Local films

Any architecture is contemplated, is judged. Any architecture deserves an explanation. “About the Bunker” deciphers an architectural work, to confront it with its theory.

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Julien Donada
1998
13'

Fifty years after Resnais, a young film maker makes the trip to Poland, and asks himself: “I know we’ve all seen pictures of the concentration camps. Will the fact of going to see this by myself change anything?” Poland is the country where you search for your roots and if you don’t have any, you...

This documentary shows us the process of transfer of a living art through the generations. The purpose is to pay tribute to the preceding creative artists — Jacqueline Robinson, Karine Waehner, Dominique Dupuy — themselves influenced by the great high priestess of modern Dance, Mary Wigman — and,...

It is often said that George Clinton is the most sampled musical artist in the world.
Artists like Prince, Herbie Hancock, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primal Scream, and many others have drawn inspiration from Clinton's music.
George Clinton has transcended trends and decades, ...

For over thirty years, Eddie Palmieri has single-handedly represented the avant-garde of salsa. Far from making commercial compromises, he has followed his own path, and in recent years has explored Latin jazz, of which he has become one of the undisputed masters. Yet he has always remained attac...

Abbey Lincoln is much more than a jazz singer, she's also an original composer and an exceptional poet. In this documentary, she reveals the secret spring of a lifetime: struggle. After refusing to be a Hollywood star, being censored, and a twenty-year period of oblivion, she records her 17th alb...

Zoé is twenty, the age when you think you're immortal. But one night, as she rides her bike home, she loses something...

Original version with english subtitles

Gaëlle Baron
2002
30'

It's been a long time since thirty-eight-year-old Paul lost his childhood dreams and his promise to love only one woman for the rest of his life. A car accident allows him to go back in time and regain his childlike body, while retaining his adult soul. It's time for our hero to realize that time...

A dozen children are playing in a clearing.
A young man arrives among them, coming from the forest.
At first, this intrusion disturbs the kids.

Thomas Salvador
2003
24'

Christmas is coming.
In the living room, aunt Anabelle has decorated marvellous Christmas tree for ten year-old Carla.
But Carla doesn’t feel like celebrating, her only wish is to go back to Haiti and to live with her motheragain, as it used to be…

Diane Morel
2003
15'

Three waitresses at their midday break...

Original version with english subtitles

Blandine Lenoir
2003
17'

One late afternoon in San Remo, Etienne is shopping and killing time by the sea. A little later, in a snack bar, he meets a young woman, Myriam, whom he seems to have known well...

Original version with english subtitles

Julien Donada
2004
22'

Antoine, 25 years old, doesn't want to stay alone tonight. He walks in the streets, seeking for a remedy to his loneliness, when he finds a place where dating is easy and charged. He starts a conversation with a guy used to the place and learns about this world of its own.

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Businessman Paul, whose job as trader causes him a lot of worries, knocks down a homeless with his car.
Obsessed by his money problems, he forgets the small box the old man has left him before he died…
Could the box be the key to Paul's problems?

Original version with englis subtitles

Nicolas B...

Alonso Samoza is a sailor in love with two twin sisters. Unfortunately, in order to be able to marry one, Maria, he first has to kill the other one, Rebecca. One day, the cargo he works on brakes down while at sea. Trying to mend it, Alonso is seriously heart and has his head cut off. Beyond deat...

All his life, Adrien Perreti looked like a girl. So, whatever: he decided to become a diva, in Hollywood… by accident.

Original version with english subtitles

Pascal-Alex Vincent
2004
10'

In a family-run garage, on the eve of its final closure, a customer drops off her car for a simple service. Not that there's anything special about this car, but it's the last.

Franck Thoraval
2004
33'

Redo a world in full deterioration? Undo offers another path: before remaking the world, might it be better to destroy it?
In a counterclockwise motion, we witness the creation of the Earth.

Jean-Gabriel Périot
2005
10'

The ups and downs of a young mother trying to find a nurse for her baby.

Original version with english subtitles

Blandine Lenoir
2005
23'

Paul is facing the hard feeling of being abandoned by the person he loves. But is his fear really justified or is it just the echo of a past wound ?

