En fumée

Lina, a film director, learns from her friend Judith that Bastien, the highly professional sound editor she works with, is a serial seducer. Lina doesn't pay much attention to it, especially as she can't see any signs of him corroborating this reputation, but those around her keep asking her questions...

Five women share a sense of déjà-vu.

On the roads of Saintonge, at the entrance of the villages or along the ring roads, strange constructions have been laid out in places that we pass without stopping: roundabouts organized with an obsession for local culture. This film is an opportunity to turn around these postcard landscapes where oysters, parasols and prehistoric women live together.

In a large building in a Parisian district, Elsa lives alone. Her young neighbor Alice hears her playing the piano at home and enjoys it. Elsa suggests that she learn the piano and offers to play it at home, when she is not there. Alice thus gets into the habit of living in Elsa's apartment several times a week.

Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.

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.

For a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a writer, returns to Caen where she lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches at the university. As they reconnect, she begins to be disturbed by presences in the house.

After a break-up, Jimmy has returned to live in the neighborhood where he lived as a student. He knows the streets, cafes, and discussions among friends by heart. And yet, this afternoon, everything seems foreign to him, apart from his sorrow.

Five young men leave the french Atlantic shore to go on a music tour in a beat up old van. Aiming for Switzerland and taking every opportunity to swim, they keep close to rivers and lakes. Their meandering journey leads them into Eastern Europe, meeting musicians and discovering ancestral links between improvisational music and the transmission of folklore in a brave new world dominated by mass media culture. A testimony of August 2011 in Europe and how to recycle songs and cinema history without using the usual maps.