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      • Fiction
        2019

        WITH BARE HANDS

        by Amandine Dhée

        Amandine Dhée explores the feminine condition 2.0 from the perspective of body empowerment and sexuality. She tells the emotional emancipation experienced by a young girl when faced to society’s diktats about her desires. Fluctuating between her memories and her present questioning, she portrays the free individual she aspires to be and the child and young girl she remembers being, from her first kiss to maternity. A powerful tribute to a new generation of feminists.

      • Fiction
        2021

        IN THE COMPANY OF BAS JAN ADER

        by Thomas Giraud

        We know little about Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader but like author Thomas Giraud we cannot but wonder how he became fascinated with falls. What were his intentions when he fell on his bike into a canal or when he let himself fall from a tree branch? Was it his compulsive desire to go against an established order of the material world? Or should we look into his early childhood and the omnipresent figure of his absent father and war hero? Thomas Giraud explores the life of this fascinating artist and performer, suggesting keys to understand the trajectory of his life, ended in a crossing of the Atlantic aboard his boat In Search of the Miraculous, the last witness to his ultimate fall.

      • Fiction

        The Passport

        by Julia Galaski

        How does a nationality affect our relationship to the world, to others and the ways they see us? Born in Brussels to a German mother and Franco-Israeli father, a young woman leaves for the Middle East and the Maghreb to retrace the footsteps of her father’s family. But the unexpected acquisition of an Israeli passport upsets her plans. How can she carry the passport of a country at war, which generates the hostility of her friends? From Jerusalem to Ramallah, from Cairo to Algiers, from Rabat to Berlin and Paris, The Passport questions our relationship to history and borders, to languages and remembrance, to national identities and family ties.

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