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2015

Deep in the Forest
Dans la Forêt Lointaine
Ronan Tronchot - 29'
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David has been unemployed for several months now. With a young daughter and a second child on the way, he has no choice but to move back in with his parents. And it's precisely the day everything goes wrong. 
Glimmers
Lueurs
Olivier Broudeur et Anthony Quéré - 15'
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Vanessa, 18, fresh out of prison, is living with her half-sister whom she isn't close to. Every night, captivated by light, sound and fury, she's reborn. 
Drakkar
Maud Alpi - 52'
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A girl and a boy live apart men, with just dogs and internet for company. In their isolation, they try to live their love as freely as possible. 

2014

Bye bye Melancholy
Bye bye Mélancolie
Romain Laguna - 22'
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Bastille day. Morad single-handedly mans the register of a little service station in the middle of nowhere. In the dead of night, he make the acquaintance of Emma, a young ambulance driver who wishes she'd been named Melancholy...
Lone wolves in passive mode
Loups solitaires en mode passif
Joanna Grudzinska
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Elisa, 16, is bored by her suburban existence. One night, she discovers a book in her stepfather's library. The crude and tender words of a prostitute make her see her own desire in a new and unexpected light.

2013

The Gate
La Porte
Hervé Coqueret
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A young woman and a young man wake up side-by-side on a road in the middle of the woods. A mysterious accident has wiped both their memories clean. The few objects around them are clues allowing them to ascertain their names and addresses… but who are they? The set off together on foot through the forest...
The Return
Le Retour
Yohann Kouam
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It's been a year since his big brother left, and Willy, 15, can't wait for him to return. Willy thought he knew everything about Theo, but when he arrives back in the block, Willy discovers a secret about him...
Everything you can't leave behind
Tout ce que tu ne peux pas laisser derrière toi
Nicolas Lasnibat
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Roberto has just been laid off by reason of his advanced age and diabetes. With his severance pay, he decides to buy a van and learn to drive so that he can take his wife Hilda on a trip to the city of their youth - Taltal, on the Pacific coast of the Chilean desert. 
The Bolt
Le Verrou
Laurent Laffargue
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In a museum two perfect strangers, a man and a woman, contemplate Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting "The Bolt". They each project their own fantasy onto the painting and make up a story about it. But what if one of their reveries was to park a real-life love affair ?
All the pretty things
Toutes les belles choses
Cécile Bicler
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Daybreak. The wedding festivities are over. Everyone is asleep except for Jessica, the bride. She is soon joined by Cathy, who is also awake. They've been friends forever and this morning they're going to spend some quality time together.
To Whom it may concern
Avis aux intéressés
Cédric Romain
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Daniel, a retired widower, lives alone with his 40-year-old autistic son, Julien. Daniel learns he is dying, bringing up the question of Julien's future.


2012

All the boys like that
Philippe Deschamps
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A teenager gets together with his girlfriend for the weekend. They decide to make love, whilst their parents are out of sight and nothing should stand in the way of their first time. Or that' the way teenage movies should go... 
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Beyond the night
Marina Diaby - 29'
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Clara is 30 and raises her 7 seven-year-old daughter, Margot, by herself. Alone and driven to ruin, she accepts a night job in an erotic webcam chat company.
Lupa 
​Clémentine Poidatz - 24'
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Christmas 2012. Morlaix. The last two days of a young woman, Mathilde Jan, within her family, before she leaves joining a foreign political fight. ​

2011

Kermesse
Virginie Berthier and Benjamin Philippoux
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In Saint-Denis, in the center for leisure activities of the district Stade de France, the time of the carnival comes with the summer. The day before the D-day, at thes Koné's home, Oumou and Bakary bickers as usual, whereas their father acquaints with an important letter from  the prefecture. On the morning of the party, on the other side of the ring road, Benjamin, presenter, is very late to help in the preparations and hides his lack of enthusiasm under his hangover. Near the stadium, the safety device is set up for the evening concert.
Vourdalak
Frédérique Moreau
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Philippe de Villedieu, retired university professor, chases Saïd and Gérard, two militant friends heading for a political congress. Victim of a nervous breakdown in 1981, Philippe is since persuaded that the distribution of the ideal Marxist has to see with the lycanthropy and that its virus is passed on by the activists, every werewolves. In his crazy quest, he hires Céline, a marginal young person who chooses to adhere to the frenzy of the old elegant man, because she considers taking advantage of the comfort of life which he could offer her. The last-ditch struggle of three septuagenarians can begin.
Atoms
Manuela Morgaine
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Atoms, based on the text of Marivaux’s DISPUTE, stages the earth-shattering meeting between two intense creatures, Azor and Eglé, who are stranded on the island of Sutra. On this island paradise, they eat Kama, the forbidden fruit and, though madly in love, are expelled. They are studied like atomic lab mice from the time they first see light in the 18th century to today when they are plunged into darkness. 
Running
Maud Alpi
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Every Saturday, Gisèle runs with a man who teaches her to overcome exhaustion and suffering.

2010

Little tailor
Louis Garrel - 44'
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Arthur is twenty five years old, he is an apprentice tailor in Albert's workshop, Albert is eighty. Albert loves Arthur as his son, who returns these feelings, he will soon retire. He chose Arthur as his successor. But one evening, Arthur is taken to the theater by his friend Sylvain. He falls deeply in love with Marie-Julie, the main actress of the play. To seduce her, Arthur makes her a small dress. Both lovers decide to never leave each other, they launch the challenge to give up everything to live their love. But can Arthur assume letting down Albert?
Dounouia, the life
Olivier Broudeur and Anthony Quéré - 20'
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Modibo, young Malian of sixteen years old freshly arrived in France, has difficulty in understanding the world with which he is confronted. He sees in Nadira, a young dancer of his age, the possibility of a balance.

2009

The survivor of the hippocampus
Julien Lecat

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​Diane, a tough woman, runs a hotel used by prostitutes in 2030. Her old friend Franck drowns in alcohol the memory of his brother, Paul, who vanished years ago. He asks Diane to visit his brain to kill this memory. On the way, Diane makes some unexpected discoveries.
The Earth's Heart
Jean-Michel Roux
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A man roams and gets lost in the fields of lava below an Icelandic volcano. He hears a voice, coming from nowhere, which speaks to him, which sings and guides him towards the center of a labyrinth, then to the top of the volcano. He then understands that the spirit of the mountain has contacted him.
The Mysteries of Snaefellsjökull
Jean-Michel Roux
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Some Icelanders maintain a strong and mysterious relationship with Snaefellsjökull, a volcano-glacier located in the West of the island. This volcano has become universally celebrated thanks to Jules Verne who indicated it as the gateway leading to center of Earth.

2008

Nice
Maud Alpi
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Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.
My buddies
Louis Garrel - 26'
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Some days I tell myself I don’t deserve my friends. Others where I look at them looking at me and thinking: “Everybody failed, since the beginning of times, but we WILL make it”. And then I think: “Even this idea will get old, so hurry up, let’s film it.”  I scribbled a story about parents taking their children in hostage, asked a very beautiful girl to play the part of the boy who wants them all. I cast it onto a big screen and see how it works. There they are, my friends on a big screen, because I find them so handsome.

2007

Choosing love
Rachid Hami - 50'
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Sarah and Pascal are young lovers who have a problem of living with their love story, hiding it from their family. They chose to love each other despite of the difference but their dramatic destiny seems like chasing them. Who choose to love between their family and the love?
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