A year after the death of his paternal grandmother at the age of 101, filmmaker Martin Villeneuve brings her back to life using a special talent.
Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.
A shepherd discovers his wine is gone and one of his sheep, Hervé, can suddenly talk.
Dale, a teenage boy who constantly forgets to check his phone (despite the nagging of his mother) wakes one morning to find he is the last person alive on Earth. The film highlights the mental toll such catastrophe would have on an individual, exploring a dive into animalistic, savage behaviour as a result of his solitude.
Late August. A father and his two daughters enjoy their last day of holidays. Roaming the beach, they each look for one last summer fling.
Diane has stopped counting the years that fly by. Now, isolated, she kills time fishing, watching the days pass and repeat themselves despite the hustle and bustle of the 2024 Olympics project. On the eve of a planned departure, Diane lingers on the quays of Austerlitz, looking for catfish, before heading to the bridge of the ship. The Bridge of the Ship concludes a summer trilogy in the capital filmed over three summers.
A Place of Our Own
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Behind the cloud
RENDEZVOUS
Surcharge
A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his past.
While waiting for his girlfriend to join him in the calm and quiet countryside, city dweller Marc gradually falls prey to the assault of sounds not usually heard.
Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives alone and works along his father to raise the family herd. From autumn to spring, he looks after his animals, feeds them and keeps them in the dense forests of holm oaks of French Pre-Alps. In the summer, he travels on foot for more than two hundred kilometres, leaving his father to lead the herd to the mountains pastures, in the High Alps Ubaye valley. There, he lives far from everything for many long months, in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Against the tide of his time, Félix has chosen a profession that isolates him and keeps him out of the world.
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
In an anonymous city, a person collapses, appearing to have lost consciousness. Some strangers pass by, others embrace her. In a solitary quest for intimacy, blinded by a world of indifference, her gaze, her body are staggering.
Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.
A love letter to cinema and a personal reflection on loneliness. Segment from Fringe Hippo's anthology film "Elegy Apokalypto".
Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the subway and go to the movies. Today, he takes it upon himself to talk to her. Thus began Antoine's down-going.
A Short film by Christophe Bisson