Le récital

On a school day, a seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.

In early September 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film her grandmother. Two weeks after the end of filming, her grandmother died of metastatic lung cancer. It would take her 12 years to regain the courage to review their last conversations. Through memories and poems she draws the portrait of her grandmother paying homage to her colorful spirit that made her unique.

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Louise Alba has chosen to live alone with Alpine. She must take care of her home as she takes care of her flesh. This care is a struggle passed down through generations. It is through ritual and sexuality that Louise engages in it; a struggle where belonging to oneself is a victory. Accompanied by a letter she writes to herself, Louise embarks on a day of ritualistic and symbolic actions to help her body metabolize the transition from violence to belonging. Working and splitting wood, tending the fire, listening to the snow melt, immersing herself in her own being, loving her body, and reclaiming pleasure within it.

The film Cher Zoscar is a correspondence between the desire to create and life swallowing you up. Something like that.

Behind the colors, glitter and excitement at the night market is Nabil, an older brother who lost his younger sibling. When he celebrated his younger brother 10th birthday. Nabil went through various obstacles in searching for his younger brother alone, until he discovered the true reality.

A serial killer invades a company for yet another massacre, but a young fighter at the end of his shift decides to face him, risking his own life.

This is the story of many of us. Those who left their country, their families, their languages. For a new life, perhaps a better one. This is the story of my mother, who left everything to join her husband in France. To (re)build a family life, without knowing what awaited her: loneliness, a feeling of strangeness and the difficulty of expressing herself in a language she does not speak. I, Ghanwa, her daughter, slipped into my mother's shoes to tell her story.

Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night.

Two years after the Beirut blast, a girl continually revisits the last night she spent with her family in their home.

To support his mother in Mexico, Angel, a nude dancer, turns the web into his new stage.

Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.

In the tormented darkness of a stormy night, a child, unable to sleep, gets lost in the immensity of a house. Lightning transforms the dwelling, and an unexpected encounter will seal her nocturnal wandering.

If a tree falls dead, does it cease to be alive? Like a deep breath in the forest, Siob explores the different textures of wood, from its life in nature to its rebirth as a musical instrument. And what if, in human hands, wood found its voice again?

What is the true meaning of the art?

When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.

The testimonies of the Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu women's committee punctuate this intimate short film about mourning and healing. Throughout the doll-making workshops, the women share their doubts and hopes and build a space filled with strength and solidarity.

Following a dispute with the courts, Nina, a single mother, has lost custody of her daughter. She gets her daughter back for a weekend and wants to take her to see the sea at all costs.