Arnaud Alberola

It's been 548 days that A hasn't felt anything, that she's been absent from her life. One night, J appears and takes her with her, trying by all means to revive her heart. Stranger is a musical fable, the story of a return to life.

Young and promising Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter Khavaj must flee from Chechnya to Brussels when his brother discovers his homosexuality and promises to kill him. In an episode of silence, the young man finds comfort in the Planetarium, among the silence of the stars. In this documentary, which traces his first months of life in Belgium, Khavaj slowly observes how the last link that ties him to Chechnya disintegrates. The life of yesterday is in past, but the future is not clear yet.

"I believe that my profound nature leads me to violence". Through training and motivated by her coaches, Marion thinks she's finally ready to step into the ring. LAST ROUND tells the story of her first and last fight.

Joseph is looking for Mara. Mara is trying to find herself. He meets up with her at a party. People are talking about a white whale that has been washed up on the beach. Mara wants to see it, and Joseph wants to follow Mara – never mind the gathering storm.

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separation.

During a chaotic night at an underground Tehran rave disrupted by the morality police and the sudden outbreak of war, a queer youth chooses to retreat into a bubble of romantic illusion with their partner, just to survive the brutal reality outside.

A YouTuber navigates between isolation and connectivity in a crumbling Cuba. Whispers of technology and birdsong intertwine, reflecting the frozen and closed-off state of his world.

Lyès is a young immigrant who works as a rider and delivery man without ever stopping. Exhausted by sleep deprivation and homesickness, he wants to complete his last delivery, even after an accident.

A History of Darkness summons the figures of Nero, Dante, the Marquis de Sade and Ludwig II in the intoxication of their obsessions, between ecstasy and damnation, fascination and repulsion. A family portrait teetering on the edge of the abyss.

In the shadow of a colonial past and a neo-capitalist present, Inti, Jai and Pauline are searching for their place in a world that was not made for them. As they roam the neighbourhood looking for somewhere to settle, they question their parents about faith, spirituality, roots and their experiences of migration. They decide to occupy an empty bank building in order to fill it with their memories, dreams and role play. A portrait of our time that oscillates between documentary, performance art and surrealism.

Alex is the only girl in her “automotive biomechanics” class. For her degree, she has chosen to build an engine made of artificial flesh. One night, Chloé, who shares her boarding school room, discovers that Alex takes a singular pleasure in working on her living machine…

From day to night, Otello, a construction worker and former tailor, moves between a sprawling Parisian construction site and a rundown nightclub on the brink of bankruptcy.

A short tale of power, utopia, and madness, seen through the figure of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

In northeast Kyrgyzstan, Lake Issyk Kul is one of the five deepest lakes in the world. On its shores, dark constructions of cement and steel appear as olds wrecks: it is the port of Balyktchy, today abandoned. Here lies the pride of an admiral of the Soviet navy.