Society

Filmed over a period of one year of life inside SNARK, a boarding school for troubled youths, with a self-managing project for non-repressive education. It is an inside view on the youths’ antisocial behavior and the staff’s difficult balancing act. Students/staff relationships wear to a frazzle. Th...

In Albertville (France) a young investigative Judge is in charge of a delicate case of industrial pollution : a defective waste incinerator seems to be responsible for the increase of cancer cases in the nearby community. The incinerator was shut down, the neighbors opened a court case… Following th...

Andres Retamal is a famous rodeo champion and has been training and riding wild horses all around Patagonia for many years. At forty he is thinking about retiring but for his last season, he has decided to compete in the only rodeo that he hasn't won, in the little town of Gobernador Costa, two thou...

As children in the 50s to the 70s, Dédé, Michel and Daniel were sent to the Belle Étoile “correctional” facility run by the abbot Garin and located in the Savoie region of France. There, they were beaten, humiliated, starved and broken. With the help of director Clémence Davigo, they finally reunite...

Wu’s one year old son was kidnapped in the middle of the night and was most probably sold to another family. Ten years later, Wu still hopes to find him. On his bicycle, he travels across China, defying the indifference and inaction of Chinese society and authorities. After 10 years of research, the...

With a great sens of humor, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to Kojin, a young 23-year-old homosexual man who seeks to exist in a society where he seems unable to find his place. A look at the endless struggle of a minorit...

Like many other women, Diana has been suffering from problematic periods for years. With every new cycle, the same question arises: “Why the pain and annoyance if I am healthy?”. Her initial curiosity sparks off an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. The Moon Inside You is a ...

Next to Rennes men's prison, as next to almost all the prisons in France, there's 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...

Brigitte is a painter. She is autistic. But, every Wednesday she models for Jean-Luc. With time, the distance between the artist and his model decreases. Facing Brigitte and her “strangeness”, Jean Luc slowly finds his own place. While observing one another, Brigitte’s painting contributes to the...

Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Marc Isaacs paints a rich portrait of multicultural life in the UK by looking at the lives of immigrants living along the A5, one of Britain's longest and oldest roads. Stretching from London to the Welsh coast, the road has always been an important lifeline for new ém...