Denis Séchaud

Colombine finally wants to know who her father is. But her mother vehemently refuses to tell her. With the help of Mathilde the greengrocer, Colombine obtains a magic potion that transports the 13-year-old several months back in time to the "Fête des Vignerons" wine festival in Vevey. There, Colombine must summon up all her courage to uncover the secret of her father.

It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. A band of young people is trying to overcome the weariness of a summer in the village that smells of death by smoking, dancing, and lusting after each other. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana and José live a love affair until the storm bursts.

A Swiss village, Elisabeth, 17, returns home from the convent after learning of her sister's mysterious death. Reunited with her three childhood friends she discovers that faith and desire can sometimes be intertwined.

The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.

Сириец в изгнании, живущий в Австралии, возвращается на Родину, когда узнает, что его брата арестовали при режиме Башара Асада в 2011 году.

Лиза переезжает в новую квартиру — рабочие собирают мебель, мама и бывшие соседи помогают упаковывать вещи. Картина, снятая почти полностью в интерьерах, от сцен европейского добрососедства легко переходит к чему-то, напоминающему фильм ужасов.

Since 1952, the Greek cooperative KTEL has run 80% of the country’s public transport system completely independently from the state. Catherine Catella and Shu Aiello crossed the country to meet employees of a company that was shaken up by the economic crisis. From general assemblies to daily journeys, Leoforio documents the multiple conditions of a model that is organising its resistance.

Марьям случайно убила своего мужа Насера и приговорена к смертной казни. Единственный человек, который может ее спасти - это Мона, дочь Насера. Все, что Мона должна сделать, это прийти на телешоу и в прямом эфире простить Марьям. Но прощение становится практически невозможным, когда обиды прошлого затмевают настоящее.

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter wonderful stories. But as the little girl grows bigger, they start running out of space inside the house.

A husband acts as a caregiver to his quadriplegic wife.

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s castle, it guards its secrets well. It is the place of power. The filmmaker, who worked there for several years as a crime reporter, is extremely familiar with its labyrinthine spaces, its practices, its ceremonies. She comes back to it now, while the Courthouse, such as she knows it, is about to disappear: its relocation is planned in 2017. So, she explores it, camera in hand, on the traces of her experience.

Five Chinese artists stand at the centre of the film: the modern dancer Wen Hui, the writer Ye Fu, the cartoonist Pi San and the visual artists Gao Brothers. They are part of a fragile yet courageous counterculture. Taking their own family stories as starting points, they explore the echoes of the past in order to understand the predicaments of the present. Increasingly, their struggle for a democratic civil society seems as relevant for the world today as it is for China.

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

У девятилетнего мальчика Икара весьма странное прозвище и трагическая судьба. Он жил с матерью, но их жизнь не отличалась яркими событиями. После внезапной смерти мамы Икар остается совсем один и замыкается в себе. По закону несовершеннолетнего направляют в детский дом, прислав за ним полицейского по имени Реймонд. Между мужчиной и мальчиком завязывается дружба, ставшая для Икара единственной поддержкой и связью с внешним миром. В скором времени главному герою предстоит попасть в мир, совершенно ему незнакомый и чуждый, в котором обитает множество детей с похожими судьбами.

Целительницу выгоняют из дома из-за ее загадочной беременности. Героиня пытается спасти свою репутацию и встречает женщину, которая надеется на такое же чудо.

Сэм, семилетний ребенок, живет с матерью после развода с родителями. Он должен временно переехать к своему отцу Джерому, который никогда не заботился о нем. Итак, Сэм не близок со своим отцом. Все вокруг Джерома думают, что он не в состоянии присматривать за ребенком. После хаотического начала Сэм, в силу своих убеждений, поможет Джерому повзрослеть и научит его, как стать отцом, которого ему так не хватало.

At Uz, an isolated hamlet in the northern mountains of Portugal, four generations live together in a group of around fifty people. When life is rough, solidarity is of the highest order. Everything else is left in God’s hands. They could have emigrated, like so many others, but chose to stay and keep their ancestral way of life, away from the racket of modernity.

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.

"Prud’hommes" is an immersion into the heart of a judicial court that handles disputes between employers and employees. This specific jurisdiction is a place of confrontation where the tensions, suffering and revolts that span the world of employment are exposed. In search of justice or recognition, employees speak out and face their employer face to face. This unique theatre plunges us into a real human drama and forces us to reflect upon today's society.

Follow the daily lives of 11 12-year-olds in the city of Yverdon. What do teens do in Yverdon-les-Bains? What are their dreams, their revolts? How do they see their future? Which society would they want to build? In which Switzerland would they like to live?

Год 2267. Земля стала необитаемой из-за экологической катастрофы, а выжившие живут в переполненных космических станциях на орбите Земли. Молодой доктор Лора Портман одна из них. Она надеется на лучшее будущее далекой планеты Рея. Но чтобы попасть на нее — нужны деньги. Лаура подписывает контракт и устраивается в корпорацию «Койпер» для работы на старом грузовом корабле «Кассандра», который проделает путь к станции № 42 и обратно за 8 лет. Полет полностью автоматический, во время которого члены экипажа проводят большую часть в состоянии глубокого сна, пока один дежурит 8,5 месяцев. Из-за террористической угрозы на корабле присутствует дополнительно Самуэль Деккер, ответственный за безопасность. К концу своей смены, Лора Портман слышит необычный шум из грузового отсека. Она поднимает членов экипажа, чтобы исследовать холодные грузовые трюмы корабля. После первых смертей, все начинают не доверять друг другу. Лаура и Самуэль раскрывают истинное содержание груза и назначение корабля…

The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries in the world, Switzerland.

Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground govern night and day – and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.

Главная героиня, русская девушка Ирина, живет в Женеве, куда она эмигрировала в семилетнем возрасте вместе со своей матерью, Мариной. Старинный приятель Марины предлагает Ире подработать переводчицей у находящегося в тюрьме Ивана Ташкова. По версии швейцарских властей, Ташков — криминальный авторитет, но он себя таковым не считает…

January 1957, in a small town in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. A middle-class house, the home of two sisters, Clara and Thérèse, whose characters could not be more different. After their father is institutionalized, the two women take over the family business, which specializes in precision optics. One day, the floor of the music room collapses after being ravaged by termites. Karoly, a Hungarian refugeee and jack-of-all-trades, is hired to repair the damage. The Hungarian's presence causes ripples in the seemingly unchangeable life of the two sisters...

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.

Marking a stylistically and philosophically turn away from the earlier features, The Sand Rose is Reis and Cordeiro’s most abstract, conceptual and literary work. The film’s collage structure gathers texts from multiple sources – including Kafka and Montaigne – and crafts a world of theatrical artifice far from the documentary inspired naturalism of Ana and Trás-os-Montes. Reis and Cordeiro’s least known film has lingered in obscurity and never recovered from the unfairly negative reviews that resulted in its severely limited release. Reis died less than two years later, just as he and Cordeiro were about to begin an ambitious adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo. - Harvard Film Archive