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What remains of a mother after years of domestic violence? What remains of her body, her dignity and her strength? Surely words, memory and a few dance steps that can still be passed down.
Two young brothers move into a new house with their parents. Very quickly, the younger one notices that something is not right in this seemingly ordinary daily life.
In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. Debut director Valentina Shasivari evokes the calm of this serene landscape with tightly framed shots in contrast-rich black-and-white.
With everything they've got, a couple throws themselves into a sailing race lasting several days and nights on a large lake.
Faced with the death of her sister, a young woman must honour the pact they made.
At dawn, a cannon shot shatters the plain. Horses gallop across the beaten earth. Eva, 21 years old, wants to join the hunters of the Imperial Guard, a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men. In her quest for romanticism, she hides her identity so that she can set foot in the stirrup, braving a 200-year-old ban. In this world of gunpowder and smoke, Eva discovers herself as she has always dreamed: a handsome soldier at the side of a beautiful princess.
One, two, three… statue. Will the bear come play with me? Where is he? Who is he? A game exploring our relationship to the wild.
Bernardo is a police officer from Tessin. Though scared of water, he's forced to investigate a series of disappearances on the edges of the Lake Maggiore, where women have been mysteriously vanishing for generations.
A metaphor with mechanical overtones, an unbroken chain of three situations, divergent and yet connected by a single element: pulsating, living steel. A family car with a mom and her kid, a furious truck, flying cars. An endless lullaby of engines.
David and Eliab, two apprentice jockeys, get to know each other through admiration, rivalry and jealousy.
Fenni, a young Chinese woman, is spending her first New Year alone in Paris, home to the largest Chinese Diaspora in Europe, when an unusual trans generational encounter changes her perspective.
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Looking for a flat to rent, Benoit is staying temporarily at a hotel. Having seen that flats are more easily rented to couples than singles, Benoit comes up with the plan to have Jeanne, his neighbour, act as his girlfriend. Through this role play, Benoit will fall under the charm of this young lady who is keen on horse betting, and will let himself be led into an amorous bet that will ruin him.
In group strength-training classes, people breathe in unison every day. Charlyne lifts weights alongside three retired women who love to sing.
Rose, a young filmmaker looking for work, embarks on a retraining course to become a farmer. An initiatory tale that questions our relationship with the land, with art, and with the role of the filmmaker as an observer of our world.
A young woman, on the verge of moving, decides to end her life to escape this change. In exchange for her death, she offers a large sum of money to a stranger she met online, asking her to kill her with a single bullet. But the stranger fails, leaving the two women forced to wait for a new delivery of ammunition.
Deep underground, Alexandre follows voices and sounds, leading him to a lost woman.
In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation and the discussion soon turns into a debate that gradually gets out of hand.
