Charles-Omier Roy

5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films. Between double personality, secret identity, doppelgänger and impossible love we have discovered several unconventional stories halfway between narrative and experimental.

The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.

Aaron Ray is a 30-something gay man living in Cedar City, a small, conservative town in southern Utah. Through his portrait, we discover his complex relationship to masculinity in connection with his environment.

Kartouche narrates the wandering of four pre-adolescents oscillating between innocence and sadism, trying to smother their boredom under a mountain of bad taste. Vulgarity, incendiary provocations and the excesses of colorful characters, Kartouche is as chaotic and vibrant as the twilights of childhood can be.

In 1988 in Montpellier, Inspector Joseph Bibermann investigates an unsolved and abandoned case. He makes it his business to catch a killer who uses sex to kill.

Three composers, three universes, one same exploration. Daphné, Preston and Ofer draw a path in the world of contemporary music, each in their own way. An immersive visual experience, Intersounds is an ode to musical creation and a plea for listening, eyes wide open.

Figments will fade upon the break of dawn, eventually.

A young woman finds herself in a paralyzed moment where she will try to understand who is that silhouette lurking in the shadows.