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Jean-Benoît is seventeen years old and lives with his mother. When he was twelve, his father committed suicide. As a vulnerable adolescent, threatened by the temptations of self-destruction and irresolute half measures, he is permanently on the razor’s edge. Filmed over three years, the film is par...

An exposed Cumbrian village by the sea surrounded by windmills, fields and factories provides a striking setting for this fairy tale of young love and the loss of childhood innocence. Over one year, the film follows the 9 year-old Laura Anne and her 11 year-old cousin, Steven as they move towards t...

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...

Vincent, Claire and Sophie Dragon are siblings, born of different biological parents and strongly linked to their foster family by a feeling of belonging. Not yet in their thirties, they are questioning this link within a reconstructed family: What do we inherit, what do we pass on, what is our iden...

When Zoo Station – The Story of Christiane F. was published in West Germany in 1979 it shocked the public but became an international best seller. The book tells the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, a West Berlin teenager who prostitutes herself to pay for her heroin consumption, bringing to l...