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.

Антуан — убеждённый холостяк, соблазнитель и любитель вечеринок. Он живёт в роскошных парижских апартаментах со своим приятелем Томасом. Когда Томас переезжает в Лос-Анджелес, он находит Антуану нового сожителя на замену: «Жанна, рост 170 см, голубые глаза». Описание внешности выглядит весьма соблазнительным, вот только Антуан никак не мог предположить, что обаятельная Жанна приедет не одна. С ней окажутся восьмилетний Тео и пятилетняя Лу. Вовсе не собиравшемуся становиться отцом Антуану придётся испытать на себе все «прелести» семейной жизни…

В одной ветеринарной школе есть традиция — проводить ритуал поедания сырого мяса. Молодая вегетарианка, пересилив себя, проходит это испытание и понимает, что не может сопротивляться растущему желанию есть сырое мясо.

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.

Это история про королеву, которая потеряла три королевства. История о жене, которая потеряла трех мужей. История о женщине, которая потеряла голову. Это история жизни Марии Стюарт, которая с младенчества была королевой Шотландии, в качестве жены Франциска II была королевой Франции и претендовала на английский трон. Ее судьба была трагичной и романтичной, полной борьбы, любви и страсти, королевских интриг и предательств…

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 simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.

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.

Попав в Лондон, Сандра, молодая итальянка, влюбляется без памяти в Майлса Рейнберга, мальчика из «золотой молодёжи». Между ними начинается бесперспективный, но страстный роман. Стремясь разорвать порочный круг этих отношений, Сандра избавляется от Майлса. Выясняется, что убийство Майлса было Сандре заказано; посредником выступал ее любовник, Лестер Ванг. Сандра и Лестер планируют купить клуб в Пекине и начать там новую жизнь. Они назначают друг другу встречу в Гонконге, но по пути Лестер бесследно исчезает, а Сандра попадает в ловушку, расставленную его женой…

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, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. When Paul is then left in the house to brood and talk to one of his brother's girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things haven't gone according to plan, one can always find something to live for.

Парень влюбляется в девушку, но упускает момент для знакомства. Муж планирует расстаться с супругой, но именно в этот момент она показывает ему результаты обследования: последняя стадия рака... Этот фильм - мозаика из восемнадцати историй о разных проявлениях любви, каждая из которых происходит в разных округах Парижа.

Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.

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.

Бывшая рок-звезда Ли Хаузер скончался от передозировки. После смерти мужа певица Эмили решает порвать с прошлой жизнью, завязать с наркотиками и вернуть себе сына, который уже давно живет у родителей Ли и не любит свою далекую, незнакомую мать. Эмили предстоит непростой выбор — забыть о музыке, чтобы найти путь к сердцу сына, или махнуть на все рукой и уехать в Сан-Франциско, где ждет продюсер, готовый возродить ее угасшую карьеру…

Тонкая психологическая драма повествующая о сложных душевных проблемах молодого человека и его матери. Всепоглощающая любовь разведенной женщины к единственному сыну перерастает в непреодолимое болезненное влечение.

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.

Когда 21-летний Лео, старший из 4 братьев в семье, рассказывает своим родителям-фермерам, что он ВИЧ-инфицирован, семейные связи проверяются на прочность. Семья решает что младший из братьев 12-летний Марсель, еще слишком мал чтобы понять это, и скрывают от него эту новость. Но Марсель достаточно неглуп чтобы понять, что с его братом Лео что-то не так, и во время их поездки в Париж он высказывает брату свои догадки...

Габриэль работает в сфере книгоиздательства и предлагает своему другу-писателю Адриену сделать небольшой сюжет о своей жизни для одного небольшого телеканала. Вместе герои фильма «Конец августа, начало сентября» едут в городок, где прошло детство Адриена. В это время Габриэль переживает непростой период: он разводится с до сих пор любящей его женой Дженни, продает их общую квартиру и встречается с Анной. Адриен крутит роман с 16-летней Верой, а вскоре неожиданно попадает в больницу…