Karen Benainous

October 2018, France. Macron’s government decrees a tax increase on the price of fuel. A wave of protests starts to grow. Citizens mobilize throughout the country: this is the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement. In Chartres, a group of men and women gather daily. Among them, Agnès, Benoît, Nathalie and Allan commit themselves to the collective struggle. Like a whole nation, they discover that they have a voice to be heard...

Unemployed youths, many looking to leave the country for want of better options, are swelling the ranks of gangs that sow violence in Zinder, in Niger. Aïcha Macky explores the origins of the radicalization that is spreading through her hometown and the prospects for escaping it.

Documentary on a politically active group of nuns of Montreal.

어느 여름날, 파리의 교외에 자리한 휴양지. 모험, 추파 그리고 소소한 위법이 벌어지는 이곳은 일상으로부터 숨거나 잠시 휴식을 취하는 공간이다. 해변과 더불어 곳곳에 숨겨진 장소들이 즐비한 이곳은 발견되기를 기다리는 동심의 왕국처럼 보인다. 혼란으로 얼룩진 오늘날의 사회에 반향을 불러일으키는 영화.

Kabwita, a young man living with his wife and daughters in Kolwezi, a town in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, dreams of buying land to build a house. To do so, he produces charcoal (makala), extracted from the ashes of a mighty hardwood tree. Carrying the sacks of charcoal on the back of his bicycle, he embarks on a dangerous journey to sell them on the market.

A male voice describes, with ruthless precision, the physical and mental journey of a man who has just become homeless.

In the fields, we see them, extended on the grass or grazing peacefully. Large placid beasts that we thought we knew because they are livestock. Lions, gorillas, bears have our attention, but has anyone ever really looked at cows? Asked what they were doing with their days? What do they do when a storm passes? When the sun comes back? What do they think when they stand motionless, seemingly contemplating the void? Do they think? "Bovines" chronicles the true life of a cow: grazing, ruminating, gazing - but also feeling - mooing with grief, or just enjoying an apple…

Jan and Pascale are separating, leaving their son Thierry torn between two families.