Coline Confort

At dawn, a cannon shot shatters the plain. Horses gallop across the beaten earth. Eva, 21 years old, wants to join the hunters of the Imperial Guard, a Napoleonic regiment of historical re-enactment reserved for men. In her quest for romanticism, she hides her identity so that she can set foot in the stirrup, braving a 200-year-old ban. In this world of gunpowder and smoke, Eva discovers herself as she has always dreamed: a handsome soldier at the side of a beautiful princess.

Silke, a top-level paracyclisme athlete, is training intensely for the Tokyo Paralympic Games. But in the midst of her preparation, she rekindles her hope to return to the circus ring, where she suffered her injury, with her husband and partner Didier. Torn between her responsibilities as a competitor and her dreams of being an acrobat, Silke will have to make a hard choice.

The short film was filmed during the directors' stay at the Eranos Foundation in Ascona-Moscia in the context of the Locarno Residency

On the Cirque Rainor track, Madalena, the hot woman who is to launch the reopening ceremony in a few days, is very worried. Since the accidental death of Diego, the trapeze artist, she is convinced that his act is the target of a curse. During the last rehearsals, Madalena is propelled. In the open air, she catches the eye of Balthazar, the new trapeze artist. Time stops. It's love at first sight. A haunted love story.