Ron Dyens

A man swims in the sea. This brings back memories. They are all connected to water, from his early childhood to his adult life. This will be the story of his last swim.

Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.

Weakened by a stay in an psychiatric hospital reunites with her son, Luca, who lives far away with his father now. But the joy of the reunion will be brief and Audrey will have to question her role as a mother.

When Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband's violent grip.

Tristan found a dead cat on the corner of his street, hit by a car and left there in the gutter to rot in the rain. The young man is shaken, and the image of the dead cat begins to haunt him.

After a long absence, Marie decides to return to the family home to introduce the partner with whom she is expecting a child.

Молодой человек подвергается сексуальному насилию. Его похитили, наказали, а он подружился со своим насильником. Он сталкивается лицом к лицу со своим прошлым и своими неоднозначными сексуальными импульсами. Между вымыслом, автофикцией и мечтой этот фильм наталкивает на размышления о злоупотреблении, побуждении к нему и его последствиях.

История о беспородной собаке сложной судьбы, которая после аварии вспоминает своих многочисленных хозяев, каждому из которых она была невероятно предана.

История о беспородной собаке сложной судьбы, которая после аварии вспоминает своих многочисленных хозяев, каждому из которых она была невероятно предана.

Marcus, a young intelligence soldier, became a national hero after his bravery in a terrorist attack. The authoritarian regime based on mass surveillance uses his image to value its action. As he returns to his parents' home for furlough, he will be faced with the reality of this ruthless administration he has come to embody in the media.

Anna wants to share her chocolate cake with her friend and ends up living an adventure through the forest, where the terrible bearded giant is the new inhabitant. In fact, all the animals that she meets are disappearing. Does the giant need company?

The nipple is the power button that gets the ‘cinema of the mind’ rolling – or is it in fact a reality?

A Tasmanian tiger wanders around in his zoo enclosure. A glacier is slowly melting. Facing its predicted disappearance, nature exerts its fury, bursts over the frame and resists its extinction by transformation.

The moon shines, a young couple plays in the forest. Their game leads them to an unfamiliar garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of danger, the young lovers enter the maze of a garden at midnight. Little by little, they are submerged by a intoxicating spell. They lose themselves in the strange labyrinth. Will they manage to break the spell that keeps them prisoner?

Every child knows full well that losing a tooth is only the prologue to a magical experience—namely, a night-time visit from the tooth fairy and the gift she leaves behind. So why, in this case, is the tooth fairy a no-show? These are the sorts of questions a father needs to be able to answer for his son… In this brilliantly simple animated short, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle brings to the screen the titular parent of his popular series, Le guide du mauvais père (A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting), published by Delcourt. Inspired by a common childhood experience, Delisle uses his trademark wry humour to reflect on the vagaries of parenting. A slice of everyday life, courtesy of the Comic Strip Chronicles.

Give it time. You'll get over it. Jean celebrates his birthday, gets drunk and recalls the dreadful weekend that led to his break-up with Mathilde.

The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them. 12+1 kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore…

1892 год, Санкт-Петербург. Девушка Саша из аристократической семьи мечтает о Великом Севере и очень переживает о судьбе дедушки Олукина, известного ученого и исследователя Арктики, который до сих пор не вернулся из последней экспедиции на Северный полюс. Было отправлено несколько экспедиций на поиски, но всё безрезультатно. Саше передалась любовь дедушки к исследованиям и открытиям, но родители совершенно не одобряют ее увлечение. Саша ссорится с родителями из-за того, что никто не хочет слушать её версию о пропавшем корабле дедушки, бежит из дома и решает повторить тот длинный путь на Север в поисках его знаменитого корабля.

A girl and a boy meet by a chance in unaware of consequences on one day. A modern parable inspired by true events.

Соперничество в спорте неожиданно уступает место другим приоритетам, когда одну из участниц соревнований семья собирается насильно выдать замуж.

As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work. But on that day, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the vehicle gets erotic and the conductress’ desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy.

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Короткая история, описывающая впечатления европейского путешественника, который столкнулся со странными для него обычаями фамадиханы — обряда перезахоронения. Отправляясь вместе с героем в увлекательный тур по Мадагаскару, зрители наслаждаются красочными пейзажами африканского острова. Анимационная лента выполнена в виде путевого дневника в фотографиями и заметками. Рисунки оживают, приглашая публику в удивительный мир странствий. «Мадагаскар, путевой дневник» номинировался на премию «Оскар» в категории «Лучший короткометражный мультфильм».

In a village, a young blind man, victim of a storm, will be iniated by a women to overcome his fears. Thanks to the musical quality of a flute, he will be able to exorcize their fears of the villagers and to offer a different perception of the natural elements.

The cycle of life. A boy whose father is a pilot imagines that his toy plane becomes the real thing, allowing him to fly side-by-side through the heavens with his father. He takes off from a tree house overlooking the sea and his father's landing strip. Their flight is graceful and full of adventure. Then, we watch the boy grow, study, marry, father a child, and become, himself, a grandfather. Holding a toy plane, he takes his grandchild to the same cliff from whence his own imagination took off years before.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

A short comedy directed by Ron Dyens.

Zako - was the name German soldiers gave to the Soviet Armenian painter, Sargis Mangasaryan. Thanks to his creative gifts, Zako prevailed and survived the hell of WWII military camps.Zako endured by drawing portraits of his tormentors. He tried to escape several times, but each time landed in another harsher camp. After the war, he risked exile to Siberia, as he was a prisoner of war, he was considered a traitor to the Soviet Union. He created several huge portraits of Stalin to earn him passage home to Soviet Armenia.Some years later, in 1956, Zako visits the famous Picasso exhibition at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow with his friends. He realized how undeveloped his portrait drawings had remained all those years. Although he was fighting for his physical freedom throughout, his artistic evolution was stunted within the system.

In a fantasy version of the Brazilian Sertão, an arid wasteland where men can shapeshift into birds of prey, SETE-PENAS is taken in as a child by CARCARÁ, an outlaw who aspires to be a local legend.

A cat wakes up in a flooded world and tries to overcome his fear of water.

A cat wakes up in a flooded world and tries to overcome his fear of water.

Agnès, Juliette and Carmen's neighbour, writes children's storybooks that take place in a fantasy world, The Kingdom of the Winds. The two intrepid sisters discover a passageway between their world and this extraordinary universe. Once on the other side the girls take on the appearance of cats, and discover Sirocco, a terrifying character who can control the wind.