S1.E2 ∙ À bout de force

A formalist documentary film, which intends to examine the clear concept of obsessive sensation. The film will dig a subterranean-inner consciousness tunnel via the different kinds of obsessions; obsession with love, obsession with death, food, knowledge, money, sex, control, exposure, cleaning, fame, etc. The film will sketch a line connecting obsession, to the spirit of the time and to the modern lifestyle. The film will bind them together; while considering the determination that obsession is the most common "disease" of the 21st century (this following the collapse of the religious institute in the previous century and the beginning of the collapse of the capitalistic dominant in the current day). The intense process, through which the film will take the viewer, will try and examine how the obsession is created, what feeds the obsession, how does obsession serves the person, and how it is motivated by an endless aspiration of the person to achieve salvation, a state of euphoria.

This is a story about a Russian Munchhausen who builds a wind turbine in his yard and puts his beehives on the roof because wild bees live in tree hollows. His wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with him, takes care of the children and the household, and claims that she lives in paradise. Sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around them is empty almost every resident left for the city or died so our characters live as if on an island. Their children clean the sewer system, learn English and German, and grow older before our very eyes.

Mustapha, a disabled street performer in Rabat, sings ten hours a day to make end's meat. Relishing his new found stardom as the subject of this documentary film, Mustapha quickly begins to exploit his celebrity status for material gain. A reflexive portrait into the manipulation and objectify influence between the documentary maker and his subject.

The true story of naturalist Dean Bernal and his efforts to protect his friend JoJo: a wild, sociable dolphin in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

A journey to the northern Mexican semi-desert in search of the last singers of cardenche, a melancholy song genre that speaks of love and contempt, regret and tragedy. A tradition rooted in cotton farmers and miners, now on the verge of extinction. A song of survival.

Henri Troppmann goes from his sick-bed in Paris to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War in time to witness the first General Strike of the Catalans against the Spanish. He is torn between three different women, all of whom arrive in the city at that time.