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.
TES is coming out of anorexia. The rise to the surface is difficult, the body is disordered, no longer responds in the same way. Eat again is to accept to lose control. It is both regaining strength and accepting its vulnerability. But the game is worth the candle.
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.
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.
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.
Alberte has a passionate affair with Mathias, her doctor. He treats her under narcoanalysis to be able to detect a deeper symptom. He enters her without her knowing it and takes possession of his being in order to read what is chasing him, why people blame him, what is the strange disease that inhabits him.
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.
A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this time in front of a window, with Sacré-Coeur in the background. Filmed in two days, in July 1970, with a stolen film from the ORTF, this film, a tribute to these two vedettes of the French underground, is of immense beauty. The title is inspired by the silhouette of Pierre Clémenti, evocative, for Lagrange, of the male physicist during the Renaissance. Grandson of Léo Lagrange and nephew of the chief operator Ghislain Cloquet, Yvan Lagrange is two years younger than Philippe Garrel. "Renaissance", his first film, shows to what extent his generation was influenced by Garrel.
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.
Armand is a pickpocket. In stealing a camera, he did not expect to discover his portrait, pris sur le vif.
In a strange villa, six young people are getting tanned. They are bored and get burnt, lying under the summer sun. They are children of the night, children of dreams. Coming from everywhere and nowhere, they are here, united like a tribe.
Shots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears.
Alice Diop's enchanting short film, a work of transcendent transformation, shows how the rough lines of Drancy station are immortalized in watercolor by the French artist Benoît Peyrucq. A tribute to a location fraught with historical and contemporary poignancy.
Nicolas is a young man just released from jail. He spends his first day of freedom watching and hesitating, in a community care centre, in a hotel room. Loneliness.
In the darkness of their respective rooms, two girls, in love with one another, converse on the Internet. But something is broken.
In Corsica, a young man who is a fisherman like his late father before him wishes to leave and discover new horizons. A passionate music lover, he is torn between his mother who encourages him to pursue his passion and his grandparents who want him to stay on the island.
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.