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The legendary Marseille group IAM unveils six new tracks on Friday in an EP entitled Second Wave. Far from the controversies around Covid-19, the group returns to music and the stage.

Filmic condensation my four previous shorts. An itinary through the seasons depicting what remains, grows and eludes as time passes, from a sentimental and vegetal point of view: emotions stifled by the apocalypse, persistent branches despite the expansion of cities.

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger in Niamey, during a ritual ceremony featuring possession dances. With this film, Jean Rouch continues his ethnological and cinematographic study of Songhay ritual objects. He demonstrates that, in a particular context, the transfer of a hampi vase to a museum requires the organization of a ritual ceremony to obtain the gods' approval. At the time, however, reservations about filming a possession dance for the opening of a shrine in a museum made the move "questionable from a museological point of view".

In 1994, in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, during the first days of the Tutsi genocide. Jacqueline, a young Tutsi nanny, returns home, in her village, desperately looking for her children. When she finds them lying lifeless among the corpses, Jacqueline takes refuge in the forest, where she gradually sinks into madness...

Experience a cold world full of people whose heads have been replaced by a cage filled with a rubber balloon.

In Dunkerque, a town in northern France, Lucia is feeling the chill winds of change: the many women in her family are organizing the funeral of the only man in the house, her dying grandfather. Lucia cannot face losing him and takes refuge in the arms of Rabah, a young man who lives nearby, with whom she embarks on a turbulent relationship.

This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally evacuating the building. Or so they think. They missed Gertie Gertel, who was in the bathroom at the time. By the time she is discovered, they are sufficiently besieged that for her own safety, she must stay with them. Gertie, it turns out, is about as pro-British as it is possible to be, and the seven take it on themselves, in the midst of battles and gunfights, to win her over to their cause.

A man starts to display simian characteristics after his stomach is replaced with that of a monkey's.

A documentary about to police situation in France after the institution of a prolonged state of emergency. From the anger of the police to that of the victims of their violence, through the words of activists and inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods, everyone expresses here a moment of unease in the face of order and its maintenance.