The Awakening of the Insects

“Que la bête meure” (Let the Beast Die) by Claude Chabrol, in a one-minute animated film by Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy.

Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up.

Phnom Penh. Nakry and Sothear meet on the Sisowath quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature…

Kim, a young thug unfairly accused of treason, is forced to flee Saigon and its Chinese mafia. Hurt and confused, he is rescued by a weird duo: Thao, a one-legged old gambler and his granddaughter Lan. Through the small roads of the Mekong Delta, the trio flees to Cambodia…

A girl who lives in Saigon, Vietnam, has a mother who sells cold coffee, but after her mother's decease she has to leave school and take over the family business.

"Cadavre exquis" is an invitation to a visual, olfactory, and aural drifting via a one-eyed dog's wandering. In the labyrinth of the streets and alleys of old Hanoi, daily life and legends mingle to the syncopated rhythm of Hat Xâm, Vietnamese blues.

Hai, a little boy, catches a bird. Long, a cyclo driver, takes a carp for a ride on behalf of the mysterious Mr. Chu. All across Vietnam, people are getting ready to celebrate the Festival of Wandering Souls. That night, by the light of the lanterns, Hai and Long will take the carp and the bird for one last ride...

Vietnam. The early hours in Hanoi of three young brothers newly arrived from their native village. Around the Long Bien Bridge, link between city and countryside, they cross the path of a young cop and a street vendor.

How did the Third Reich manage to finance its war machine, in action as soon as Hitler came to power? When his armies invaded Poland, the coffers were empty. A vast raid began in the conquered countries. The Nazis plundered gold, works of art and central bank funds. But how to change these colossal assets? Switzerland was to act as the Third Reich's bureau de change, guaranteeing it the foreign currency it needed to acquire raw materials for its armaments factories. How did this story come about?