David Erudel

Marianne, a beautiful woman from Réunion Island destined for a great career as a mermaid swimming champion, has been living in hell since a huge beard began to grow on her face following a psychological shock. Rejected and unable to bear her image any longer, she will try everything to get rid of this unlikely hairy attribute, but will end up facing something far more monstrous than herself.

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Ray, a teenager from Reunion, wants to join his friends’ Léa and Jonathan’s metal band. But for that, he needs an actual drum. His father, a sugar cane farmer, offers him a solution.

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In 1752 in Reunion Island, Soa, a former Malagasy slave, believes she has found a tunnel that will lead her back to Madagascar. When her village of maroons falls under the threat of slave hunters, Soa faces an inescapable choice: stay with her loved ones or flee to finally return home.

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In May 2020, volcanic activity around the world suddenly ceased, without any scientific explanation. On Reunion Island, the director of the Volcanology Observatory believes she has found evidence that the volcano is not dead but merely dormant. A prominent volcanologist and his assistant are sent from mainland France to investigate this hypothesis.

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French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.

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In the underground parking lot of an office building, two security guards watch over beautiful cars. The parking lot is empty and the night may be long. To keep company, they talk about their philosophies, their wounds, their dreams. Vincent, the youngest, is convinced that he is living a great love story with a beautiful young woman whom he escorts each night to his car. But one does not fantasize with impunity, especially in an empty parking lot where dream and reality collide.

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A captivating dive into the brief yet bloody chronicles of the pirates of the Indian Ocean (1685–1730). This film brings to life the thrilling and tragic saga of "La Buse"—a French pirate from Calais with a dark, magnetic presence—as well as the enduring legend of his treasure, a fabulous hoard he is said to have once hidden on an island. Experts in maritime history and piracy, along with writers and local figures, weave a gripping narrative around these bloody chronicles.

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The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

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