Anne Luthaud

Claudia is an unlucky and fatalistic young woman. During an esoteric event in a bookstore, a disturbing apparition in an aura photo will turn her day and her friend Antonia’s upside down.

Ernie LaPointe, Native American of the Lakota tribe, Vietnam veteran, and great-grandson of the famous Chief Sitting Bull: this is the man I meet. It all started with a strange vision from my mother. A road trip begins in South Dakota, where, between a Trumpist casino town and sacred sites of Native American spirituality, Ernie shares thoughts, memories, and values from his ancestors.

Ella, a young teenager, spends the summer with her little brother and father in a seaside resort. One night, as she tries to fall asleep, she hears a loud noise, a rumbling that echoes across the mountains, valleys and sea. Ella is convinced that the end of the world is near.

Shayma’ was six years old when the Second Intifada broke out. More than twenty years later, she opens a box of old videotapes that starts her search for memories. In voice-over she addresses her mother, who says she is blessed with a poor memory. Shayma’, by contrast, still remembers exactly what she wore on her first day of school: her new school uniform with a lace collar and a white bow in her hair. She also remembers spying her birthday cake through a crack in the kitchen door of their house, which had been confiscated by Israeli soldiers.

A scorching summer in a small village near Marseille. After a three-year absence, Lucas and his group of friends welcome back their best friend Hicham. This eagerly-awaited return quickly arouses conflicting emotions in the gang, but above all, new hopes in Lucas.

It’s Christmas Day in Marseille. Maïka, a young woman living alone, has just had an erotic dream about Zinédine Zidane. She then sets off to wander around the city.

Deep in Hellfest, gigantic metal festival, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.

It's a story of love and wallpaper. Alexei is a well-balanced young man, but ever since he bought wallpaper to decorate his apartment, he's been isolating himself... A veritable object of desire, the wallpaper with which he covers his interior obsesses him to the point of literally cutting him off from the rest of the world. Alone, as if lost in the middle of the ocean, he develops a strange passion for it that gradually consumes him.

Jean is a "slow" man, he builds his life around his anxieties, and considers himself unsuited to life in society. He lives with Alex, who is a "fast" man. Passionate about aerodynamics and eurodance, Alex lives fast and asks himself as few questions as possible. One morning, he receives a fast friend, Lou, at their place, while Jean had also planned to receive a slow friend, Caroline.

Cut off the world, Ferdinand lives in a small village with his family. Since the death of his mother, Ferdinand has been stuck in a total silence. On a midsummer day, he decides to end it all up.

It's Tonio's first time in Corsica. He wanders across the island and on dating apps until stumbling upon the Oracle, a user who tells him about gay life in Corsica. Their conversation is reenacted with an actor who seems to connect deeply with the Oracle's story.

Dry grass, scorched earth, this is the end of summer. In La Valentine, a neighborhood in the north of Marseille, Bobby and Melo strive to exist through stories they're telling to themselves.

In the near future, huge tidal surges cover large portions of coastal areas. In a small town, a couple refuses to leave their home.

The feline and weary body of a young girl is surrounded by Christian symbols. Crosses, Sulpician images, miniature altars lose their religious meaning to become merely decorative items. Mixed with plastic toys and photographs, they compose secular still lives. A church service is observed surreptitiously through a ground-floor window, like some strange custom, only to be interrupted by the sound of a moped backfiring, inviting the girl to take flight. This religious setting, often filmed in countershot to the beautiful faces of three teenagers, then gives way to wide shots of the luxuriant nature they are bathed in. Their nimble, young bodies find a perfect refuge in the comfortable branches of a mango tree. But at this age, the thirst for thrills cannot be restricted to a familiar setting. The trio hits the road. Without bothering with narrative dross, Heliconia offers a sensual road-trip and gorgeous tableaux vivants that do justice to film as a medium.

Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange new inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the chapel where she's working. Obsessed by such a vision, she will continue spying on those men and drawing them secretly. These drawings will slowly push her towards an encounter that will change her life and break the barriers she created around her.

Outside, things are rumbling. We must go out, rebel, but it's too hard.

To keep the promise she made to her dying mother, a young woman sets off to find her father, a fickle man she has never known. On the way, she discovers he is in fact dead, but, driven by the bewitching rhythms of the Maloya, a Reunion Island ritual singing and musical tradition, she does not abandon her goal: she must find her father.

A woman's waiting for a man who will never return, another one boxing proudly the vacuum, a singer without orchestra, a conductor lonely. Lonely characters united by a fable, a naked young man lost in the woods, chasing or fleeing something.

On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.

Summer 1982. Two cousins play ball in the streets of Warsaw. Poland has been under siege for six months and the football world cup is almost over.

In Paris’s Goutte d’Or district, Malick skates all day long. Confronted by his daily life, he dreams of escaping to America. His father once told him the story of Abu Bakr II, the African king who discovered America. This king who crossed the Atlantic will change his perception of life.

Two young men in a nearly abandoned suburban landscape deal with the suicide of one of their friends by shotgunning beers and joining a gang.