Simon Apostolou

In Tel Aviv, Ori, an Israeli man who just failed in an attempted suicide, bumps into Anna, a French writer, at the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal. He is shocked to recognize the love of his life, whose memory has haunted him since they fell madly in love in Turin twenty years before. But Anna maintains that they have never met. Maybe in the desert things will become clear.

Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.

Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…

After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Acts of violence bring repercussions for exterminator Chua and his son Meng, who has been under pressure from bullies. Military service offers Meng escape into the jungle, an unknown world which could bring him closer to understanding his own nature.

After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.

Since the death of Jesus, Mary Magdalene has withdrawn from the world. Her hair has turned white, she eats berries, drinks water from the rain and sleeps among the trees. Alone in the heart of the forest, she remembers her lost love. She looks for a way to find him.

Victor, in his early 20s, works at the town hall and lives with his girlfriend Charlotte, who is expecting their first child. When an incident happens at the nearby nuclear power plant, he and his high school friends are forced to confine themselves inside a farmhouse, whereas they should have evacuated the area. As the rain is threatening, they are keeping an eye out for the radioactive cloud. The next 24 hours will be crucial.

Two men meet around a camera: the old man recounts a lost love to the young director. To remember this love, the old man reads his texts, one of which alludes to a place that holds special memories: Ostend. The director then summons a third man and in turn creates the pictures of a lost love, in a shift towards fiction.

같은 시각 프랑스, 빚더미에 앉은 노부부는 록 대회에서 우승하려 하고, 장관은 탈세 혐의로 의심받으며, 어린 십 대 청소년은 성도착자인 남자를 만난다. 곧 긴 밤이 시작된다. 개들은 풀려났다.

Sahar tirelessly travels the forgotten plains and cliffs of his native island to prospect for a rare mineral. Suddenly, a voice upsets his search, his relationship with the world, and our Milky Way.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

What is the thickness of the wall that separates us from insanity? No one knows what it's made of and no one knows what it can weather. Aube, Yoan, Marcus, they have crossed the threshold. They live on the other side of the mirror; they have created their own world.

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence in this enigmatic portrait of a tightly knit family.

Takumi left Japan to go live in France despite his father’s disapproval. After a long absence, he returns to his hometown Toyama, a small port in decline on the north coast of Japan...

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.

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.

A film that comprises in itself a form of dance – rather than a film about dance; an encounter between film and dance – rather than a film about a dancer. A documentary exploring Kō Murobushi’s dance and inner worlds, with purely cinematic means.

She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets for a merciless struggle against a reform in their rights. Twenty years after the mines shut down, people’s will to fight is still alive, just hidden away somewhere.

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the psychologist in charge of the process to get some sort of vengeance. From then on, he hides in the forest for several days, trying nothing but to survive.

1948년 2차 대전 이후 리투아니아의 현실을 그리고 있다. 소련군이 진주하면서 공산화에 반대하는 세력은 빨치산 활동을 벌이고 세상은 선악을 판단할 수 없는 안개 속에 휩싸인다. 영화는 일반적인 상식이나 선입견으로 재단하기 어려운 상황들로 인물들을 끌어들인다. 공산주의는 지주를 몰아내고 땅의 소유권을 박탈하지만 이런 조치에 모두가 환호할 수는 없다. 더군다나 그들이 외국인이고 소련군이라면 더 그렇다. 일군의 사람들은 산에 들어가 소련군에 저항하기위해 총을 든다. 하층 계급 출신이기에 아내의 멸시를 감내했던 남자는 소련군의 편도, 빨치산의 편도 될 수 없는 상황에 처한다. 한 청년이 목격하는 사건들을 통해 역사의 아이러니를 그린 작품이다.

전설적인 무용수 이사도라 던컨은 1913년 4월에 자신의 아이가 세상을 떠난 뒤 ‘엄마’라는 이름의 독무를 창작했다. 부드러움의 정점에 이르는 순간, 엄마는 아이를 떠나보내기 직전 마지막으로 그를 보듬어본다. 현대의 프랑스에서 이사도라를 포함한 4인의 여성이 새롭게 ‘엄마’를 접하고 이를 각자만의 방식으로 해석해나간다.

A heroic-fantasy musical.

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.

Three places, three moments of a night with Geneva’s jeunesse dorée.

『그렇지 않다 』 (No es 는 파르시 의 공동 연출가 마리아노 블라트가 평생 동안 계속해서 이어 쓰고 있는 시로 이 작업 과 정은 그의 일생 동안 지속된다 몇 일 몇 달 몇 년 동안 덧붙여진 이 시의 문구는 어떤 것도 담을 수 있다 이미지들 사람 기억들 풍경 구절들 아이디어 등등 겉으로는 그런 것 같지만 사실은 아닌 것들의 리스트를 담고 있는 에두아르도 윌리 엄스의 영화 파르시 는 공간과 주변 사람들 사이를 끊임없이 배회한다 관객은 마치 복잡한 거리를 걷고 사람들을 만나 며 때론 물 속 세상을 보는 것처럼 느끼고 끊임없는 이미지의 전환을 경험을 하게 된다 그리고 그 경험 자체는 『 그렇지 않다 』 (No es 라는 시의 창작 과정의 일부가 된다

One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.

At his grand-mother's death, Jean, a fourteen-year old teenager inherits the file of a mysterious court case from 1895. Fascinated by this archive, both real and fictitious, Jean becomes the judge of a criminal case completed more than a century ago.

