National Competition

45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to...

Latitudes

Jean- Gabriel Périot asked students of a Parisian high school to participate in an experiment on the militant filmmaking of May 68. These students will constitute  the film's technical crew and...

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...

Latitudes

When his barber shop is torn down by the  municipality, Romeo needs to find another outlet for his business. He settles for an extremely shabby hut, but dreams of owning a real barber shop one day....

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

Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker's father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to...

Burning Lights International

As if directing a science-fiction film, Johana Ožvold dissects the story of electronic music. From the pioneer sound engineers working behind the Iron Curtain, through the French avant-garde...

International Feature Film Competition

A puma is stalking Pueblo Ranquel, an indigenous community settled in the northern Argentinian desert, in a modern camp built to accommodate them. As if to break free of their youth, some young boys...

International Feature Film Competition

Laosan stares at the lush vegetation that surrounds the village of the Akha­–an ethnic group from China–where he lives with his family in the north of Laos. Is he thinking about the centennial legend...

Latitudes

The Aviron Bayonnais is a rugby team having a streak of bad luck. Even though they fight relentlessly, they keep losing. One day, though, things change. Everything seems to be possible again. But will...

Burning Lights International

“Four unaligned rows, 37 faces turned towards the camera lens. Autumn 1958, a family of Breton peasants in their Sunday best, gathered around the eldest. Smartly dressed for the photo. A modest living...

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...

International Feature Film Competition

Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a boy she knows. It all happens very quickly, she does not defend herself. It is in 2013, after a screening of her first film, that Alexe...

International Feature Film Competition

Om El Khir is a real fighter. Her husband has disappeared. One morning, he left on a boat for Europe and she has since received no evidence on whether he is dead or alive. Alone with her three...

Special Screenings

After  Merci Patron! , which won the César Award for Best Documentary Film in 2017 and was a resounding success in French cinemas and elsewhere, François Ruffin embarks upon a committed road movie...

Special Screenings

Adopting the form of a lesson in filmmaking—given at the Cartier Foundation— Varda par Agnès  is a journey through the œuvre of the major filmmaker,  New Wave   figure, photographer and...

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...

Burning Lights International

The house referenced in the title is an old building, whose past splendour is recognisable despite the apparent lack of  upkeep.  This enormous house, in the middle of the forest, was a health...

Latitudes

The White Building, an emblematic apartment block home to 493 families in Phnom Penh, is going to be destroyed soon. Kavich Neang intimately chronicles the last days of this building through the...