1881.
- December 1894. Captain Dreyfus is sentenced to deportation for high treason. Lucie, his wife, agrees a pact with him: stay alive, whatever it takes, whilst awaiting rehabilitation. For five long years the couple exchanged hundreds of letters which were opened, analysed and censored by the French authorities.
- Montagne. Three teenagers spend the weekend together in the great outdoors. Everything comes together for two days of fun. But the bad atmosphere sets in. The bad weather is brewing. Words betray thoughts. One of them insists on climbing a summit.
- In 1983 the former head of the Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, was arrested. Robert Badinter recounts the ambivalent feeling he had when he realised that by abolishing the death penalty two years earlier he had just saved the life of the man who had signed his father's deportation order to the Sobibor extermination camp.
- At the Riviera apartment building, it's nap time. The heat is dreadful, but true to their habits, people are sunbathing by the pool. From his living room, M. Henriet entertains himself by watching his neighbors.
- A big white whale washes up in the middle of a city. The animal is at death's door, people around it moan and complain, cars can't move. In a school bus, a little girl is learning a poem for class. When she leaves the bus to see what's happening, she decides to approach the animal in order to find a way through. The animal's pained song, however, leads her down a different path, as she leads the townspeople to consider the animal anew in a strange, collective musical experience.
- Julie-Victoire Daubié est la première diplômée de l'histoire de France. Une première rendue possible par ses deux Jules. Julie-Victoire Daubié is the first graduate in French history. A first made possible by her two Jules. Novanima is an independent production company that has been producing animated films and creative documentaries since 2006. We highlight the original treatments of the films we accompany with a sensitivity for hybrid forms that mix real shots, animations and archives. Our editorial line focuses on films on art, history and society and we remain open to other themes depending on the project.
- Bye-Bye Elida takes place on vast plains. We discover several groups of characters going about their respective activities. Some try to feed themselves to survive, others build, travel or perform inexplicable rituals. The passage of time shows us that the actions of some, however positive or cruel, have an effect on the lives of others.
- A captivating diva, incarnation of Acapulco, remembers when she was the most famous movie star of Mexico. Meanwhile, Marco, Javier, Felix, Alfonso and Yolanda are getting ready for Easter Week, the period when the city revives, recovering for a few days its past glory. Each one tries to survive his own way in that paradisaical set that everyday looks more like hell.
- Jann Gallois is a dancer and choreographer. At 29 years old, she is as energetic as a bulldozer. Her body is her instrument but sometimes it fails her. Jann constantly seeks balance between a questioning mind and a body that doesn't always listen.
- Over time, I have understood the distance between my view of the world and that of my family that I left here. Sometimes I perceive a distance such that I imagine exploring a new planet, as if I were an astronaut.