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A dutch family of seven persons (grand-father, grand-mother, father, mother, son, sister, and wife of the son go to Paris to assist at a concert of their mayor. The film tell the incredible story of this family during the week end in Paris. Only four members of the family will return to home.
Artist Dona Ana makes clay figures, "carrancas", in a studio on the outskirts of Petrolina, in northeastern Brazil.
Married for three years, Pierre and Marion are now divorcing. During umpteenth mediation with the judge, both explained how their love for each other faded away little by little.
Things have an interesting turn in a society consisting of snail-eating identical chubby men.
Night. Kisses. A consumed heart.
Roland Barthes evokes a pastry named Jesuit.
The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.
What is the origin of homosexuality? Are we born gay or do we become gay? Why does the very fact of asking the question provoke so much debate? Ted Anspach investigated in Europe and the United States. On December 7, 2004, Christian Vanneste, a UMP deputy, caused a scandal in the National Assembly by making homophobic remarks. Despite his recent condemnation, he reiterates here: "Homosexuality is a threat (...) Parents should be offered treatment when homosexual tendencies are detected in their child." To these unacceptable remarks this film opposes the very personal testimonies of homosexuals. There is Skander, a Frenchman of North African origin, who explains how he felt gay from a very young age, despite family pressure. And also Monique and Isabelle, a lesbian couple who "revealed themselves" after many years of heterosexual life.The investigation continues in the United States, where the debate on the origin of homosexuality is raging.
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they discover his identity and draw him in, will this release him from his solitude, or confirm in his mind that he will always be the outsider?
Franco, singer of a successful rock band, is tired of a job that is more repetitive than creative. On a whim, he decides to go far away to recharge his batteries: he agrees to coach a group of musicians in a small Inuit village in Canada. It will be a difficult initiatory experience, the approach of a different civilization and culture leading to musical crossbreeding.
A man visits his elderly handicapped father on Christmas Eve with the intention of putting him on trial for crimes against his family and then executing him.
Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern Spain to northern Morocco. Travelling on the Mediterranean rim, we hear immigrants tell their stories.
The questioning of Jewish heritage and identity via the portrait of a diversed family, across Belgium and the United States.
A man on holiday in Corsica witnesses the robbery and the killing of a gas station / grocery owner by somebody he knew. He flees the place without saying anything to anyone about what happened, and then feels deeply guilty.
Kamellia, a professionnal belly dancer went to teach her knowlege in Jerusalem. With testimonies of dancers and musicians, excerpts from shows and scenes of life, the film tells how music and dance can bring peopes in conflict closer together. We can see in this approach a lot of humanity and a symbol of future peace.
Ratrix Hero is a French claymation film that parodies The Matrix franchise. The One is a rat being chased by cats in business suits.
Patrice Kirchhofer
A cold winter night. A gloomy, dimly-lit street in the outskirts of the city, surrounded by old factories. It is getting late, and Marion, a prostitute who works just outside the city, decides to go back downtown. But she is unable to, the last bus doesn't arrive, its driver has been murdered. She is about to lose patience when Adama, a man in his thirties, reaches the bus stop. Both are trapped in this no man's land. The danger lurking in the dark shatters their nerves. Could Adama, an illegal immigrant, be the killer?
A staging of Paul Claudel's play "The Satin Slipper" by Olivier Py.
Radio interview with Nicolas Sarkozy.
1940. Victor Leizer, a young Jewish boy from Belleville, takes to the road to join his parents. There he meets Bernard Mirande, another young boy. But after being captured by the Gestapo, he is sent to the camps, where he becomes Commandant Braumann's scapegoat. But his adventures are just beginning...
A group of children mysteriously falls asleep during a class field trip in the Japanese countryside. The teacher who accompanied them will later be interrogated by the American secret services concerning their disappearance. Inspired by part of Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, it shares the same desire to combine a quasi-documentary aesthetic with supernatural themes.
