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In Julius Amédée-Laou's biting dramedy, a supposedly joyful interracial wedding descends into chaos when long-buried prejudices and family secrets rise to the surface. Told through the cocky lens of the bride's younger brother, what begins as a lighthearted summer affair turns nightmarish as scandal threatens to destroy the unlikely couple's big day.
French Wedding, Caribbean Style
August 1914. While Jean Mordant is away winning the title of Wrestling Champion of the World in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German occupiers in Ostend. Jean swears he will avenge this immoral disgrace. With his coach Victor and young nephew Guido, he enrolls in the prestigious ACM (Armored Car Division). But the heavily-built armored vehicles keep getting stuck in the mud of Flanders. The battalion is hastily transferred to the Eastern front. Jean is devastated by frustration for he has just learned that Mimi is pregnant. But war conditions are ruthless and he and his friends embark on a dramatic journey that ultimately will drag them around the world.
Cafard
It is summer. A mother and her two teenagers are going about their business in their house by the sea. Ines, the mother, stumbles upon old photos and super 8 films that take her back to her past. The untimely arrival of crabs in the garden announces the imminence of a storm.
Mercure
A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the innocent young girl so that she does not know the infamy of her family.
Une mort sans importance
How do we fall in love? While rehearsing the love scene between Romeo and Juliette, Cécile, Thomas and Jérémie, barely twenty years old, each bring, in their own way, an answer to this question.
Romeo's Kiss
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
The Countess of Monsoreau
Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…
Marcello Mio
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Victor Young Perez
Lucie is 21 years old, at the beginning of her adult life and all the challenges that come with it. To help her navigate life as a young woman, far from her parents, she creates an imaginary friend named Conscience. He supports her and helps her take on her new responsibilities, especially now, as Lucie faces what she believes to be a crucial decision that could shape the rest of her life.
Ça ira
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Le Pont sur l'abîme
Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.
Love Rites
IVUL is the extraordinary story of Alex (Jacob Auzanneau), a young man who climbs on to the roof of his house and refuses to ever come back down to earth. His actions devastate his beloved family and we watch as their world falls apart. A dark and mysterious gardener (Tchili from This Filthy Earth) keeps watch over the family but is powerless to exorcise the curse that he feels has befallen them. Meanwhile the twin sisters (Manon and Capucine) provide light but sometimes macabre relief. The world of IVUL is a world of both fairytale and nightmare with the family manor house and forest landscape providing a compelling backdrop to the story.
Ivul
Behind the scenes of an ambitious staging of the opera The Marriage of Figaro, an accusation of sexual assault emerges, upsetting the balance of the cast. The film explores the tensions linked to generational conflicts and individual stances, in an artistic context in crisis.
Crescendo
Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?
A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading them on the path to freedom.
Spirit of Ecstasy
Blandine spends her holidays alone in a small campsite at the foot of the mountains. She is quickly overwhelmed by the noise, the crowd and the rain that she was trying to escape for a summer. At the edge of the lake, Blandine meets Helio, a young local journalist.
The Summer Holidays
Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?
Black Tea
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
Les Lumières du soir
Son Seul
The story of a young gymnast who has a serious accident during a competition and who will fight to be able to live again from her passion.
Petite sœur
Judge Larcher, who has lost his wife and child, leads a quiet and secluded life in retirement; until the day his path crosses that of Clara, a troubled teenager; it doesn't take long for the perceptive Larcher to detect a dark story of incest between the young girl, who has lost her mother, and her father, a bitter widower...
Clara et son juge
It's the first time Adrien is entering a homosexual sauna. In the space of one night, he discovers this microcosm where the comic aspect of the individual tragedies encounters the passing of time and where hope mingles with melancholy.
Tenderness
A dedicated archaeologist, Anna Brahé, is stubbornly engaged in exploring an underground site, convinced that she will soon come across some important burial artefacts. Her superior is more sceptical and, his patience exhausted, sends Peter Morel, a renowned archaeologist, to make an assessment of Anna’s discoveries so far. Despite their differences Anna and Peter cannot help being drawn to one another as the site collapses around them...
Le Jour de la grenouille
Les parents terribles
Jean and Polo are two old friends who decide to go to Thailand to change their minds.
Lady Bar
Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime.
The Midnight Witness
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Sunset
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
The Oldest Profession
Françoise, an actress, is hoping to find true love. At four different stages of her life. Four different ages.
Les quatre rendez-vous de Françoise
A youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders goes to court along with one of the teenagers he's in charge of, Sabrina.
The Runaway
The Ten Commandments is a French musical comedy
The Ten Commandments
A 17-year-old girl who has just discovered that she is pregnant is obliged to take her outspoken grandmother along on a driving lesson.
Driving Lesson
Feature film about the life of André Malraux. While still a teenager, Malraux embarks on an initiatory journey in search of the artistic and literary culture of Paris. He won the Goncourt Prize for his fourth novel and went to Spain to fight fascism.
