Benoît Bouthors

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

In Corsica, four girlfriends share the last days of an endless summer. It's hot, too hot to do anything. While they share their secrets, Camille, the youngest of them, says she's pregnant.

A stranger by the lake with a valuable possession. A journey home after serving time in jail. A friendship evolving from childhood to adulthood. Discover five risky situations where men and young boys take the plunge. The 5 short films are: A King, Gazing at the Sea [Le roi qui contemplait la mer] (2022); A Drowning Man (2017); Reo (2016); Summer Friends [L'amie de l'été] (2021); Summer Memories [Souvenir d'une après-midi d'été] (2021).

Nineteen-year-old Enzo and his twenty-year-old sister Carla have been left to fend for themselves for several years. When their father, Anthony, is released from prison, Enzo sees the fragile promise of a family to rebuild, unlike Carla, for whom the idea remains inconceivable. Haunted by his past, Enzo must confront a truth he has kept hidden for far too long.

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender and troubling, and it seems to take place in a sort of vacuum. In Marine Atlan’s dream-like feature film debut, children dance tango timelessly, recite poems and do the drill for an imaginary terrorist attack.

Stella tries to forget her loneliness, drowning herself in red wine. Then she helps a young immigrant worker accused of stealing her phone.

It’s summertime in Corsica, the days are hot and time passes slowly. Marie, Lucas, and Ghujvan spend the afternoon hanging out at the river. They spot a tourist sleeping not far from them, and come up with the idea of stealing his wallet.

The world falls into chaos after a supernatural darkness descends. In the turmoil of the new reality, Tony fights for survival together with his ailing mother and son.

Beneath the blazing summer sun in Corsica, sixteen-year-old Horace loses his dog. After a trying to find the animal, Horace and his gang suspect a man of Arab origin who lives outside the village.

Facing a long road, bordered with trees, a new feeling is born in Camille. It will grow on the path to discovering the feelings of others, between the waves.