Robin Fresson

A journey through the real history and the tales of a region in southern Portugal and a portrait of the people who have lived there, weaving together accounts of rural workers and field notes of archaeologists, amateur footage and scientific drawings, legends, poems, and songs.

Today, Israel and the United States are Iran's enemies par excellence. Their reconciliation seems impossible. Is the history of these three countries the chronicle of a war foretold, delayed for decades but inevitable?

Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A life with a rhythm of its own, an independent daily life marked nonetheless by exile.

Thomas, a Swiss-German musician, is stuck at home because of a broken foot. He wanders around his tiny Parisian flat, his leg in a plaster, busy composing a new piece. At sunrise, an unexpected female visitor is showing up for him at the door.

A club in Paris. Driving techno beats sweep everyone away. People dance, consume and talk. Félicie meets Saïd and takes him to her place for an afterparty. On the cusp between night and day, different lives and views collide.

A town in the greater Parisian suburbs, its housing estates, its rose and vegetable greenhouses, its inhabitants. It is winter and a Roma camp has been set up. While most of the local residents are outraged and demand the expulsion of these new neighbors, a few women will try to help them live on the land they occupy.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Riccardo is fascinated by Jeffrey Dahmer, a famous American serial killer. He recognizes himself in this man, a homosexual like himself, for whom he feels a love that he has never felt in his own life. I travel with him to Milwaukee, the city where Dahmer committed his murders, to film him as his encounter with reality puts his fantasy and our friendship to the test.

Marianne, a heroine for a day, is interviewed by a young journalist. Despite of all the misunderstandings, a meeting takes place, brief, tenuous, human.

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This summer, Livia returns to spend a few days in the family apiary. Louis, her elusive and brilliant brother, is also back.

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A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

Ideas improve. With the help of the meaning of words. Plagiarism is essential. Progress implies it. It embraces a writer's sentence, uses his expressions, erases a false idea, replaces it with the right one.

On the beach of Casablanca, the desire of two adolescents keeps a low profile. Children like adults keep an eye out. A fight distracts attention.

Andréa spends the summer writing in a holiday home. Inconsolable after a break-up, she urges her sister Ninon to join. But her ex-girlfriend Elise unexpectedly shows up to patch things up. And it’s already too late to tell Ninon not to come. Let the full game begin.

Short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight Lineup.

One summer, divers locate hidden weapons dating back to WWII in a lake. Louison's grandmother is said to be involved. Along with other comrades, she allegedly refused to surrender her weapons.

In a remote village, young Luka has already seen the worst. His father's disease and a very close relationship with his mother have made him the man of the house. During the male nurse's daily visit, an unexpected invitation to have lunch awakens his jealousy. He decides, then, to bring his own guest. Freely inspired by Georges Bataille’s childhood.

I’m looking for Medea. I investigate what we know about her, what we don’t say, and what she teaches us about ourselves. A text emerges: Medea-Material, by Heiner Müller. We lend our voices to this character – perhaps this time we’ll be able to hear her.