Alice Bégon
Production
Known For
A slow movement through a residential neighbourhood, with empty streets, plain facades, as though artificial. A man recounts his story about the first time, attraction, desire, dizziness of the ignition, forgetfulness, complete blackout. The monologue is composed from transcriptions of psychotherapeutic sessions with arsonists, from the period 1960-1980.
Hearths
It's the summer. Charlotte is working in a tollbooth on the Autoroute du Sud motorway and training for the amateur football match organised by her sister Nathalie.
The Girls
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Le jour sera comme la nuit
On the age of 51, a father leaves his family to live as a carpenter. Away from the family and house burdens, he spends his last 15 years living alone. From the point of view of his child, the idealistic father then changes his mind to let go of everything and lives his dream of traveling.
My Lone Father
Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.
A Violent Desire for Joy
The beaches of Saint-Jean-de-Monts, a small coastal region of the French Loire, fill up with tourists in summer. But when fall arrives, its great hotels and luxurious spa-resorts become deserted. A situation which Leo takes advantage of to live far away from everything and everybody.
Late at Night
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Loin du Léman
An update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, between night train and seaside resort, in the form of a cinema poem in relief.
La dernière douane
Abbas, a young Iranian without work papers, has found refuge with Claire and her daughter Colette at the cost of a risky strategy: to avoid any questions, Abbas and Colette make the whole village believe they are in love. Until this winter day when Colette comes home after a party, accompanied by a boy her own age, Lucas. A little tale about uprooting.
The Silk Road
12th century: Cosme, a young monk runs away from his abbey to search for his father, whom he has never met. Meanwhile, he meets four “goliards”, young people trying to live at the present. With them, he will begin to walk on the path that leads to oneself…
Golias' Children
Joachim and Aurélie love each other. One evening, they witness the heavy fall of a drunk man in the underground. A few days later, the evocation of this incident makes them realize that they may have reached the end of their common history.