Arnaud Alberola

"I believe that my profound nature leads me to violence". Through training and motivated by her coaches, Marion thinks she's finally ready to step into the ring. LAST ROUND tells the story of her first and last fight.

In a penthouse apartment above the city, a small group of friends has been cut off from the world for decades. Sirens sound below, but here, time is stopped. All of them are now old, but they continue to party as if they were twenty years old. Ava, tired of the endless debauchery, dreams of escaping.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separation.

From day to night, Otello, a construction worker and former tailor, moves between a sprawling Parisian construction site and a rundown nightclub on the brink of bankruptcy.

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

This morning, Aimée turns 23, it's her birthday, and she's giving herself 24 hours before her life comes to an end.

Alex is the only girl in her “automotive biomechanics” class. For her degree, she has chosen to build an engine made of artificial flesh. One night, Chloé, who shares her boarding school room, discovers that Alex takes a singular pleasure in working on her living machine…

A History of Darkness summons the figures of Nero, Dante, the Marquis de Sade and Ludwig II in the intoxication of their obsessions, between ecstasy and damnation, fascination and repulsion. A family portrait teetering on the edge of the abyss.

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

It's been 548 days that A hasn't felt anything, that she's been absent from her life. One night, J appears and takes her with her, trying by all means to revive her heart. Stranger is a musical fable, the story of a return to life.

Young and promising Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter Khavaj must flee from Chechnya to Brussels when his brother discovers his homosexuality and promises to kill him. In an episode of silence, the young man finds comfort in the Planetarium, among the silence of the stars. In this documentary, which traces his first months of life in Belgium, Khavaj slowly observes how the last link that ties him to Chechnya disintegrates. The life of yesterday is in past, but the future is not clear yet.

A short tale of power, utopia, and madness, seen through the figure of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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In the shadow of a colonial past and a neo-capitalist present, Inti, Jai and Pauline are searching for their place in a world that was not made for them. As they roam the neighbourhood looking for somewhere to settle, they question their parents about faith, spirituality, roots and their experiences of migration. They decide to occupy an empty bank building in order to fill it with their memories, dreams and role play. A portrait of our time that oscillates between documentary, performance art and surrealism.

Lyès is a young immigrant who works as a rider and delivery man without ever stopping. Exhausted by sleep deprivation and homesickness, he wants to complete his last delivery, even after an accident.

A YouTuber navigates between isolation and connectivity in a crumbling Cuba. Whispers of technology and birdsong intertwine, reflecting the frozen and closed-off state of his world.

In northeast Kyrgyzstan, Lake Issyk Kul is one of the five deepest lakes in the world. On its shores, dark constructions of cement and steel appear as olds wrecks: it is the port of Balyktchy, today abandoned. Here lies the pride of an admiral of the Soviet navy.