Xavier Thibault

Thirty-year-old Thomas has to face facts and accept to forget about his dreams of becoming a film director. But this weekend, his short film is selected in a small, country festival. His last festival before letting it all go. He hopes, for once, to win the prize.He will return from the event with much more.

Aline nunca ha conseguido hacer el duelo de su hijo, muerto con 17 años en una pelea callejera. Cuando, de casualidad, se cruza con su agresor, que acaba de salir de la cárcel, Aline decide montar un plan para vengarse. A pesar de su determinación, Aline empieza a dudar a medida que va conociendo al joven agresor.

Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.

The son wrote a comic book about his childhood. He sent it to his father who’s been living in the south for years. But the father didn’t really care about reading that story where he is drawn naked in most panels.

No matter the cost, Yacine and his two pals want to see Fast & Furious 8 at the multiplex in the high rise suburb where they live. Unfortunately for them, they can only afford to see the cine-club session. For Yacine, what was meant to be a strategy transforms into an amazing experience.

Amadi, un músico de Lagos (Nigeria), llega a São Paulo (Brasil) con una misión: localizar a su hermano, Ikenna, quien recientemente ha roto lazos con su familia, y traerlo de vuelta a Nigeria. Amadi, que siempre fue más relajado y despreocupado, en contraste con la personalidad más calculadora de Ikenna, tiene que estar a la altura de las circunstancias para no defraudar a sus padres. También debe hacerlo por razones egoístas: le preocupa que, si no encuentra a Ikenna, recaiga sobre él las responsabilidades del hermano mayor, la responsabilidad de mantener a su familia. Asimismo en Brasil, Amadi sigue los débiles pasos que dejó Ikenna en este paisaje urbano extranjero: se entera de que su hermano no es el distinguido profesor de Matemáticas que aparentaba ser, sino que ha ideado una serie de intrincados esquemas para amasar riqueza en Brasil.

Akihiro, un cineasta japonés que vive en París, vuelve a Japón a entrevistar a supervivientes para un documental conmemorativo del 70 aniversario de la bomba atómica de Hiroshima. Profundamente conmovido por las entrevistas, decide tomarse un descanso, y deambulando por la ciudad, conoce a Michiko, una joven alegre y enigmática. Michiko se lo lleva en un improvisado y alegre recorrido desde la ciudad hacia el mar, donde los horrores del pasado se mezclan con la simplicidad del presente.

A sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria’s greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache.

Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a « repenti ». But the law cannot erase his crimes and for Rachid it's the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.

A fairy is invited for lunch by Gertrude Stein, and suddenly the world changes.

Filmmaker Laurent Hasse travels through France and reflects on happiness and the meaning of life.

Documentary short about the Black Panther movement.

The story is simply set around a couple fighting at the breakfast table. All is well, nothing out of the ordinary. Steph announces to his life partner Flippy, the mascot bear for Flipp’s cereals, that he wishes to go to Japan to fulfill his childhood’s dream: study at a Ninja school.

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.

Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly seduces Pierre, a slightly older man who is working for Mathilde as caretaker for the season. Pierre is initially open to the relationship, but quickly becomes reluctant to become too involved.

Eric is forced to spend his holidays on his grandfather's farm in the countryside. Bored out of his mind, an unexpected visit from over-the-top friends Mika and Koko, and the appearance of a hunky farmhand, pull Eric out of the doldrums.