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- A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
- In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the Samouni extended family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It's going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their most difficult task: piecing together their own memory. Through these young survivors' recollections, Samouni Road conveys a deep, multifaceted portrait of a family before, during and after the tragic event that changed its life forever.
- In Tunisia, Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as "machtat", traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful.
- 30 years after the siege of Sarajevo, five filmmakers share their wartime filming experiences and thoughts on cinema as a means of survival and resistance.
- From Facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, the film is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists. Since the 25th of January 2011, together with thousands of other Egyptian citizens, No ha, Ahmed and Essayed have been involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. Day after day, sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the film follows these young and unexpected heroes along their shattering fight to conquer their freedom.
- In the months following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the youth has taken the night. A community has risen, that looks for belonging in a world they don't understand and seek to change the rules. Led by new faces and unheard groups, with their values and ideals, they open a new dialog, challenge the state and get ready for a new kind of revolution.
- As children in the 60s and 70s, Dédé, Michel and Daniel were sent to the Belle Étoile Catholic "correctional" facility located in the Savoie region of France. There, they were beaten, humiliated, starved and broken. With the help of director Clémence Davigo, they finally reunite to break their silence. A moving chronicle in search of memory and justice.
- In 1959, in Egypt, several thousand communists were arrested and sent to prison camps. Among these prisoners was Waguih, my father. Waguih was released in 1964. He was 29, my age today. It's a topic that we little discussed together. Simply because he doesn't talk much about himself. I've inherited this modesty, but today I want him to talk. I want us to speak to each other.
- Virginie, Petra and Estelle are stuntwomen. They get hit by cars or struck by violent husbands and gangsters, often repeatedly. And every time, they get back up on their feet, ready to shoot the scene as many times as necessary. Freedom, glory or a search for power fuel these women's desire to push their bodies to the limits. But how much violence are their bodies and minds able to take on? The film questions how cinema and television distribute roles and violence on the screen.
- A hypnotic plunge into the evening horse-racing events at Vincennes. The highly charged energy of the young punters pervades everything in what is now a deserted venue.
- Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes
- Maurice is a camera operator living in a deserted village in the mountains of central France. Drawn to the call of the woods, he begins wandering alone through lands now once again haunted by wolves. It is not long before the ghosts of the past reappear.
- May 28, 2011, Orleans. Inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience.
- "Something is happening to me. What exactly? I'm scared." Mingling diary material, drawings of dreams and reworked home movies, a filmmaker in ailing health makes honey out of his own bitterness.
- In a functional rehabilitation centre, made-to-measure mechanical limbs help male and female amputees to redefine themselves by gaining control of their new body.
- Laurent Pariente has followed all kinds of paths. The tortuous path of running away, at a very young age. Then, very quickly, the oblique paths of plastic creation. Laurent offered spectators labyrinthine paths in which to lose their footing. Clay mazes, chalk labyrinths - One day, Laurent Pariente branched off: he became a chef in New York. We no longer wandered through his work, we tasted it, we absorbed it. For him, these multiple tracings form one and the same path; he continues to dig the same furrow of creation and wonder.
- Serge comes to visit his parents. They are about to leave the family house where he was born and where he grew up. He must sort out his things, say hello to the environment of his green years. Just at the time when he is wondering what he will become. A writer as he dreamed of becoming when he was younger? Not so sure... During his stay, he is told about the death of one of his former classmates. He also decides to say goodbye to a friend of his who now works for the municipality as a mere laborer. It is hard to leave the joys of childhood for the dullness of future.