Maxime Roy

It’s summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet’s Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of today’s France.

A short animated documentary, which tells the personal story of Antonia Jardenia da Silva from Brazil: a climate refugee forced to move from her home village to the big city in order to take care of her newborn baby as it struggles with microcephaly.

Short film about designer and performance artist Kubra Khademi and her works.

Шестнадцатилетний Юрий всю жизнь прожил в «Башнях Гагарина», большом жилом комплексе из красного кирпича на окраине Парижа. Он мечтает стать космонавтом. Когда становится известно о планах сноса «Башен Гагарина», Юрий вливается в ряды протестующих. Вместе с друзьями Дианой и Хуссамом он начинает борьбу за спасение своего дома, превращая его в «межзвездный корабль», прежде чем навсегда уйти в космос.

It all happened on a dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted by others simply because he speaks Arabic to a wife who speaks French with their beloved mixed race son. He looked at the sky and shouted. But that night, far in the cosmos, a voice answered.

My family have begun to forget their Egyptian roots and, on asking my grandmother Malo to recount the first part of her life in Cairo, I am confronted by the memories of an exiled Arabic woman, lost in a troubled sea of memories, soon to be erased by the passage of time. I start a tour to trace her steps and understand who she is, and therefore who we are. An Egypt appears where her past, my imaginings and the present Heliopolis mix together as night falls.

Хаос царит повсюду: в её голове, в её окружении, в городе; вещи начинают жить собственной жизнью – молодая Рейне находится в поиске, но не знает, чего ищет. В нежном рисунке мы видим мир её глазами, и её восприятие мира становится нам понятным и осязаемым.

Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.

Émile is afraid of the world. He no longer goes outside and paints everything blue. One night, his son Yoan encounters Soraya, a teenage fan of Tamil dance. She will help him find the right colour.