Stuck in a city he despises, Antoine remedies his boredom by having sex with a stranger, but accidentally spills poppers in his mouth. As he tries to get rid of his partner, the young man tries to convince Antoine to go to the emergency room and get to know him.
December 24, 1916.
On the other side of a German checkpoint, a truck carrying mail is stopped, crippled by bullets. Inside, a man is killed. Another man and a woman, who were on a postal mission, claim their innocence in the death of their traveling companion, and their presence in enemy territory. The radio guiding them was cut off until they found themselves in no-man’s-land. “There’s no way they could have got through the roadblock, unless they were working for the Krauts”.
On Christmas Eve 1916, a cross-examination began to find out the real reason for the presence of enemy letter carriers and couriers in the trenches.
A village far away in time and land. Nearby, in a forest thought to be haunted, a child falls into a pit. His grandfather, an old and nearly blind shepherd, tries to convince the villagers to go rescue him, facing the darkness of the night and their fears…
Sonia, a young woman of 35, decides to stay home and do nothing. Meddling by those close to her changes nothing. Sonia smiles. She’s happy like this.
The Business Woman is Damien Gault’s second short after Footing (18′, 2013) which was selected in a number of festivals, particularly the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival and the FIFF Namur, and won several prizes: the Grand Prix du festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, the Grand Prize of the Chéries Chéris Festival Paris, La Normandie Scénario Prize and Le Monde de l’Art; also funded by Unifrance, in 2013 it won the CNC quality prize.
Bruno is in prison, waiting to be sentenced. He participates in a poetry workshop, thanks to which he discovers another aspect of himself and breaks free of his burdens. But everything is thrown into disarray for him when he finds out that his poetry is going to be used as evidence against him during his trial.
A man sentenced to death, an old widow, an amorous hunter, a Machiavellian window cleaner, a captive female cook, a young anorexic girl… Each of these characters has a fascinating history that is told through their relationship to food, which is informative as to their relationships with other people and the world around them. For different reasons, voluntary or imposed, they eat alone.
After many unsuccessful research, Paul is suddenly given a decent flat for an even decent rent. There’s just something fishy about that, no doubt…
The Web 2.0 comes to the cinema. La Ferme Jérôme, Natoo, Maxime Musqua and Kemar all come together in a zany short.
During a weekend in the mountains, Jérôme, Maxime and Kemar accidentally kill a holidaymaker. Overcome by panic, they decide to keep him with them during their break and pass him off as alive. Natoo, who has accompanied them, doesn’t notice anything. But very quickly, things go terribly wrong …
In a castle in the Loire Valley in the middle of the 19th Century, a strange role play unfolds. A woman, a man and a butler seem to endlessly repeat a cycle of scenes where each in turn becomes the other. We try to understand the game rules of this strange ballet.
Who is the actor and who is the character and how many of them are there? Who is male and who is female? Who is the master and who is the servant?
Seriously wounded by a mysterious masked woman, a man travels through his own conscience during the last remaining minutes of his life. The present, the past and his imagination become one as he tries to resolve the drama that brought him to this situation.