Break of Day

Charly, René, Katiga, Zinedine and Madeleine tell in a few minutes the story of their hands, filmed in a static shot, placed on a table that is familiar to them. Five acquaintances of the director are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation elicits reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, move and dance.

The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.

This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired. When he learns that the Minister is to appear in person at the Lyons station to dedicate a new rail line, Jules is there hoping to speak with him in person; he carries a concealed gun and when he is unable to speak to the Minister, the normally mild Jules snaps and takes an entire train car hostage

After a violent car crash, Marilyn must take care of her man, who suffers from severe head trauma.

The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.

This film is a fifteen-minute long take of a naked 70-year-old body lying in a semi-slumber on a bed. Moi. will be shot in a studio over three days. We will hear the presence and reflections of the film crew and a few inner voices from this sleeping body. The continuous duration of Moi. is a documentary performance. The film is a film in the making.

Two lost souls are wandering through the streets of Paris.

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.

A very Parisian night. Paul plays at strangling Colette because she doesn't inspire him a single, damn camera shot. Early in the morning, he takes flight because the future is for those who get up early. Was it too late? It's too early to say.

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agreeing to undress. Until one day, understanding that the blind are decidedly more gifted than the sighted, she decides to cheat on him ...

A son try to speak to his old mummy.

This film brings together in sequence shots men, animals and plants. It is an inventory of the cohabitation of living beings. Man's awareness of being alive among other living beings is diminishing. Gradually, we stopped considering animals and plants as truly alive. These cinematographic haiku tell the story of two snails crossing a road, a baby and a physiotherapist, two ripening tomatoes, a cow, a crying body, field flowers and cities.

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.

This film presents six sequence shots of different faces. A young girl, a young woman, and an elderly woman live through a birth and a death in their own way.

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.