Ron Dyens

A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life. This will be the story of his last swim.

Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.

Weakened by a stay in an psychiatric hospital reunites with her son, Luca, who lives far away with his father now. But the joy of the reunion will be brief and Audrey will have to question her role as a mother.

Cuando Herra, una joven checa, se enamora de Nazir, un afgano, no consciente de la clase de vida que le espera en la Afganistán post-talibán, ni el tipo de familia de la que va a formar parte: un abuelo liberal, un niño adoptado con altas capacidades y Freshta, que haría cualquier cosa para escapar de la violentas garras de su marido.

Tristán encuentra un gato muerto en la esquina de su calle. Lo atropelló un automóvil y se quedó en la cuneta pudriéndose bajo la lluvia. El joven se estremece y la imagen del gato muerto comienza a perseguirlo. La vida real continúa lo mejor que puede, pero termina convirtiéndose en una especie de sueño repetitivo, que le provoca ansiedad.

After a long absence, Marie decides to return to the family home to introduce the partner with whom she is expecting a child.

Beau celebra 30 años en casa con su novia y amigos. Marlo, el amigo de un amigo, ataca sexualmente a Beau, quien logra revertir la situación al secuestrarlo en su sótano.

Marona, una perrita inocente y empática, recuerda la vida que ha compartido con diferentes amos, a los que ha amado incondicionalmente.

Marona, una perrita inocente y empática, recuerda la vida que ha compartido con diferentes amos, a los que ha amado incondicionalmente.

Marcus, a young intelligence soldier, became a national hero after his bravery in a terrorist attack. The authoritarian regime based on mass surveillance uses his image to value its action. As he returns to his parents' home for furlough, he will be faced with the reality of this ruthless administration he has come to embody in the media.

Anna quiere compartir su pastel de chocolate con su amiga y termina viviendo una aventura por el bosque, donde el terrible gigante barbudo es el nuevo habitante. De hecho, todos los animales que conoce están desapareciendo. ¿El gigante necesita compañía?

The nipple is the power button that gets the ‘cinema of the mind’ rolling – or is it in fact a reality?

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.

Una pareja joven está jugando en el bosque a la luz de la luna. Su juego los lleva a un jardín desconocido en el medio de un claro. Sin darse cuenta del peligro, los jóvenes amantes se hunden en los meandros del jardín de medianoche.

Every child knows full well that losing a tooth is only the prologue to a magical experience—namely, a night-time visit from the tooth fairy and the gift she leaves behind. So why, in this case, is the tooth fairy a no-show? These are the sorts of questions a father needs to be able to answer for his son… In this brilliantly simple animated short, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle brings to the screen the titular parent of his popular series, Le guide du mauvais père (A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting), published by Delcourt. Inspired by a common childhood experience, Delisle uses his trademark wry humour to reflect on the vagaries of parenting. A slice of everyday life, courtesy of the Comic Strip Chronicles.

Gros chagrin combina animación e imagen real para narrar el fin de la relación sentimental con su pareja y dar forma a los sentimientos de dolor y culpa que no se expresan. Devaux (Le repas dominical), es capaz de aunar tragedia y humor de manera que un suceso cotidiano se convierte en algo nuevo y especial. (FILMAFFINITY)

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. 12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore…

1882, San Peterburgo. Sasha es una joven aristócrata Rusa que ha crecido escuchando las maravillosas aventuras de su abuelo, Olukin. Este explorador de renombre es conocido por crear el “Davai”, un gran barco creado con el fin de emprender un viaje para conquistar el Polo Norte, pero que por desgracia, ha supuesto su desaparición.

A girl and a boy meet by a chance in unaware of consequences on one day. A modern parable inspired by true events.

Vida is a young Iranian lifeguard swimmer. Popular in her team, she is determined to fight in order to be the one to participate in an international competition in Australia. However, when Sareh, as fast and talented as her joins the team, she will have to face an unexpected situation.

Un relato sobre cómo el pensamiento erótico tiene la capacidad de transformar la realidad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Filmed like the travel journey of a Western traveler in search of Madagascar's customs. The pages turn, the drawings come to life, and the luxuriant landscapes of Madagascar appear one after another.

In a village, a young blind man, victim of a storm, will be iniated by a women to overcome his fears. Thanks to the musical quality of a flute, he will be able to exorcize their fears of the villagers and to offer a different perception of the natural elements.

The cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the heavens with his father. He takes off from a tree house overlooking the sea and his father's landing strip. Their flight is graceful and full of adventure. Then, we watch the boy grow, study, marry, father a child, and become, himself, a grandfather. Holding a toy plane, he takes his grandchild to the same cliff from whence his own imagination took off years before.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

Zako - was the name German soldiers gave to the Soviet Armenian painter, Sargis Mangasaryan. Thanks to his creative gifts, Zako prevailed and survived the hell of WWII military camps.Zako endured by drawing portraits of his tormentors. He tried to escape several times, but each time landed in another harsher camp. After the war, he risked exile to Siberia, as he was a prisoner of war, he was considered a traitor to the Soviet Union. He created several huge portraits of Stalin to earn him passage home to Soviet Armenia.Some years later, in 1956, Zako visits the famous Picasso exhibition at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow with his friends. He realized how undeveloped his portrait drawings had remained all those years. Although he was fighting for his physical freedom throughout, his artistic evolution was stunted within the system.

In a fantasy version of the Brazilian Sertão, an arid wasteland where men can shapeshift into birds of prey, SETE-PENAS is taken in as a child by CARCARÁ, an outlaw who aspires to be a local legend.

A cat wakes up in a flooded world and tries to overcome his fear of water.

A cat wakes up in a flooded world and tries to overcome his fear of water.

Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The two intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side the girls take on the appearance of cats, and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.