The Heart Elsewhere

Two police officers investigate a murder in the middle on an endless winter in a small town.

Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only as a seamstress but also as a repository of memories and wisdom. A tragic event will challenge the desire of each sibling to carry on.

Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.

In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, Le Parfum vert, that seems to have ordered the murder.

Bianca doesn't know how to live anymore. She asks her friends about their daily life, but that doesn't help. So, she goes further and starts spying on them thanks to small cameras that she hides at home. By observing them, she hopes to forget her own pain and discover a little of theirs.

Frederik had a dream : an empty city, mannequins, a stranger walking down the street with a backpack. Or is it a memory of his friend Hugues ? Hugues tells the odd story to Allison, who has heard it before and wants to know what’s in the backpack. It’s all circling around, and it’s also the split of a couple during strange times.

As the title suggests, Père et fille tells the story of a father growing up alone with his daughter after the premature death of the mother. If the premise is sad, director Quentin Papapietro manages to build a comedy in which the feeling of heartwarming fatherly love is staged with intelligence, and a great sense of cinema. With humour and a hint of absurdity, Père et fille offers a new way to consider family films.

A summer weekend in the countryside. A girl draws away from her family to bath naked in the river. She puts her clothes on a big benevolent stone. When she comes out of the water, the clothes have disappeared.