Gilles Bénardeau

After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?

Following an urban redevelopment project, Géro is about to be evicted from his home and his small theatre, where he no longer plays since he lost his voice. A nephew he barely knows suddenly settles in his home. He wants to write.

Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know the young man and her determination is tested.

A bed sheet devouring bodies, a radio contaminating minds or a chicken refusing to be butchered…Kraken storms into an apartment building, where everyday soon plunges into bizarre…

A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth.

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poet, director, artist.

Lola, uma jovem mulher trans, vive na cidade com seu melhor amigo Samir e estuda para seu diploma como assistente de veterinária. Encorajada por sua transição e mudança de vida, com apoio de sua mãe, ela tem o mundo a seus pés sem planos de olhar para trás. Quando Lola recebe a notícia de que sua mãe faleceu repentinamente, ela volta para casa para o funeral e para enfrentar seu pai distante, Phillipe. Impulsionados pelo objetivo comum de cumprir os últimos desejos de sua mãe, Lola e Phillipe embarcam relutantemente em uma jornada para o Mar do Norte.

Guatemala, 2018. O país está rebitado no julgamento dos oficiais militares que iniciaram a guerra civil. Os depoimentos das vítimas continuam chegando. Ernesto, um jovem antropólogo da Fundação Forense, identifica pessoas que desapareceram. Um dia, através da história de uma velha senhora, Ernesto acha que encontrou uma pista que lhe permitirá encontrar seu pai, um guerillero que desapareceu durante a guerra.

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.

The acclaimed work of photographer Antoine d’Agata has mostly been a journey into the heart of darkness, dealing with random and nightly encounters, sex and prostitution. So it's no surprise that the monumental White Noise leads again to the underworld of sex workers, from Cambodia to Norway, from Ukraine to USA. Built around more than 20 monologues, this films delivers trance-like visions of women in rapture induced by sex or narcotics.

Vlada trabalha como caminhoneiro durante o bombardeio da OTAN na Sérvia em 1999. Encarregado de transportar uma carga misteriosa de Kosovo até Belgrado, ele dirige por território desconhecido, tentando entrar em um país marcado pela guerra.

Aos 40anos, Pablo, um homem evangélico, casado e com dois filhos, se envolve em um relacionamento amoroso com outro homem, chamado Francisco. Na tentativa de curá-lo, sua esposa Isa recorre ao pastor da igreja que frequentam, com medo de que o pecado do marido possa destruir a vida dos filhos, Lucía e Juampi. Ao revelar ser gay, Pablo sofre, impotente, com a destruição de sua família, a exclusão de sua comunidade e o preconceito de uma sociedade profundamente repressiva.

Um policial de Singapura investiga o desaparecimento de um trabalhador imigrante que passava as noites jogando um videogame misterioso.

Depois de 26 anos no ringue, Cassandro – o astro dos lutadores mexicanos travestis conhecidos como Exoticos – está longe de se aposentar. Mas com dezenas de ossos quebrados e pinos de metal no corpo, ele terá que se reinventar.

Depois de 26 anos no ringue, Cassandro – o astro dos lutadores mexicanos travestis conhecidos como Exoticos – está longe de se aposentar. Mas com dezenas de ossos quebrados e pinos de metal no corpo, ele terá que se reinventar.

The end of summer. Five young thieves wander through the city. Among them Stefan attempts to read French.

Milla, de 17 anos e Leo não muito mais que isso, fugiram para uma pequena cidade do Canal do Norte. Um amor para viver, uma vida para inventar, uma vida para se manter, sempre, não importando mais nada.

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even more troubled than they are. The world seems about to erupt.

Às margens do rio Ganges, na Índia, quatro pessoas enfrentam preconceitos, a rigidez dos padrões morais e o sistema de castas em meio a tragédias pessoais.

The renowned French Magnum photographer - again and always - uses his sublime camera and whole being to reveal a parallel world of prostitution and drugs, punctuated by exhausted bodies and lost souls in Cambodia, Russia and India. Disturbing surely, but also transcendental.

Five gigantic sinkholes have recently been discovered on a remote plateau on the other side of the world. A team of experts has made the trip to descend into the depths. Among them is professor Georges Lebrun, who has come with his wife.

One summer evening in a small town in France, two teenage boys, Clarinet and Piano, say goodbye. For twelve years, they rejoin each other at irregular intervals in the same town, discussing their ambitions as they drift apart. Michaël Dacheux's 'Here and There' is a delicate exploration of the eager aspirations of two young men, wise beyond their years yet still innocent in their experience.

The film opens with images of the Ariane 5 launch base in the jungle of French Guyana. Then a weightless frog in space, tropical plants mixed with technological models of the Star City in Moscow, an iguana in the role of Donna Haraway's cyborg and the incredible archival images of space agencies around the world. "No Gravity" is a film between science and fiction, seen from a queer, lesbian and feminist point of view.

Esmeray : artist, transsexual, Kurd, feminist, currently lives in Turkey. First, we filmed her as she walked the streets of Istanbul at night – her territory. Then, we asked her, for a short while, to slip back into the skin, or at least the costume, of the man she stopped being 20 years ago. In this guise, she followed the same routes. The two pictures are shown simultaneously. The film becomes like an experiment in self-shadowing. Split screen as an exploration of split personality ?

A beautifully styled portrait of the Yukon in Canada’s far northwest. Once, people came here to find freedom and fortune and to live in a vast and breathtaking mountain landscape, but years of intensive mining have inflicted immeasurable damage on the landscape. North tells the story of this Canadian territory in a poetic but nonetheless confronting way. We hear the memories and stories of the former mine workers, and of the original and current inhabitants of the area.