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Hydroelectric Joy new_releases Release: 09-09-2024
In the 60s, Vadim, a Soviet engineer, is in love with Vera, a researcher in biology. But their romance is suddenly disrupted by a mission entrusted to Vadim: sent to Egypt, he must participate in one of the great utopian ventures initiated by the USSR. Based on unpublished archives, this film is inspired by a true story.

Ordinary Life 2024
After leaving the psychiatric facility where they had been wrongfully confined, Katya and Yulia, two young Russian women whom I have been filming for many years, finally achieve independent lives. This newfound freedom, which they have fought so hard to attain, promises to make their dreams of a new future come true. But how can one be free and pursue their aspirations in today’s Russia?

A Burning Soil Beneath our Feet 2023
“I return to Poland 25 years after directing a film about the traces of a destroyed Jewish world. This time, I am accompanied by Jen, my French-Israeli companion of Sephardic origin. Upon the ruins of the past, we look for signs like pieces of a puzzle that built our history, our memory, our emotions.” (Julien Donada)

Paradise 2023 star_border 6
In 2021, an extreme heatwave gave rise to huge wildfires in the vast subarctic forests of Sakha, a northeastern republic in Siberia. The village of Shologon lies in this taiga landscape, shrouded in orange smoke and black ash. The forest is burning and the flames are approaching fast.

Artem & Eva 2023 star_border 7.8
Artem loves Yulia, Yulia loves Artem. They recently graduated from school, moved to Moscow and began an independent life. In search of part-time jobs, Artem comes up with the idea of creating another image from Yulia - Eva Elfie - and making an amateur video for Pornhub. Suddenly, the video becomes popular, Eva gets more and more job offers, and Artem becomes the boyfriend and producer of a world celebrity. The heroes seem to fall into the "American dream", but in their personal lives there are more and more problems and doubts.

There Where the Grass is Greener 2023
Sylvain is a farmer. His fields, in line with the glysophated trend, surround the small island of greenery where my old but valiant mother has lived for decades. Two visions of agriculture, landscape and the world unfold in reality and in music.

44 Days 2022
For a long time I watched Guadeloupe, my parents' native island, from afar. From the metropolis. A rapprochement took place when I was watching the images filmed by the Guadeloupeans throughout the general strike of 2009. 44 days of a singular and powerful mobilization that this film restores as I perceived it.

Caledonia 2021
On the secret like-mindedness between old Caledonia (the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to most of the land area of Scotland) and New Caledonia (the French territory comprising dozens of islands in the South Pacific).

May God Be with You 2021
The director makes an attempt to locate herself, because historical erosions in society and politics have led to an identity crisis for Cléo Cohen, a young Frenchwoman. Is she Arab? Jewish? She struggles for clarification, aided by her grandparents, who all emigrated from the Maghreb to France as Jews. The questioning is playful, but determined. Cléo awakens memories, confronts, muses in the bathtub.

The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World 2021 star_border 4
Claire Simon goes to Lussas, in France’s Ardèche, home to a vibrant community of documentarians. She films the creation of Tënk, an online platform for auteur documentaries. The initiative is a labour of love for the passionate and optimistic people behind it, but the process is long and arduous, as cultural projects often are. The filmmaker followed them for months, capturing their doubts and dilemmas: how do you manage everyday conflicts? Be accepted by a rural population that you aren’t part of? By the general public? Reconcile private life and professional calling? Reassure the mayor? Secure funding without making ethical compromises? A fascinating, bittersweet and insightful behind-the-scenes film. (Apolline Caron-Ottavi)

Garage, Engines, and Men 2021
A small picturesque Provençal village. Certainly, I grew up there, but today life seems to have somewhat deserted it. Except for the car and motorcycle repair garage where everyone, I mean the men, come to have their car serviced. What do they do ? What do they talk about ? A breakdown develops into a nail-biting suspense, the garage becomes the place of masculine transmission. Men are amongst themselves and repair metal bodies.

En Política 2020
Emilio and a small team of social movement activists determined to make a difference decide to stand for the first time. Elected deputies under the colors of Podemos, they find themselves immersed in the political world to which they have always opposed.

Comme un chien dans un arrosoir 2019
For ten years I have been sharing my life between the island of Reunion and France. In these incessant back and forth, I often feel like a dog in a watering can. There the boredom, here the lack of there. This film is my exploratory trip to the island and my desire to return there. This place becomes a central character, torn between its tangled and buried roots and its progressive Westernization since recent decades.

Solo 2019 star_border 5
Martín is a young Argentinean piano virtuoso and composer. For four years, he has been a patient of El Borda psychiatric hospital. Music filled up his life. Now he is trying to return to life outside the asylum walls, while working on his new opus, "Enfermaria".

In Another Life 2019 star_border 9.3
This film is an African “Boyhood” that gives an insight to the political and historical situation of Burundi throughout the last 24 years through the eyes of six street children that now have become adults.

The Son 2019 star_border 6
In 2013, Dima Ilukhin, the cousin of the film’s director and a soldier in the Russian army, died on duty in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. He was 21 years old. This incident marks the starting point for Abaturov’s reflection on the military. He films the training of new recruits in Siberia, as they bid farewell to their mothers and girlfriends, learn the mechanics of a Kalashnikov, or how to throw a hand grenade and administer first aid. While his parents try to cope with their loss, Dima’s former fellow recruits have to return to battle.

Divine Victorine 2019 star_border 7.3
What is a film studio? It's a multitude of shed-like buildings of varying sizes set on a piece of wasteland. This is exactly what we find at the Victorine Studios, except that the site overlooks Nice and the Mediterranean. The spot is not only remarkable but filled with ghosts. Visit.

May '68, My Father and Some Nails 2019 star_border 4
Bricomonge is closing down! A son films his father during the last months preceding the closure of his hardware store, giving him an opportunity to question his father about his past and his life choices. The son tries to understand what led his Maoist activist father of the 60s–70s—the intellectual graduate—to sell nails.

Film catastrophe 2018 star_border 5.7
In 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012, the Costa Concordia, which had served as an allegorical platform for Godard, sank in front of the cameras of passengers and the world. In 2018, Paul Grivas Film Catastrophe, looks at images of the disaster to revisit the film factory

Moscou : l'info dans la tourmente 2017
In Putin's Russia, Dojd is the main independent television channel. The channel broadcasts today on the internet thanks to a subscription system. Through three characters, Natalia, the founder, Timour, the reporter and Tikhon, the star journalist, the film immerses us in the daily life of this media: how to resist and continue to make free information in an authoritarian country?

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The Village 2019
Lussas is a small village in South Ardeche, France, with only one main road crossing the village. This real village, with farmers and vineyards, is also turning over time into the Hollywood of documentary films. A few people are preparing the launch of a television channel. From this sweet utopia to the inauguration of a high-tech tool on the internet Claire Simon depicts a singular adventure of our times in 26 episodes.