Jill Coulon
Takuya is 18, with tousled hair and an athletic look. Driven by his father and sponsors, he leaves his hometown in Hokkaido to go to Tokyo and joins a sumo stable. There, he will share everything with the 10 other wrestlers : day-to-day life, training, social life and tournaments. Coproduced by Japa...
Vincent Boujon
The risk and adrenaline rush of skydiving can heighten the feeling of being alive. In this compelling documentary, five HIV-positive gay men spend a week preparing for their first solo parachute jump. The camaraderie inspired by the rigorous training and team-building exercises encourage the men to...
Négar Zoka
In a college in Vaucresson, handicapped and able bodied sports students share the same rowdy classrooms, while enjoying wheelchair races and little romances. In this unusual co-educative environment, the film examines adolescence and the questions they ask themselves regularly, such as, “ Who am I? ...
Fodil Chabbi and Julien Dubois
The Emir Abdel Kader club in Algiers is an exception in the ultra masculine world of soccer. It is a women’s soccer club that defies the taboos and the constraints of the patriarchal Algerian society. It is a unique place where women from all walks of life meet, play and fight together to conquer wh...
Claire Mollard & Magali Chirouze
The Kigali Shaolin Temple is a kung-fu club in Rwanda started by a group of young orphans from the genocide. Today, they find fulfillment in passing on their skills and teaching young Rwandans the values of sharing, tolerance and mutual respect. The visual beauty of kung fu highlights the resilience...
Fabrice Macaux
Abdel is 18. He has been an intern in one of the most prestigious football training centers of Europe. In the next months, his future will be at stake: after negotiations, he may sign his first contract and begin a path to wealth and glory, but if he doesn’t succeed he will get back at the starting ...