Merits

David decides to assume the burden of his family after the stroke that suffered his father. Because of the situation and despite his youth, he is responsible for giving strength to his mother and sister. However, once he leaves the hospital and goes away from his family, David will look for the placebo he needs to let off steam.

At times of changing gender roles, a tinder date encourages young Leonid to live his own definition of "masculinity". A current reflection on love, sexuality and role models.

A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

Jack and Mary (and their dog, Rags) are walking down the street when a talking car stops them and begins lecturing them about traffic safety.

Point d'envie

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.

In the window of the house, where some say the sweetness dwells, is reflected, every night, a delicious story.

After traveling hundreds of miles, a woman must wait another twenty-four hours before she can get an abortion.

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

On Motunui, Maui tries to catch a fish with his magical fishhook, only to be comically foiled by the ocean.

This short film was made from start to finish in 48 hours, with certain constraints imposed.

This short film was made from start to finish in 48 hours, with certain constraints imposed.

Mazout & Trahisons

Influmenteurs

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

The events of the Kuwaiti film Amakor revolve around a young social media influencer with a large number of followers. The young man gets into atraffic accident that leads to him losing his memory, despite this he tries to continue his work on various social networking sites, but he is exposed to many troubles and obstacles.

A ragtag group of students try to steal from the faculty room as they save both their grades and friendship.

A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?