The Return

The light of dawn rises in a rose colored sky overlooking imposing tower blocks. It’s the beginning of an odyssey set at the heart of a public housing district following the lives of Yves, a thirty something Berlin based artist, Hamza, a 14-year-old deaf boy, and Déborah, a lonely basketball coach.

From a country famous all over the world as the birthplace of cinema, Impressionism and the humble pain au chocolat, comes four award-winning films about gay life and growing up. Much like their sought after paintings and pastry treats, these delights prove that when it comes to finesse and flavour in filmmaking - you can't beat the French. The short films are: Falling [Tomber] (2018); The Return [Le retour] (2014); Footing (2012); The Swimming Trunks [Le maillot de bain] (2013).

Jeanne, a political sciences student, meets James, a young afro-american who came in France for a sabbatical year.