Original version with english subtitlles

Nicolas Brevière
2005
26'

Three teenagers, an abyss.

Original version with english subtitles

Pascal-Alex Vincent
2005
15'

Claire really wants to have sex with this guy she brought to her place.
She’s been waiting so long for a man…
Remember how we do that?

Original version with english subtitles

Blandine Lenoir
2006
14'

Frankie is a cab driver in his thirties. One day, a wealthy client entrusts him with her baby to take to her grandparents' house. The well-paid fare inspires Frankie to demand a ransom for the “rich” baby. Frankie finds himself caught in his own trap...

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A woman overthrown by the fact of loosing her daughter who is in a coma, roams at home, paralysed with despair. She hears nothing but her inner voice that keeps on repeating the same loving words. She is obsessessed with guilt because she could’nt avoid the tragedy. But after all, there seems to ...

Lisa is a young girl who lives in an isolated house with her parents and her two brothers, under the firm authority of her father. One day, Lisa shatters his sacred order.

Original version with english subtitles

Lorenzo Recio
2007
19'

Panic at the orphanage! The children are mysteriously falling ill. Candy Boy, the bravest of the orphans, takes it upon himself to investigate… until the arrival of a new resident complicates our hero’s quest for the truth.

Original version with english subtitles

Pascal-Alex Vincent
2007
13'

Maud has a difficult reliationship with her husband. She goes get some rest in her countryside house. When she arrives, she learns that her long-time friends and neighbours have moved away inexplicably. A man lives now in their house.

Muriel Breton
2007
21'

Paul is twenty-five years old. He’s young and attractive, but he doesn’t understand the world which surrounds him. He doesn’t know who he is. He lives on appearances, through desire of the others. He’s alone, and it drives him mad.

Original version with english subtitles

Arnauld Visinet
2009
18'

Today is the day Hélène emancipates herself from her ungrateful family… Hélène is a rich housewife who has dedicated her life to her perfect house, children and husband. Today is her birthday, but at her party she’ll make a gift to herself… Revenge! A film dedicated to the end of the housewife ge...

In the 1930′s an Abbot in French Normandy was publishing a revue which would answer the very practical sexual question of his readers. Using the letters, the film unfolds a portrait of rural France, the ignorance, the fears, the will to be part of the flock and a constant obsession for repressing...

"I do not know why but I've never really used to this house. Before, we have always lived in the same small apartment with Carine. We moved in just two months after meeting each others, because we thought it was silly to pay two rents. Then very quickly, Carine was pregnant. We decided to keep th...

Maybe you're like me. You have to find yourself on the verge of something happening before you can begin to prepare for it. That's when you get serious.

Original version with english subtitles

Jean-Gabriel Périot
2011
22'

Three women, one child.
A brutal wandering. A wandering.
It is dawn.

Original version with english subtitles

Adrien Dantou
2012
23'

Sylvain Rivière, a distracted and dreamy unemployed man, replaces a friend as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts. During a guided tour, Christine entrusts him with a love letter intended for his friend, before disappearing. Troubled by the young woman, Sylvain keeps the letter and sets o...

Cyril, a young soldier of mixed raced, comes back home in Tahiti after a long and far-away mission. He sees his family again, his friends but... things look different.
A growing and indefinable suffering takes then place in him.

Original version with english subtitles

Paul Manate
2012
30'

A mother and her daughter.
They are in a house in the countryside, surrounded by the forest.
Suddenly, the mother announces her departure.
Her daughter decides to stay.
There’s something afoot.

Original version with english subtitles

Adrien Dantou
2013
20'

Taipei. Xiao Shou is a shy young man who works as a traveling shadow puppeteer.
One day, he crosses paths with the stunning Ann and instantly falls in love.
But a terrible accident plunges him into a world of darkness before he can confess his love to her.

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I'll grab your arm and we'll leave together. No matter where we'll go or what we'll do, we have nothing to lose.
We'll be fully alive, uniquely alive, preciously alive.

Original version with english subtitles

Jean-Gabriel Périot
2013
14'

Amira, a 17 years old girl, works as a novice butcher. She tries to tame her desire that she feels for BENJI, a boy from her class.
To test her feelings, she proposes him to come with her and sacrifice a lamb according to Muslim rite.

