HEAD - Genève

Loneliness, anger. Artemisia feels she has more in common with the zoo animals than with her mother or the other girls. Perhaps, by losing herself in the wild, she will discover who she is.

Eli and Gian go on a field trip to the theater where their older brother works. The two boys are soon left behind, as the theater is preoccupied with the play in progress. In the midst of this chaos, the two brothers explore their new-found freedom.

In times of body positive movements this film pays tribute to the mainstream representation of the male body which the director has a love-hate relationship with. Through a series of gleaned images from the internet and elsewhere (“net found footage”), our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

Lucien, a 28-year-old cabaret musician, suffers from pathological shyness. Tonight, instead of doing his standard pianist's routine, he wants to get up on the stage and sing his lyrics for the first time in front of an audience. Waiting in the wings, he calms his stage fright with alcohol and cigarettes. He wants to make it through this hell, which will also be his liberation.

An orthodox heroine astride a motorbike. Young people breaking the monotony of a country life through stunt riding. A meeting against a Western backdrop between two universes that are at odds with each other except for their very reason for being: passion.

Baghdad, early 1990s, in a reality where humans have been replaced by cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn try to flee their country where war has just broken out.

The prisoner Klara Wendel was supposed to be deported from west to east Switzerland. But strange incidents occur during her transport, and all her companions disappear. Klara is found wearing a nun’s habit. To get to the heart of the matter, a tribunal is hastily set up in a barn. The judges want to find out how Klara has managed to escape and why she’s dressed as a nun. On trial by men, Klara somehow manages to take over and become the director of both the trial and the film.

Tatum, a young man in his forties suffering from a deep depression, is hired as a museum guard. Tasked with looking after a sculpture that exerts a mysterious fascination on the public, he gradually falls under its spell himself. He protects it as if his very existence depended on it, at the risk of losing touch with reality.

On Reunion Island, little Four Eyes and his grandpa try to turn a chicken into a dodo bird, whose magic feathers might save the kid's sick mother.

Max goes thru an odd night across a hazy city to discover his true self. He encounters with Les Étranges, inhabitants of a dreamy underworld who guide him thru it, teaching him the value of love.

Within this community, still subject to hostile demonstrations, SUPREME highlights gestures of tenderness, desire for love and reconciliation through three characters: endearing, beautiful, extroverted and fragile all at once.

A post-apocalyptic, eco-fiction short film portrying two construction workers wandering in a “zone” where inner and outer territories intertwine. In a constant search for traces, they are increasingly confronted with a universe that over days and nights becomes overwhelming.

Between the walls of a prison, a man takes his time: cleaning the floor, drinking tea and telling his story. He remembers his childhood in his homeland and the sea where he grew up. Salah El Amri offers a disturbing perspective on the deprivation of freedom, through a man’s words recorded with striking temporality and chiaroscuro.

Rokhaya, a young director, returns to her home in Dakar to make a film about a local historical figure. Throughout her research, which consists of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta.