Isabel Pagliai

Tendre

Isabel Pagliai

Chaïnes Bizot, Hugo Mercier

Late summer, a small lake, teenage rascals. Mia, 11 and too wise for her age, asks Hugo, 15 and blasé, to tell her about Chaïnes – a girl he spent evenings with at the lake, trying to seduce her. He felt the fear of declaring his love and the torment provoked by the exuberant but secretive Chaïnes, who never shows her emotions. Mia and her siblings surround them, like a choir. A slow, dark, documentary in which time doesn't seem to exist.

Isabella Morra

Isabel Pagliai

What's the link between the wild stories of Adriana, a young girl of today, and the poetry of Isabella, accused of treason by her brothers in the sixteenth century? Here, Adriana recounts, Camille grumbles, and Océane strives to declare her never-ending discourse to her doll. The trace of a program, or, on the contrary, the hope of a possible emancipation?

Orfeo

Isabel Pagliai

A waterway, at night. A beach, children. During the day, people strolling along the river bank. A poem in three parts, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and the filmmaker’s childhood landscapes on the Franco- Swiss border.