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- Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange. A voice from the future tells us how, in the past, men struggled to describe, transcribe, then imitate the song of birds, perhaps in the hope of communicating with them. Humankind has often delighted in this music of nature and, mingling admiration and appropriation, has attempted to adapt it to the parameters of the human world. Two men with similar features explore the history of these endeavours, collecting documents, interviewing musicians, gathering demonstrations. Musical scores, some ancient, others original, have sought to mimic these acrobatic melodies produced by organisms with superhuman abilities. Exceptional voices manage to produce sublime figures or tones approaching a bestial texture or pitch, but the resemblance between the two sleuths is always more evident than the affinity between these performances and the agile songs of our winged friends. Even when the musicologist Peter Szöke records them and plays them back slowly, their mystery remains intact. Despite their seriousness, these desperate attempts have a certain absurdity that lends the whole venture a comical touch - black humour was present right from the start, when the narrator announced the sixth extinction as a fait accompli. At the end of this journey, it turns out that birdsong is inimitable, and humankind is amiably returned to the vanity of its desire for power, the driving force of so many works of art and yet the mother of all destruction.
- Guy Moquet or Guimo or Guim's promised Ticky to kiss her at dusk in front of everybody, right in the middle of the neighborhood. Maybe not that cray - but surely not that simple.
- A film based on montage, gathering views found on the internet from strategically placed surveillance cameras facing the mediterranean sea all along its north and south shores: at hotel peaks, beaches, along the coasts, harbour zones, and so on.
- In 2011, Japan was hit by a tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people. This sensitive trip along several coastal communities reveals how traumatizing the disaster has been.
- The Red and the Gray is a documentary essay proposing an adaptation of Ernst Jünger's famous war tale, Orages d'acier, from several thousand German-made and mostly unpublished photographs.
- In the spring of 2009, Sri Lanka's decades long civil war is entering its most violent phase. Siva, a young Sri Lankan refugee living illegally in France, has lost contact with the family he was forced to leave behind. Haunted by the trauma of the war that devastated his childhood and obsessed by the flow of images on the Internet, Siva sinks into a waking dream that propels him into the heart of the battlefield.
- Henri Desmerges, who is a stage director, is commissioned to put on a show with a group of suburban youngsters. Energetic but naïve, he is drove by his impulses and those of his interlocutors who propose him to do a show on the thematic of Africa.
- On 24 March 2015, an airplane crashed in the Alps. The suicide of its pilot caused the death of the 149 people on board. Working his way through official images and accounts, as well as those of of the region's inhabitants, Stephen Loye observes, listens, films, archives and runs an investigation into this tragedy he did not hear, despite it happening right next to his home.
- Picasso Land is an attempt to perpetuate the avant-garde spirit by proposing a new opus in 3D of the famous ballet Parade (1917) whose costumes and decorations were created by Picasso, with script by Cocteau, music from Satie and choreography by Massine.
- In 2013, The Dezoteux brothers invite the inhabitants of Bourges to present themselves at an audition. People who were filmed had answered to a simple message without details of the story nor the characters. In costume, with make up on but with no indications for props, they advance cautiously as if in the dark.
- Cham has a plan: he makes a little tour with Sosso and then he takes her to the hotel where he paid a room in advance. For him it is very simple. But Sosso does no longer want things the same way.