It’s summer, SWANN is 14 years old, and he’s already dreaming of his first time with a boy. One day, while exploring an abandoned children’s home, he meets “CUSH,” an outcast graffiti artist who’s been squatting in the very place where he grew up.
With him by his side, Swann will learn to break the rules.
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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.
Selected for the 2025 Rhode Island International Film Festival – Flickers 2025
Selected for the International Short Film Festival –
Clermont-Ferrand – Plans Rapprochés 2026
Selected for the Côté Court Festival in Pantin – Grand Angle 2026
Selected for the 2026 Frameline International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
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.
Selected for the Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti 2025
Grand Prize at the 2025 Filmoramax Festival
Official Selection in the “Grand Angle” section at the 2026 Côté Court Festival in Pantin
Jury Grand Prize at the La Baule Film and Music Festival
For the birthday of the ex she wants to win back, Marianne is planning to bake Peau d’Âne’s cake. What she hadn’t planned, however, was a surprise party for his friends. So the whole gang meets up at the ex’s house, in the ex’s absence: tension mounts as his arrival approaches.
Sylvain, a young man working in a supermarket, runs into Estelle, his ex-girlfriend from high school, who is studying at a prestigious school. Ashamed, Sylvain invents a dream career. On the one hand, he has to keep working so as not to get his colleagues into trouble. On the other, Estelle is enjoying the company of this new Sylvain more and more. Is it better to be yourself and risk being disliked, or to play a role and risk losing everything?
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.