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Edward, civil servant, flees fiancée Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.

A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.

Follows Oana Pfifer, her brother Mihai Dumitru, Oana's husband, and Narcis Patranescu, an organized crime inspector, showing moments that capture their wanderings.

A laborer in Southern Italy raises his son after the sudden death of the kid's mother. He promised his son that his mother will come back to life, and now he must find a way to keep this promise.

Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons. Under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance. For the young Geisha, somber Léonie and unpredictable Eugénie, it's a chance to get away from the noise, to engage with the present, and think about the future.

Leiba runs the village inn in the 1900s, acting as a meeting point for Christians and Jews alike, however the conviviality masks racism and anti-Semitism.

To live and to love at the age of 18, immersing yourself in the carefree summer days and nights, losing your best friend suddenly, and realizing that nothing lasts forever. It's a time of decisive encounters in order to be reborn.

By the Lake Nam Ngum, in North Laos, France is a young woman desired by two diametrically opposed men. Her fate brings her to cross the path of Hugo, a French man, in search of the woman who left him a year ago.

Salome picks up a summer job in the garbage dump of a village. From unexpected encounters to shared sorrows, comes the promise of a new life.

The animals arrive by night. They intuit. They resist. A young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. His dog discovers a terrifying world that seems certain never to end.

"The Life of Infamous Men" was the project for a book that never saw the light of day but for which Michel Foucault wrote a preface. He wanted to collect the written traces of peculiar lives whose uniqueness was considered scandalous and led to denunciations and legal condemnations. "All these lives that were destined to pass by unnoticed and disappear without ever having been described were only able to leave traces - brief, incisive, and often enigmatic - when they had fleeting contact with the authorities. It is therefore probably impossible ever to recapture them in themselves, as they might have been 'in the wild'". It's this "in the wild" state of a life summarised in a few lines in an internment register from 1707 that Marianne Pistone and Gilles Deroo's film seeks to reconstruct. As pared-down and luminous as Mouton, their previous feature, The Life of Infamous Men brings out from the pithy portrait cited in its opening a gallery of genre scenes, arranging them in a patchy narrative that replays the fragmentary layers of these lives. In doing so, it liberates Mathurin's story from the "declamations, [the] tactical bias, [the] peremptory lies that the authorities' games and the relationships with it involve". Here, the authorities' representatives make up a truculent court of jesters with illiterate scribes, egotistical judges and plodding policemen bundled up in their uniforms. And as for Mathurin Milan, his life is interwoven with tiny moments whose delicacy becomes clearer as he moves away from the world of men - the dinners where bread is shared whilst contemplating a beetle or a tulip in the undergrowth, his hermit's journey resembling a sensuous quest, achieved by the film's particular attention to the gestures of kneading dough, to the rustlings of nature, the breathing of beasts, and the pounding of boots interrupting the "wild state" of these infamous lives.

In 1993, a young boy named Emmanuel confides in his parents about being molested by the new village priest, Hubert, but they keep his allegations a secret.

Through seven slices of life, the ethical, poetic, and sensitive portrait of a woman who, by imagining herself to be others, questions the solitude in her relationship with the machine, whether it be beneficial or unsettling.

An experimental portrait of a generation

A compilation of three films that tell us about Royal de Luxe, a French mechanical marionette street theatre troupe specializing in giant puppets, from their beginning to their fabulous puppetry experiences in Africa, and then in China.