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- A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death.
- A homeless hairdresser agrees to to act as a surrogate womb in exchange for enough money to achieve her dream of a salon in a town called Melody.
- In Gaza, two hairdressers and ten customers of various ages and backgrounds spend the day trapped in a beauty salon while Hamas police fight a gang in the street.
- He was a worker, road worker, sweeper. She has always been a secretary. My parents are worried. Why don't I have a job after such expensive studies?
- A black man from the Paris suburbs seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France's most prestigious drama schools.
- Next to Rennes men's prison, as next to almost all the prisons in France, there a Family Support Centre for the prisoners' families. Visitors go there before and after a visit. They come back, every week, sometimes three times a week. They wait. It is a space of its own. Visiting is time consuming. They always arrive early. If they are a few seconds late, the door of the prison will remain closed. So they wait, to be sure to be on time, to be let in. The prison rules infringe upon this place, a passage between the outside and the inside, where all feelings are amplified: frustration, anger, hope, desire, fear, passion... To have the strength to go there, you must be so deeply rooted in life that you can breathe life into this inflated waiting time.This film is about life in that place. It is also an echo of what prison is made of. By choosing to remain exclusively «next door», the film paradoxically offers a direct approach of what the carceral reality is. The hidden side of imprisonment, life outside, without the other. But definitely life, not a subsitute.
- In the Himuro Valley, in Japan, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived for ever in an hermitage, among the animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako collects the plants that she transforms into pigments, Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature seems unalterable. Still, time crackles and the reality catches up with them.
- In Provence, Philippe lives between two worlds : his cannabis deals and working the family farm. One day his father, who is deeply in debt, tries to kill himself. To save the farm, Philippe decides to join forces with a major drug dealer.
- At seventeen, looking much younger, Jean-Benoît serves an apprenticeship as a diesel fitter mechanic. He is a troubled youngster, who has never really recovered from the untimely death of his father and has conflicting relationships with his mother.On the other hand, having a girlfriend, Héléna, more mature than him, as well as learning a trade may help him to rebuild his shattered personality.
- Atlantic Produce Togo is a company of the Togolese Free Zone that produces and exports ornamental plant cuttings. Because it guarantees certain benefits to its 90 employees, it is considered a social model in Togo. But after 30 years, Altantic Produce is on the brink of bankruptcy. Tony, a young French-Togolese, decides to buy the company to save the social model. But Altantic Produce's situation remains precarious. Between his financial problems and the pressure of his European customers, Tony has more and more difficulties to guarantee the social perks.
- Investigates the green tide of potentially toxic sea lettuce that takes over beaches around Brittany, France, as a consequence of the rapid forced industrialization of local agriculture.
- Three farmers from the central part of Brittany, France, speak about their daily work, pleasure, constraints, and doubts as they face increasingly tough restrictions and regulation in the agricultural policy of the European Union.
- Concerning the animal named pig when it is alive or pork when it is transformed into meat, Brittany constitutes a singular paradox: while 14 million are raised there (compared to 3 million inhabitants), due to industrial breeding they are now almost invisible. What a pity. Sometimes pampered, sometimes rejected, ultimately consumed by man, the pig is in fact much closer to us than we believe. If we paid more attention to our "cousin" the pig, it would have many many things to teach us.
- "One citizen, one medium": viewed by Iranians abroad, the amateur videos of the Iranian uprisings of 2009 seem to form a puzzle with certain pieces missing.
- A glass frame, some wax wings, a tale sculpted in dust on the glass, a mask of bees wings. The artist, Patrick Neu lives alone in a remote island village to the north of the Vosges, far from all of the central focal points of the world of art. He creates slowly and carefully with the patience inherited from the primitive Flemish artists, which whom he dialogues explicitly in works that border the ephemeral and tend towards a rare perfection. One day, the director of the Tokyo Palace in Paris pays him a visit: after following his work for fifteen years, he wants to commission him with his first individual exhibition. He accepts but will not change his method in any way. In the background, the old truth of the salamander, above all, an artist should be able to hide and keep his mystery.
- 1971, in the salt marshes of Guérande, farmers and neo-ruralists unite to oppose a bypass project. It was the beginning of a long struggle in which the weakest would eventually win the day. Later, they collectively invented an alternative model to preserve this magical place which is also their work tool.