Isabelle Truc

Political film essay in which events happening around the Mediterranean Sea are compared to the myth of Icarus.

A border inspection at Ventimiglia, between Italy and France, turns into a fantastical fairy tale narrated by a chorus of frogs, wherein a scientist experiments with rejuvenation techniques using monkey testicles. Dr. Voronoff was a real person, and was world-famous in the 1920s. His villa stands on the border where migrants try to cross. But it is as if they do not exist.

This documentary re-examines the story of the Red Orchestra: the most important resistance network in Nazi Germany, whose operations extended from Berlin and Brussels to Paris.

Nikos mora no sótão da alfaiataria da família. Quando o banco ameaça reaver a loja e seu pai adoece, Nikos entra em ação: com uma alfaiataria sobre rodas maravilhosamente estranha, ele se reinventa enquanto traz estilo e confiança às mulheres de Atenas.

This documentary film is a dialogue between young women about female sexuality. Addressing the subject with freedom, courage and humor, they share their stories and experiences with the desire to change the world around them and to assert their right as women to an informed sexual education, free of constraints and taboos.

O jovem letão Oleg chega em Bruxelas em busca de uma vida melhor e começa a trabalhar em uma unidade de processamento de carnes. Porém, seus planos são interrompidos quando um colega o denuncia. Sozinho em um país estranho, ele passa a depender de Andrzej, um criminoso polonês.

Nas Filipinas, mulheres são enviadas para trabalhar como empregadas domésticas ou babás no exterior. Num dos muitos centros de formação dedicados ao trabalho doméstico, um grupo de estagiárias se prepara para enfrentar a saudade de casa e os possíveis abusos que se avizinham.

The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. This is a letter addressed to him in the form of a film.

Olivier vive feliz com a família até que a sua esposa, Laura, desaparece. Sem saber o que aconteceu, ele tenta dar suporte emocional aos dois filhos pequenos enquanto lida com os próprios conflitos.

For thirty years in the late-twentieth century, the people of Tahiti survived dozens of offshore nuclear tests by the French government. Since the country was colonized in 1880, the blasts left Tahitians picking through the remnants of their islands and culture in an effort to keep indigenous knowledges alive. The film offers a poetic glimpse into contemporary Tahiti, and the colonial struggles its people still face as they strive to sustain their way of life.

Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.

This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big brother” in Bert, a guide who is going to take him straight to the brink of catastrophe. But very quickly, boredom resurfaces and the freewheeling sense of being on an adventure evades them. Should they return to the fold, or keep moving on? Their drifting logic compels them to blindly forge ahead.

A história da viagem de volta da última criança das selkies, mulheres que se transformam em focas. Depois do desaparecimento de sua mãe, Ben e Saoirse são enviados para viver com a avó na cidade. Quando eles resolvem voltar para a sua casa à beira-mar, a viagem torna-se uma corrida contra o tempo, quando eles são atraídos para um mundo que conhecem apenas nos contos populares de sua mãe. Mas isso não é uma história de ninar, essas pessoas estão em nosso mundo por muito tempo. Logo fica claro para Ben que Saoirse é a chave para a sua sobrevivência.

Uma antologia de cinco macabros contos animados baseados em clássicas histórias de Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell Tale Heart; The Fall of House Usher; Strange Case of Mr Valdemar; The Mask of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum). Cada segmento é trabalhado num estilo de design gráfico e misturas de texturas, técnicas e colorização, inspirados visualmente desde no expressionismo alemão as graphic novels, especialmente adequados para melhor expressar a profundidade psicológica e complexidade do universo sombrio de Poe.

Laura, in her thirties, lives alone on the outskirts of a big city. She learns that her father is in a coma, following a serious traffic accident. She decides to visit him regularly at the hospital: the opportunity finally presents itself to settle accounts, perhaps even to take revenge... But life is unpredictable and Laura's desire for revenge will lead to a reunion troubling with her family and her past. She will come out of it reconciled, with herself and with life.

O jovem Brendan vive em uma vila medieval remota sob o cerco das invasões bárbaras, mas uma nova vida de aventuras surge quando um mestre iluminador chega de terras estrangeiras carregando um livro antigo inacabado e repleto de sabedoria secreta e poderes. Para ajudar a completar o livro mágico, Brendan tem que superar seus medos mais profundos em uma busca perigosa que o leva para a floresta encantada onde criaturas míticas se escondem. É aqui que ele encontra a fada Aisling, uma misteriosa jovem mulher-lobo, que o ajuda ao longo do caminho.