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Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink film genre, known as Pinku Eiga, and the closely related Roman Porno cult films series produced by notorious Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988.
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo's newest work uses split-screens (at times, up to four images simultaneously) to present a fake documentary in which "the president" has disappeared; talk-show hosts, rivals, politicians and even rappers chime in on what may have occurred, and what their president for life has—or has not—done for Cameroon.
The President
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
Just to Be Sure
A production of Lully's 1686 tragédie lyrique masterpiece directed by William Christie at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées from 2008.
Lully : Armide
Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square.
Paris monopole
Stephane sells cleaning products. Unfortunately today he enters the wrong house and has to think fast in order to survive.
Action commerciale
Joséphine Arthus, a young journalist, is summoned to 36, quai des Orfèvres for reasons unknown to her.
Joséphine Arthus
A man turning 50 (Walter Faber) narrates his liaisons with three women: Hanna, who was pregnant and left him many years ago in Zurich; Ivy, who broke up with him recently in New York; Sabeth who is 20 and whom he just met on a boat to Europe. Sabeth and the narrator travel to France, Italy and Greece. But who is Sabeth? What does she feel towards the narrator? What does he feel towards her? The entire movie is shot in subjective view (we only see what the narrator sees); there are no dialogues, just his post-synchronised voice.
Homo Faber (Trois femmes)
Marc Delvaux, a famous retired police commissioner, lives alone in a large building in the Lyon countryside on the banks of the Saône. When a lawyer friend asks him to house Emma for a while, a young woman who has to testify, he accepts without suspecting that he has just signed his return to the field.
La Femme cachée
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
The Best Years of a Life
Two mothers each try to come to terms with the pain of losing a child after four young scouts and a young man who tried to save them drown, with the inquiry revealing negligence on the part of the supervisors.
Au nom des fils
Marseille, 1941. Despite the war, young Levilé still hopes to save his mother and sisters in Poland and organize their departure for Argentina.
Je ne vous oublierai jamais
The body of a shady businessman is found on the jetty in the port of Toga, in Bastia. The investigation, Commander Gabrielle Monti's first since returning to the country, begins on a tightrope between the past and the present.
Murder in Bastia
When her husband is arrested, all Lucie's bearings seem to crumble. To rebuild her life and give it new meaning, she entrusts her kids to her mother and isolates herself on the coast near Bordeaux. But the kids decide to go look for her.
La Balade de Lucie
When two teens receive a message from the future, they become wide-eyed heroes to a future world at the mercy of space-time paradoxes. The Benoit Brothers inventive and creative adventure pays homage to the Amblin productions of the 80's so dear to us all.
Erratum 2037
Two wannabe gangsters can't decide on the coolest thing to say before shooting Michel.
Punchline
Through discussions with actors and thinkers of animal ethics, Homo Herbivorus explores our relationship to the consumption of products derived from animal exploitation.
Homo Herbivorus
Toqué de Tokyo
When two brothers are confronted with the same disease.
BlaBla
William Christie conducts Atys by Lully at the Opéra Comique
Lully: Atys
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France...
Homeland
French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential terrorist and put on a flight back to Kabul, where he has never even set foot before! What starts as a routine trip for Fernandez and his skirt-chasing partner Guy goes haywire when their plane is grounded in Malta, forcing them to bunk up with Akim, who will stop at nothing to avoid extradition!
Last Call for Nowhere
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Two Men in Town
Nos fiançailles
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women who all go through 'hell' to finally receive an unexpected redemption. Each of them states her intimate confessions through daily diaries. They experiment a journey on the 'edge'. The result of which is the loss of their innocence...
Shanghai Belle
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".
Murder on Omaha Beach
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
Caged
The young man fell from the sky. Communication relay burns. Flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. Become part of another story. That of the legend of the prince. In the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. Nothing magic is improbable. What happened yesterday, may happen again tomorrow.
Between Two Worlds
In the Camargue of the Belle Époque, as new ideas begin to shake up the heritage of a world divided between rich and poor, sedentary and nomadic, Carmen is a young gypsy girl barely 18 years old who is discovering life. The fiery gypsy, a woman barely out of her teens, longs for freedom in a man's world. To achieve her goals, the ingenuous girl does not hesitate to use her only asset—her body. Beautiful and captivating, she stirs the love of those around her and sows passion in the heart of José, who is ready to make any sacrifice for her.
Carmen
Bizness
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Two stray cats come to secretly steal milk from a pharaoh's bath, but one of them becomes hypnotized by a life of wealth.
Mau
Demain si j'y suis
Montagnes endormies
An interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Dominique Maillet and Pierre-Henri Gibert, filmed on August 10, 2010 at the Hôtel de Vendôme in Paris.
