Leila is raising her son, Kahil, on her own. He has an autism spectrum disorder that public schools do not accommodate. He has never known his father, Bojan, who simply sends child support and refuses all contact. But one day, when Leila finally gets an appointement for a job she asks Bojan for help. She leaves the child with him for a day, during which, for the first time, father and son form a bond.
Nicolas Pastergue is a French cinematographer. He has worked on the Riviera series and the short film Malfaisant, directed in 2013 by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther. He made his directorial debut in 2025 with Le Silence du monde.
Trained as a psychoanalyst, Angelo Vapellari is a French film director. The Silence of the World, his first short film, wich was self-produced, earned Alexandre Kalourguine the Best Actor Award at the Montpellier Independant Film Festival and was selected for the Avignon International Film Festival.
Fritz Lang, the Austro-Hungarian director who became a naturalized American citizen, remains a central figure in the history of cinema: from 1919-1920, the young director invented his own cinematic language and revolutionized directing techniques. But what about his second wife, Théa von Harbou, director, novelist and screenwriter of the filmmaker's most influential feature films, including Metropolis, M le maudit, Le Testament du docteur Mabuse and La femme sur la lune?
Michaël Delmar and Keren Marciano work in tandem. Keren Marciano is a French director, trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, then at EICAR. She spent several months training at Femis as part of her studies at CNSAD. Her first short film, Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée, with Sara Giraudeau and Marie-Christine Barrault for France 2, won several awards in France (Grand Prix at the Nîmes Festival, the Off-Courts Festival in Trouville, the Pierre Cardin Festival in Paris). In 2020, she set up her own production company and directed Sentiments Distingués, scripted by Michaël Delmar for the Canal Plus Hello platform. She produced and directed a feature-length documentary, Perdues d'amour, selected for the L'Europe autour de l'Europe festival and broadcast on LCN. She also participates in numerous radio readings for France Culture.
Michaël Delmar and Keren Marciano work in tandem. Michaël Delmar is a French astrology specialist, journalist and film-maker. He worked with Thierry Ardisson on Façade magazine in the 1980s. He then worked for Elle magazine, followed by Jardin des Modes, Dépêche Mode, Vogue and 20 ans. He writes for Marie-Claire and Cosmopolitan, and co-writes and co-directs a number of television documentaries, including "L'étoile noire" (France 5, 2005), "Stars en Clair obscur" (France 3, 2006), and "Juliette Gréco". He collaborated on the screenplay for Elisa (1995), and has published several astrology books: "Les Symboles de l'Astrologie" (Assouline, 2000), and "L'Astrologie Amoureuse" (1998, new edition 2004, Grancher). He published an astral biography of Marilyn Monroe, "Marilyn Chérie" (Michel Lafon, 1982) and "Jeanne Moreau, portrait d'une femme" (Norma, 1994).
… Welcome to a jouney of discovery through a multilayered subjective portrait along and across the borders of the European Union ! 12 ASTERISCI takes us on a journey of discovery to several locations on the inner and outer borders of the European Union, with its 16mm camera and black-and-white imagery that transports us out of time. A timeless journey through the mysterious landscapes of Europe's borders.
A female voice weaves the story of the world’s genesis, intertwining Norse mythology with biological and geological science. Shot in 16 mm, the film navigates between seascapes, mountainous and volcanic landscapes, and images of life on a microscopic scale.
Giulia Grossmann is a French artist and filmmaker, born in Paris in 1984, whose films explore humanity's relationship with the Earth, in a dialogue between fiction and scientific approaches. After studying visual arts and anthropology, she quickly turned to cinema. In 2012, she directed her first short film, Native American, which won the Prix Création Vidéo des Inrocks Lab. Pasaïa (2021), which uses Basque culture and mythology to question time and its cyclical dimension, won a special mention at the Festival de l'Europe autour de l'Europe in 2023, and was selected the same year for the Grenoble Festival de Cinéma Ibérique Latino-Américain, the Beijing International Short Film Festival and the Festival du Film Court de Pantin. In 2024, she took part in an expedition to Iceland, during which she shot the images used in Ultima (prélude).
Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema… Part comedy-drama, part historical chronicle, La Première Image is a political coming-of-age, a film about the power of the imagination and childhood in times of dictatorship.
