Gebo and The Shadow

a film by :Manoel de Oliveira

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them. Gebo seems to be (...)

Portugal - France

91min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French

GIANTS DON'T EXIST

a film by :Chema Rodríguez

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he’s scared. (...)

Spain - Guatemala

82min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language: Spanish

 

Giraffada

a film by :Rani Massalha

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air (...)

France - Germany - Italia - Palestine

85min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Drama

Original language: Hebrew, Arabic

 

 

Girl from Monaco (The)

a film by :Anne Fontaine

A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a seventy-year-old criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil who turns him into a complete wreck. Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put (...)

France

95min - 35 mm - Scope- Color - Dolby SR - Drama Comedy

Original language :French

 

Girlfriends

a film by :Caroline Vignal

Aged fifteen, Solange lives with her parents in a village in southern 3. At the technical college in Toulouse where she is training to become a hairdresser, Solange makes friends with Gary, a sassy, street-wise girl. Solange immediately becomes part of (...)

France

95min - 35mm - 1.66 - Color - Drama comedy

Original language :French

 

God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya

a film by :Teona Strugar Mitevska

In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a (...)

Macedonia - Belgium - Slovenia - France - Croatia

100min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language: Macedonian

 

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

GRAND VOYAGE (LE)

a film by :Ismaël Ferroukhi

A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself forced to drive his father to Mecca. From the start, the journey looks to be difficult. Reda and his father have nothing in common. Talk is (...)

France - Morocco

108min - 35 mm/DCP - 1.85 - Color - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language :French & Arabic

 

GRANDE ECOLE

a film by :Robert Salis

A group of young men and women are admitted to one of France's "grandes écoles" where the administrative and political leaders of tomorrow are trained. They are the country1s best students and will be the nation's elite if all goes as planned. But life is (...)

France

110min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language :French

GROWN-UPS LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND

a film by :Emmanuel Saget

Gena will be turning 16 soon. But today, her mother wants her to write a birthday card to her father. What can she write him? She doesn’t even know him. Louis receives his daughter’s birthday card. She’s got his age wrong. But what difference can it (...)

France

77min - Color - Drama

Original language: French

 

HABANA BLUES

a film by :Benito Zambrano

Two young cuban musicians, Ruy and Tito share the same dream: to become famous and finally leave Havana. Ruy lives with Caridad and their two children. Although they still love each other, their relationship seems close to an end. Tito is on his own living (...)

Spain - France

110min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama 

Original language : Spanish

HADEWIJCH

a film by :Bruno Dumont

Shocked by the blind, ecstatic faith of Hadewijch, a young novice, the mother superior sends her packing from the convent. Hadewijch once again becomes Céline, 20, the daughter of a French minister. Her passionate love of God, her rage and her encounter (...)

France
105min - 35 mm - Color - 1.66 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language :French

Handy Man

a film by :Michel Leclerc

Paul has no goal in life, and Mathilde, who provides for their household needs, is desperate that he gets a job. If he goes on like this she will end up by dropping him. So Paul says to himself that he’ll invent something. Something that will give him a (...)

France
88min - 35 mm - Color - 1.66 - Dolby SR - Feature
Original language : French

HARKIS

a film by :Philippe Faucon

During the Algerian War (1954-1962), many impoverished young Algerian men, known as « Harkis », volunteered to join the French Army. Salah and Kaddour find themselves under the orders of Lieutenant Pascal. But as the conflict draws to an end, the prospect (...)

France - Belgium

82min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language: French, Arabic

Stills : Jacques Reboud copyright © Istiqlal Films

Here Below

a film by :Jean-Pierre Denis

Late 1943 in Perigord, occupied France, Sister Luce, a devout and virtuous nun, is a nurse at the Hospital in Perigueux. Her life is turned upside-down when she meets Martial, a chaplain in the French Resistance who has serious doubts about his faith. From (...)

France

102min - 35 mm - Color - Scope - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language : French

HIGH SOCIETY

a film by :Julie Lopes Curval

Alice, 20, lives in Normandy. She works wool, she invents, designs handmade clothes. She wonders what to do with her innate talent, until she meets Agnes, a rich Parisian lady who helps her reach a prestigious school of Applied Arts. Alice leaves everything (...)

France

85min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French

His Brother

a film by :Patrice Chéreau

Thomas is dying. He accepts it. He's chosen to await his death here, in this house by the sea, the house of his childhood. I'm with him. It's still summer. I never realized people could die in the summer. I thought death was something that always happened (...)

France
95min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama
Original language : French

Hometown blue

a film by :Stéphane Brizé

Solange and her husband lead a quiet life in a provincial town. Mylene, Solange's childhood friend, who is now a TV weather girl, is in town to sign her book. They spend an evening together: dinner, a drink in a nightclub and a few confidences. When Mylene (...)

France

90min - 35mm - 1.66 - Color - Drama Comedy
Original language :French

HOP-O'-MY-THUMB

a film by :Marina de Van

Hop-o'-my-thumb and his four brothers are abandoned in the forest by their parents, unable to provide for them anymore. Incapable of finding their way back, they run into a cottage and ask for shelter. The woman who opens the door tries to convince them to (...)

France

82min - HD - Color - 1.85 - Stereo - Drama

Original language : French

Hope

a film by :Boris Lojkine

Deep in the Sahara desert, as they try to get to Europe, Leonard, a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope, a Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where safety requires staying with one's own people, these two try to find their way together, and to (...)

France

91min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Drama

Original language: French, English, Arabic

 

 

Housewarming

a film by :Brigitte Roüan

Chantal Letellier is an "admirable woman". She is a lawyer and she never loses a case. She may be a pit bull at work but she's a pigeon in her private life. A divorcee whose ex-husband remains a good friend, she lives with her two very nice but very spoiled (...)

France

95min - 35 mm - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Comedy

Original language : French/Spanish

HUIT RECITS EXPRESS

a film by :Alain Cavalier

From Alain Cavalier’s video diary, some true stories built like a fiction. 1) La petite usine à trucages (A miniature factory of effects) 2) La danseuse est créole (A dancer from the islands) 3) Le chat du soir (Cat after dark) 4) La bombe à raser (A (...)

France

43min - Video - 1.33 - Color - Documentary

Original language : French

 

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (THE)

a film by :Eran Riklis

The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He's separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing and the bakery is (...)

Israel - Germany - France - Romania

103min - 35 mm / DCP - Color - 1.85 - Dolby SRD - Drama

Original language : Hebrew, English & Romanian

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU

a film by :Stéphanie Pillonca

"They are couples like no others: couples who cannot bear children in a biological way and decide to go through adoption. From this decision and the actual meeting with the child, we’ll experience with them the sufferings, doubts, hopes and finally the (...)

France

87min - DCP / UHD - Scope - Color - Documentary

Original language: French, English

 

 

I LOVE GREECE

a film by :Nafsika Guerry-Karamaounas

Jean and Marina, a Franco-Greek couple, are going to Athens for their summer holiday. There, they meet up with Marina’s exuberant Greek family and a country in economic crisis. As they prepare to spend a romantic getaway on a small Cyclades island, (...)

France 

91 min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French, Greek