Le Chant Des Rêves

December 2022, in the middle of the Football World Cup, a sports journalist receives a USB key. Inside, there are dozens of images of animal cruelty in slaughterhouses.

Catherine misses her bus and wanders through the industrial areas of the south, where she meets the Pharaoh of Marseille. A picaresque journey through the imaginary world of post-industrial collapse.

The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewess who are both preparing for their marriages.

They turned 20, share the same dreams of glory. She is French of Arabic origin, struggles with her community to get some freedom. He has never met his parents, has no culture. Are their dreams strong enough to build a love story?

Composed of songs and memories, this powerful musical film traces the traumatic experience of young survivors from different parts of Africa. In the village of Conques in France, they found a therapeutic space where they learn to overcome their past and, through song, to imagine a new future.

Anouk and Laurence have known each other since middle school. In two weeks, Laurence will leave: this weekend by the sea might be the last one before a while.

Le Chant des signes by Yves-André Delubac makes an image reappear and multiply from the very word, but with difficulty and after long black shots. This short film, which makes maximum use of the black screen, could pass for an experimental film, but it is not experimental in the sense that we give it. It is a "theoretical and rhetorical work" on the difficult birth of an image that extracts itself from the black. Nothing to do with Kubelka or Frampton. It's a film that comes directly from what one could read in Cinéthique or Cahiers at the time. This appearance of the image is like a Caesarean section from the text.

In the middle of the Rainforest, some young pygmy mothers - dubbed "Walés" - live a secluded life with their newborns. A photographer tries to unravel the mystery of this longstanding tradition.

The song of the cherries resonates under the combined action of an object striking a round-bottomed mixing bowl and its echo. This short animated piece, created with Patrice Fortier and ground cherries from La société des plantes, is part of a larger project developed with this Kamouraska-based organic seed supplier begun in the fall of 2020: a place where plants and plans (shots) meet despite the apparent distance between the fields and the songs.

The Chant of Steppes builds on a love triangle. Mohabat likes two men but she can not make the right choice and decides to marry the one who wins the bouzkachi contest. A poet and an artist have to cross mountains and steppes to engage in a noisy and dusty contest of horsemen in order to gain the hand and the heart of the beautiful Mohabat. The rules of the traditional Oriental game called bouzkachi are strict – a team of riders has to get the headless carcass of a ram clear of the other players to win the contest.

A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon themselves, they discover the greatness of their true cause. From this realisation they learn to affirm their common humanity.

Constructed through songs and memories, this acute musical film addresses the traumatic experience lived by young survivors from different parts of Africa. In the French village of Conques, a therapeutic space is provided to them so they might overcome their past and, by singing out loud, allow themselves to think and live a possible future.

The Bauls of West Bengal are nomad musicians who practice a traditional form of concert challenged by the increasing modernization of India. The term "Fous" here refers to those inspired and wandering musicians of Bengal known as Baül. The word Baül is derived from the Sanskrit word "vatul," which means "mad" in the sense that it commonly connotes a more or less frenetic behavior in French. The Baül are peculiar individuals, particularly in their mannerisms, customs, and practices. Although they may belong to either the Hindu or Muslim religion, the Baül refuse to be guided by any social or religious conventions. Freedom of spirit is their only guide. They thus move against the tide of habits, preconceived notions, and general theories. "Le chant des fous" (The Song of the Mad) is a film made by Georges Luneau.

The Semperit plant in Argenteuil. Faced with the molten rubber, bodies engage with the cogs of the machines. The hammer drops: off-shoring. Then a symphony pursues the account: rising from the destruction of the machines, of the walls…and of a surprising community.

An ensemble of fascinating characters seek to re-invent and revive a sophisticated early electronic music instrument that is anything but obsolete: the Ondes Martenot. An inspiring but mysterious device that everyone has heard (but rarely heard of), it was celebrated as the musical invention of the 20th century. This filmic, sonic, and human journey explores an intense love affair with musical expression and spins the tale of an enduringly cutting-edge technology on the verge of a major resurgence. It bridges a missing link in the history of electronic music by placing the instrument in a rich artistic and technological lineage.

Twelve-year-old Simon has lost everything to the civil war that has devastated his country. "Black Lion," the ruthless rebel leader of the People's Revolutionary Army, has killed Simon's family and burned down his house. As an expert in weapons and battle strategies, he has formed a rebel group that wants to take power by force with the help of child soldiers. Simon is kidnapped and turned into a child soldier. Traumatized and plagued by nightmares, Simon plans to escape with his comrades while special forces of the African Union prepare an attack on Black Lion.