François-Xavier Phan

Woke

Describes everyday life in a Lyon LGBT centre, examining the initial political, emotional and sexual life of a man who recently came out as gay.

Terrible Jungle

French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.

Michel's Mouse

Just when he is about to move in with his girlfriend, Michel is overcome with anxiety. To avoid commitment, he'll convince himself he's homosexual.

The Dance to Come

An afternoon in a city. Playing basketball, a group of boys wonder about the relationship between men and women, about virility and seduction. In a building nearby, five girls will meet and wonder about the world and the relationship of tomorrow.

Richard III

The fourth and final part of a cycle of horror and barbarism. The ultimate progression of an inexorable march of evil before the restoration of peace. It's not just about the magnetic and fascinating character: it's more the painting of a bruised and devastated society, conducive to the hatching of a monster in question.

À rebours

Julie, 23, tries to borrow money from her brother in order to pay back her dealer, who has been threatening her. A simple story told from three points of view.

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