Jérémy Alberti

Verão na Córsega. Em uma vila da Córsega situada nas montanhas, todos vivenciam o verão à sua maneira: as crianças brincam, os adolescentes flertam e os mais velhos comentam sobre a passagem do tempo no bar local. No calor de agosto, não demorou muito para que as tensões aumentassem enquanto uma família luta para impedir que os rancores borbulhem à superfície. Às vezes, uma faísca é tudo o que é necessário para acender o maquis.

Stella tries to forget her loneliness, drowning herself in red wine. Then she helps a young immigrant worker accused of stealing her phone.

Seventeenth century. Set in a small village, nestled between the sea and the mountain, the father of Alan, a young fifteen-year-old boy, has sold himself for two years to indentured service. Alan is forced to take the place of his father and struggles to support his family.

In Corsica, during a summer stay, thirty-year-old Alice feels her connection to the territory and to the people who come from it. The two men she desires are the strong embodiments of her relationship to her land, the island of her childhood. But her physical and amorous relationships upset normality.

Vannina, a young filmmaker, starts writing a screenplay about the life of Beatrice Virga, an Italian actress and cinema icon who died at the beginning of the 1960s when she was thirty-four years old. To be closer to her subject, Vannina goes to Corsica to write, in a hotel where the actress often stayed. It is winter and Vannina seems to be alone, sharing the place with the hotel pianist. As the days go by, deeply buried secrets rise to the surface.

Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.

The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.

End of August. Corsica. Elbe, 17 years old, deaf since birth, is vacationing at her older sister Mathilde. ​One day, during her visit of the Revellata lighthouse, she catches a glimpse of a man who is coming out of the sea after scuba diving.

O jovem negro Rafael Padilha nasceu em Cuba em 1868 e foi vendido quando ainda era criança. Anos depois ele consegue fugir e é encontrado nas docas por um palhaço que o coloca nas suas apresentações. Em seguida, Padilha passa a ser conhecido como Chocolat, tornando-se o primeiro artista circense negro na França, um grande sucesso no final do século XIX.