Simon Apostolou

In Tel Aviv, Ori, an Israeli man who just failed in an attempted suicide, bumps into Anna, a French writer, at the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal. He is shocked to recognize the love of his life, whose memory has haunted him since they fell madly in love in Turin twenty years before. But Anna maintains that they have never met. Maybe in the desert things will become clear.

Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.

Brothers Tony and Noé pass the long sweltering summer days playing games of chance and death… until the accident that will change their lives forever. Ten years later, now young adults and back in Royan, their paths cross that of Cassandra, their childhood love. But even after all this time, the brothers are still hiding a secret…

After a painful journey through Europe, Alex, the Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, the Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Acts of violence bring repercussions for exterminator Chua and his son Meng, who has been under pressure from bullies. Military service offers Meng escape into the jungle, an unknown world which could bring him closer to understanding his own nature.

After breaking up with Boris, Lara returns to her hometown Barcelona. There, her friends, lovers and the Catalan traditions of the ’castells’ will change her dreams and desires.

Since the death of Jesus, Mary Magdalene has withdrawn from the world. Her hair has turned white, she eats berries, drinks water from the rain and sleeps among the trees. Alone in the heart of the forest, she remembers her lost love. She looks for a way to find him.

Victor, in his early 20s, works at the town hall and lives with his girlfriend Charlotte, who is expecting their first child. When an incident happens at the nearby nuclear power plant, he and his high school friends are forced to confine themselves inside a farmhouse, whereas they should have evacuated the area. As the rain is threatening, they are keeping an eye out for the radioactive cloud. The next 24 hours will be crucial.

Two men meet around a camera: the old man recounts a lost love to the young director. To remember this love, the old man reads his texts, one of which alludes to a place that holds special memories: Ostend. The director then summons a third man and in turn creates the pictures of a lost love, in a shift towards fiction.

França, nos dias de hoje. Várias narrativas se desenvolvem simultaneamente: um casal de aposentados atolado em dívidas tenta ganhar um concurso de dança; o ministro da Economia é suspeito de sonegação de impostos; uma adolescente encontra um maníaco sexual, enquanto um jovem advogado tenta subir alguns degraus na hierarquia social. E nessa conturbada cadeia de eventos, o vencedor não será necessariamente aquele que esperamos.

Sahar tirelessly travels the forgotten plains and cliffs of his native island to prospect for a rare mineral. Suddenly, a voice upsets his search, his relationship with the world, and our Milky Way.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

What is the thickness of the wall that separates us from insanity? No one knows what it's made of and no one knows what it can weather. Aube, Yoan, Marcus, they have crossed the threshold. They live on the other side of the mirror; they have created their own world.

Josefina viaja para a região do Douro, em Portugal, para tomar conta do sobrinho Alexandre. Ela se dedica ao garoto, que foi abandonado pela mãe. Mas Alexandre acaba de chegar à adolescência e quer namorar. O jovem quer afirmar sua independência, o que acaba gerando um embate com a tia. Ele se aproxima da mãe, Ângela, que reaparece para reclamar sua partilha da herança. No entanto, a dedicação de Josefina é muito forte para ser esquecida.

The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence in this enigmatic portrait of a tightly knit family.

Takumi left Japan to go live in France despite his father’s disapproval. After a long absence, he returns to his hometown Toyama, a small port in decline on the north coast of Japan...

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.

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.

A film that comprises in itself a form of dance – rather than a film about dance; an encounter between film and dance – rather than a film about a dancer. A documentary exploring Kō Murobushi’s dance and inner worlds, with purely cinematic means.

She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.

Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.

In October 1995, Forbach witnessed one of the most violent strikes in the history of contemporary France. A thousand or so miners took to the streets for a merciless struggle against a reform in their rights. Twenty years after the mines shut down, people’s will to fight is still alive, just hidden away somewhere.

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

Após cometer um crime, um homem refugia-se na floresta. Henrique, um homem solitário em fuga da sua vida e do mundo.

Lituânia, 1948. A guerra acabou, mas o país ficou em ruínas. Unté tem 19 anos e é membro do movimento partidário que resiste à ocupação soviética. Eles não combatem de igual para igual, mas essa luta desesperada determinará o futuro de toda a população. Na idade das descobertas da vida, ele se depara com violência e traição. As fronteiras entre a paixão da sua juventude e a causa pela qual está lutando são bastante confusas. Mas Unté vai encarar de frente esse momento, mesmo que isso signifique perder a inocência.

Em abril de 1913, depois da morte de seus dois filhos, a dançarina Isadora Duncan cria um solo de despedida, intitulado "Mãe". O espetáculo apresenta uma mãe embalando o filho pela última vez antes de deixá-lo ir. Um século depois, quatro mulheres conhecem esta dança comovente.

A heroic-fantasy musical.

Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.

Three places, three moments of a night with Geneva’s jeunesse dorée.

No es (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem by Mariano Blatt, whose constant writing process extends over a lifetime. The text of the poem, to which verses are added over days, months and years, can cover anything: images, people, memories, landscapes, phrases, ideas, etc. Having that list of “what seems to be but isn’t” ringing in his head, Eduardo Williams’ film Parsi observes in a perpetual movement the spaces and people to create another poem that is caressed, crashes and spins next to No es.

One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.

