2020 Le Jour De Glace

A girl working in a crisis center has a curious experience after receiving a call for help. Belgian actress and director Yolande Moreau has an unforgettable role here, one of her first films. A fauna of truculent characters lives this short film at once tender and joyful realized by the Quebecoise Carole Laganière during her studies in cinema in Belgium.

It's time for the villagers to start their journey. They cross the perilous water in nutshells, with their loved ones to their final destination... where the blue sky and the blue ocean meet up. When do we leave the world of the living?

Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".

A young man from the city goes on a picnic to the country with his family. They come upon a wedding party, and the young man falls in love with the bride. The girl is getting married for a number of reasons, but not for love.

Every day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.

A woman has difficulty dealing with the death of the family pet.

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engineer Larzac, newly appointed to the mine, will soon oppose the authoritarian and conservative methods of his superior Dubard. Georges Gohelle would like to marry Marie Bréhard, but housing difficulties thwart their plans. Brezza, a Polish immigrant, who must return to his country, would like to hate his marriage to Louise Gohelle. Roger, Marie's little brother, has just turned 14. He does not want to go down to the mine as his elders have always done. He will however have to resign himself to it. Marles evokes for him the social struggles of 1906. Roger is injured during a landslide. In front of his family and his friend Marles, who had come to the hospital, he announced his decision to continue his profession. Larzac, invited to the Marles, reveals that he refused a quiet position at the Charbonnages de Paris. He too stays.

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader attracted to whoever gave it to them. Smitten with Gregoire, Claire passes the book on to her therapist, who then falls in love with her.

To get over his Sunday boredom, a young Atikamekw spends time with friends, reminiscing about his dogs.

A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.

The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.

The action of "Le Jour où la Terre s'éveilla" begins 4 billion 540 million years ago ... at the time of the formation of planet Earth. This formation lasted 20 million years. The film lasts 12 hours and is composed of 1,080,000 images. Each image of the film corresponds to 20 years of the life of the Earth. Every second of the film corresponds to 500 years of the life of the Earth.

An early short from Gaumont by an unknown director

While mankind has disappeared from Earth, a lone astronaut drifts around the planet in his spaceship. In search of salvaged materials, he sets off to explore the supposedly deserted corridors of an abandoned space station.