Burning Lights International Competition

2014, in Ukraine. In the city-centre of Kiev, in the confined space of an engraving studio, some pupils come to consult the Master. Protected from the outside world, this is where Vladimir devotes...

Burning Lights International Competition

How is Tunisia coping with the aftermath of the revolution that sparked the Arab spring? By casting a close look at the state of the union of the Tunisian railways, the film sheds an uncompromising...

Burning Lights International Competition

During a drunken evening in a hotel in Bulgaria, whose current territory corresponds to the north of the ancient kingdom, a character who introduces himself as an “immortal Thracian” narrates in...

Burning Lights International Competition

On mysterious cassettes forgotten or left behind for 17 years, a disturbing filmic material is revealed. Accompanied by the extracts of a diary written by the protagonist standing behind the camera,...

Burning Lights International Competition

A Martian rover explores the streets of Santiago de Chile. A dog, born in Haiti and called “Courage”, works detecting bombs at La Moneda, the governmental palace. Meanwhile, Petit-Frère Wilner, a...

Burning Lights International Competition

In Les Yeux brûlés , shot in 1986, Laurent Roth revealed the human adventure of six former war reporters conversing with the actress Mireille Perrier. She was at Roissy Aiport to “retrieve” the...

Burning Lights International Competition

In Karachi, ambulance drivers nap while waiting for calls to come in. This calm moment contrasts with the brutality of their interventions on sites of accidents, drownings or murders, which we will...

Burning Lights International Competition

The scene is as familiar to us as if we had been there ourselves: a birthday party caught on a camcorder, a cake, laughter and the complicity of those who share a story. Thus opens the film, close to...

Burning Lights International Competition

Pamparios is a film that consciously tries to re-invent the strategies of how to film a story – or rather – film it in a completely different fashion, to try to primarily convey its emotional...

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Les Mureaux, in the Paris area. The social housing areas awake to a black and white that rubs out the anticipated greyness of the districts. A few kilometres away, the Renault plants still employ a...

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In the heart of a forest runs a river, its flow strong and clear, over a bed of rocks shaped by nature with infinite patience. Between two dips or next to the fire, children, families, teenagers,...

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As a child, Harley Prosper was designated the “medicine man”, a significant role for the spiritual conscience of his Native American community, which is fighting the abandonment of its ancestral...

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Karen Dalton was a major and yet little known figure in American folk music. Crowned with a brief success on New York's Greenwich Village scene, she was then acclaimed by musicians like Bob Dylan. But...

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The spirit of Casanova, the legendary venetian adventurer, and ladies' man, haunts this philosophical and playful enquiry about the complexities of gender, identity, and sexuality. What happens to our...

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What are the boundaries between reality and fiction? Between documentary and re-enactment? Obsessed by his grandmother's diary written while she was in an ammunitions factory in a labour camp during...

Burning Lights International Competition

In a small town in Brazil, where pristine nature meets growing urbanity, Emelyn is a teenager with an androgynous appearance. When a woman director  - both  foreign and close, perhaps like a feminine...

Burning Lights International Competition