Joana Preiss

Louis II de Barrière has been petrified in the ice since the dawn of time. We find him in a forest, luckily he is alive ! Three witch sisters try to defrost it and unravel its musical mystery. We are propelled with them in a colorful and surreal fairy tale.

Broken Poet is a compelling investigation into the meaning of success, rock stardom and even freedom itself which, as Janis Joplin sang, is just another word for nothing left to lose.

The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginning of the second part. The places and times change, and so do the people doing the reading. But also, in the middle, real people and voices surface, like Adamo Vergine at his home and Jean François Neplaz in Marseilles. The film searches for the possible faces of Tolstoy’s two protagonists in Oneglia, Procida, and Casalborgone.

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.

Over there, in his village at the foot of the mountains, he’s dead. His face radiant and his body at peace, he lies on the bed. Then they can gather around him. Three days long they talk, drink, weep, fight and remember… And they smile, too.

A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.

Antoine es un soltero empedernido, fiestero y seductor. Vive en un magnífico apartamento parisino con Thomas, su compañero de piso, con el que casi todas las noches son animadas. Cuando Thomas se va a vivir a Los Ángeles, le encuentra a Antoine un nuevo compañero de piso para reemplazarlo: "Jeanne, 1'70 m., ojos azules". Aunque la descripción le entusiasma a Antoine, él no sabe todavía que la encantadora Jeanne no viene sola ... sino acompañada de sus dos hijos: Theo, de 8 años, y Lou, de 5 años

Justine, una joven de 16 años, vive en una familia donde todos son veterinarios y vegetarianos. Es una estudiante brillante y prometedora, pero al ingresar en la facultad de veterinaria descubre un mundo decadente, despiadado y peligrosamente seductor. Durante la primera semana, obsesionada por encajar con sus compañeros de clase, se aleja de los principios que le han inculcado su familia, y come carne cruda por primera vez. Las consecuencias no tardan en llegar, y la joven empezará a desvelar su verdadera naturaleza.

Our feelings, our choices, even our death wander on the web like options, like ghosts. For the time of a last train journey, for the time of a love chat, a deadly chat, or an unlikely casting, three generations will try to definitively wrest from virtual nomadism, to put an end to self-exile that undo our lives... Between Rotterdam and Tourcoing, diving in the Flatlands, tenuous and fragile...

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

Un cineasta reconocido que trabaja en su próxima película, dedicada a la monstruosidad en la pintura. Se guía en su investigación en una historiadora del arte con la que comenzó unos extraños y apasionados debates.

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links that are woven.

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.

Cuenta la relación entre María Estuardo y su prima Isabel I, reina de Inglaterra, con quien rivalizó tanto a nivel personal como en cuestiones políticas.

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.

In New York to present her film Siberia, Joana Preiss documents the city through its pace and meetings. We are wrapped in a mysterious journey through her imagination, which is both breathtaking and hypnotic.

Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.

Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.

Filmed entirely by Preiss and her then lover, Dumont, mostly in the claustrophobia of a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Siberia is an intense and raw observation of a relationship’s denouement. With unflinching honesty and a Direct Cinema approach, Preiss’s documentary is a fascinating psychological exploration of love, dependency, and the bounds of romantic privacy.

Filmed entirely by Preiss and her then lover, Dumont, mostly in the claustrophobia of a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Siberia is an intense and raw observation of a relationship’s denouement. With unflinching honesty and a Direct Cinema approach, Preiss’s documentary is a fascinating psychological exploration of love, dependency, and the bounds of romantic privacy.

Francia /// Vincent Bouvier, que se dedica a la prostitución masculina, y Rebecca, una chica burguesa con un lado rebelde, se enamoran a primera vista en un cybercafé. Ella no sabe a qué se dedica él. Ambos son jóvenes, apenas mayores de edad, y tienen una actitud despreocupada hacia la vida. Sin embargo, dos meses más tarde, el cuerpo de Vincent aparece flotando en el río Rhone, y Rebecca está desaparecida. El teniente Hervé Cagan y su compañera Karine Mangin están a cargo de la investigación.

Sandra, una joven italiana establecida en Londres, huye a Hong Kong para librarse de las turbulentas relaciones que mantenía con un magnate de las finanzas y con un asesino a sueldo que planea matar al primero...

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.

Crónica de una familia cuyo lema sería: "Esfuérzate en ignorar la tristeza de los tuyos". Tras romper con su novia, Paul vuelve a casa de su padre en París. Se instala en el dormitorio de su hermano Jonathan y se niega a salir de allí. Su padre y su hermano intentan ayudarlo para que venza su dolor y supere la ruptura sentimental. Mientras tanto, los parisinos están preparando las fiestas de Navidad.

En París, el amor está por todas partes: en sus bares y cafés, bajo la Torre Eiffel e incluso bajo tierra, en el metro. Algunos de los directores más prestigiosos del mundo fueron invitados a contar una historia ambientada en uno de los barrios de la ciudad. El resultado es un caleidoscopio de imágenes sobre la alegría de vivir, sobre extraños e inesperados encuentros y, especialmente, sobre el amor.

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split.

Emily (Maggie Cheung), tras pasar seis meses en la cárcel por posesión de drogas, sólo tiene una obsesión: recuperar a su hijo, que está viviendo con sus suegros lejos de ella. Para lograrlo Emily tiene que reconstruir su vida... estar limpia.

Pierre lleva, a sus diecisiete años, una vida pequeña, ordenada y casta en compañía de su abuela. El desastre está en Canarias, en casa de sus padres, una pareja peleada y dada al libertinaje. Pierre comienza a vivir con ellos, con Hélène, madre fascinante, femme fatale, con el padre, odiado y al que pronto enterrarán. Hélène arrastra a su hijo al placer, le cede a Réa, antiguo capricho lésbico. Con ella, Pierre descubre el éxtasis, la vergüenza y el respeto. La moral de Hélène, definitivamente relajada, no considera que desear a su propio hijo sea un tabú, ella no lo llamaría incesto.

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long.

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.

When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.

Adrien va a morir. La enfermedad, latente desde hace tiempo, se hace visible y ya no puede ocultársela a sus amigos. El vacío que provocará su ausencia comienza a hacerse sentir, especialmente para Gabriel, uno de sus amigos más íntimos.