Sébastien Descoins

Crossing Voices (2024)

The exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative founded in Mali in 1977 by West African immigrant workers living in workers' accommodation in France, sheds light on the violence of colonial agriculture and the ecological challenges ...

Adieu rond-point (2023)

A transferred prefect, a fiery driver, an overturned car, an exploded radar, three faded yellow vests, a loaded gun, an improvised prison, an overcharged call, a shot plum... In short, a French roundabout. ...

Low Tide (2023)

To lift the spirits of her friend Mélanie, Lou brings her on a camping trip to a lone fortress on the sea. As Lou hides her little romantic secrets, Mélanie lingers in her ruminations. One morning, a solitary and enigmatic figure appears and draws Melani ...

Almost Fall (2022)

Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier. ...

Mazel Brouk (2022)

Intermede (2022)

Images of a small boatyard, somewhere in Greece. Between the repairs and the boats' departures, a team of men haul them ashore and set them afloat again. A 16 mm film built around gestures and movements that oscillate between a toing and froing, attachment ...

Transit (2022)

Pneuma (2021)

Bobby brûle (2021)

Dry grass, scorched earth, this is the end of summer. In La Valentine, a neighborhood in the north of Marseille, Bobby and Melo strive to exist through stories they're telling to themselves. ...

Northern Range (2020)

It's firstly the portrait of an area, France's north coast between Dunkirk and Calais, where Olivier Derousseau lives and works: ransacked landscapes, port installations, plumes of smoke from the chimneys of petrochemical facilities, blown by the wind… I ...

La Fille oblique (2020)

A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bird, which will inevitably lead her to a witch's abode. ...

You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing (2019)

Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and horticulture. While the French plantation owners on the Caribbean island of Martinique had their gardens laid out, Versailles-style, their enslaved workers ...

125 hectares (2019)

One hundred and twenty-five hectares represents the amount of land occupied illicitly since 1983 by a collective of small farmers in Le Morne-Rouge in northern Martinique. As she harvests taro corms in her field, founding member Véronique Monjean retrace ...

Bhagwati (2019)

'Devki' is the owner of "Bhagwati Glass Enterprises", a glass tube factory in Firozabad that he created in the year 1973. François Daireaux, spent days in Devki's office for days filming these images displayed on the control screen along with recording so ...

A Lua Platz (2018)

At the outskirts of Paris, in a rapidly-changing suburb, a group of Romanian families are searching for a place to live. From their abandoned village, to the demolished slum and occupied houses, their quest weaves together a common history, forged through ...

La cour des murmures (2017)

Un (2016)

Et nous jetterons la mer derrière vous (2015)

Overlapping portraits of migrants and the places where their journeys sometimes come to an abrupt halt-in Europe's buffer zones in Greece and Turkey, which prove to be real "non-places". ...

Love and Metamorphoses (2014)

A few kilometers away from Rome, the sand dunes of Sabaudia, the Circeo marshes and Arpino's mountain waterfalls become the backdrops to fabulous transformations: Callisto is changed into a bear, Jupiter metamorphoses into Diane, Glaucus becomes a sea mons ...

As Long as We Are on Board (2014)

Saint-Nazaire, the shipyards. Tiny little men on gigantic machines, boats that will sail away: between the workers' every day life, the sailors' experience and the dream of seeing the world, how can imagination still have a place in an industrial world? ...

Appunti: 12 dicembre (2012)

Piazza Fontana bombing in December 12, 1969. ...

Taking to the Street (2011)

A behind-the-scenes look at Rue89's quest to reinvent journalism in the digital era. ...

Face au vent, partition buissonnière (2010)

There is no denying that autobiographical intentions and introspection have their pitfalls. But a man's voice off screen sets the tone from the start: "There is no such thing as a private diary. The very expression is nonsensical." No chance then to see ou ...

Le destin d'un capitaine (2008)

Hic rosa, partition botanique (2007)

From what was to me a gift of friendship day: a book makes some of Rosa Luxemburg's prison letters written by her friends Sonia Liebknecht and Mathilde Wurm between July 1916 and October 1918. And all the jingles who composed this period: songs of birds, p ...

Crassus (2007)

The day his computer turns into sand, Crassus, brilliant trader, goes insane. Counting the grains of sand like gold, it is lost in the Syrian desert where, as its namesake, the avid triumvir, he finds a tragic death. ...

Des cochons (et des hommes) (2004)

"The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the pig becomes a sausage, that is the law of nature." From birth to supermarket, 3 experiments on the well-being of farmed pigs are discussed by 2 biologists, 1 philosopher, 1 animal keeper, and 2 trainees from the pi ...

Face au vent, partition buissonnière (2010)

There is no denying that autobiographical intentions and introspection have their pitfalls. But a man's voice off screen sets the tone from the start: "There is no such thing as a private diary. The very expression is nonsensical." No chance then to see ou ...