While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire "Barbarian Cycle" that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented in this program are: Rainer, A Vicious Dog in a Skull Valley (26min); Apocalypse After (35min); and We Barbarians (27min).

Madeleine go with her mother, a mobile esthetician, at new customer's home in a fancy neighborhood. The 8 years old girl is sent in the game room and three girls invite her to play around a board game. But she has to bet money, which Madeleine has not.

Louise’s life is splintering. At work they’ve been shunting her aside. And she’s separating from her boyfriend, who works for the same company. When she learns that her contract will not be renewed, she starts witnessing bizarre attacks.

Emilie has moved to the countryside with her partner, Gabriel. In the next field, a black horse is lying, dead. No one seems to care.

Marianne, a heroine for a day, is interviewed by a young journalist. Despite of all the misunderstandings, a meeting takes place, brief, tenuous, human.

After a bus accident in the middle of the countryside, Lupa follows Alban who's decided to head to the nearest village on foot. As they're cutting across fields, they get lost in a strange forest.

In the French Jura Mountains, at the end of a fictitious Middle Ages, Else is an herbalist and a midwife. She and her young apprentice Nicole are interrupted during their daily practice: a stranger riding a horse has asked all the women of the village to gather in the small church.

In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

Marie's grandfather is dying. In the house where the whole family is gathered, the commotion leaves little room for discussion. Marie decides to go to Sainte Baume grotto. But on the way up, she has a vertigo attack.

Unseen shots of a “heroic fantasy” film. A modeled model, a cosmic desert, a buried desire.

In the heart of a french village in 2020, five individuals united under the name ‘The Blackbird Group’, wander in silence in their house and prepare themselves for an extreme symbolic action.

Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.

Frédéric and Suzanne bought their first VHS camera in 1989. The camera becomes a witness to their everyday life, their family time, and vacations with friends. A few years later, their son Tim is born. As their relationship slowly falls apart, Suzanne embarks on a desperate battle to fight forgetting by filming her loved ones.

Eleonore Berthier, 34 years old, keeps living as a teenager, collecting odd jobs and one night stands. Following a burnout, her mother and sister decide to take action to help her make a fresh start.

A busload of tourists in the mountains. After a short pit stop, the group notices someone is missing. With the impossibility of leaving them behind, especially in the harsh environment, the group starts to doubt and becomes impatient. But who has actually disappeared?

Hugo, Stan and Bérénice grew up together then grew apart. They were inseparable. Fifteen years later, they meet again as adults. But life has been tough on them. Will they reignite the crazy sparks of their childhood ?

A heroic-fantasy musical.

Nothing can stop these girls from getting what they want in life, but if you try to touch, you might get burnt. An anthology of short films with women blazing in the lead.

A lot of fuss ensues over what a four-year-old kid wants to wear to school.

A man lies on the ground, stabbed. Going backwards (“à rebours”) we will find out what happened shortly before.

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actrice, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.

Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and who never left their countryside.

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

As a teenager Sophie has a traumatic experience after her brother pushes her into the water and a fish swims into her bikini. As an adult, she goes to an alternative aqua phobia therapist Eric aka Aquaman.

A behind the scenes look at Bertrand Mandico's The Wild Boys, captured by actress Elina Löwensohn on her personal Super 8 camera.

Friends Franck, Hugo and Philippe attend a housewarming party in a Parisian apartment. At the door, two uninvited men try talking their way inside. The tension escalates.