Hip-hop dancers form a "battle" to the music of the "Danse des sauvages" from Rameau's ballet Les Indes Galantes. The savagery of this dance, made of blows and threats, is a political message: it is Krump, a hip-hop dance style born in the 2000s in the heart of the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles to denounce police violence.
DIRECTED BY CLEMENT COGITORE
FRANCE | 2017
The beach. Sky blue sea, white sand. Its attendants tanned, blackened, reddened. He remains cloistered in his den, sheltered from the sun and the noisy masses of people. Behind his curtains, he contemplates Marie, a young and beautiful vacationer, and awaits the night...
DIRECTED BY JEAN-CHARL...
A piano tuner pretends to be blind in order to attract more business, but one day he witnesses a customer commit a terrifying act, and does not know how to react.
DIRECTED BY OLIVIER TREINER
FRANCE | 2010 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
In the modern-day Parisian neighborhood of Victor Hugo’s novel, a newly transferred cop learns abusive policing practices from two veterans. When a young boy records them going too far, the community threatens to explode.
This acclaimed César Award-nominated short was expanded by director Ladj L...