A Jessica (Tilda Swinton), botánica británica establecida en Colombia, la despierta una noche un sonido como de otro mundo. La protagonista emprende un viaje hasta el corazón de la selva en busca del origen de este ruido que solo ella parece oír.
Sufriendo de insuficiencia renal aguda, el tío Boonmee ha decidido pasar sus últimos días rodeado de sus seres queridos en el campo. Sorprendentemente, el fantasma de su esposa fallecida parece cuidar de él, y su hijo perdido regresa a casa en una forma no humana. Contemplando las razones de su enfermedad, Boonmee camina por la jungla con su familia a una cueva misteriosa : el lugar de nacimiento de su primera vida.
Inspirada en la historia de amor real de los padres del director, ambos médicos, y los recuerdos del propio director.
Un romance de temática gay entre un soldado (Lomnoi) y un chico de campo Tong, en medio de una leyenda popular tailandesa que de un chamán que es capaz de cambiar de forma.
Una solitaria ama de casa de mediana edad atiende a un soldado con la enfermedad del sueño, cayendo en alucinaciones que desencadenan en sueños extraños, fantasmas y romances.
Historia de amor entre una activa trabajadora de fábrica (Roong) y un minimalista inmigrante ilegal (Min), en la jungla de Tailandia.
En 1948, el cantante francés Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) recibe una Paillard Bolex, su primera cámara. Hasta 1982, filmará horas de metraje, su diario filmado. Dondequiera que vaya, lleva su cámara con él. Filma su vida y vive como filma: lugares, momentos, amigos, amores, desgracias.
A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.
Between Bali, where Ioanis Nuguet lived and found refuge after the sudden death of his father in a diving accident, and Provence, where he grew up and where his mother lived before she, too, died of cancer, the director weaves together fragments of his family history: a mosaic of places and impressions where life and death, beauty and pain, love and loss are intimately intertwined.
«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play.
Atomic Park is a place in the White Sands desert (New Mexico), not far away from Trinity Site, where the first atom bomb exploded in 1945. This national park provides an ambivalent landscape, as well suited for a picnic as for ballistic tests. A white desert, like a natural exhibition hall every movement can provoke diverse interpretations. Like a faint echo we hear Marilyn Monroe's desperate monologue and accusation about man's violence from The Misfits (1961). - Torino Film Festival
“Le Pont du Trieur”, co-written by de Meaux and Philippe Parreno, with an original score by Dave Stewart, is set in Pamir, a region situated in the highest part of Tajikistan, at the border between Afghanistan and China. This is a strategic zone controlled by various armies in the midst of a region that awaits reconstruction. The film stems from the simple question of how to tell the story of a country of which the West is deprived of images. Both fiction and documentary, it is about reality and the means of telling it.
A nature-hating aesthete, Jean des Esseintes attempts to furnish and decorate a country home where he will be able to live without ever again having to deal with the outside world.