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Freda lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation.

A small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers' confidences.

The film sees a portrait of today's China and how it is drawn between capitalism and traditional culture. It is based on the Shanghai No. 6 People's Hospital where medical staff, patients and families with disrupted lives rub shoulders.

An olive grove farmer on the southeast French border tries to help immigrants without papers, many of them black, crossing over from Italy, but runs into bureaucratic and racist obstructions.

Since about 30 years ago the fans of traditional dances get together at Gennetines, a small village in the Ardeche department to dance all nights and days for 7 days. 500 musicians and more than 2000 dancers dance, dance and dance, stealing a few hours of sleep , until they lost the notion of time.

El Quiñon is the youngest city in Spain: a brand new town which was left incomplete when the financial crisis devastated the country's economy. The first generation of children have now become teenagers, living in a ghost town that is trying to become a community. In Barataria, in the face of an uncertain future, this generation's dreams and hopes reflect the complexities of contemporary Spain during its national elections.

Michel Jouvet, known worldwide since 1959 for his discovery of paradoxical sleep, dives in the twilight of his life in his notebooks of dreams, drawings and research. An abundant material which gradually animates an intimate portrait of this neurobiologist, oneirologist convinced that the dreams are the guardians of the singularity of our identity.

Were my grandparents Soviet spies in the 30s in Paris? I bring to my brother Pierre a suitcase full of memories. Our investigation starts between France and Russia, yesterday and today.

This documentary film focuses on the role that the Martinican military played in the First Indochina War (French War), from 1947-1955, as well as the outcomes of "generations of mixed race children" that were born of the Martinican soldiers during their time in Vietnam, and the Vietnamese women caught in the middle of the war.

A collective cinema experience that takes place in a therapeutic reception center in Reims. The film offers an indirect self-portrait of Artaud center in which patients and staff play along in order to give a more human picture of madness.

In Tamatave, Rita and Lalia are two young primary school teachers. They face up to the children's difficulties in a first grade class. One is in a public school, the other is in a private school. They live very different conditions of teaching and life in a country where education is unfortunately not a priority.

One woman, two children and 170 sheep that she takes care of. Miren lives in the Basque Country, in her free time she sings in a choir with her sisters and runs the farm alone. The camera patiently accompanies her throughout the year of hard work. We watch Miren give birth to a lamb, produce cheese herself and look after her sheep every day. Extremely devoted to work that is stereotypically considered masculine, she cannot imagine doing anything else.

Montagne. Three teenagers spend the weekend together in the great outdoors. Everything comes together for two days of fun. But the bad atmosphere sets in. The bad weather is brewing. Words betray thoughts. One of them insists on climbing a summit.

For Malagasies who honor ancestors, if a deceased person is in a tomb, his mind is always alive and here, he keeps his individuality and his connection with his family. In Alasora, on the central highlands of Madagascar, Marie, the dwarf, takes care of the royal grave which was entrusted to her and welcomes visitors.