Judith Lou Lévy
Lucas lives in a farm in southwest France. For his 17th birthday, his uncle Nico offers him a special surprise : a trip to Lady Dallas.
Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.
Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin – a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, “father” of the chauvinism that bears his name – embarks on a monologue and recounts his life story. At the bend of a road, a spectral encounter shocks his (non-)existence.
There are moments in life when everything seams to collapse. Axel is 30, has just finished film school, is unemployed and in quick succession, separated from his girlfriend while his grandmother died. His mother, somewhat concerned by her son’s situation, decides to entrust him with a mission: to take the funeral urn of his grandmother to Sweden, her native country. A little disoriented, Axel arrives in the country of his ancestors with just his camera and Anna’s ashes for company. He begins what will become this film, an object that will be everything but a chronicle of the ominous trip. As, on the way, an encounter will completely change the young man’s life: Clara.
An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both scenes. A musician is testing sounds in Bastille's pit. The choir are taking their place in the rehearsal studio. Both sides are fine tuning the work in progress of an opera ballet: Sarah Winchester, her grief, her madness, her home and her ghosts.
When Roger's husband deploys to Djibouti, he's left alone at Fort Buchanan with his temperamental daughter Roxy. Her violent outbursts drive him to seek comfort in friends and self-confidence through boxing lessons with a personal trainer.
An American babysitter comes to look after a young French teenager in her parents' chalet in the French Alps. Teenage sexual awakening fantasy.
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
