Légendes et châteaux

From Simon Schwartz, this debut short chronicles a beauty pageant with a twist.

Forever confined to an isolated cottage, Ethan's only companion is his Father, who describes in great detail the horrific state of the outside world. What the young boy finds after sneaking out contradicts everything he's ever been told.

At 22, Alain is already a living legend in Marseille. Of all the young divers who jump from the Corniche, he is the only one to dive head and neck forward "to break the water". If the jump allows him to control his impulses, he knows that he will not be able to brave forever the fear of heights.

When Iris thinks of Ellie, she gets wet. Very wet. She’s heard it’s normal, but this seems different. And when you’re in high school, different is dangerous.

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one bus route in Durham, North Carolina, this film is a celebration of light and a meditation on leaving.

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

A pizza parlor is visited by a man on a mundane Tuesday and strange people follow him home.

A young woman’s fiercest self takes over to fight for her life when she’s attacked in this taut thriller from up-and-coming filmmaker Catherine Fordham. After waking up and noticing bruises on her body, the woman flashes back to last night’s perilous journey home. But as full memory of the attack she experienced comes back to her, we soon realize our heroine turned the tables in a surprisingly scary way. Fordham’s effective twist on the rape-revenge thriller marks her as a forward-thinking horror maker with a unique perspective in a historically misogynistic genre.

The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Tells the story of a woodchuck which was taken to a state park to live and now entertains the park visitors by performing tricks. Shows the woodchuck's appearance, size, natural habitat, food, habits, and adjustment to captivity.

A troubled teenager tries to get rid of the most dangerous addiction of them all - cannibalism.

On Christmas eve 2005, Jeff and Kelly took a trip through the desert and mysteriously disappeared. This is the account of their final hours.

A 20-minute documentary film about the Kyrgyz people living by the Narym River.

A woman takes action once she is sure that someone, or something, is sneaking into her room at night.

Short documentary on the Antwerp Ford Motor Company plant.

Notes about identity

Three young teenagers try to relax by the fire when things take a turn for the worst. They are lured into the woods, and find an abandoned house where the unknown awaits.