Réveil

On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.

The Varchals try to celebrate the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, but their father suffers a heart-attack after damning evidence is revealed that he betrayed both country and family working for the reviled secret police.

A journey into the heart of Costa Rica's unique landscape following the efforts undertaken by scientists and citizens to preserve and restore the country's valuable natural heritage.

Following the arrival of the New Year, Slimane's wife, Zeineb, suggests spending New Year's Eve in a hotel. Meanwhile, his mother Douja, desperate to have her date canceled, makes a plan with Slimane's mother, Fadhila, to leave with them. The couple then meets for this evening with their mothers, as well as Sboui, his wife Azza and his children. Sboui, Slimane's brother, continues to do stupid things at the hotel which makes the stay unpleasant for the couple. Remaining in Tunis, Fouchika finds himself alone with Béji. He had planned this evening with his friend Sboui but finds himself with his former boss because he is having marital problems. However, Béji receives a phone call from his wife and reconciles with her. Shortly after, Béji leaves to join his wife at her in-laws, leaving Fouchika alone.

Mr Lam is an old man, losing his memory since his wife died. The last day of "the insects' hibernation", he receives an unexpected visit from Ms. Meng, Taoist exorcist determined to chase demons out of his head.

While a soldier prepares for his imminent deployment, his partner struggles to capture every nuance of what may be their last morning together.

In late 1943, an American squad engages in a skirmish with German soldiers along the Winter Line in central Italy. As artillery shells rain down, the Americans must honor the rules of war and protect their wounded prisoners. Huddled together in a cave and made to see the enemy as human, the soldiers wrestle with unimaginable moral questions outside the boundaries of nationality and allegiance.

How, since the fall of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, following three months of popular revolt, has Ukraine managed its difficult transition? Between civil war and the need for drastic reforms, a balance tinged with hope, whose stakes are crucial for Europe.

A writer has her alarm clock stolen after a sexual encounter.

Chrysis, a Greek priestess, is being fanned by her servant, who helps her get dressed before they both walk off.

"Every Good Friday, since 1980, I film the ceremonial of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in Burzet, in an isolated village in the Ardèche, where the inhabitants, for seven centuries, dress up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Burzet's 2021 Passion of Christ Ceremonial has been canceled. To compensate for this cancellation, I tried an experiment..." Says Alain Paucard of the film: "Courant reworks the images, passing from realism to a sort of expressionism which, enlarging the line, warms it."

SELF-PORTRAIT Nº 2 (RÉVEIL) is the second self-portrait where the Super 8 camera was held at an arm's length. As in the first self-portrait, this resulted in extreme close-ups, in this case of me as I get out of bed. As in the first one, the scene is intercut with images of various administrative documents: identity cards, school IDs, a blood type card... that are in my name - the only colorful elements in this rather grainy black and white film.

In the middle of the night, a young child calls his father to be reassured. But will his father be up to it?

Advertising film for "Réveil Tam-Tam". Undoubtedly one of the oldest Belgian advertising films, with a strong colonial connotations present in the product name.