Short Cuts: North by Northwest

The Chauvet - Pont d´Arc cave has left us an astounding freshness legacy. Adorned by our ancestors 36,000 years ago, it invites us to dialogue with these very first modern humans. A group of artists from the Folimage studio had the privilege of visiting this Decorated Cave of the Pont d’Arc (known as the Chauvet Cave). This collection collects the cinematographic emotions that arose from this incredible meeting between the first artists of humanity and the today creators, who fell madly in love with their distant ancestors. They make a collection of 15 short one-minute films in symbiosis with the traces left by the original artists ... A fruitful and generous dialogue across time and space.

Chloé and Louis are secretly in love with each other. Every word is a move, every sentence is a choreography.

Chicago, winter 1965. The Regal Theater hosts James Brown and Solomon Burke, two monuments of Soul music. Backstage, everyone's under pressure. But in 1960s America, both men know their music has unexpected powers.

Plant loving Hilda has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile, Attilem, a new genetically modified cereal, is launched on the market. Growing with little water and fertilizer while generating high crop field, Attilem looks like an ideal solution to eradicate starvation and provide an alternative to diminishing oil reserves. But nothing is at it seems...

Vanille is a little Parisian girl who has just arrived in Guadeloupe. She will be immersed in an exotic and mysterious adventure, meeting picturesque characters and magical flowers, all embellished with a touch of Creole. These holidays promise to be rich and full of surprises!

A quick-tempered father argues with his son last time. The child decides to leave the family home. Dancing is the high point of the exchanges between the two characters because it is their only means of communication.

The moon shines, a young couple plays in the forest. Their game leads them to an unfamiliar garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of danger, the young lovers enter the maze of a garden at midnight. Little by little, they are submerged by a intoxicating spell. They lose themselves in the strange labyrinth. Will they manage to break the spell that keeps them prisoner?

Five Congolese women testify about their traumatic past, marked by violence. Kidnapped as children because they are of mixed ancestry, robbed of their rights and identity, and abandoned after Congo's independence, they decide to break their silence. They file a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity.

Kali, 13, leaves his home in Normandy for the first time to spend summer vacation in a housing project outside Paris. In Bondy, la cité, he’s a fish out of water: new slang, new music, new styles, new attitude. He’ll have to make a place for himself in this urban jungle, armed only with his sense of humor.