Original version with english subtitles

Isabelle Mayor
2014
18'

By a cold Sunday morning, a man wakes up under the mischievous watch of a unicorn straight out of one of his dreams. Worn with a morning sensuality, his fantasies gradually transform his lonely apartment into a garden of delights where this young faun can freely reap the fruits of his desires.

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Three sisters in their late thirties to mid-forties (Agathe, Lucie, and Marie) arrive at their mother Solange's countryside home for a long weekend. Agathe's daughter, Zouzou, has been staying there for a week, and according to Solange, everything has gone well. But when the four women discover t...

An undefined time and place. A war that does not speak its name is being waged against men who were trying to escape it. Mehdi lost his father. He inherited a debt. He became a smuggler.

Original version with english subtitles

Leslie Lagier
2015
28'

Whereas Koala the botswain is profoundly sleeping, captain Diamond narrates to young sailor Firefly his most beautiful childhood memory. Her name was Cinnammon.

Original version with english subtitles

Shanti Masud
2016
30'

A story that follows the boundaries that are drawn between two human beings, inner boundaries - emotional and affective. Above all, they are the ones that separate us. Five years ago, Angela left her family in Romania to go and work in France. She hadn't been home for over a year. Worried, her hu...

It's a big day for Joseph, as his family takes him to the Smile-Rite toy factory for his twelfth birthday. And everyone knows that when you turn twelve, it's time to become a man...

Original version with english subtitles

Jethro Massey
2017
13'

Two brothers find their own dead bodies in the mountains and embark on a series of tests to see whether they are alive or dead.

Original version with english subtitles

Michael Salerno
2018
15'

France, end of the summer.
Five young pick-pockets roam the city
One of them, Stefan, is trying to learn to read french.

Original version with english subtitles

Frédéric Farrucci
2018
19'

Batroun, North Lebanon. A couple are trying to enjoy an afternoon at the beach. The woman is attracted by three handsome, virile thugs who disrupt the peace and quiet of this perfect day. Their brutality arouses the anger of the hut owner, who threatens them. Violence erupts on all sides. The wom...

Moscow, winter of 2019. An eighth-grade student Kirill Grishin accidentally turns a physical education class into a political action. It could have remained an insignificant incident if only his parents hadn’t found out.

Original version with english subtitles

Vladilen Vierny
2020
17'

Our program for the evening has been composed by and for growns-up, who haven’t lost their child soul. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. As known as Beauty and the beast. Warning: some images are likely to offend homophobic sensitivity.

Original version with english subtitles

Mathieu Mo...

A bed sheet devouring bodies, a radio contaminating minds or a chicken refusing to be butchered… Kraken storms into an apartment building, where everyday soon plunges into bizarre…

Original version with english subtitles

Pauline Dalifard and Lucie Rico
2022
14'

Mistakenly landed in Corsica, Mehret, a young woman in exile, is forced to cross the island to reach Italy. Survival and walking are her only concerns, the East coast her destination.

Original version with english subtitles

Clara Couturet
2022
25'

A boy, wrestling with the hardships of adolescence, becomes ensnared in an online suicide game. 50 days, 50 tasks: a chronicle of navigating a journey away from the world.

Original version with english subtitles

Michael Salerno
2022
27'

In the Aosta Valley, during winter, a child brings eggs to a young girl living in a large castle. The latter’s beauty and purity are so striking that, despite herself, she is called the "Princess." But one day, a jealous witch decides to shatter her angelic image by turning her into a wolf. Thus ...

Tonight's program: love, witchcraft and 3-D murder. Billy can't keep a straight face after repeated viewings of his favourite film, in which seven young boys celebrate a birthday in a chateau in Normandy...

Original version with english subtitles

Mathieu Morel
2024
29'

Elisabeth Raymond is dead... To add to the misery of the villagers, the teenager's body has disappeared. Her boyfriend Victor is devastated. Fortunately, Elisabeth's older brother André is there to support him. The two boys set off to find the body. But what they don't know is that Elisabeth has ...