Out of the Blue

La fourmi et le volcan

Une famille de petits commerçants chinois veut désespérément quitter Hong Kong avant son rattachement à la Chine en 1997. Ils tentent, mais en vain, d'émigrer au Canada. Un volcanologue d’origine chinoise, habitant l'Islande depuis quelques années, les invite à le rejoindre sur son île. Une correspondance et une relation toute particulière s’établissent entre lui et l’aînée de la famille. A family of chinese shopkeepers is desperately seeking to leave Hong Kong after the retrocession to China. After failing to emigrate to Canada, they are invited to go live in Iceland by a chinese-born volcanologist who moved there a few years ago. A correspondance and relationship builds between the two entities

La Théorie du Tout

The Theory of Everything navigates between people and landscapes, between words and territory. The evocative landscapes tell us much in their silent presence. People, invited to tell us about themselves and their connection to the world, talk to us about the soil, the subsoil, the forest, the river, the whole that determines them.

Games of the Heart

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.

L'absent

Though it happened decades before, Roland Kadar is still unclear as to the circumstances that led his father Paul to drown himself in the Danube during the 1950s, and so he heads to Europe to find out for himself. His grim journey takes him to such places as Budapest, Warsaw and Prague. He even visits Tokyo. The major scenes consist of interiors inter-spliced with black-and-white footage of other European locals and old family photographs.

Inpaintings

Between the unexpected death of her closest friend in Paris and a shattered, sibylline Ottoman painting in Istanbul; a young fine art conservator tries to navigate through her mid-twenties.

24 Davids

This film takes us across three continents on a quest driven by a simple yet original idea: to shine a spotlight on the inimitable Davids of this world. The 24 Davids in this film are of varying ages and professions, ranging from cosmologist to recycler; together, they construct a playful “ecosystem” of ideas that touches on every sphere of knowledge and carries within it the power to radically transform. 24 Davids offers a melting pot of heady thoughts and politics in a refreshingly freewheeling cinematic format, probing the mysteries of the universe and the challenges of living together.

Turkey Jeanne

13-year-old Jeanne is still a child. Her only friend is a turkey, telling her that growing up is betrayal. In high school, a classmate triggers a desire for change. But will the turkey allow that to happen? Bizarre and convincing coming-of-age horror story.

Aylin

Irmak (12) idolizes her older teenage friend Aylin, who for Irmak embodies excitement and womanhood. When she plans to move away with her boyfriend, Irmak begins to realize that her feelings for Aylin are more complicated than she knew.

Morning Dew

It grew during a moist summer night. This strange outgrowth in the middle of Nanni’s face. Maybe the answer lies in the park, with sweet flowers surrounding him? Or unless it's under the skirt of Alouette, which shudders with mystery?

Listening Eyes

Laure is spending her holidays at her father’s house in the countryside, she is bored. Until intriguing presences trouble her loneliness.

Un film de cinéastes

Sherrybaby

After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.

Sunshine Cleaning

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

Backbeat

Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.