Region of Occitania, France, 1792. As the storm of revolution devastates the country, young monk Gabriel and his companions live peacefully in the Franciscan monastery of Saorge, near the Italian border. But everything changes with the arrival of the beautiful Marianne and a military detachment.
Summertime. While a pandemic spreads overall, Paul, his wife Hélène and his little sister Lisa, isolate themselves in their countryside house. There, they meet old friends : Bruno and his sister Mélanie… Some of them love each other but say it wrongly ; some of them don’t even dare to say it ; some of them hate each other… What will strike them first? Disease or despair?
A slow movement through a residential neighbourhood, with empty streets, plain facades, as though artificial. A man recounts his story about the first time, attraction, desire, dizziness of the ignition, forgetfulness, complete blackout. The monologue is composed from transcriptions of psychotherapeutic sessions with arsonists, from the period 1960-1980.
An update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, between night train and seaside resort, in the form of a cinema poem in relief.
The beaches of Saint-Jean-de-Monts, a small coastal region of the French Loire, fill up with tourists in summer. But when fall arrives, its great hotels and luxurious spa-resorts become deserted. A situation which Leo takes advantage of to live far away from everything and everybody.
When a girl leaves the group, friends get together for one last evening.
Brest, a march evening in a cafe. Sailors evoke the latest news of their friends, Estelle spends the evening with her sister, Thomas, the server is working as usual. But when his colleague Samir receives a message on his phone, the atmosphere begins to change.
France has been confined again for several months. Anna is pregnant. To allow her companion Victor to join her before she gives birth, they have to get married. A dematerialized procedure has just been set up. But the law changes every day.
In a strange land where everything is flat and feelings have vanished, a curious trio armed with a vinyl record and a mirror ball attempt to recapture sensory emotions.
During a languid and peaceful summer in the 17th century, six young women dream of love. Directly or indirectly, each of them will experiment with the delights and torments of romance–desire and rejection, idealized and consummated love... Nina and Eulalie are sisters who share a strong bond. Eulalie, the eldest, is waiting for the return of her fiancé, who has left to seek his fortune in the Americas, while Nina seems to have nothing to wait for. Through nine chapters, we follow the destiny of each of these young women as they are finally confronted with the reality of a world and an era in which being a woman means not being free. Nina and Eulalie weave their way through each of these stories as they endeavor to understand and perhaps escape the inevitability of their fate as women.
Abbas, a young Iranian without work papers, has found refuge with Claire and her daughter Colette at the cost of a risky strategy: to avoid any questions, Abbas and Colette make the whole village believe they are in love. Until this winter day when Colette comes home after a party, accompanied by a boy her own age, Lucas. A little tale about uprooting.
In a film consisting entirely of fictitious found-footage, we discover how a young activist, Ulysse, provokes a nationwide cataclysm by stealing a micro-organism developed by a state laboratory: the "mycelium". This microorganism has the ability to degrade all metals and their components, and its spread would risk taking the whole of civilization back to the Stone Age.
On the age of 51, a father leaves his family to live as a carpenter. Away from the family and house burdens, he spends his last 15 years living alone. From the point of view of his child, the idealistic father then changes his mind to let go of everything and lives his dream of traveling.
