All Effort of Men

Gay ?

"I'm gay, I'm a fag, I'm proud and I really love sex."

A Life, A Manifesto

The life of Michèle Firk — a trailblazing French journalist, film critic, aspiring director and communist activist involved in various liberation struggles in the second half of the 20th century — as told by narrator Alice Diop, modern day French director.

Rain

An aquatic ballet to the sound of It's Raining Men.

Même le vent semble pleurer

Médicalement

Medically speaking, we're moving forward.

Had She Been a Criminal...

French archive images of the Second World War pass in a dizzying tempo. The pace slows when we see images of the liberation. We see happy, liberated citizens, but slowly a cruel scene becomes visible. Women who are alleged to have had a relationship with the Germans are publicly insulted, shaved and beaten.

The Devil

Documentary short about the Black Panther movement.

Summer Lights

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris, travels to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary commemorating the victims of the attack. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decides to take a break to wander through the city during which he meets Michiko, a merry, enigmatic young woman. Michiko takes him for a joyful and improvised journey from the city towards the sea where the horrors of the past are mingled with the simplicity of the present.

Dies Irae

A beautiful, elegiac cycle expressing the boundless hope and infinite nostalgia of the voyage, consisting entirely of still images and painstakingly assembled into a emotionally moving pictorial essay. Periot: 'Remember that I am the cause of your journey. Don't lose me along the way.'

Returning to Reims

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

Devil Inside

Revolution, queer and rock n roll.

Facing Darkness

Following Bosnia and Herzegovina’s declaration of independence in April 1992, Bosnian Serb troops besieged and bombed Sarajevo. Over a period of four years, five young filmmakers documented the bombardments and daily life during the siege—for some, the aim was simply to report the news; for others, it was a way of dealing with their fears.

Intimated Diary

A very private moment in which the body becomes an artificial and fabricated entity. A young man changes in front of a mirror. He cleans the scars on his stomach, takes out his contact lenses, removes his dentures and brushes his teeth before leaving. This brings up the question of appearances: here we see what we are not in the habit of seeing. There is also the question of intimacy.... A question, however, that remains unanswered.

Under Twilight

“I make films because I don’t know. I seek. I try to see things more clearly, pushing myself to at least know how to express questions. It’s a way for me to open a place for thought.” - Jean-Gabriel Périot

There Is Joy in This Struggle

Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.

Si jamais nous devons disparaître ce sera sans inquiétude mais en combattant jusqu'à la fin

A guitarist and a drummer are playing an instrumental rock song, the audience sways to the beat of the music. In the crowd, a woman stands out. A climactic explosion of sound, movement, visuals, and the struggle to make it last forever.