Arcadi Radeff

Askêsis

Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe. What must die suffocates. What wishes to live hopes. A tunnel opens in front of them. They fall into it, sink into it, forget themselves. A light envelops them, then eternity.

Off the Beaten Track

Taiti, 1903. Doctor, poet and artist Victor Segalen left France and headed for Hiva-Oa, to meet Gauguin personally. On his arrival on the island, he learns the painter had passed away. Adapted from the writings of Victor Segalen, Longe da Estrada is a very fine view of the work, life and contradictions of the great painter Paul Gauguin. And a modern analysis of the relationship between colonizers and colonized people.

Cyril & Louise

Cyril and Louise love each other dearly. Today they celebrate the fourth anniversary of their wild love. Tonight there will be a forest party. Louise and Cyril are planning to go. They don't know it yet, but it will be their last evening together, their last kiss, their last first love.

Eternal Playground

Following the death of his twin sister, Gaspard, a young music teacher, brings together his five former best friends in their deserted childhood school, in the middle of July.

Meanwhile on Earth

Siblings Elsa and Franck used to be close, but everything changed when Franck’s space mission went awry. Three years have passed since his mysterious disappearance, and 23-year-old Elsa is having trouble moving on with her life. One day, an unidentified life form makes contact, offering to bring her big brother back to Earth. But there's a price to pay...

Roadtripper

Nino, 19 years old, is a highway wanderer. All year, he waits for only one thing: the summer - to leave, hit the road and sleep outside. One day, at a rest area, he meets Sarah.

Alien Sexting

Alone during the lockdown, Clèm overcomes her solitude by sexting with strangers. One night she receives strange messages from elsewhere...

Sarah Plays a Werewolf

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.

Auction

André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.

Passages

Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.

The Life Underground

Noah, a young man in search of his identity, is invited by his best friend, Ethan, to take part in the expeditions he organises with his gang in the depths of the metro. In this in-between world, where they compete to find their place, Ethan will challenge the teenagers to jump over the rails before the train arrives. For Noah, risking his life seems to be the only way to be accepted and above all to exist in Ethan's eyes.

The Last Sun

Antoine is at the wheel of a car with an unconscious boy beside him. Throughout the night, he has to contend with the storm threatening the mountain top.

Tout ce qui peut céder

For one evening, Aurore will have to confront the boy she once loved and admired, to confess what is on her heart and learn to respect herself.

That Summer in Paris

Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine (30) arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion.

Maigret and the Dead Lover

Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she discovered the bullet-riddled body of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador whom she had served as a housekeeper for 46 years. While searching the victim's apartment, Maigret and Janvier uncover hundreds of letters. The diplomat had maintained a fifty-year-long love correspondence with a certain Princess of Vuynes, whose husband - by a strange coincidence - had died just a few days earlier. As he confronts the various members of the two families and the suspicious silence of Mademoiselle Larrieu, Maigret finds himself faced with surprise after surprise, watching his certainties crumble - until the solution to the mystery finally hits him in the face at the very last moment...

After Léna

One saturday morning, at the bus stop near her high school, Cécile meets Léna and helps her out. Dragged into a story that is not her own, Cécile slowly sees the trajectory of her day get shaken up.

Dans le ventre du léviathan

In the infirmary of a strange underwater trawler, a human surgeon treats a crew entirely composed of android slaves.

Les quatre rendez-vous de Françoise

Françoise, an actress, is hoping to find true love. At four different stages of her life. Four different ages.