Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner plunges into a rain-drenched, neon metropolis where bounty hunter Rick Deckard tracks synthetic replicants. The film’s measured pacing and lingering frames foreground questions of identity, memory and empathy, probing what separates human from artificial life. Dense, noir-inflected visuals and a melancholic atmosphere give the story an elegiac tone, balancing tense encounters with reflective solitude. Its interrogation of consciousness and longing lingers long after the credits.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.
Joachim Rønning’s Tron: Ares propels viewers into a dazzling digital frontier where sleek neon frames and tactile textures collapse the border between human and program. The film follows Ares, a program dispatched into the real world, whose yearning for fragile, embodied experience unsettles a narrative of technological immortality. Through intimate close-ups and kinetic world-building, Rønning probes consciousness, desire and what defines humanity, balancing speculative spectacle with a meditative, elegiac tone that lingers long after the screen goes dark.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French
Sink into a story as Pinocchio wakes to life and steps into a big world. Watch short film scenes that show his wooden creaks, bright carnival colors, and the sea’s rolling music. Draw what you notice and talk with other kids about feelings, choices, and what makes someone human. Group activities invite curious eyes, quick sketches, and sharing ideas. The session mixes images, sounds, and playful thinking to sharpen how children look at stories.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic examines human evolution, technology and the abyss between mind and machine. Using precise, monumental compositions and a patient, elliptical rhythm, the film follows a voyage from prehistoric dawn to a cosmic finale as enigmatic forces reshape consciousness. The unsettling intelligence of HAL 9000 refracts questions of control, agency and what defines personhood. Visually austere and sonically rich, the film unfolds as a meditative odyssey where spectacle and philosophical inquiry fuse into a haunting, unforgettable atmosphere.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French
Alex Garland’s precise, provocative film examines consciousness and control through a confined, high-stakes experiment. A young programmer is invited to assess an eerily lifelike artificial intelligence, and the film watches how testing becomes manipulation and seduction without ever revealing answers. Garland’s clean, clinical framing and cool, luminous surfaces heighten the moral ambiguity: identity, agency and empathy are interrogated in measured rhythms. Tense, intellectually charged and visually restrained, the film lingers on power dynamics between creator, subject and viewer.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion. In French
Explore classic animated scenes that ask big questions about feelings, choices, and what makes us human. Watch short film excerpts and listen to music and voices as images shift. Draw responses, share ideas in small groups, and try playful experiments that reveal how stories teach us to think. The mentor-and-child story sparks imagination while teaching observation and critical thinking through color, movement, and sound.
Screening featuring live analysis and audience discussion.
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