International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
The film begins with an amorous promise: I can change. A promise heard too often, a promise we know to be false in advance. Amie-Sarah has fallen deeply in love with Boby, a young Romanian Romani who...
National Competition
Nathalie cannot cope with her son Gobran, who is having difficulties with the police and at school. Together, they go to see Naïma Serroukh, instigator and facilitator of the project called...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
We are somewhere in the north of Spain. After crossing a town, in the rain, at the end of a tunnel, the valley of Solana opens up. The grain and the flickering of the film add a dreamlike quality to...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
While his previous film addressed the question of rural life via the major health crisis of the 20th century (mad cow disease) and in the form of a fiction ( Bloody Milk , César for Best First...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Hanqi and her friends drift through the suburban area of Hangzhou. Strolling through the concrete and neon-lit landscape of the city, they experience the transformations it undergoes daily. As they...
Burning Lights International
One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
A man returns to Bamako, the city of his childhood, and perceives in the streets — fleeing like a shadow in the night — the face of what he was in the past: a lost child. His voice then...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer's is slowing her down. A...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
On the Moon, a group of men await the arrival of inhabitants of Planet Earth. In the meantime, they look after the idyllic forest that they have cultivated on lunar terrain– they water it, they...
National Competition
What is happening in Nuria's head? While doctors carefully examine her brain, thoroughly scrutinised by an MRI, Anna Hungerbühler endeavours to show us the day-to-day of her intriguing...
Burning Lights International
The film begins with a volcanic eruption that stranded the director, Pauline Julier, in a foreign city, among strangers. In turns, these strangers evoke legends about the formation of the continents,...
Burning Lights International
Chady and David work on cargo ships on Lake Geneva. They are both foreigners in Switzerland. On the oscillating waters of the lake, the young men, who are haunted by the memories of their home...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
After the death of her father, Selina Weber seeks refuge in Pompei, a city still crossed by phantoms of those struck by the eruption of Vesuvius two thousand years ago. He had filmed her as a...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
When the terrible 1960 earthquake hit Agadir, the local cinema Salam was showing Ishiro Honda and Terry O. Morse's Godzilla, King of Monsters! Weirdly enough, it was also one of the few buildings...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
His name was Schabas Saleh Al-Aziz. He came from Iraq where his family had remained. He was 21 years old. He suffered from epilepsy and mental disorders and he was found frozen to death in a forest in...
Opening Scenes
Domenico is a young shepherd. He walks around with his flock and secretly harbors the dream of obtaining his driver's license. But he lives far away from the first village. His daily chores test his...
National Competition
We enter a living painting: actors demonstrating to the cries of “They don't represent us!”, the rallying slogan of the Anti-austerity movement in the “Puerta del Sol” square, who in 2011 shared...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
In the Parisian suburbs, a group of adolescents wander, looking for a rave party. The city's peripheral architecture goes by like the setting of a retro futuristic adventure gone wrong; the...
Burning Lights International
A. is obsessed with his image. Like a post-modern Narcissus, he projects himself in the endless choices that social media devices offer him. Riccardo Giacconi creates a disquieting film about a...
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