From Germany to Italy, the United States to Île-de-France, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant shadows the itinerary of a single forgotten animal, an African elephant doubly-named Jumbo/Toto. Jumbo, as he was called on German colonial ships,at the Amerikakai port of Hamburg, and in Carl Hagenbeck's zoos; Toto, as he'd come to be known with great fame in fascist Italy. An urban investigation and an adventure film, a ballet of flora and fauna and pavement and sea, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant is a modern epic of the joy and pain of the 20th century set in what still remains strange and unknown: the 21st century, and the solitude of telling a story.

Jumbo/Toto, histoires d'un éléphant

A brother writes to his sister. A brother loves his sister. is it true that one can keep a young woman through writing?  The ambition is great. A long correspondence of 149 letters, this film is based on the letters that my brother Didier wrote to me.  Two actors carry his poetic writing to a new perception. Axel Bogousslavsky and Nathalie Richard are the brother and sister.  They sing, they dance on the roads, on a journey, in the land of « Didierlangue ».A crazy bet, yes, funny, delirious, that of a fable, where the French language is shaken up.This film explores how writing and the experience of a hybrid language create a film about love.