소피아앙티폴리스는 코트다쥐르 지역의 기술 산업 도시로, 꿈을 현실이 되게 만드는 공간이다. 하지만 그 기저에는 두려움과 절망이 도사리고 있다. 기만적인 태양 아래, 다섯 명의 인물들은 소피아라는 젊은 여성에 관해 의미심장한 이야기를 써 내려간다. (2019년 제20회 전주국제영화제) 리뷰 산업기술 개발 단지인 소피아앙티폴리스의 거주자들은 절망에 빠져있거나 불만을 품고 있다. 영화는 두 부분으로 나뉘는데 첫 장은 영적 구원을 찾은 숭배자들의 이야기이고, 두 번째 장은 타락한 세상의 정의를 추구하는 지역 민병대의 이야기이다. 두 섹션은 유기적으로 통합되지 않는다. 캐릭터가 영화 안으로 들어가서 떠나고, 대부분 다시 나타나지 않는다. 선형 내러티브의 규범을 파괴하면서 프랑스라는 나라의 지리적, 정치적 상태를 기이하고 끈적거리는 산업단지의 악몽으로 형상화한다. 16mm 필름의 지글거리는 화면도 초현실적인 무드 조성에 기여한다. (2019년 제20회 전주국제영화제/장병원)

1970년대 중반, 한 이방인이 조용한 시골 마을에 도착한다. 그는 레스토랑에 앉아 뚜렷한 이유도 없이 유명 변호사 클라우디오를 비방한다. 마을 사람들은 클라우디오를 옹호하며 이방인에게 모욕을 준 뒤 그를 쫓아내기에 이른다. 같은 날 늦은 저녁, 이방인은 끔찍한 복수를 결심하고 클라우디오와 그의 아내 수사나의 앞길을 가로막는다.

1970년대 중반, 한 이방인이 조용한 시골 마을에 도착한다. 그는 레스토랑에 앉아 뚜렷한 이유도 없이 유명 변호사 클라우디오를 비방한다. 마을 사람들은 클라우디오를 옹호하며 이방인에게 모욕을 준 뒤 그를 쫓아내기에 이른다. 같은 날 늦은 저녁, 이방인은 끔찍한 복수를 결심하고 클라우디오와 그의 아내 수사나의 앞길을 가로막는다.

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.

버려진 해변의 한 리조트. 시대의 종말에 관한 어느 판타지 영화의 촬영이 막바지로 접어들었다. 영화 제작진 가운데 배우와 감독을 맡은 두 여자는 연인 관계로, 각각 종말과 유희를 상징한다. 여기, 이들의 관계는 지금 최후를 맞이하려 하고 있다. (2019년 제20회 전주국제영화제)

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 lonely horseman arrives in a far away country, looking for a land to settle down. Clement is my older brother. He became a farmer in France, far from the suburbs of Paris, where we grew up. Since then we went on distant ways. I suggest to make a film together.

Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?

Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner's possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.

20세기 초 레위니옹 섬, 부유한 부르주아들의 자식들로 비행을 일삼는 5명의 10대 소년들이 주인공이다. 자신들이 저지른 범죄의 대가로 유배형을 받은 이들은 네덜란드인 선장의 지휘에 따라 기이한 여행을 하게 된다. (2018년 제19회 전주국제영화제)

20세기 초 레위니옹 섬, 부유한 부르주아들의 자식들로 비행을 일삼는 5명의 10대 소년들이 주인공이다. 자신들이 저지른 범죄의 대가로 유배형을 받은 이들은 네덜란드인 선장의 지휘에 따라 기이한 여행을 하게 된다. (2018년 제19회 전주국제영화제)

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep.

싱글맘 빅토리아는 여자친구 살해기도 혐의로 기소된 옛 친구 빈센트의 변호를 맡기로 하고 과거에 변호해준 적 있는 샘에게 집안일을 부탁한다.

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.

In this shapeshifting essay film by French-Greek filmmaker Daphné Hérétakis, we visit the streets of Athens in July 2015 and the wake of an austerity referendum, finding friends and strangers, pop songs and poetry, fallen monuments and hopes for the future. It is a lyrical sketch of a time of personal and political transition – culminating in an image of liberating, apocalyptic possibility.

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.

Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"

Documentary about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter.

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

From its epic conception to its film death, the fantasized and fictitious portrait of the film-maker Walerian Borowczyk : Boro-in-the-box discovers a cruel and obscene world, crosses commonplace and colorful adventures, from Poland to Paris, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet primer.

A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. An abandoned plot of land in the suburbs and an uncontrollable wave of smoke spark uncertainty and chaos.

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.

케이블TV 리포터 래티시아는 대통령 선거를 취재하기 위해 베이비시터에게 아이들을 맡기기로 한다. 두 아이가 울어대는 와중에 정신병 치료 전력이 있는 전 남편 빈센트가 아이를 보겠다고 집으로 찾아오고, 이때부터 이야기는 선거 캠페인이 한창인 광장과 집으로 들어오기 위해 빈센트가 신경전을 벌이는 래티시아의 집을 이원생중계로 오간다. 미숙한 베이비시터와 아이, 편집증적인 전 남편이 얽힌 상황은 대대적인 선거 캠페인이 벌어지는 광장을 활보하는 카오스적인 군중과 오버랩 된다.

The old Salammbo lives alone on a northern island, in total destitution. Haunted by her memories, Salammbo is mistreated by the phantom of her youth, which sometimes taunts, sometimes bends her back so that she no longer sees the blue of the sky.

Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body.

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body.

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon.

In Nigeria, to be a twin can be a blessing or a curse. The father of O is the village chief, a witch doctor who believes in the curse of twins. One day, this witch doctor tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother being murdered. Having fled across his country, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France.

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division, known as Leclerc Division, whose troops were the first who entered Nazi-occupied Paris on August 24, 1944.

Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rain forest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.

Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman.

In the office of Mumbai University, Aditi, a nineteen years old secretary writes a letter to the office's head, Rajiv, to know his intentions toward her.