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Founded in 2016 by Laurent and Bertrand Normand, Les Films du Jour Prochain is a film production company committed to creating bold, compelling cinema with an international outlook.
Its diverse and growing portfolio includes the critically acclaimed documentary Ballerina by Bertrand Normand, as well as Tchaikovsky on the Road, The Rocking Baritone, and The World of Lovecraft by Marc Charley.
In addition to feature-length documentaries, Les Films du Jour Prochain has produced several award-winning narrative short films, such as The Taste of Ginger by Jean-Robert Thomann, Iskra by Adrian Replanski, and The Photographer by Bertrand Normand. These films have been selected by a range of prestigious international festivals and have received widespread recognition.
Currently, the company is expanding into narrative feature films and is actively developing and producing both narrative and documentary projects across France, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
Contact — contact@lesfilmsdujourprochain.fr
Travel-weary architect Lambert comes to an island to meet the mysterious commissioner who has asked him to help build a Universal Temple of Brotherhood. Yet no one welcomes him, and as he searches for the elusive figure who made him travel across the world, an unsettling reality threatens to engulf him.
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From an imaginary library, researchers, writers and artists offer contemporary insights into the fascinating work of H. P. Lovecraft — now a literary and cultural icon whose stories have given rise to countless adaptations. A collaboration between filmmaker Marc Charley, researcher Gilles Menegaldo and illustrator Nicolas Fructus, the documentary tours New England in search of the places where his stories are set.
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Evgeny Nikitin is a world-renowned bass-baritone, celebrated for his charisma and his Wagnerian roles. Struck by scandal at the height of his career, he strives to find redemption through the two passions of his life: opera and heavy metal. Filmed over six years across Europe and the United States, The Rocking Baritone offers an intimate portrait of a complex artist and an immersive journey into the world of opera. From the director of Ballerina.
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Zhi-Wei and Su-Fei are a Taiwanese couple in their forties whose lives are marked by routine and a certain malaise. Zhi-Wei meets up with Amanda, a former love passing through Taiwan, for one night during which the pain he carries deep inside him is revealed — an all-singing musical film supported by the CNC and Arte.
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As a strange disease tightens its grip on an isolated rural village, a young woman's contact with the outside world causes unrest among the superstitious inhabitants. Selected for 25 festivals, winner of best science fiction short at the French Riviera Film Festival and best photography at the Festival International de Cine Bajo La Luna.
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Hélène is walking in the gardens of the Versailles Palace, photographing the statues of the ancient gods. Through her camera, she detects the presence of a statue that has come to life and is prowling around her — the beautiful, the strange and the disturbing strangely intertwined.
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Through the lives of five dancers from the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, followed over more than two years, Ballerina tells the story of the Russian ballerina of our time. Released in cinemas in France, the United States, Germany and Japan, and broadcast on Netflix, TV5 Monde and many other channels.
"Enchanting!" — Chicago Sun-Times
"A jewel of a documentary." — Washington Post
"Dazzling, breathtaking!" — Boston Globe
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Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and conductor of international renown, Valery Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's six symphonies for the first time on a major tour of Europe. Concerts, rehearsals, backstage, travels from one city to another — a musical journey devoted to the most famous of Russian composers.
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As war unfolds in the East of Ukraine, Ukrainian and American artists come together in Kyiv to transform The Great Gatsby into a stunning modern ballet, fusing Afro-American hip-hop and post-Soviet classical dance. The film follows choreographer Dwight Rhoden, composer Konstantin Meladze, dancer Denis Matvienko and a host of talent through rehearsal and performance.
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Ukrainian citizens from different towns and regions define their national identity and how it has evolved over time. Filmed over several years beginning in 2014, the film follows several Ukrainians whose awakening national identity transformed the course of their lives — from a Donetsk student who became a journalist in Kyiv to a Crimean Tatar activist wounded while fighting in the Ukrainian army — in a documentary directed by Palme d'Or winner Ihor Strembitskyy and French filmmaker Bertrand Normand.
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A 48-year-old woman trapped in a loveless marriage abandons her suicide after meeting a mysterious young musician, only to discover that the woman she loves is a ghost. Inspired by the 17th-century Chinese writer Pu Songling, Parallel blends contemporary realism with the supernatural in a fully sung style influenced by Jacques Demy's films en chanté, creating a unique dialogue between French and Taiwanese cultures.
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Yann moves to a small mountain village just as the traditional Bear Festival is taking place — a game re-enacting the legend of a kidnapped shepherdess — and this year it is Yann who is drawn to play the beast. A thriller tinged with fantasy, Bear Skin plunges a city-dweller into the unknown, fear and violence, asking what lies within us and awakens when we return to nature.
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Eastern Ukraine, 1997. Anton, a shy thirteen-year-old choirboy with an angelic voice, dreams of becoming the first Ukrainian spaceman. He recruits an unlikely crew to transform an abandoned rocket-shaped playground slide into a real spacecraft and reach the stars. Inspired by writer-director Ievgen Koshyn's childhood in Donetsk, First Ukrainian Spaceman is a bittersweet coming-of-age adventure celebrating imagination, resilience and the courage to pursue one's own dream against all odds.
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Johnny Sun, Tai Chi champion and young father of two, opened a Tai Chi school in Taipei after winning numerous international medals — but is in conflict with the Taiwan Martial Arts Federation over his creative, acrobatic approach. The film follows Johnny, his family and his students, revealing Tai Chi as martial art, sport, health practice and philosophy of life.
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The approaching centenary of "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) is the starting point for an exploration of H. P. Lovecraft's fantastic universe and its multifaceted influence on literature, visual arts, role-playing, video games, music and cinema — combining archive footage, role-playing sequences and interviews, conducted as a fictional investigation by an anonymous narrator.
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Renée, 90, and Albert, 89, have both managed to remain physically and mentally fit in spite of their age. At a time when the number of elderly people is increasing inexorably, their lifestyles are a remarkable example — the film plunges into their daily lives, revealing the keys to an art of living viewers will be invited to make their own.
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An Argentinian citizen living in Cuba, Adriano, remains attached to the Marxist ideal and misses the hopeful days of the revolutionary period. Tired of the system's failure in Cuba, he sets off to explore new lands more conducive to rekindling the flame of communism, a century after the Bolshevik revolution — part comedy, part cinéma vérité.
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