Denis Séchaud

Colombine finally wants to know who her father is. But her mother vehemently refuses to tell her. With the help of Mathilde the greengrocer, Colombine obtains a magic potion that transports the 13-year-old several months back in time to the "Fête des Vignerons" wine festival in Vevey. There, Colombine must summon up all her courage to uncover the secret of her father.

É verão em uma pequena vila no sudeste da Espanha. Uma tempestade ameaça fazer com que o rio que a atravessa volte a transbordar. Uma velha crença popular afirma que algumas mulheres estão predestinadas a desaparecer a cada nova enchente, porque elas têm a “água dentro”. Um bando de jovens tenta superar o cansaço de um verão na aldeia que cheira a morte fumando, dançando e cobiçando uns aos outros. Nesta atmosfera elétrica que antecede a tempestade, Ana e José vivem um caso de amor até que a tempestade estoura.

A Swiss village, Elisabeth, 17, returns home from the convent after learning of her sister's mysterious death. Reunited with her three childhood friends she discovers that faith and desire can sometimes be intertwined.

The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

Lisa está saindo do apartamento onde vive com Mara e Markus, e sua mudança significa o fim de uma era. À medida que caixas são deslocadas, paredes pintadas e armários construídos, os abismos começam a se abrir. Enquanto Lisa está ansiosa pela mudança, Mara enfrenta uma montanha-russa de emoções.

Since 1952, the Greek cooperative KTEL has run 80% of the country’s public transport system completely independently from the state. Catherine Catella and Shu Aiello crossed the country to meet employees of a company that was shaken up by the economic crisis. From general assemblies to daily journeys, Leoforio documents the multiple conditions of a model that is organising its resistance.

Maryam matou acidentalmente seu marido Nasser e foi condenada à morte. A única pessoa que pode salvá-la é Mona, filha de Nasser. Tudo que Mona precisa fazer é aparecer em um programa de TV e perdoar Maryam. Mas o perdão se mostra difícil quando eles são forçados a reviver o passado.

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.

A husband acts as a caregiver to his quadriplegic wife.

A primeira vez que entrei no Tribunal de Paris eu tinha 20 anos. Seis mil, novecentas e noventa e nove portas, 3.150 janelas e 24 quilômetros de corredores, segundo a lenda. Nas noites em que precisava ficar até tarde esperando um veredito, me afastava das luzes e mergulhava nos corredores cada vez mais escuros. Ouvia ruídos vindos das profundezas. Tinha a sensação de que a Corte estava viva e parecia se mover. Sua remoção iminente apressou a minha volta. Das passagens cheias de labirintos e meus encontros, das histórias escondidas, surge peça por peça o retrato de uma ideia abstrata: a justiça.

Five Chinese artists stand at the centre of the film: the modern dancer Wen Hui, the writer Ye Fu, the cartoonist Pi San and the visual artists Gao Brothers. They are part of a fragile yet courageous counterculture. Taking their own family stories as starting points, they explore the echoes of the past in order to understand the predicaments of the present. Increasingly, their struggle for a democratic civil society seems as relevant for the world today as it is for China.

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

Após a morte repentina de sua mãe abusiva, Abobrinha faz amizade com o policial Raymond, que o acompanha até o orfanato. No início, Abobrinha luta para encontrar seu lugar nesse estranho ambiente. Mas com a ajuda de Raymond e seus novos amigos, ele acaba aprendendo a confiar e encontra o amor.

Expulsa de casa após ter engravidado misteriosamente, uma curandeira decidida a limpar o nome cruza-se com uma mulher que anseia pelo mesmo milagre.

Sam, um menino de sete anos, mora com a mãe desde que os pais se separaram, mas agora vai ter que morar com o pai, Gérôme, um escritor sem inspiração. Os dois mal se conhecem, já que o pai raramente esteve presente na vida do filho. Todos acreditam que Gérôme é incapaz de cuidar de uma criança. Após um início caótico, Sam começa a tentar ensinar Gérôme a ser o pai que ele tanto sente falta.

At Uz, an isolated hamlet in the northern mountains of Portugal, four generations live together in a group of around fifty people. When life is rough, solidarity is of the highest order. Everything else is left in God’s hands. They could have emigrated, like so many others, but chose to stay and keep their ancestral way of life, away from the racket of modernity.

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.

"Prud’hommes" is an immersion into the heart of a judicial court that handles disputes between employers and employees. This specific jurisdiction is a place of confrontation where the tensions, suffering and revolts that span the world of employment are exposed. In search of justice or recognition, employees speak out and face their employer face to face. This unique theatre plunges us into a real human drama and forces us to reflect upon today's society.

Follow the daily lives of 11 12-year-olds in the city of Yverdon. What do teens do in Yverdon-les-Bains? What are their dreams, their revolts? How do they see their future? Which society would they want to build? In which Switzerland would they like to live?

O cargueiro do espaço Kassandra, está na rota para a distante Estação 42. Somente Laura, uma jovem médica, desperta a bordo. Seus companheiros de equipe estão todos dormindo, congelado. Quando a exploração do espaço por uma nave de carga fria dá errada, toda a tripulação deve ser congelada. Faltam mais quatro meses para que Laura chegue ao fim de sua missão. Durante a sua ronda de inspeção diária através da nave vazia e quieta, Laura tem um pressentimento de que não esta sozinha a bordo. Ao ouvir estranhos ruídos decide finalmente acordar o capitão Lacroix. Algo ou alguém parece estar escondido nos compartimentos de carga. Um jogo de gato e rato começa, em que nada é o que parece ser...

The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries in the world, Switzerland.

Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground govern night and day – and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.

Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots and her own path in life, happens to be the interpreter of Tashkov's defense lawyer, and gets instantly captivated by of this powerful, cultured and manipulative man.

January 1957, in a small town in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. A middle-class house, the home of two sisters, Clara and Thérèse, whose characters could not be more different. After their father is institutionalized, the two women take over the family business, which specializes in precision optics. One day, the floor of the music room collapses after being ravaged by termites. Karoly, a Hungarian refugeee and jack-of-all-trades, is hired to repair the damage. The Hungarian's presence causes ripples in the seemingly unchangeable life of the two sisters...

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources – including Kafka and Montaigne – and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentary inspired naturalism of Ana and Trás-os-Montes. Reis and Cordeiro’s least known film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo. - Harvard Film Archive