New Films

AUCTION

a film by :Pascal Bonitzer

André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day stating that a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Very skeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the (...)

France

91 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

MY NEW FRIENDS

a film by :André Téchiné

Lucie is a specialized agent in the scientific police. Her solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival in her housing estate of a young couple and their little girl. While Lucie gets to know her new neighbors, she discovers that Yann, the father, is an (...)

France

85 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

MY WONDERFUL STRANGER

a film by :Johanna Pyykkö

Ebba, a lonely 18-year-old woman, works in the harbor of Oslo. One night, she finds a beautiful man with a head injury on the ground and tries to help him. When she discovers that he has amnesia, she tricks him into believing they are lovers and builds a (...)

Norway - France - Sweden

107 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : English, Norwegian, Bulgarian

THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES

a film by :Sonia Kronlund

He goes by the names of Alexandre, Ricardo or Daniel. He calls himself a surgeon or an engineer, Argentinean or Brazilian. He lives with four women at the same time, adapting his story and even his personality traits to each one. A first-person (...)

France - Poland

90 min - DCP - 5.1 - Color

Official language : English, French, Polish, Portuguese

ALIVE

a film by :Karim Dridi

Day and night, two couples stand alongside their children with care and attention, as they await an organ donation. Their support, combined with the extraordinary dedication of their caregivers, is vital on the path to recovery. A celebration of hope, (...)

France

98 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color 

Documentary

Original language : French

ON THE PULSE

a film by :Alix Delaporte

 

Gabrielle has just joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find her place among an experienced team of special correspondents. In the heat of the action, she will learn the language and the code (...)

France

83 min - DCP - 2.39 - Color

Original language : French

 

DORMITORY

a film by :Nehir Tuna

1997, the tensions between religious and secular Turks are increasing. Fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent by his recently converted father to an Islamic dormitory, a “Yurt”, to learn Muslim values. Ahmet works hard to be the perfect son but he has trouble (...)

Turkey - Germany - France

118 min - DCP - 5.1 - B&W and Color

Official language : Turkish

GOD IS A WOMAN

a film by :Andrés Peyrot

In 1975, French Oscar-winning director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau travels to Panama to film the Kuna community, where women are sacred. Gaisseau, his wife and their little girl Akiko live with the Kunas for a year. The project eventually runs out of funds (...)

France-Switzerland-Panama

85 min - DCP - 1.90 - Color

Official language : Spanish

SPIRIT OF ECSTASY

a film by :Héléna Klotz

Jeanne is 24 years old. She lives on a military base with her father, a police officer, and her little brother and sister. She's determined to make it in the world of finance. Not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading her on the path to (...)

France

95 min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language : French

YOU PROMISED ME THE SEA

a film by :Nadir Moknèche

French Brittany, nowadays. Still living at home, Saïd is carrying on a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to confront his family, he accepts an arranged marriage with Hadjira. She too has given in to her mother’s demands, following a romantic (...)

France

90 min - DCP - Color

Official language: French

THE PATH OF EXCELLENCE

a film by :Frédéric Mermoud

Sophie is a brilliant student. Encouraged by her math teacher, she leaves the family farm to try her chance at the entrance exam for top rated schools by enrolling in a preparatory science class. Going through new encounters, challenges, failures and fierce (...)

France

109 min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language : French

LAST SUMMER

a film by :Catherine Breillat

Anne, a brilliant lawyer, lives in perfect harmony with her husband Pierre and their six and eight-year-old daughters, in a house on the heights of Paris. One day, Theo, 17, Pierre’s son from a previous marriage, moves in with them. Anne is troubled by (...)

France

104 min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language : French

YOUTH (SPRING)

a film by :Wang Bing

Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. In this city dedicated to textile manufacturing, young workers come from all the rural regions crossed by the Yangtze River. They are in their early twenties, share dormitories and snack in the corridors. They work tirelessly to (...)

France - Luxembourg - Netherland

212 min - DCP  - 1.85 - Color

Official language: Chinese

 

ÀMA GLORIA

a film by :Marie Amachoukeli,

Six year old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must suddenly return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, Cléo makes her promise that they will see each other very soon. Gloria invites Cléo to her island and the two must (...)

France

84 min -DCP - 1.42 - Color

Original language : French & Cape Verdean Creole

 

INSHALLAH A BOY

a film by :Amjad Al Rasheed

Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game (...)

Jordan - France - KSA -Qatar

113 minutes - DCP- 1.85 - Color

Official language: Arabic

MARGUERITE'S THEOREM

a film by :Anna Novion

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. Only woman from her promo, she is finishing a thesis she has to expose to an audience of researchers. On the D-day, a mistake (...)

France 

112 min -DCP - Scope - Color 

Official language : French

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