BLACK BUTTERFLIES
A FILM BY/ David Baute
COUNTRY/ Spain, Panama
2024 / Animation, Documentary
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects and they will be forced to emigrate to survive.
KING BABY
A FILM BY/ Kit Redstone & Arran Shearing
WITH/ Graham Dickson & Neil Chinneck
COUNTRY/ UK, Canada, France
2024 / Dramedy, Fantasy
A modern fairytale plays out in a crumbling kingdom populated only by a King and a Servant. The arrival of a “Queen” throws their carefully constructed world into chaos.
POISON
A FILM BY/ Désirée Nosbusch
WITH/ Trine Dyrholm, Tim Roth
COUNTRY/ Luxembourg, The Netherlands, UK
2024 / Drama
Poison is a love story about a couple reunited years after tragedy drove them apart. Their brief but intense meeting will bring simmering pain and resentments to the surface but will be a reminder too of cherished intimacies and the love they once shared.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
A FILM BY/ Philippe Prouff
WITH/ Lucas Englander
COUNTRY/ France
2024 / Indoor Road Movie
What on earth am I doing here? This is the question Nicolas, a friendly, whimsical and disillusioned French author in his thirties, asks himself when he lands in the New Mexican town of Truth or Consequences. At first, all he wanted was to answer, without quite believing in it, an unexpected call for help sent out by an old man from his retirement home, whom he knew nothing about…
EXIT MEDEA
A FILM BY/ Tony Paraskeva
WITH/ Loren O’Dair, Jonny Liron, Tom Lyall
COUNTRY/ UK
2024 / Experimental Bloody Tragedy
EXIT MEDEA envisions the Greek myth of Medea as a horror road movie. Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Medea’s brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.
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PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
A FILM BY/ Jethro Massey
WITH/ Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana
COUNTRY/ UK
2024 / Black Comedy, Romance
Paul & Paulette have a charming but unusual friendship and flirtation that grows around a dark game… They visit the sites of historical crimes to recreate moments in the lives of victims and perpetrators.
For Paul, the game is a way of getting closer to Paulette.
For Paulette, it is a way of escaping her own pain, and processing her traumatic family history.
Through the game and this new relationship, they both find ways to overcome and reinvent themselves.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
A FILM BY/ Binevsa Berivan
WITH/ Hêvîn Tekîn, Laëtitia Eïdo
COUNTRY/ Belgium
2024 / Drama
Avesta, a young Kurdish-Yazidi woman and ISIS survivor, winds up in Brussels to wreak vengeance upon the man who enslaved her.
Between a struggle for justice that sees her revisit her darkest hours, and having to mother an unwelcome child, Avesta fights to be heard whatever it takes.
BEST SECRET PLACE
A FILM BY/ Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
WITH/ Sania Halifa, Vimala Pons, Idir Azougli
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / Drama
“Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.” One night, Sara wakes up in an unknown place. Soon she realizes she is not alone. Many folks, gamers, spirits, murals, a nightwatcher… coincidentally find themselves together in this secret place every night. In the course of their wanderings, they each reveal a flaw, a solitude, a shared sadness that offers light, and enchants this hidden place.
GRANDMOTHER’S FOOTSTEPS
A FILM BY/ Lola Peploe
WITH THE VOICE OF/ Charlotte Rampling
AND WITH/ Clare & Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / Documentary
An intimate portrait of a singular female artist told by her granddaughter who goes in search of her footsteps. The discovery of a talented painter, a modern, free and daring woman.
PANDEMONIUM
A FILM BY/ Quarxx
WITH/ Hugo Dillon, Arben Bajraktaraj, Ophelia Kolb, Manon Maindivide
COUNTRY/ France
2023 / Horror
After realizing he has died at the scene of a car crash, Nathan descends into the depths of hell, where he is doomed to experience the pain of tortured souls along the way.
PORTRAITS OF DANGEROUS WOMEN
A FILM BY/ Pascal Bergamin
WITH/ Tara Fitzgerald, Yasmin Monet-Prince, Jeany Spark
COUNTRY/ UK
2023 / Comedy
The lives of three women collide on a country lane at the scene of a road accident. A dog has been run over and killed. With no owner in sight, the women decide to deal with the corpse together, and begin to forge unlikely friendships.