The Setting Sun Film Festival

The Setting Sun Film Festival

The Setting Sun Film Festival

Setting Sun Film Festival

French language

An Unknown Soldier
Dir. Alexis Loukakis
November 11, 1918, Germany has surrendered. The armistice is signed. France must honor the memory of its fighters by designating an unknown soldier. In an infantry regiment based in the Somme, Corporal Solal and soldiers Malard, Klein and Maestracci are assigned to roam the battlefields in search of the ideal corpse

A Simple Wish Drama France 11:04
Dir. Mathias Kupka
Julie is looking for an apartment. Today, she’s visiting a studio flat in Paris. She knows the owner’s daughter, so she thinks she might have a chance.

Sami’s Fugue Drama France 24:55
Dir. Vincent Tricon
It’s winter. Sami is interned in a psychiatric institution. On a visit day with his mother and sister, Sami learns their horse died.

Crossroads Drama France 22:00
Dir. Adriana Soreil

Roxane, a young woman in her thirties, feels overwhelmed since the birth of her six-month-old baby. Unable to create a bond with her little one, she is drowning in tiredness and loneliness.

Fire at the Lake Drama France 15:00
Dir. Pierre Menahem

A high mountain hamlet, early summer. Felix comes down from the pastures where he’s guarding his cows and finds his old mother lying unconscious on her bed. Shaken, he runs off. He drives a few miles in the valley to the house of a young man who just contacted him on a dating app.

Chicken Drama/Children France 02:50
Dir. Mikael Gaudin

That afternoon, ten-year-old Antonin has a date with Zohra, a girl he’s quite fond of. But she shows up with her two cousins, who dare them to play a dangerous game involving cars driving on a road nearby.

Lou’s Neighbour Romance France 18:00
Dir. Victoria Lafaurie, Hector Albouker

Vladimir, 17-years-old, is secretly in love with his neighbour Lou. When Lou decides to leave her home to move in with her boyfriend – a man ten years older than her – Vladimir tries to put his jealousy aside to help her.

The Midwife Drama, Historical France 28:57
Dir. Anne-Sophie Bailly

In the French Jura mountains, at the end of the Middle Ages, Else is an herbalist and a midwife. With Nicole, her young apprentice, they are disturbed during their daily practice by a stranger riding a horse demanding all the women of the village gather in its small church.

She’s The Protagonist Road movie Belgium 14:01
Dir. Sarah Carlot Jaber

The Protagonist, by her given name, is presented to us in her natural environment: a jungle, sadly, often lacking in density.

Green Fit
Dir. Maxime Pistorio
Xavier subscribes to a gym for free.
For free ? Yes.
But when it’s free, it means that you are the product.