Stone Age

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long.

The Generations of the Algerian War project brings together members of the National Office for Veterans and Victims of War (ONACVG), which, since 2015 and under the scientific guidance of three historians specializing in the period – Raphaëlle Branche, Jean-Jacques Jordi, and Abderahmen Moumen – has been working alongside the French Ministry of Education to provide teachers with resources for teaching about the Algerian War. A diversity of perspectives is highlighted through the choice of speakers: FLN and OAS militants, a Pied-Noir (French settler in Algeria), the son of a Harkis (Algerian Muslim who fought for the French during the Algerian War), a Jewish woman from Algeria, and French conscripts, all contributing to the construction of a collective memory. The ravages of colonization, forced exile, the transmission of trauma… Each of the three sessions addresses a theme related to the speakers' life experiences and explores different facets of this war.

A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.

After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.

Two young boys have stolen some expensive scarves and are being pursued. To get out of town, they hijack a young lady’s vehicle. She ends up following them as they flee.

Adi is trying to make a living doing deliveries. One evening, he finds his scooter taken to bits. As he tries to find who did this, he is not yet aware that this event is linked to strange phenomena taking place in this neighbourhood.

Jonathan, a solitary adolescent, secretly dresses up like his favorite virtual female singer. When he finds someone like him on the internet, he dreams of meeting up to share a little humanity.

A man must deliver a package the contents of he knows nothing about. Once at the station, he is not met as planned. He must then remain in that city, which he had fled, and which he fears.

Frankeasy, an influencer-magician, arrives in Paris for the Olympic Games to shoot a sponsored story. A technical glitch deletes his QR code, cutting him off from any access. With no one to rely on, he drifts through a Paris strained by the Games.

Antoine, a young driving instructor, feels self-conscious about his receding hairline. Desperate to keep his hair, he tries multiple treatments, which lead to unwanted side effects.

One year after the death of his father, a young boy makes the journey to province to meet his grandparents who he does not know, to try to convince them to give him his father's ashes. With his father's friend, he looks for the right place to release his father by scattering his ashes.