Rémi Boubal

Julie is a cycle courier. She was meant to be spending the night with her boyfriend. Tom. But she has to work instead. She’s done too few minutes to get her bonus so she has to make up the time. Julie is up against the clock, racing across Paris from one delivery for the next.

En Japón, en un futuro cercano, el envejecimiento de la población se acelera. El gobierno estima que, a partir de cierta edad, los mayores se convierten en una carga inútil para la sociedad e implementa el “Plan 75”. Dicho programa propone a los ancianos un acompañamiento logístico y financiero para poner fin a su vida. Una candidata al Plan 75, Michi, un reclutador del gobierno, Hiromu, y una joven auxiliar de enfermería filipina, María, se ven enfrentados a un pacto mortífero.

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to fix the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, sometimes risking their lives and safety, they protect, denounce and care for others. The earth. And they change everything. Melati goes to meet them across the globe. At a time when everything seems to be or has been falling apart, these young people show us how to live. And what it means to be in the world today.

Guatemala, 2013. El país está fascinado por el juicio de los oficiales militares que comenzaron la guerra civil. Los testimonios de las víctimas siguen llegando. Ernesto, un joven antropólogo de la Fundación Forense, identifica a las personas que han desaparecido. Un día, a través de la historia de una anciana, Ernesto cree que ha encontrado una pista que le permitirá encontrar a su padre, un guerrillero que desapareció durante la guerra.

El detective François Visconti es el encargado de resolver la desaparición de un adolescente. El señor Bellaile, el tutor de francés del chico, se presta a ayudar en la investigación, pero en realidad no hace más que disparar las sospechas hacia él mismo. Romain Duris y un Vincent Cassel en modo Colombo protagonizan este noir, firmado por Erick Zonca y basado en la novela de Dror Mishani.

Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of their collapsing country that faces possibly its worst social, economic, power and political crisis in its 200-year-history.

Dysfunctional truth rap and suspended youth - the final skate between two best friends.

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the first time in a secret place. Apparently, Russia is interfering in the US presidential elections while it mourns the death of its ambassador to Turkey. Snowden carefully chooses his interviews, so nobody really knows something about him. As the world prepares for Christmas, they gather to discuss the only issue that matters, their common struggle: how to save democracy.

Pavel has a good job in the village factory and is sure to marry Anja, his best friend from childhood. It's written in the Book of Life. But reality doesn't follow books.

In Troumaron, an impoverished area of Port-Louis, the capital of Mauritius island, four youngsters tell us about their fight for their survival: Sadiq, the would-be poet, Eve, who prostituted herself as a child to obtain school materials, Clelio filled with his anger against the world, and Savita, 'the good girl' who wants to escape but finds all avenues are closed. Eve has a plan for her and Savita to get away. But it will go terribly awry, and its tragic consequences will lead them into a spiral of violence.

Another great short created by students from Supinfocom Arles, Douce Menace plays with the ideas of representation, reality, context and scale. Staged in and focused on the city of Paris, the short tours through a number of the city’s landmark buildings, with several references to tourism, but from an unexpected narrative point of view. The film makes effective use of off-screen space combined with sound. There’s also great attention dedicated to aesthetics, framing, composition, and especially to set design. The environments’ work is impressive, with lots of attention dedicated to detail and lighting, and a number of characters populating it that help bring the staging alive. A lot of effort has also been dedicated to the animation of the pigeon, and to the destruction sequences, which are anticipated symbolically through the staining of the map of Paris (2m35) and the change in music mood.