Serviced

Serviced explores touch based service businesses including cuddling, erotic massage, sex surrogacy and sex work. Meet the men who have foregone the 9-5 grind or are adding on a side-hustle service-based job. From cuddling to sex work we're looking at the world's oldest profession with eyes wide open.

The Knowledge of Healing

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.

A TTouch of Magic for Cats

Help your cat's physical mental and emotional well-being by learning how to do many of the circular TTouches, lifts and slides. A relaxed cat is a happy and healthy cat! The TTouch® can help correct undesirable habits, improve focus, promote healing, and create a closer relationship between you and your animal.

Comme un rayon de soleil sur la peau

Girls & The Party

While preparing for the anticipated summer party in a cramped bathroom, Mercedes navigates her blossoming desires.

Matta and Matto

In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.

Touch

What happens when two hands touch? How close are they like? And how can proximity be measured, and even more so, in times of a pandemic and distancing? We think we touch things, that we can take other people by the hand, but physics tells us quite another story.

Touchy Feely

Abby is a sought after massage therapist and a free spirit, while her brother Paul thrives on routine, running a failing dental practice with his assistant and daughter Jenny. Suddenly, Abby develops an aversion to bodily contact, which not only makes her unable to do her job, but also severely affects her relationship with her boyfriend. As Abby navigates her way through an identity crisis, her brother's dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing touch.”

Most Flew South

A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?

Embrace

A blind choreographer returns to the rehearsal room after years away. Dealing at the same time with the gradual loss of her visual memory, she must reconnect with touch in order to communicate with her dancers.

Almost

In a dimly lit apartment, two people exist in a world of half-lit gestures and unspoken desire. Touch is fleeting, hesitance lingers, and the space between them is charged with longing.

Don't Touch the Bump!

Three guys. Two gnomes. One epic adventure.

À Poings Fermés

The Feeling of Being Close to You

This autobiographical film documents an attempt at healing the trauma of touch between mother and child, as the filmmaker and their mother talk openly for the first time about the intergenerational trauma and abuse within their lives. Present day phone conversations are juxtaposed with archival VHS footage, creating a connection between the past and a re-write for the future.

Fishmans

The words I promised to Kin-ichi Motegi, 'This is the first and last. I tell you everything about Fishmans without telling a lie.' The friends who made the sound of Fishmans devoted their lives to music. Shinji Sato's way of life is packed in this movie for nearly three hours.

Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests

A documentary exploring the history and growing dangers surrounding the seemingly innocuous Myers–Briggs personality test.

143 Sahara Street

Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.

Space Dogs

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.

Adolescents

Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From the age of thirteen to eighteen, Adolescentes follows the two teenagers during these years where radical transformations and first times punctuate daily life. Through their personal stories, the film offers a rare portrait of France and its recent history.

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate.