Joana Preiss

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.

Broken Poet is a compelling investigation into the meaning of success, rock stardom and even freedom itself which, as Janis Joplin sang, is just another word for nothing left to lose.

The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy’s last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginning of the second part. The places and times change, and so do the people doing the reading. But also, in the middle, real people and voices surface, like Adamo Vergine at his home and Jean François Neplaz in Marseilles. The film searches for the possible faces of Tolstoy’s two protagonists in Oneglia, Procida, and Casalborgone.

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.

Over there, in his village at the foot of the mountains, he’s dead. His face radiant and his body at peace, he lies on the bed. Then they can gather around him. Three days long they talk, drink, weep, fight and remember… And they smile, too.

A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.

O solteiro convicto Antoine mora em um belo apartamento com seu amigo Thomas, que decide se mudar para Los Angeles. Antoine, então, procura um novo companheiro para substituí-lo. A candidata Jeanne é a mulher que Antoine sempre sonhou em morar junto, e se empolga com a mudança. Até descobrir que os dois filhos da mulher a acompanharão.

Justine (Garance Marillier) é uma jovem tímida e vegetariana, caloura na mesma faculdade de veterinária em que estuda sua irmã, Alexia (Ella Rumpf). Durante o trote, a menina é forçada a comer carne animal pela primeira vez e a ação provoca mudanças extremas em sua vida.

Our feelings, our choices, even our death wander on the web like options, like ghosts. For the time of a last train journey, for the time of a love chat, a deadly chat, or an unlikely casting, three generations will try to definitively wrest from virtual nomadism, to put an end to self-exile that undo our lives... Between Rotterdam and Tourcoing, diving in the Flatlands, tenuous and fragile...

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not even his wife, is the mark on his back that keeps getting bigger. This red mark worries him, upsets him, and seems to want to tell him something...

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links that are woven.

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.

Mary (Camille Rutherford) foi destinada a se tornar a rainha da França. Mas depois que seu jovem marido morre, ela volta sozinha para a Escócia, um país devastado pela guerra. Ao mesmo tempo, Elizabeth acaba de se tornar a rainha da Inglaterra. Mary se casa novamente, com Lord Darnley (Aneurin Barnard), e tem um herdeiro, mas ela encontra o amor verdadeiro nos braços do Conde de Bothwell (Sean Biggerstaff). Quando seu segundo marido é assassinado e ela assume seu amor publicamente, tanto os nobres como o povo a desprezam. Para evitar uma guerra, Mary terá que desistir de sua felicidade.

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.

In New York to present her film Siberia, Joana Preiss documents the city through its pace and meetings. We are wrapped in a mysterious journey through her imagination, which is both breathtaking and hypnotic.

Louise recebe a boa notícia de que está grávida, mas também descobre que sua mãe está muito doente. Alegria e tristeza se misturam em seu íntimo e ela não sabe o que fazer. É justo ficar feliz quando sua mãe está prestes a morrer?

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.

Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.

Filmed entirely by Preiss and her then lover, Dumont, mostly in the claustrophobia of a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Siberia is an intense and raw observation of a relationship’s denouement. With unflinching honesty and a Direct Cinema approach, Preiss’s documentary is a fascinating psychological exploration of love, dependency, and the bounds of romantic privacy.

Filmed entirely by Preiss and her then lover, Dumont, mostly in the claustrophobia of a train car on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Siberia is an intense and raw observation of a relationship’s denouement. With unflinching honesty and a Direct Cinema approach, Preiss’s documentary is a fascinating psychological exploration of love, dependency, and the bounds of romantic privacy.

Two police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.

Sandra é obrigada a fugir de Londres quando um encontro sensual com um ex-amante endividado acaba em violência. Começando uma nova vida em Hong Kong, ela se envolve com um casal que promete ajudá-la a conseguir documentos. Mas nada acontece como previsto, e ela acaba presa em um jogo de manipulação.

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.

Paul está deprimido por ter se separado de Anna e volta para Paris, onde vai morar com o pai divorciado e o irmão mais novo, Jonathan. Enquanto o despreocupado irmão e o sempre alegre e companheiro pai tentam em vão reanimá-lo, só uma visita de sua mãe parece lhe trazer a alegria de volta. Quando um dia Paul fica em casa e se entrosa e conversa com uma das namoradas do irmão, ele começa a pensar que, enquanto as coisas não saem como planejadas, é sempre possível encontrar algum motivo para viver.

Em Paris, o amor está por todos os lugares. Está nos bares, nos cafés, na Torre Eiffeil, até no metrô que circula abaixo de suas ruas. Paris, Te Amo é uma declaração à Cidade Luz através dos olhos de alguns dos maiores diretores do mundo incluindo Walter Salles ,os Irmãos Coen, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Craven. Cada um retrata, de um jeito ou de outro, a alegria, a separação, os encontros inesperados e acima de tudo o amor.

Em junho de 2005, um importante momento da arte moderna acontece em dois palcos do Art Rock Festival em St Brieuc. Olivier Assayas imortaliza o dia anterior aos shows, conferências e cinema experimental neste documentário – um laboratório virtual de imagens misturadas com sons variados.

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split.

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Pierre (Louis Garrel), um adolescente de 17 anos, tem um amor cego pela mãe, mas ela não está disposta a assumir o que o filho projecta dela. Recusando ser amada por aquilo que não é, ela decide quebrar o mistério e revelar a sua verdadeira natureza – a de uma mulher para quem a imoralidade se tornou um vício. Pierre pede para ser iniciado por ela e deixa-se levar até ao limite em jogos cada vez mais perigosos...

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long.

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.

When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.

Adrien e Gabriel são dois jovens que estão enfrentando dificuldades em sua amizade e em seus respectivos relacionamentos. Gabriel se sente fracassado na presença de Adrien, um escritor que ele admira. Mas a doença de Adrien unirá os dois amigos.