Victim of a locked-in syndrom, Michel S. has been living for 3 years in an institution. He is totally paralysed, he needs machines to eat and breathe. During the last months, he made a decision and asked to die, as the law allows him to… But the doctors refuse

The film follows the medical teams, the family, Michel and all those concerned, affected by this decision, until the concrete actions that could result.

Without resorting to pity, the film gives a human dimension to the ethic questions on euthanasia.

In a context where the survival of young people Health areas is threatened, the 10th anniversary of IMAJE Santé offers the opportunity to gather the testemonies of the professionals intervening within Marseille’s organism. Doctors, psychologis, the social worker and the secretary share their experience of working with young people (aged from 12 to 25) and their families. Considering their testemonies, this film helps us understand the day to day commitment of these professionals confronted to an increasing precarisation of a part of the population.

Thomas is 20. At the age where others are just beginning their life, he has decided to end his. Passionate about films, he films the last months of his life, revealing himself in front of the camera. He will leave this legacy to a childhood friend, Orane Burri. Ten years later as a filmmaker, she dares to plunge into the images left by Thomas. To break a taboo…

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For most parents, loving a child is stronger than death. However, life must go on after the loss of a child who has gone forever… At any moment, a family can be hit by what can be conceived as the worst of all possible dramas. This documentary proposes a vision of families who have lost children and how family members can rebuild after the disaster which constitutes the death of a child.

Two sisters and a brother live in the center of Istanbul today. They are in their thirties and forties, and lead very different lives, self centered on their upper - middle class preoccupations. One day, a phone call brings them together on a voyage through Turkey's suburbs and villages to the small town in the Black Sea mountains where they were born. Their aged mother, Nusret, has disappeared. As the siblings start reminiscing about her, the tensions between them quickly become apparent; like a Pandora's box which is spilled open, all the unresolved disputes are scattered around.

Elsa is a little girl of 9 years of age who hears and speaks, yet, her parents are deaf and do not speak. Her father is a sign language professor and her mother is a painting artist. Elsa expresses herself in French sign language and in spoken French just like her little brother of seven, Réno. At home, the children communicate in sign language even though television, internet and friends bring in the French. At school and with neighbors they use spoken language. She often has to translate for others.

Emilio, an actor, lives with his family near Marseille. Since few months, he has suffered from Alzheimer. It spoils more and more his everyday life: he can't work and be self-sufficient anymore. So, Emilio finds an idea to resolve the problem. But, the illness will be stronger once again.

Elise play the doll with her sister Julie. Except that the doll is her sister. Even if Julie doesn't walk and doesn't speak, she is not a doll, she is handicapped. The broken doll recalls one afternoon of Elise's life.

"Tied Hands" tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son.

Like in Hans Christian Anderson's legend "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a child is looking for a rose to save his mother the queen on her death bed, so in "TIED HANDS" in a reversal of roles a mother goes out on a desperate search for a little Marijuana, to ease her son's pain.

In her, turbulent, journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.

From an early age, Taliya Finkel was told that her uncle Sterik had been a KGB agent. Her father Shmuel was convinced of this. He and his brother immigrated from the Ukraine to Israel in the 1970s. Shmuel preceded Sterik, who was in prison in the Ukraine at the time. According to Shmuel, his brother was murdered in prison and replaced by a secret agent of the former USSR. No one believed Shmuel, and Sterik refused to take a DNA test. In 1999, while his daughter was filming him intensively, Shmuel revealed that he was afraid that his fake brother was going to murder him.