Programme Alcine52

Chiara is 14 years old and she finally feels ready to experience her first great love.

A young woman, desperate for connection and a regular at the Broken Hearts Hospital, finds herself prescribed a love-cynical rebound.

After her father leaves her mother for her best friend, a devastated Bobbie embarks on a chaotic campaign of revenge.

It's New Year's Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.

For centuries of tradition and decades to come, men explain the world - whether they were asked to do so or not. By promoting the cultivation of this ancient tradition with an ironic undertone, this social spot highlights the absurdity of mansplaining in order to advocate gender equity.

At her father's request, Coline returns to her childhood bedroom to sort through her belongings. The various objects she finds there plunge her into the memories of her childhood. Among them stand out those that have marked her to this day.

At the beginning of the summer, Grace and Megan, barely 15 years old, meet for a girls afternoon. But when it comes to the moment to post "the summer pic", their opinions start to diverge.

Told through the eyes of a child with an overflowing imagination, Harvey is a poetic, luminous look at bereavement and coping with the loss of a parent.

It’s late afternoon, Ana and Océane, 17 years old, are waiting outside their local cinema. They have planned to go and see the latest blockbuster with Theo and Samy. More than a simple outing, this is a date for four. While Ana and Samy are already dating, for Océane and Théo it’s their first date. Perhaps the first of a long story. The session for the chosen film is finally full.

Hugo, 17, is part of a Pôle Espoir, an institution that trains professional athletes and is a brilliant and invested player. He is preparing a decisive selection match for his career but the day before the game, the coach relegated him to the substitutes' bench.

Ramona, a woman in her forties, lives in a tense and precarious work and personal context in a village on the Galician coast. She juggles multiple jobs to stay afloat and provide a better future for her daughter Estrella. But when Estrella is ready to go her own way, Ramona realises that, for the first time, she can do something for herself.

When Vera (Lola Dueñas) was young, she could not take care of her son and had to give him up for adoption. When Cora (Ana Torrent) was young, her doctor told her that she could not have children and that only by adopting could she start a family. They both share the experience of having been mothers to a boy called Egoz (Manuel Egozkue). Now, both women meet again in Portugal to review the story of their lives and rewrite their destinies.

In a post-apocalyptic universe, Bob and his dog Pasha survive in a wasteland. They are hungry, thirsty and tired. When suddenly, they see a city in the distance!

The squirrel mother is busy gathering nuts, so she doesn’t have any time to look after her kids.

Enyo is a brave and daring warrior determined to bring back her dead mentor from Hell. In her quest, Enyo meets Cerberus and becomes friend with him.

Jules and Juliette go to the beach. They carry the dinghy on their heads with which they intend to sail. It's already quite a deal! Of course, Jules is clumsy and doesn't fail to play the fool. The beach is deserted. It's going to be a bright day full of laughter and connivance.

Andulis, the little bat, wakes up at the wrong time and discovers that he, unlike his fellow bats, loves sunlight and warmth. After making friends with Little Mouse who looks almost like him, Andulis is surprised to find out that unlike in the bats house everything is not upside down in Little Mouse’s house.

The cat has an especially delicious recipe: Mouse Soup!

The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame.

Sadly, the T-Rex is very bad at playing basketball.

The tiger is supposed to perform a daring circus trick but he’s too scared to go through with it.

A visit to the border between Belarus and Poland

Through a radically personal look, the director explores Barcelona and its light. The sun as a brush that naturally highlights the intimacy of the rooms, friends, lovers and the people around her: her chosen family.

With security camera footage obtained via a CCTV data request, this short distorts reality to embody a missed connection between a lovelorn surveillance system and a passenger.

Roc and Sara have arranged to meet through an app. Although they have previously discussed all they’ll be doing, they both feel nervous and unsure on how to proceed. Under pressure to lose their virginity, they meet at an abandoned farm on the outskirts of the city, decided to stop being children.

A big group of animals makes itself dependent on a power grid, hooked onto the socket-shaped snout of a single sleeping pig... How long will that last?

Today is the 167th annual Shedding, a cheerful ceremony that brings all generations together to promote ideological renewal. This year, Ben and her parents will experience it first hand.

His mother started drinking when he was eight years old. Jan Koester projects photographs from his childhood onto his body that speak of loneliness and helplessness in toxic relationships.

Clara actually just wants to spend an evening babysitting for a wealthy family in their home when her mobile phone notifies her of a new Instagram follower - and he's not so easy to shake off.

Body hair on women's bodies. A topic that inevitably occupies a woman as soon as the first hairs sprout. Franka already had a lot of hair on her legs, under her armpits, on her stomach when she was young - like many women. Depilation hurt, didn't feel right. But is there another alternative accepted by society? Franka talks about her experiences and her decision to let her body hair grow.

Young single-mom Mia struggles with the criticism and prejudice against her in the village. When she realises that her son is also suffering, she becomes a lioness.

"On and on” says Clara Duvigneau, an activist with the climate justice movement Fridays For Future. She thus speaks for an entire generation that resists the crushing facts of the climate crisis and regularly demonstrates, organises and protests. Clara demands that the climate crisis be understood for what it is. The lack of change in politics and economics, which at the same time would be urgently needed, makes it clear that the extent of this crisis does not seem to be sufficiently understood by many decision-makers.
This documentary portrays the everyday life of a young woman to show what it means to stand upfor a cause and to stand up for it with full conviction. It is about time management, commitment and moments when one would prefer to give up. It is about questions like "Is it even worth it? Is what we are doing enough? Are we still being heard after more than 3 years of Fridays for Future?" It's about community, about climate anxiety that has to find a place alongside everyday concerns, and the firm conviction not to give up hope despite everything.

To escape from the void and the pain of her life, Carina fights everything and everyone that comes close to her. Even Nikolas, a man lying amidst his belongings, who seems to be as alone and lost as her. Until a tender bond begins to form between them.
Two teenage girls, Carina and Denise, try their best to flee the void and the pain of their harsh lives. After being caught stealing, endless hours of community service await them. While Carina picks up litter with little to no motivation, she runs across Nikolas, a homeless man lying amidst his belongings. But even though Carina only has eyes for the pills and smokes she could snatch, it's the fascinating and funny person that catches her interest. A tender bond is forming over cigarettes and common loneliness. And maybe there’s even a sort of perspective to be found, a perspective that Carina had been lacking for all her life and future.

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles? Here is the architecture marking, unnoticed, the dotted line that ends up dictating their emotion.

We are awarding a film about family and differences between each of its members, in which the author, despite not being present on the screen, exposes her everyday life – for sharing her inspiring courage and perpetuating the universal experience associated with the struggle to maintain one’s own identity.

On a beautiful summer day, Sven is finally going to take the plunge: to jump from the ten-metre board. But first a shower. Now he’s ready, but … perhaps better tomorrow?

Sylvain, an afghan vet living off of petty crime, crosses paths with Nathalie, an upper class CEO struggling to keep her lawnmower company afloat.