Malraux, the Daring Dreamer
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Let the Sunshine In
After the dead of the eldest daughter, Germaine and Gilles and their children leave for a holiday in the mountains to restore their bond. However, the killer of their daughter also resides in those mountains and Gilles wants revenge.
Don't Cry Germaine
A guy reminisce his short love story with a girl named Stella.
Refugium
In India, a British detachment finds itself surrounded in a village by invisible enemies. An officer is assassinated, then another. The adversary seems very well informed. By who ? A group of twenty men who had gone to seek help were annihilated. An American reporter will force the mysterious spy to denounce himself.
La Mystérieuse Lady
Mister Jones, old blind painter and admirer of Van Gogh, is looked after in a rest home by Bob, a young male nurse with whom he falls in love. As their relation evolves between fantasy and reality, the small room is transforming into one of Van Gogh’s famous paintings.
A small room with simple colors
Laure, who was the boss and the lover of Marie, has just committed suicide. Marie, not really moved by the despair's gesture of Laure, has already set his sights on other prey. Her name is Judith, and Marie find her so pretty that she is ready to do anything to curry her favors. After she takes William (Judith's fiancé) away, Marie offers to Judith to put her up. Judith succumbs very soon to the charms of her sulfurous secretary. But William, who want to marry Judith, is ready to fight in order to renew with Judith.
Women's Affairs
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Maigret Sets a Trap
While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family are occupied with their own concerns. Most notable among them are the romance of the teenaged girl with a young socialist and the boy's friendship with a German boy.
An Unusual Girl
Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, in the intimacy of his room, he sees her - She is waiting for him. And she will not let go.
Moi, maman, ma mère et moi
On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children’s prison, which was destroyed by a mutiny and a fire a long time ago.
Alcyon
The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.
Train de nuit
On the eve of the First World War, the inhabitants of a small village in Corrèze see a strange woman arrive: Cécile Brunie, a young teacher with original methods. Badly perceived from the beginning, the young woman tries as best she can to gather a whole class because since always the children are sent to the farm from their youngest age without being able to go to school. However, Cécile does not give up and decides to fight against ignorance.
L'Orange de Noël
Three women from Brest. Léanne, the cop, a hothead whose ambition knows no bounds. Élodie, the forensic pathologist, a settled family woman. Vanessa, the psycho-criminologist, a fiercely independent and outspoken woman. Three childhood friends reunited since Léanne's recent return to Brittany following the death of her husband during an operation. Together, and despite their radically different personalities, they will hunt down the region's criminals while juggling their lives as women, trying their best to balance their work, family life, love, and friendships…
Les Trois Brestoises
February, 1871. On the eve of the Paris Commune, Rose Beuret, Auguste Rodin's life partner, is alone in the studio. As Rodin is away, she is in charge of one of his unfinished sculptures – clay must stay moist every day. To forget her solitude, Rose takes refuge in the daily care of this mute, incomplete piece. While revolt is rumbling outside, Rose locks herself in the studio and devotes herself entirely to the statue.
Mrs Rodin or The Age of Maturity
Tjenbé Red
In Quebec, Julien, a promising young businessman with a linear and programmed life, is upset by the emergence of various events beyond his control which crack the facade serving to silence a passion buried in him and from which he cannot escape.
Le rêve du paon
Meurtres à Mulhouse
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Le Chef-lieu de canton
When her husband dies, Geneviève loses her bearings. She runs away from her loved ones. But in the trunk of his car a clandestine man hid. He is Kurdish, his name is Khader and understands that she must drive him to England.
Inguélézi
After a fall from a horse that left him in a coma for almost ten years, Joshua returns to the stables he knew so well. Welcomed by Mario and Alice, he recognizes nothing and nobody. During the day, they will try to bring back some memories in the head of the man they were so close to, but who, today, seems to be a complete stranger.
L'Instant présent
A soldier suffering from trauma, Roman does not manage to find his bearings in society upon his return from his mission. His companion Clara leaves him, and takes their son with her. Deprived of his family, Roman goes to isolate himself in the mountains. Out of sight, he will let the memories of the war invade him, until one day he meets a group of lumberjacks, touched by his condition.
La beauté du monde
Nora, a Martiniquan teenager, moves with her mother and younger sister to her grandfather Henri's to take care of him after a recent stroke. This causes traumatic childhood memories to surface for Nora embodied in the fear of an attack by an evil spirit, the Dorlis.
Dorlis
Je tue à la campagne
The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model.
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
Interspersed with jokes, visual puns, and philosophical discussions, the story follows the attempts of a girl who has spent the last year living outside her native Switzerland to rekindle a former love affair. When her immature young friend fails to demonstrate the requisite interest, she takes up with someone the boy disapproves of. When the boy kicks the man, the man leaves both the boy and his erstwhile ex-girlfriend to their own devices.