Luc Chessel

Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

Marta, Luc and Charlotte, aged twenty-five to thirty-years old, have a lot to share in the city of Paris: friendships, demands and refusals. Ideas grow in the occupied university departments. THE EPISODES - SPRING 2018 is so singular in its approach to existence and so sovereign in the way it establishes its own language that all attempts at defining, assigning a genre or a previously identified aspect of film, are doomed to failure. All we have to do is open up the dictionary: after all, that was Ponge’s reaction when confronting the unknown. « Episode. A work’s division including several parts, each forming a self-sufficient whole. A more or less striking moment in a lifetime. A set of actions, of events forming a whole and making up a striking moment in history or time. »

Marta, Luc and Charlotte, aged twenty-five to thirty-years old, have a lot to share in the city of Paris: friendships, demands and refusals. Ideas grow in the occupied university departments. THE EPISODES - SPRING 2018 is so singular in its approach to existence and so sovereign in the way it establishes its own language that all attempts at defining, assigning a genre or a previously identified aspect of film, are doomed to failure. All we have to do is open up the dictionary: after all, that was Ponge’s reaction when confronting the unknown. « Episode. A work’s division including several parts, each forming a self-sufficient whole. A more or less striking moment in a lifetime. A set of actions, of events forming a whole and making up a striking moment in history or time. »

Marie, 22, works in her parent’s hotel-restaurant, a place of hard-work where three generations mix but barely speak to each other. Suzanne, 42, shows up for the night. She ends up staying two nights, then three and finally settles for a moment. To Marie, she’s a simple customer. Yet Suzanne did not choose this hotel by accident.

An old thunderstorm rumbles in my head. A thunderstorm born 25 years ago. A storm at times distant, almost forgotten. A thunderstorm often deafening. Literature assured me men existed for a long time. Music taught me their melancholy preceded them. Painting whispered to me that screams can be silent. The trade of men, very fast, seemed to me vague and vain.

Thomas, a Swiss-German musician, is stuck at home because of a broken foot. He wanders around his tiny Parisian flat, his leg in a plaster, busy composing a new piece. At sunrise, an unexpected female visitor is showing up for him at the door.

Two boys meet by the side of a road. A strange desire drives them to cross the volcanic landscapes of Auvergne together, like a huge treasure hunt. To probe the mysteries that inhabit the mountains, they tell old stories of condemned wizards, spells cast in secret, forgotten sabbaths. Haunted by these stories, they gradually become the protagonists, until these adventures reflect on the present of their meeting.

Ideas improve. With the help of the meaning of words. Plagiarism is essential. Progress implies it. It embraces a writer's sentence, uses his expressions, erases a false idea, replaces it with the right one.

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions.

Roger es el compañero de un militar que está en misión en Djibouti. Roger se ha quedado solo en la base de Fort Buchanan y es víctima de la violencia de su hija adoptiva, Roxy. Roger va a pedir consejo y consuelo a sus amigas y buscará una nueva confianza junto a su entrenador deportivo.

This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.

Dos adolescentes pasan juntos una noche saliendo por la ciudad de París. Uno intenta besar desesperadamente a una chica, mientras el otro se siente abrumado por el deseo que siente hacia su amigo.

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies are falling. Panicked at the idea that he could get arrested, Carmen forbids him to go out, and locks herself with him. Gradually, Hussain get the feeling that she is watching him…

Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask themselves about the feelings they have.