Hippocampe Productions

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

On a 1980s evening, the topmost clown-actor of the 20th century Sichuan opera, Qiu Fu passes away in an accident and half-unwillingly sets off for the Ghost City under the escort of two underworld officials. Along the way, he meets old friends. As they recall the past, a history of the living is conjured up.

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.

An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.

A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan.

Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier.

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.

Whilst their game of tennis first looked as boring as usual, Pierrick and Alexis, two 30-year-old men who you wouldn’t call athletes, suddenly find themselves incredibly gifted players.

Marko and Ankica never got over the death of their only child, Ante, in the war. When their neighbour Stipe suggests renting their son’s room to tourists, Marko feels insulted but Ankica manages to talk him into it. Renting rooms is easy money, especially for retired people, but having an unknown man sleeping in his son’s bed troubles Marko.

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.

The story of Cross Words is based on a news item, which quickly becomes a pretext for a sensitive, sensual portrait of a generation represented by two main characters, Pierre and Mila, and a group of thirty-somethings. They’re journalists, teachers, carpenters and artists, between Paris, Marseille and Brussels. Valero portrays fragments of everyday life, interweaving them with impressionistic urban and bucolic slivers.

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.

An unknown, shapeless disaster happens. Paris must be evacuated. Two friends, Camille and Paul, set out to find shelter in a remote village in Italy, where Paul's brother lives.

Tom and Ellis, 15 years old, have been friends forever. They spend their summer fishing at sea. One day, they meet Lucie who came to their village on holiday. As days go by, they grow more intimate.

Thirteen years old and on the edge of adulthood, a boy on a diving board faces the unknown.

Aya adapts Hyakken Uchida’s eponymous short story in which characters wonder whether they are alive or dead, as the reality of their existence is swept from under their feet.

The exams are close, the school year is coming to an end for Peipei, a young artist aspirant of a high school of Henan Province, a poor district of China. Abandoned by her parents, scapegoat of her classmates and teachers, this "wild flower" has never conformed to the rules of the institution and has trouble finding her place.