At his grand-mother's death, Jean, a fourteen-year old teenager inherits the file of a mysterious court case from 1895. Fascinated by this archive, both real and fictitious, Jean becomes the judge of a criminal case completed more than a century ago.

Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.

Um advogado arrogante vê sua vida perfeita desmoronar quando um detetive particular chega na sua pacata cidade para investigar um desaparecimento. Implacável, o detetive quer provar que nada é o que parece ser, e descobre segredos surpreendentes.

Um advogado arrogante vê sua vida perfeita desmoronar quando um detetive particular chega na sua pacata cidade para investigar um desaparecimento. Implacável, o detetive quer provar que nada é o que parece ser, e descobre segredos surpreendentes.

Em pleno verão em um centro recreativo perto de Paris não faltam situações divertidas. Um vislumbre da mentalidade dos visitantes e funcionários de um grande parque onde tanto os habitantes locais quanto os imigrantes, que não se podem dar ao luxo de umas férias mais exóticas, vêm para relaxar.

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actrice, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.

Kabwita, um jovem que vive com sua esposa e filhas em Kolwezi, uma cidade no sudoeste da República Democrática do Congo, sonha em comprar um terreno para construir uma casa. Para isso, ele produz carvão vegetal (makala), extraído das cinzas de uma poderosa árvore de madeira dura. Carregando os sacos de carvão no dorso de sua bicicleta, ele parte em uma perigosa viagem para vendê-los no mercado.

A lonely horseman arrives in a far away country, looking for a land to settle down. Clement is my older brother. He became a farmer in France, far from the suburbs of Paris, where we grew up. Since then we went on distant ways. I suggest to make a film together.

Muitos anos atrás, as cidades pelo rio estavam agarradas por um contágio. As coisas começaram a mudar e não estava claro se a transformação era um sintoma da doença ou uma maneira de escapar dela. O contágio tocou tudo: animais, plantas, pedras, solo, homens, mulheres e crianças, seus pensamentos, sonhos, memórias. Uma velha disse uma vez que todas as memórias se transformaram em árvores; Eu dificilmente consegui explicar o que ela estava dizendo. Ela disse que podia ouvir as árvores cantando: ser um corpo, ser qualquer corpo. Depois que o contágio terminou, as cidades pareciam intactas. Era preciso procurar ver os traços da época anterior. Se alguém pudesse ouvir as árvores, o que eles diriam? Uma saída, uma saída?

Two graphic designers at work, by mistake, start playing with an empty scanner's possibilities. They venture into assumptions, eventually open up to each other, and let go of the strange images, until they let go of themselves.

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

Istanbul 2016. As the city rumbles with the noise of explosions and the voices of ghosts from the war become deafening, a man tries to get to sleep.

Victoria é uma advogada criminal e mãe de duas crianças. Ao se encontrar com alguns amigos de longa data em um casamento, ela descobre que um deles é acusado de tentativa de homicídio. Sua vida está prestes a ficar ainda mais complicada.

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.

In this shapeshifting essay film by French-Greek filmmaker Daphné Hérétakis, we visit the streets of Athens in July 2015 and the wake of an austerity referendum, finding friends and strangers, pop songs and poetry, fallen monuments and hopes for the future. It is a lyrical sketch of a time of personal and political transition – culminating in an image of liberating, apocalyptic possibility.

According to an English legend, Joan of Arc never died at the stake. Her eyes were seared with hot pokers and she was deflowered by an English stud. She was then sentenced to wander on the battlefields, like a vulture, on the look-out for life and searching for any virgins left alive.

Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"

Documentary about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter.

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

From its epic conception to its film death, the fantasized and fictitious portrait of the film-maker Walerian Borowczyk : Boro-in-the-box discovers a cruel and obscene world, crosses commonplace and colorful adventures, from Poland to Paris, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet primer.

Um verão quente. Um bairro privado com um enorme parque. Um terreno abandonado nos subúrbios e uma incontrolável onda de fumaça provocam incerteza e caos.

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.

May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!

The old Salammbo lives alone on a northern island, in total destitution. Haunted by her memories, Salammbo is mistreated by the phantom of her youth, which sometimes taunts, sometimes bends her back so that she no longer sees the blue of the sky.

Jeanne is interned in a psychiatric hospital. She claims to be Joan of Arc.

O filme explora a habilidade do humano de se adaptar perante a catástrofe enquanto passagens de literatura seminal implicam em um corpo social transitório

O filme explora a habilidade do humano de se adaptar perante a catástrofe enquanto passagens de literatura seminal implicam em um corpo social transitório

Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon.

In Nigeria, to be a twin can be a blessing or a curse. The father of O is the village chief, a witch doctor who believes in the curse of twins. One day, this witch doctor tried to kill his two sons during a ritual ceremony: O managed to escape but saw his brother being murdered. Having fled across his country, he succeeded, by chance, in leaving Nigeria and going into exile in France.

The story of the Spanish Republicans of La Nueve, the 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division, known as Leclerc Division, whose troops were the first who entered Nazi-occupied Paris on August 24, 1944.

Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rain forest biodiversity and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.

Portrait of Richard Kenigsman by Boris Lehman.

In the office of Mumbai University, Aditi, a nineteen years old secretary writes a letter to the office's head, Rajiv, to know his intentions toward her.