Tokyo. A teenage girl jumps in front of a subway train. Her soul rises from the tracks. On the platform, the witnesses to the scene are in a state of shock. It has awoken a traumatic memory in each of them. A painful memory that plays out again and again. To end its wandering, the soul must pass into each of their minds, delve into their memories, and help them find peace.

Directed by Jan Kounen
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
25 minutes | Japanese, French and English subtitles
2019

Credits

Directed by Jan Kounen, written by Charles Ayats and Sabrina Calvo, co-produced by Red Corner, France Télévisions, a_BAHN and Frakas Productions. Produced by Marie Blondiaux, Adrien Oumhani, Marion Guth, François Le Gall, Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts. With the support of the Film Fund Luxembourg (lu), CNC (fr), Tax Shelter du gouvernement belge (be) and Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter mandaté par Belfius (be).

For every movie made, dozens of pictures remain missing forever. MISSING PICTURES gives directors a chance to tell the story that would otherwise never be told.

After Twilight Chapter 1’s huge box-office hit, American filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke tried to make an adaptation of The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, a cult book of the 70s American counterculture and a precursor of eco-activism. The director revisits this project which excited her so much and which became, because of the reluctance of the Hollywood studios, one of these umpteenth “ghosts of the garage.”

Directed by Clément Deneux
Country: France, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Luxembourg, South Korea
11 minutes | French, English, German, Korean, Mandarin
2022

Credits

Directed by Clément Deneux and based on an original idea by Joseph Beauregard. With Catherine Hardwicke. Produced by Antoine Cayrol, Oriane Hurard, Christian Neuman and Hélène Walland. A co-production of Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, Serendipity, PTS Taiwan, Wild Fang Films and GIIOII. With the support of CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and the Ministry of Science and ICT (République de la Corée).

Metamorphosis is a project of which the constraints induced by the globalized confinement, which occurred due to the pandemic, were the starting point. It’s an ontological rupture and the beginning of an open dialogue through the Internet, involving friends and colleagues, living in different parts of the world, from Brazil to Taipei, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Belarus, the United States, France, the Netherlands or Iran.

Written and directed by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron
Country: Luxembourg
25 minutes | French, English
2021

Credits

Written and directed by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron. VR experience by Don Pedro productions, Gil Pinheiro, Killian Pontiroli and Jordi van Netten. Music by Kevin Muhlen. Supported by Film Fund Luxembourg and Mudam Luxembourg.

A spiritual journey through the realms of the medicinal plants, led by indigenous Shipibo traditional healer in the Amazon rainforest. 

Directed by Jan Kounen
Country: France, Luxembourg
12 minutes | No dialogue
2019

Credits

Directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Atlas V, a_BAHN and Small. Executive producers: Antoine Cayrol, Marion Guth, Nicolas Blies, Stéphane Hueber-Blies and Rodolphe Chabrier.  Executive co-producers: Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz and Philippe Sonrier. With the participation of Guillermo Arévalo “Kestembetsa”.