Eternally Blue2026

19 min · Fiction, Drama · France · 2025

Axel, a young man with borderline personality disorder, tries to survive after the femicide of his mother when he was a child. As an adult, he finds himself suspended between a present without bearings and a nightmarish past that consumes him. Constantly kept “with his head under water” by the resurgence of patriarchal violence, his personal journey bears witness to the resilience needed to come to terms with a wounded innocence and break out of the spiral of violence.

23 min 06 · Fiction, Tale · France · 2025

While talking with her partner Charlie, Elyne remembers a strange childhood habit: wearing a cardboard box on her head so as not to see the world at all. Apart from a game of hide-and-seek in the forest, her memories remain hazy. Faced with herself, Elyne will have to confront what she has forgotten.

10 min · Fiction, Drama · France · 2025

Camille is six and feels like a girl. For the carnival, Camille goes to school dressed as a princess, even though the school refuses to recognise her identity. The headteacher summons her mother for a decisive confrontation.

4 min 39 · Fiction, Comedy-drama · France · 2025

Alice has never had any self-confidence. Since childhood, her mother has taught her to ignore her fears, gradually crushing her emotions. At an audition in a theatre, just as she wants to run away, Alice makes an unexpected discovery that gives her the desire — more than the courage — to stay.

5 min · Documentary, Portrait · France · 2025

The director’s grandmother has a singular passion for the colour blue. Through childhood anecdotes, family memories and deeper reflections, the film paints a tender portrait of this “Lady Dressed in Blue”, an intimate and fascinating figure.

10 min · Fiction, Fantasy · France · 2025

On the border between fantasy tale and poetic realism, Dernière Teinte takes place in an almost ordinary world where blue has disappeared. Two friends set off on an absurd and tender quest to find the lost colour. Part minimalist road movie, part sensory fable, the supernatural quietly slips into the everyday.

3 min 04 · Animation, Music video / Experimental · France · 2025

Shades of Blue explores the fragile moment when we agree to let go of who we used to be. Two figures face each other: the present Self and the past Self. Inspired by free movement and an intuitive approach to animation, Katya Mikheeva develops a pared-down narrative in clay stop-motion, where the material becomes a language and blue a space of inner transition.

18 min · Fiction, Drama · Venezuela / Mexico · 2025

• ★ Blue Prize (Jury)
• ★ Audience Award

Carlos is approaching forty, trapped in a personal crisis that drags on. His mother, Rosa, suffers from crippling pain that only the warm waters of hydrotherapy can ease. One night, she proposes an ultimate sacrifice so that together they can reach a better place. Alivios is a film about filial love, hope and the relief we all long for.

3 min 13 · Fiction, Comedy-drama · France · 2025

A little girl trains with her parents in a swimming pool for a mysterious competition. Through repeated movements, silent expectations and immersion in water, the film sketches a sensitive portrait of an apprenticeship where pressure lurks just beneath the surface.

3 min 27 · Fiction, Tale · France · 2025

On a Greek island, time seems suspended. The haunting sound of church bells intrigues a three-year-old boy, who sets off on a quest as naive as it is mysterious. Shot on 16 mm film, the movie unfolds a childlike poetry blending landscapes, memories and a fascination with sound.

2 min 32 · Documentary, Research / Essay · France · 2025

Conceived as a page from a diary, Journal de la fureur de l’eau recounts a day at the seaside. The film questions the loss of memories and the fading of the past when too much time has gone by, leaving the water as the fragile witness of what disappears.

18 min 30 · Fiction, Drama · France · 2025

A man lives as a recluse in a dark flat, haunted by the memory of his missing wife. Forgotten objects revive fragments of memory, while the line between hallucination and reality begins to crack. When he thinks he glimpses his wife across the street, he finally goes out. His wandering leads him to a painter’s studio where a terrifying truth awaits: his past is not what he believed, and love tips over into obsession.

4 min 58 · Fiction, Comedy-drama · France / Ukraine · 2024

In a school playground, a young Ukrainian refugee joins a group of French boys throwing paper planes. This seemingly harmless game quickly brings tensions and rifts to the surface, revealing the mechanisms of exclusion and violence at work in childhood.

24 min 02 · Fiction, Romantic comedy · France · 2025

It’s chaos at the Tutti Frutti ice-cream parlour in Collioure, where Gaby and Ali bicker behind the counter. What Gaby doesn’t know is that the stranger she has been exchanging passionate messages with for a week is none other than Ali. The date is set for that very evening… Amid misunderstandings and conflicting desires, Gaby wonders where her attraction really comes from.

4 min 44 · Fiction, Drama · France · 2025

Luna falls asleep. In her dream, several versions of herself appear — angry, fatal, luminous, shattered, lunar. They talk, clash and confront her with a buried truth: a love that took her away from herself. The dream becomes a space of inner resistance, a sensory journey in which the break-up is felt more than spoken.

15 min · Fiction, Drama · France · 2025

A young man decides to go and talk to his father, recently released from prison after killing his mother. The long-delayed meeting is charged with a muted tension. The film moves forward in fragments, leaving the outcome of this confrontation uncertain. An intense work, driven by rigorous direction, in which blue takes over in a striking final sequence.

6 min 56 · Fiction, Short · Russian Federation · 2025

In a society where dictatorship and censorship are tightening, every word can become a crime. One night, a man shouts a forbidden phrase before disappearing. The authorities quickly name a culprit: Ivan, a quiet student. Despite having an alibi, he is imprisoned and must take on a repressive system to prove his innocence and keep his freedom.

1 min 35 · Animation, Experimental · France · 2025

Madame Patate dreams of becoming an Internet star and living for ever through the screen. She invokes her computer like a modern deity, praying for absolute fame. But when the machine answers her call, her quest for visibility reveals the all-consuming nature of digital celebrity.