At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag.
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The people behind it
Veronika Varga
Emilie Muller
Olivier Ramon
Assistant
Marie David
Alice
Lise Bèraha
Operator
Jonás, Leonor and Bernardo work on the last rehearsal before the premiere. The producer gives them the sudden news that the theater will close due to a political march. The premiere is cancelled. Despite everything, the three actors try to perform the play.
A Syrian refugee adapts to life in an unfamiliar country after her husband's immigration visa is unexpectedly rejected.
A love story between a poet and a painter. Lani realizes her feelings for Mae go beyond a deep bonded friendship. With Maeve graduating and moving across the country, she must decide whether to speak those feelings or silence her heart.
Juan has been trying for months to forget his ex-girlfriend Lola, who is now dating someone else.
A suicidal person believes everyone deserves to die, but he soon discovers that he desperately needs help. Death is not a solution.
A nightguard suffering from short-term memory loss finds his life turned upside down when he learns that the daughter of the owner of the factory that he guards was kidnapped.
Omran finds himself at a hospital with no idea how he got there. Once he's out of the hospital, he will face a lot of conflicts and it will lead him to his own home. Will Oman's finds his identity?
In Tijuana, Mexico, Gabriel is a man who once had a normal and happy life alongside his family. He now seeks revenge for the murder of his son at the hands of a group of vampires that roam the city at night, stalking its inhabitants. Gabriel's days blur into one another as he tries to track down the murderers he calls "leeches", without knowing that his revenge will bring serious consequences for his wife and himself.
Adults reflect on the experience of losing a parent at a young age.
Alice lives between reality and social media. One day, her ex-boyfriend puts one of their sex tapes online.
After losing his title belt, a fallen star in the boxing world seeks advice from an Amish technician to get his career back up.
It is the last night that Haizea and Mikel spend together. As a gymnast, she has given him a scholarship to train in Poland. After making love, she asks about the future of their relationship.
Dali is a full-time caretaker for Douja, his Down syndrome daughter. One day, and against the advice of his wife, Dali decides to take Douja to the amusement park called ASTRA. In this park, a weird and inhospitable world awaits them .
In an inhospitable place, a boy and his family struggle for survival.
'Lukas & the Aspies' is a story about 12-year old Lukas. In many ways, Lukas is a normal kid: He plays in a band, hangs out with his friends and fights with his little brother. But Lukas' has also Asperger syndrome - and hence his own set of unique problems.
Amanda struggles to keep something inside as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.
A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.
A meditation on My Lai.
A young college student reluctantly meets with her estranged father only to discover the truth about the events of the wild summer of '75 that drove them apart.
Past and present are intricately entwined in this poetical reverie, in which a man (Derek de Lint) looks for his childhood memories in his grandparents' deserted country house. He meets himself at various ages in this house full of waning grandeur. The disappearance of his love Equiline plays an important role. In the voice-over, he tells the spectator about his motives for this trip to the 'memory of a memory'.
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game and lets herself be devoured by these women, who are as fragile as they are manipulative.
Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.
Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot as an unexpected gift.
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Willy, a boorish 50 something, finally moves out of his parents’ to start a new life
A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
