Laurent Sauvage

Koundou, a native hunter, protects his food in the presence of a hungry animal.

Françoise returns to her native Brittany to teach at her alma mater to find that the past of this very particular place still exerts an inexorable pull. A rapturous ensemble piece about the tricks of time and memory, Suite Armoricaine is a work of grand themes and small, surprising details, bursting with ideas and emotion.

Aurore and Carla, inseparable childhood friends, left Strasbourg for Paris at the age of 20. Their duo became a trio with the arrival of Solal, Carla's baby. This transition into adulthood weakens their bond, which had always been so strong.

Iris, a teacher in her early forties who works at a Fine Arts School, assigns to her students an exercise on a Free Subject. It is a time when social behaviours and values are being called into question. The 20-year-old students are thrilled at the idea of being free to choose their own subjects. They create an “imagination factory” that has no limits. After finding Iris’s lost cell phone, provocative Yorgos, bases his Free Subject on his fictitious recreation of his teacher’s life. Free Subject deals with the limits of individual freedom in contemporary Western societies.