In 1899, Andre Morel envisions a luxury hotel open all winter. He convinces Lord Fairfax to partner. Together they work to open the hotel, battling demanding guests, rebellious staff and harsh weather.

Manon, a 17-year-old girl, departs the Swiss Alps in quest of her father, who has gone missing. She is determined to pursue her goal of becoming a professional hockey player as she makes new friends and falls in love for the first time.

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene – a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap – divides her life between her family of notables and a Cape Verdean family that keeps her going, whom she met when her grandmother died. The wind that whistles in the cranes plunges us into the world of two families against the backdrop of Portugal’s recent past.

Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie’s son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning even though he has been estranged from her for years. Their reunion will be more explosive than this diplomatic trip.

Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction of a new airport. L’Étincelle paints an empathetic portrait of the environmentalists who raise questions about the future of the “Zone à défendre”, when their struggle leads to a first victory: the cancellation of the airport project.

A craft film set inside Watchland, Franck Muller’s lakeside estate where every watchmaking métier lives under one roof. We followed a piece from first sketch to final stone, letting the place and its hands tell the story.