Mikael-Don Giancarli

Rue du Conservatoire

In 1996 I took the conservatory exam. I missed it. A year ago I was asked to do a masterclass on acting in cinema. I went there. I met a lively, joyful and passionate youth. Among my students there was Clémence. The following year, she asked me to film their last show. I felt her urgency and the fear she had of leaving this mythical place. So I accepted.  By filming this youth, I revisited mine.

Quatorze ans

Summer, 1988 in Corsica. Vanina, fourteen years old, paints the town red with her cousin and sixteen-year-old sister. The teenagers slip out of the house on the quiet to go and dance and meet up with boys in the only nearby disco.

Where Do the Sounds Go

Five friends meet on Skype on the initiative of a sixth, which is slow to appear. Little by little, we discover what binds them together: the memory of the 'Tell me about love', a slam evening organized by a certain Clémence.

Pied-de-biche

Alliés

Amaury, a young Parisian, returns from a long journey in Africa during which he had a profound revelation. In his Haussmann-style apartment, he invites his friends to share the upcoming upheaval in his life: he wants to change his identity...

Ari

Right in the middle of a school inspector’s visit, Ari, a 27-year-old student teacher, collapses. Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers that other people aren’t doing as well as he imagined, and that perhaps he has been sleepwalking through his own life.