La Dans

A teenager describes the painting he sees off-screen. He highlights the thoughtful nature of the person facing him. Two other young persons then engage in the same exercise. Projections and fantasies, social and cultural issues. We are in the Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers where Hassen Ferhani casts his simultaneously tender and lucid gaze.

At the gates of the Vercors, the inhabitants of Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans discovered that a massive rock quarry wanted to set up on the small mountain overlooking their village, Mount Vanille. Stunned by the gigantic scale of the project and feeling betrayed by the elected officials, the village mobilized. There will be work, energy, disappointments. And there will be a victory. Each one taking part in his own way in the destiny of his village, it is a new political landscape which takes shape. Shaking up the well-oiled wheels of a system, this struggle tells of the very contemporary urgency to finally get involved in what concerns us.

Bernard is daydreaming at school, visualizing a world of poetry and fantasy. But the real world around him - including professor and schoolmates - eventually takes its toll.

Dan and Carole meet and confess to each other, their desire to leave everything, and to die. They decide to perform crimes to live without paying. But one day : they commit a murder.

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen African and European musicians, all soloists, traveling together in a dugout canoe which takes them along the river from village to village to play with the inhabitants and to organize common concerts.

They are police officers, they are homosexuals. How to assume one's sexual orientation within an institution little known for its tolerance? Through a series of portraits of men and women, the film collects answers and follows in the footsteps of FLAG !, the association that a few have founded to fight internal discrimination. More visible than elsewhere, the difficulties these police officers face speak of a society that is changing or that must change.

Short directed by Michel Ricaud and Jean-Claude Maillet

Three short animation films : - Why do the trees lost their leaves at fall ? (8') - Giuseppe (26') - Why do the snow is white ? (5')

A divorced former architect who works as a night switchboard operator receives a call from a little girl who has discovered her babysitter lying unconscious.