Hunting and Gathering

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exi

Billie

Franck, il s'appelle Franck parce que sa mère et sa grand-mère adoraient Frank Alamo (Biche, oh ma biche, Da doo ron ron, Allô Maillot 38-37 et tout ça) (si, si, ça existe...) et moi, je m'appelle Billie parce que ma mère était jolie de Michael Jac

La Vie en mieux

Mathilde a 24 ans. Elle a abandonné ses études pour un boulot sans intérêt et vit en colocation avec deux autres filles.Elle dit qu’elle est heureuse, mais est toujours obligée de boire pour s’en souvenir.Un jour, elle oublie son sac à main dans

L'Échappée belle

Simon, Garance et Lola, trois frère et sœurs devenus grands (vieux ?), s'enfuient d'un mariage de famille qui s'annonce particulièrement éprouvant pour aller rejoindre Vincent, le petit dernier, devenu guide saisonnier d'un château perdu au fin fond

La consolante

« Charles Balanda, 47 ans, architecte à Paris, apprend incidemment la mort d'une femme qu'il a connue quand il était enfant, et adolescent.« Il déchire la lettre et la jette dans la poubelle de la cuisine. Quand il relève son pied de la pédale et q

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting

Onitsha

Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated o

Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather

When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbour

The Hurlyburly's Husband

The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife, Athénaïs, are that very rare thing: a true love-match. But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle, and the couple soon face huge debts. Then Madame de Montespan is offered the chance to turn