BAB EL WEB

a film by :Merzak Allouache

Kamel and his brother Bouzid live in Bab El Oued, a working class neighborhood of Algiers. Kamel is a disillusioned, brooding loner. The more jovial Bouzid is an internet fanatic. He spends all his time in a cybercafé "chatting" with girls all over the (...)

France
99min - 35 mm - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Comedy
Original language : French / Arabic

BABY BALLOON

a film by :Stefan Liberski

Bici is 18 and leaves in Lieges. She is curvy and talented, she is a singer in a rock band in which Vince, her childhood friend, plays the guitar. Bici has always been secretly in love with him. When Anita shows up in the life of the group and particularly (...)

Belgium - France

84min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Comedy drama

Original language: French

 

Back home

a film by :Jessica Palud

This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago. (...)

France

77min - DCP - 1.66 - Color

Original language: French

 

BARBER OF SIBERIA (The)

a film by :Nikita Mikhalkov

1885. Jane Callahan, a young American woman, goes to Russia. During the train trip that leads her to this new world, she has to share her compartment with a group of childish and boisterous cadets. Among them is Andrei Tolstoï, a smart and impassionate (...)

Russia - France

180min - 35mm - Scope - Color - Drama, Romance

Original language: Russian, English, French, German

BEATING SUN

a film by :Philippe Petit

Max doesn’t dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of a big city: a plant area open to all. After years of rejection, his project (...)

France

85min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French

 

Bed (The)

a film by :Marion Hänsel

Eva’s husband is dying by her side. For 24 jours she will remember her husband’s illness, their happy life, their love. For 24 hours, she will care for him, attend his needs, patiently awaiting his inevitable death. Eva learn death by fits and starts. (...)

Belgium, Switzerland

80min - 35 mm - Color - 1.66 - Feature - Drama

Original language :French

BEFORE WE COLLAPSE

a film by :Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais

In the midst of a Parisian heatwave, Tristan, campaign manager for a candidate during the legislative elections, receives an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test. Because he may have an incurable hereditary disease, Tristan become obsessed (...)

France

100min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language - French

BEIJING BICYCLE

a film by :Wang XiaoShuai

Beijing today. Guei has just arrived from his village. He is 16. He finds a job at a delivery service that cleans him up, clothes him, and lends him a bicycle: a magnificent silver mountain bike. The company pays well, but Guei must pay part of the money (...)

Taiwan - France

113min - 35mm - 1.85 - Color

Original language: Chinese

BELLE EPINE

a film by :Rebecca Zlotowski

Prudence Friedmann,17, is suddenly alone and adrift in the family apartment. She meets Marilyne, a high school misfit who introduces her to the illegal race circuit of Rungis where souped-up mopeds and muscle bikes race against each other, undaunted by (...)

France

80min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language :French

BENARES

a film by :Barlen Pyamootoo

« Last night I won two thousand ruppies playing cards…Mayi told me, I would like us both to bring a woman back to the house. Tonight… » Such is the start of this singular odyssey situated in Mauritius over the course of a sole evening - which never (...)

France
75min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SR - Drama
Original language :Mauritian Creole

BETELNUT BEAUTY

a film by :LIN Cheng-sheng

The high summer heat is unbearable. A violent storm brings Xiao-feng and Feifei together as they both seek shelter. An unenthusiastic baker, Xiao-feng is not satisfied with the money he earns. Fei-fei meets Yili in the disco where she (...)

Taiwan - France

103min - 35mm - 1.85 - Color

Original language: Chinese

 

 

Betrayal (The)

a film by :Philippe Faucon

In 1960, during the Algerian civil war, Lieutenant Roque is a French officer worn out by the meandering conflict. Roque and his men have been posted to a small, isolated village. His role is, officially, to pacify the Algerians, and to convince of the « (...)

 

France - Belgium

80min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language : French & Arabic

 

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

a film by :Marion Hänsel

An old freighter, belonging to a company that has gone out of business, drops anchor off Hong-Kong. The crew aboard has to wait a week, or more, to get paid. After that, who knows what lies ahead ? Among the sailors there is Nikos, a radio operator, a man (...)

Belgium - France
92min - 35 mm - Color - Scope - Drama
Original language : English (French dubbed version available)

Big Girl Like You (A)

a film by :Christophe Blanc

This is a story about Sabine who, at the ripe old age of 16, from the depths of her hotel school, believes that life is mapped out for her ; the story of a young girl who is taught to wait on others and who is deeply displeased by it, well aware that, (...)

France

87min - 35 mm shot in DV - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SR - Drama

Original language : French

Biquefarre

a film by :Georges Rouquier

38 years later, Roch and Berthe are still living at Farrebique. As his grand father had foretold, Raymond has taken over running the farm. But the times have changed and the farms in the area have been transformed : specialization, mass production, (...)

France

90min - 35mm - 1.66 - Color - Documentary

Original language: French

 

BITTER MONEY

a film by :Wang Bing

In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there are little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. (...)

France - China - Hong Kong

152min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Documentary

Original language: Mandarin

 

Blindfolded

a film by :Thomas LILTI

After years of absence, Théo has to return to his childhood town. Martin, the boy he grew up with in a foster family, is accused of raping and killing several young women. Théo doesn't believe it. He wants to save his (...)

France
80min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language : French

BLOODY MILK

a film by :Hubert Charuel

Pierre is a 30-year-old dairy farmer. His life revolves around the family farm he took over, his cows, his veterinarian sister and his parents. When the first cases of an epidemic disease break out in France, Pierre finds out one of his animals is (...)

France

90min - DCP - Color

Original language: French

 

BLUE GATE CROSSING

a film by :Yee Chih-Yen

Meng is a 17 year-old high school student who often laments that she is no longer a carefree soul. She is been carrying one secret for too many years. One day, she decides to unburden her secret on Zhang, a fellow 17 year old. Zhang, a blithe spirit, is the (...)

Taiwan - France
85min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language :Chinese

From the collection Tales of Changing China

Boat Race (The)

a film by :Bernard Bellefroid

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 (...)

Belgium - Luxembourg - France
91min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language : French