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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
National Competition
Boutheyna Bouslama remembers her holidays in Syria in the summer of 1994: a boy offered her an armful of cherries. He was called Oussama. Twenty years later, his name appears in the credits of ...
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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