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Justine Chaloyard
Cassandra
A young painter battling depression finds solace in her art and alcohol, but her inner thoughts eventually surface, forcing her to confront them. Through this introspection, she undergoes a transformative journey.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two parts, the film first delves into the protagonist’s frustration with the urge to persuade others, realizing that over-explaining only distorts meaning. A note from the past echoes a hard truth: “Someone’s unwillingness to understand will always outweigh your effort.” In A Symphony of Unfinished Selves, the narrative shifts inward, revealing the protagonist’s fractured identity. Trapped in a metaphorical room built from illusions and contradictions, he reflects on his dual persona—the social facade and the hidden, lost self. The film questions how we see ourselves versus how others see us and whether true self-recognition is possible. Through minimalist dialogue and layered symbolism, the film captures the silent tension between who we are, who we appear to be, and who we long to become.
After a brief but intense relationship with a rootless young man, a quiet woman must confront the unsettling realization that she has lost her sense of self.
Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and childhood selves to reflect on the pains and changes of growing up, realizing that "growing up means losing and leaving behind versions of ourselves." A nostalgic and reflective journey about time, childhood, and accepting the constantly changing self.
We get to follow a young man in his thoughts, where he shares his thoughts about anxiety and depression.
After an agonizing school year bruises his relationship with his well-liked older brother Jonah, socially awkward Teddy meets Cole, a disarming boy, by chance on the street. As their friendship deepens, actions begin to speak louder than words, unraveling the fragile balance between brotherhood, belonging, and yearning during a blistering summer break.
Coming to Nothing follows a disgruntled young man trapped between guilt and survival, shaped by an alcoholic father and the unforgivable weight of abandoning his younger brother. Every attempt to cope—through love, indulgence, or isolation—only deepens the damage, turning connection into betrayal and self-protection into ruin. Whether he chooses responsibility or escape, the outcome is the same: loss. The film confronts the brutal truth that sometimes living through the wreckage hurts more than almost not living at all.
A movie that portrays a reflection about sense of being self, to love and to be loved.
While her relationship with her mother worsens, a grieving young adult wants to see her father, one last time...
A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through routines of procrastination and self-neglect, unable to return to the page. As time slips away, failed attempts at reinvention force a reckoning with the version of himself he has been avoiding.
An aging artist confronts his traumatic past as he paints a portrait of the beachside home he grew up in.
Director and actor D.C. Stoy explores the nuanced nature of a character's non-linear timeline, which pits the mundaneness of stability against his internal desire for more out of his life, where risk is the reward.
A cinematic fashion short film by Baseerat Al-Rumayyan, told through fog and stillness.
Manuel, a young Dominican chef, has the opportunity to fulfill his dream when a businesswoman asks him for a dish that will impress her. But, he has to deal with his inner voice that torments him in order to make it.
A young man places his last hope in a strange surgeon. Plunged into the depths of his soul, he meets his inner doctor.
Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on a case involving a nurse injured by a contaminated needle, they uncover a $130 billion medical supply monopoly that has been blocking a life-saving safety
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised as Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, a special forces soldier abandons his duty and becomes a hermit in the Nordic wilderness. Years later, a wounded woman appears on his doorstep. She's escaped from a lab and her pursuers believe her blood is the key to a worldwide cure. He's hesitant to get involved, but all doubts are cast aside when he discovers her pursuer is none other than Commander Stone, the man that murdered his wife some years ago.
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
