For Love of the Game 2023
John lives for football and will do anything to make a career, even if it means facing the prejudices of the dressing room about his sexuality.
John lives for football and will do anything to make a career, even if it means facing the prejudices of the dressing room about his sexuality.
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.
A college. His teachers and his students. His conflicts and his lies. His images and his words. His looks and his silences.
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.
Armand is a pickpocket. In stealing a camera, he did not expect to discover his portrait, pris sur le vif.
A film by Yvan Lagrange.
In Corsica, four girlfriends share the last days of an endless summer. It's hot, too hot to do anything. While they share their secrets, Camille, the youngest of them, says she's pregnant.
An old man, former clown, comes back in the neighborhood where he used to lived for the funeral of his ex-wife, and finds old friends with whom he had lost contact.
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 suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.
Between the present and the past, war and peace, Sashko and Gala navigate their stormy retirement together.
A 1990 short film from Alain Guiraudie concerning the conversations of two film makers as they meet each night.
The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of the film itself, tormented filmmaker Marcel Hanoun has made a heterogeneous and unclassifiable film about the difficulty of filming.
Getting a tattoo removed. This is the reason why our four characters have appointments with the enigmatic Doctor Lanscot. In his office, stories buried beneath the skin resurface before gradually fading away. But the skin remembers, and so does the doctor.
February 1980, young Abdelkader Lareiche was shot in the head by a building guard in a housing estate in Vitry. In a context marked by several racist crimes and a policy of security repression, his friends are mobilizing around the “Rock Against Police” movement. Forty years after the events, Philomène sets out to meet the activists and actors of this movement. “Memory is not commemoration, it is the living part of History” confides Mounsi about the massacre of October 17, 1961. This is the heart of Nabil Djedouani’s project, to restore a moment in a living way. of the militant history of the suburbs, registered here in the Rock Against Police movement, but which cannot be restricted to it. A thread stretched from the 1980s to today, which continues to “analyze the collective and murderous unconscious of the French State” and the ways of resisting and revolting.
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.
An old man, almost deaf, observing and listening to hospital patients. A 12-year old boy, with a pain-insensitive disorder, feeling like a super hero. A nurse, who lost all sense of smell, treating wounded soldiers during WWII. A mute man about to become a father. And a young lad into a coma surrounded by his owns. Five stories in one film, five characters facing their disabilities.