En passant
Andor is a young chess player, who even calls his pet turtle Kasparov. “Do you think I will succeed? - the boy asks her before the decisive tournament. "If I win, he will never come back." Who is Andor talking about and
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Andor is a young chess player, who even calls his pet turtle Kasparov. “Do you think I will succeed? - the boy asks her before the decisive tournament. "If I win, he will never come back." Who is Andor talking about and
On a summer day, the paths of two boys unexpectedly cross.
After her grandmother’s death, Ana finds herself adrift. Following the clues left by her late grandmother, Ana arrives in Belo Horizonte and meets Alice. As they make sense of the city’s layout and their memories, Ana an
A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.
In En passant the setting is a public chessboard in the library of Rotterdam Blaak. Many colorful characters are featured. They worry about a game of chess, about rules, about winning and losing, but also about the small
Pinscreen animation short made for the NFB's "Chants populaires" series of French-Canadian folk songs. En Passant illustrates the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais."
In Paris, two dysfunctional dealers use family ties to try to boost their small drug business in this crass comedy based on the webseries.
A black briefcase accompanies a child in his life from the very moment of his birth. He devotes all his attention to the case. Nothing can distract him: not a girl on a swing, not a funny clown. The hero resists various
Stuck in detention, three teenagers are subjected to a horrific dystopian nightmare.
Home for Leilah is the fortress lair of her crime lord father; her family the mobsters who terrorise a world from which she is protected. But when she gets a taste of the outside, she realises the real darkness lies not
A talented extra - maybe one of the most talented in the history of cinema - regrets the destruction of his job by the inevitable development of digital crowds.
A young man, Benoît, is in love with a young girl, Victoire, but she breaks up with him to marry a rich farmer. The young man makes a habit of prowling around Victoire's house. One day, she is in labor, and the young man
On the making of the film En passant: wide shots of several sequences from the film on the new pinscreen built by the authors in 1942, during their exile in the United States from 1940 to 1947.
This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.
This is a film about a man, with a peculiar itinirary, who worked hard to build a bridge between the Arab and the French cultures. A kind of testimony, alternating narration and conversations where the evocation of onese
King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.