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.

초고령 사회로 접어들고 노인 인구가 너무 많아지자 일본 정부는 ‘플랜 75’라는 정책을 시행한다. 75세 이상 노인의 경우, 국가가 나서 안락사를 권장하는 것이다. 의료비와 사회보장 지출 등 노인을 부양하는 비용은 증가하지만 그들이 경제에 기여하는 바는 부족하다는 인식이 이런 정책을 가능하게 만든다. TV에선 안락사를 선택해서 행복하다는 증언이 나오고, 정부는 안락사를 선택한 노인에게 마지막 여행과 장례를 지원해준다.

인도네시아 발리에 사는 열여덟 살의 멜라티는 자신의 나라를 파괴하고 있는 플라스틱 오염과 6년째 싸우고 있다. 그녀와 마찬가지로 세상을 바로잡고자 하는 청년들이 인권, 기후, 표현의 자유, 사회 정의, 식량 및 교육의 기회를 위해 세계 곳곳에서 투쟁하고 있다. 멜라티는 전 세계를 가로질러 이들을 만나면서, 어떻게 하면 그녀의 투쟁을 유지하고 지속할 수 있을지 알아가고자 한다. 모든 것이 무너지고 있는 듯 보이는, 혹은 정말 무너지고 있는 이 시대에, 이 청년들은 오늘날 우리가 세상에 존재한다는 것이 어떤 의미인지를 보여준다.

과테말라는 내전을 촉발시킨 자들의 전범 재판으로 시끄럽다. 인류학자인 에르네스토는 실종된 사람들의 신원을 확인하는 일로 생계를 꾸려가고 있다. 어느 날 그는 행방불명된 아버지를 찾을 단서를 발견한다.

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

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.