Gilles Bénardeau

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)

As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not. ...

The Flats (2025)

In his tower-block apartment in New Lodge, Joe reenacts memories from his childhood amidst the "Troubles". In this Catholic area of Belfast, the number of deaths was tragically significant. Joe is joined by neighbours Jolene, Sean, Angie, and others, all w ...

Heartless (2024)

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the ...

The (Ex)perience of Love (2023)

Remy and Sandra can't have children because they suffer from the "Past Loves Syndrome". To heal, there is only one solution, they must sleep with all their exes once. ...

Midwives (2023)

After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, "the most beautiful job in the world", Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and som ...

Tsutsue (2023)

Set in a small Ghanaian town at the edge of a large landfill site that spills into the ocean, the sons of a fisherman, Sowah and Okai, struggle to cope with loss of their eldest brother who drowned during a fishing expedition. ...

An Ordinary Mother (2022)

Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know the yo ...

Kraken (2022)

A bed sheet devouring bodies, a radio contaminating minds or a chicken refusing to be butchered…Kraken storms into an apartment building, where everyday soon plunges into bizarre… ...

Last Film Show (2022)

A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth. ...

Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer (2020)

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poet, director, artist. ...

Lola and the Sea (2019)

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother's last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen ...

Our Mothers (2019)

Guatemala, 2018. The country is riveted on the trial of the military officers who started the civil war. The victims' testimonials keep pouring in. Ernesto, a young anthropologist at the Forensic Foundation, identifies people who have gone missing. One day ...

Port Authority (2019)

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is tr ...

White Noise (2019)

The acclaimed work of photographer Antoine d'Agata has mostly been a journey into the heart of darkness, dealing with random and nightly encounters, sex and prostitution. So it's no surprise that the monumental White Noise leads again to the underworld of ...

The Load (2019)

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once ...

Tremors (2019)

A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love. ...

A Land Imagined (2019)

A cop in Singapore investigates the disappearance of a Chinese migrant construction worker who spent sleepless nights playing a mysterious video game. ...

Éthiopie, le mystère des mégalithes (2019)

Cassandro the Exotico! (2018)

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must n ...

The Time of the Pirates (2018)

Following an urban redevelopment project, Géro is about to be evicted from his home and his small theatre, where he no longer plays since he lost his voice. A nephew he barely knows suddenly settles in his home. He wants to write. ...

Milla (2018)

A young woman struggles to overcome lost love, unplanned motherhood and ghostly apparitions. ...

Somniloquies (2017)

Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep. ...

J'ai tué ma femme (2017)

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even mor ...

The Apostate (2015)

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith. ...

Masaan (2015)

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral con ...

Atlas (2013)

The renowned French Magnum photographer - again and always - uses his sublime camera and whole being to reveal a parallel world of prostitution and drugs, punctuated by exhausted bodies and lost souls in Cambodia, Russia and India. Disturbing surely, but a ...

Nous sommes revenus dans l'allée des marronniers (2012)

The director lost her three uncles. She returns to the cemetery where they are buried. Mixing super-8 home movies and 16mm travelling shots in the alleys of the cemetery, "We came back to chesnut tree avenue " is a tribute to their invisible presence. ...

The Sinkholes (2012)

Five gigantic sinkholes have recently been discovered on a remote plateau on the other side of the world. A team of experts has made the trip to descend into the depths. Among them is professor Georges Lebrun, who has come with his wife. ...

Here and There (2011)

One summer evening in a small town in France, two teenage boys, Clarinet and Piano, say goodbye. For twelve years, they rejoin each other at irregular intervals in the same town, discussing their ambitions as they drift apart. Michaël Dacheux's 'Here and ...

No Gravity (2011)

The film opens with images of the Ariane 5 launch base in the jungle of French Guyana. Then a weightless frog in space, tropical plants mixed with technological models of the Star City in Moscow, an iguana in the role of Donna Haraway's cyborg and the incr ...

BEN / O (2011)

Esmeray : artist, transsexual, Kurd, feminist, currently lives in Turkey. First, we filmed her as she walked the streets of Istanbul at night – her territory. Then, we asked her, for a short while, to slip back into the skin, or at least the costume, of ...

Vinyan (2008)

Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles. ...