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Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.

A man obsessively searches for his missing daughter after receiving disturbing videos exposing his secrets, leading to a chilling confrontation with the voyeur.

Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.

After the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad's regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people's courage.

A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.

Lavinia, a single mother, is trying to make a better living for her and her son, in a poor Romanian village. On her own terms. She's impulsive, she miscalculates, she doesn't know very well how to love. When she gets a job in Marseille, she has to leave her son behind. While she's away, he has to find out who he can become.

Four old friends relive happy days gone by as they climb France's Mont Ventoux by bike like they did thirty years before, only to find themselves forced to face a ghost from their shared past.

De Kampioenen travel to France to play a friendly soccer match against the team of one of Boma's business partners. What had to become a nice holiday, ends up totally different than De Kampioenen expected.

Explores an intimate portrait of rekindled family bonding and a tale of self-discovery through a home-coming story of the director, who returns to his village in Taiwan after a 24-year absence.

Fida grows up in war 1980s Beirut, hearing her grandmother's stories of the "red hell." Desensitized, she questions life's worth amid conflict, confronting militants through miniatures, juxtaposing her childlike perspective with theirs.

It all began with: A broken and battered father and his daughter who dreams of "fixing" him.

Game Girls follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahna as they navigate their relationship through the chaotic world of Los Angeles' Skid Row, aka the "homeless capital of the U.S." A dilemma fuels the tension between the two women: while Tiahna seems comfortable being a player in the underground economy of Skid Row, Teri is driven by a powerful desire to get out. Together with other women from the neighborhood, they attend a weekly Expressive Arts workshop where they are looking to reflect, dream, and heal. Can their love survive the violence of their past and their current environment?

In Appalachian Kentucky, the uncertainty created by the loss of the coal industry inspires Brian Ritchie's poetry.

Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.

On the island of Corsica, approximatively 130 men are imprisoned in the detention center of Casabianda for familial sexual offences. Here they spend the last years of their usually long sentences working on the 1500 acres fields overlooking the deep blue sea of the only "open" prison existing in France. Having to face a young man with a camera, some of the inmates decide to break the fourth wall...

In 2011, twenty-year-old Saeed, an engineering student, left Damascus for Douma (eastern Ghouta) and took part in the Syrian revolution. He will be joined later by his friend Milad, a painter and sculptor, then a student of fine arts in Damascus. In Duma liberated by rebels, revolutionary enthusiasm wins youth, then it is war and siege. For more than four years, Saeed and Milad film a daily newspaper punctuated by bombings, children who grow in the ruins we graze, laughter, a sniper who thinks of his mother, music, death, madness, youth, trouble, life. Radiography of an unsubmissive territory, a look of exceptional density on the war in a movement of cinema and humanity striking.

Electronic music is a playground. And your toy can be an instrument, a machine, an object.

In UNCANNY VALLEY, we are at once bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the first world war. Each frame of this animated live action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed history. The numbing futility of war, the agony of conflict and survival, the discovery of brotherhood, and madness of it all. UNCANNY VALLEY is a hypnotic nightmare, a revelation that at first glance is impossible to forget.

Contemporary Albania is at a turning point in its history. Whether it is about a child, an architect, or a European representative, the relationship between the body and space is at the core of the social organization and political challenges. As it adopts three viewpoints ranging from close-up view to overview, this animated documentary calls into question the criteria a civil society is grounded on, at the very moment when it is coming into existence.

Cédric, an 18-year-old black boy is about to take his final exams. Convinced that his future lies far from his social housing estate in the South of France, his dream is to go to London with his childhood friend, Farès who finds it hard to escape the bad influence of his neighbourhood. Facing racist provocations during a football game, their friendship is put to the test, to the point of clashing.

Shocking picture. In Marseille, in 2012, Julia and Auriane, two young students, stand up to anti-gay marriage and adoption protesters, and offer a snapshot which soon became a reference in terms of anti-discrimination civic action. Opposite them, homophobia which pretends not to be one, taking advantage of the equal right movement to parade shamelessly. Between progressive bill and new homophobia, we delve into an image that bears witness of the state of the relationship between France and homosexuality.

With Marseille #01-#30, Alexander Schellow reconstructs from memory short scenes observed in Marseille. Thus he continues his unique work, a virtuoso and sensitive exploration of the memory process through drawing and animation.

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer still tell herself her own life? When words are no longer there, only remain the sensations and the sounds the body remembers. In the community room of an Alzheimer clinic, a music coming from a radio triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. Remembering the moves it used to perform, her body brings along a series of sound memories. Entirely drawn and animated from memory, A BIOGRAPHY reconstructs dot by dot this emergence of memory where it is no longer expected, in an effort to keep this body and this life from oblivion.