Conversation with JLG
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
Francofonia
44 swimmers in my workshop.
44 nageurs
Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison. Commander Damico promises him freedom in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses. There is no other solution, she is obliged to compel him by force.
Force
The film retraces Jean-Luc Godard's notorious exhibition at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou in Paris between 11 May – 14 August 2006.
Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
The acclaimed work of photographer Antoine d’Agata has mostly been a journey into the heart of darkness, dealing with random and nightly encounters, sex and prostitution. So it's no surprise that the monumental White Noise leads again to the underworld of sex workers, from Cambodia to Norway, from Ukraine to USA. Built around more than 20 monologues, this film delivers trance-like visions of women in rapture induced by sex or narcotics.
White Noise
A car drives along the French coasts. Inside, a father takes his daughter to Paris to begin her student life, a new life in an unknown city, far from her childhood and far from him. This one to one journey is their first, maybe their last. Nothing seems exceptional but both of them know they'll have to say goodbye.
First Goodbyes
Hollywood au pied du terril
In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers the neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won't cease to search for the place where his father's love for him is hiding.
The Day of the Crows
David has a disease requiring a bone graft, for this he must find his real father. To find him, he calls on three friends he has lost sight of. They will live adventures in a journey taking them through Belgium.
Nous quatre
A highway construction project affects the life of many people.
Living/Building
One hundred years ago, Dadaism challenged ideological, aesthetic and political conventions. Like David Bowie or Terry Gilliam, many artists have been influenced or fascinated by this anti-conformist movement.
The Dada Principle
On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved in Paris. But there’s trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple’s idyll: Lolo, Violette’s ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother’s lover, whatever it takes…
Lolo
A rabbit and a squirrel, neighbours and good friends, both love food and good company. They nevertheless quarrel over their different tastes. The squirrel moves out during the night and is caught by a fox…
The Scent of Carrots
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her mother who knows the tumultuous sentimental life of her daughter.
Kiss Me!
Ninja is famous around the world for her fierce ballroom performances, but she is not as well-known in her native country of French Guyana. But a trip home to teach a workshop might change that.
Fabulous
Passionate Kiss
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
Black
The ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS returns for its second year in theaters with 12 charming family-friendly films. The films included are: • Stems - Ainslie Hendersen (Scotland) • Shift - Cecilia Puglesi & Yijun Liu (U.S.) • Pearl - Patrick Osborne (U.S.) • Crin-crin - Iris Alexandre (Belgium) • Mirror - Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, Ira Glass (U.S.) • Last summer in the garden - bekky O’Neil (Canada) • Waiting for the New Year - Vladimir Leschiov (Latvia) • Piper - Alan Barillaro (U.S.) • Bøygen - Kristian Pedersen (Norway) • Afternoon Class - Seoro Oh (Korea) • About a Mother - Dina Velikovskaya (Russia) • Exploozy - Joshua Gunn, Trevor Piecham, & John McGowan (U.S.) • Inner Workings - Leo Matsuda (U.S.) • Corpus - Marc Héricher (France) • Blue - Daniela Sherer (Israel) • Manoman - Simon Cartwright (England) • All Their Shades - Chloé Alliez (Belgium)
18th Annual Animation Show of Shows
Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retired and seems to not give a damn about anything. He shares an apartment with a twenty-four-year-old guy whose sole purpose in life is to seduce a woman, no matter who, and no matter the cost. His eighty-five years old grandmother is living in an old people's home, and she wonders what on earth she is doing with stuck with all these old people. One day, Romain's father turns up in a fluster. His grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her, somewhere in his memories.
Les Souvenirs
Married for several years, Paula and André share a happy life with their two children in a small village in the countryside. But one morning, this peaceful life is turned upside down by the disappearance of Paula. In her farewell letter, she wrote these few words to explain her departure: “I wished I would never leave, but it is decided. I need to do this, otherwise I will die.” During that summer, André and the children will find each in his / her own way a remedy to deal with the pain of her absence and will set out on a quest for appeasement.
La pièce manquante
Thirty years after their separation, Jane Birkin goes back, dipping into the memories of the family holidays she shared with Serge Gainsbourg. With her typical honesty wit and tenderness, she commentates on her own super 8 films. Serge the protector, the clown, looking after the children, quite another image of the now so famous man, adored and respected, and so terribly missed. Here, we are witness to this sensitive shy man, irresistibly funny and kind.
Souvenirs of Serge
"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.
The Golden Anniversary
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Napalm
In the Alps, two men are walking in the snow, on the nothern side of the mountains. They are migrants.