Sandrine, a former fashion designer who is unemployed, is now working in a garment factory as a worker. There she meets Mathieu, the company's human resources manager and a former childhood sweetheart. The two of them get closer, but their relationship is hampered by the economic crisis that is catching up with the company... The employees then decide to join forces to buy the company by creating a clothing line, "Les P'tits Lutins", for which Sandrine is, of course, asked to contribute. However, the situation turns out to be tense. How will Mathieu react to these new directions?
Somewhere, in the middle of fields, lives a scarecrow named Gustave. He is hardly a simple inert figure! Don't be fooled! Gustave is very much alive! He even dreams of changing his life. Who knows? His destiny is in the hands of human gods!
Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The Islamists forced women, on pain of death, to wear the hijab or stop working. It was the first time a feminist woman paid with her life. Nabila wrote a letter to her sister Habiba in 1994. This documentary is her answer. In 2006 Habiba comes back to the place to restore her sister’s memory, her point of view, the day of her death and the political moment Algeria was going through at that time.
Caroline, a professional horse driver, learns she has breast cancer. Avoiding dealing with it, she runs off to Switserland for a championship. Her husband, Julien, is a judge who has just given a young criminal, Pierre, leave for the day. On her way to Switserland, Caroline meets Pierre and brings him along as her horse groom. When Julien finds out about the cancer, he follows his wife to Switserland
Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .
A look at the life of Phil Lynott, lead singer of the band; a man whose talent was known worldwide, but whose early life was less well documented. This includes interviews with his mother, band members, and a lot of footage of the music.
On his way to a nameless destination, a man decides to stop by his father's house. The awkwardness of the relationship between the man and his old and ill father marks an ordinary visit that could very well be their last.
Six months after losing their five years old daughter in a fire in the barn of their little farm, Jean and his wife Laure are facing troubles in their relationship and financial problems. Laure grieves the loss of their daughter and blames herself for her absence and Jean for his negligence for the fire; Jean is trying to rise from the ashes and somehow rebuild his life; and the insurance company refuses to pay the prize for the accident. Jean asks for a job in a mill to a friend to make money and support the psychiatric treatment of Laure. In his new job, he meets and becomes friend of the Kosovo refugee's siblings Kastriot and Labinota, while the Laure's sister Valérie separates them. Jean feels the passion of love and sense of life in his relationship with Labinota, who had her life destroyed with the war.
Suffering bodies, death at work, Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Destruction, anonymous, an escape.
Invocation to light. The hands probe the surroundings and sink deeper into the abstract space of the projection. They seek contact... In a mixture of pure colors and crystalline sounds, the light responds to the call, imbues the face with clarity and transmits its message.
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Short film by Boris Labbé
Alex, 15, lives alone with his dad, enduring relentless physical violence, rebelling against everyone. To escape from this daily life, Alex rows on the Meuse river, and has only one obsession: to win the Belgian Singles Championships at any cost. Sergi, his coach, and Muriel, the young girl he's in love with, will enable Alex to rediscover the human values he has lost. A long and tough learning curve...
Sur un îlot perdu aux confins de l'Antarctique, un manchot Adélie maladroit s'apprête à vivre sa première expérience d'adulte. Au milieu de 60 000 congénères qui ne lui font pas de cadeau, l'animal a tout à apprendre pour faire un nid, trouver une compagne, se protéger de l'ennemi et assurer la survie de ses premiers poussins.
In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German invaders.
Meet a special kind of milkman. Based on the Stephen King short story "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)".
A woman pulls a time machine across a vast landscape. Her arrival on a remote shore sets off irregular occurrences within time and space.
The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev.
A woman sitting in front of a screen: we do not know if it is day or night outside. In this place, the light of the screens dominates that of time. The inner voice of this woman recounts a solitary and reclusive life and her confusion in front of an old black and white photograph that she has just e
A Canadian policewoman tracks down a 40-year-old man in France who is suspected of killing a woman in Montreal and who, in the meantime, has begun a relationship with a single mother.
A normal couple wants to have naughty fun. A typical porn movie is playing on the TV. So the wife, Elisa decides to act like the female porn actor on TV and reenacts the movements and mimics of a porn star.