Carole Chassaing

The gorgeous astrakhan fur, that looks so soft, shiny and warm, actually comes from fetal or newborn or even unborn karakul lambs. While the white lamb is the Christian symbol of purity and innocence, the astrakhan evokes the early sacrifice by society of the black lamb, equally innocent, slaughtered before or right after birth.

The story of a young woman who will never fit in but whom the cinema, because it is able to appreciate her extraordinary existence, helps her to find her own special place in the world.

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.

Noel and his mother Michelle form a strange couple. They cannot live without one another but as soon as they get together the atmosphere becomes highly charged. Through long conversations and moments of silence, the exploration of a mother-son relationship in its most tragical as well as its most comical details.

Oedipus arrives in Thebes and finds a devastated city, where the young men are devoured by a monstrous beast, the Sphinx. He decides to deliver the inhabitants of this plague installed on the roof of a building.

In the Island of Corsica, Jeanne's everyday life flows more or less quietly since Lucien, her lover, has been murdered, three years ago.

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.

In today's Larzac, the life of Oedipus, king of Thebes, before, during and after the tragic episodes of his life. In the dressing rooms of a theater, the Greek chorus and its leader are preparing to go on stage. A film performed by actors with disabilities.