THE LAST HAMMER BLOW

a film by :Alix Delaporte

When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, 13 year old Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. He starts to watch him from a distance, discovering the rehearsals’ (...)

France

83 mn - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French

THE LONERS

a film by :Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Pierre lives with the painful memory of his dead wife. Sometimes, her ghost appears, bringing him peace. But, one day, Baptiste, Pierre's brother, comes to stay, upsetting the daily (...)

France

75min - 1.33 - Color - Drama

Original language: French

 

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

THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

a film by :Dominique Cabrera

Christelle is with her new-born baby one day when she is suddenly seized with panic. She disappears. Her husband, Laurent, starts looking for her everywhere, questioning her father, mother, sister and friends. What could have happened? Where did she go? In (...)

France - Belgium

80min - Color - Drama

Original language: French

THE NEW EVE

a film by :Catherine Corsini

Camille is having the time of her life, enjoying all that Paris' decadent nightlife has to offer. She parties all night with sexual abandon, then stumbles home at dawn, hangover and ready to do it all over again. But things change when she meets Alexis, a (...)

France

94min - 35mm - 1.85 - Color - Comedy

Original language: French

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THE OFFICIAL STORY

a film by :Luis Puenzo

1983 - Alicia, the mother of an adopted 5-year-old girl, teaches history in a Buenos Aires high school. Both in her profession and in her private life she has always accepted the «official version,» until one day when the regime’s façade and that of it (...)

Argentina

114min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: Spanish

THE PARTY'S OVER

a film by :Marie Garel-Weiss

THE PARTY’S OVER is the story of a revival, that of Céleste and Sihem. Arrived on the same day in a rehab facility, they’re going to seal an indestructible friendship. It will be as much a force as an obstacle when, expelled from their shelter, they (...)

France

90min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original 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

THE PEARL BUTTON

a film by :Patricio Guzmán

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret (...)

France - Chile - Spain

82min - DCP - 1.85 - Color - Documentary

Original language: Spanish

 

THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

a film by :Youssef Chahine

This is a tale about the fall of a great Egyptian family, waiting for the liberation of their unique son after 12 years in jail. Ali is freed eventually, but his prison years have broken his youth and ideals. After the family reunion, soon comes for his (...)

Egypt - Algeria

120min - 35 mm - 1.66 - Color - Mono - Drama

Original language : Arabic

 

THE SANDMEN

a film by :Pierre Salvadori

Paris today, a working-class neighbourhood, a square. Two bars stand facing each other as they would in the main street of a town in the Far West. Marie is 25 years old and has come back to Paris after a long absence in search of a brother, Antoine. She (...)

France

95min - 1.85 - Color - Detective drama

Original language: French

THE SIXTH CHILD

a film by :Léopold Legrand

Franck is a scrap dealer who lives with Meriem in the outskirts of Paris. They have five children, a sixth on the way, and serious money problems. Julien and Anna are lawyers and can’t have children. This is the story of an unthinkable (...)

France

92min - DCP - 1.50 - Color

Original language: French

THE SPARROW

a film by :Youssef Chahine

Egypt, June 1967. We are at the eve of the Six-Day War against Israel. Raouf is a young soldier and the adopted son of a powerful member of the police. While chasing a bandit, Raouf meets Youssef, an experienced journalist who is inquiring on a case of (...)

Egypt

102min - 35mm - 1.33 - Color - Mono - Drama

Original language : Arabic

 

THE STORY OF A BOY WHO WANTED TO BE KISSED

a film by :Philippe Harel

Raoul is 20, he lives alone in a Paris attic room. He's a student in Art History working on his master's degree. However, he finds it hard to concentrate on the task in hand as, for several months now, he has been obsessed by a single idea : he wants to be (...)

France

100min - Color - Drama

Original language: French

The story of my real life in Rouen

a film by :Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau

To film his training sessions in figure skating, Etienne's grandmother gives him a video camera. Teen-aged Etienne starts recording his everyday life with his friends and mother in Rouen, without being voyeuristic, more as a game and a way of collecting (...)

France

102min - 35 mm, shot in DV - 1.33 - Color - Drama comedy

Original language :French

 

THE WOLBERG FAMILY

a film by :Axelle Ropert

He can make an amazing speech on American soul music to astounded school kids, meddle in the private life of his fellow citizens or even make his 18-year-old daughter swear that never, ever, will she leave the family home. This man’s name is Simon (...)

France

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

Original language :French

THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY

a film by :Diastème

Elisabeth de Raincy, the French President, has decided to withdraw from political life. Three days before the first round of the presidential election, she learns from her Secretary-General, Franck L'Herbier, that a scandal coming from abroad will splash (...)

France

89min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language - French

THE WORST ONES

a film by :Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret

A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why (...)

France

99min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language: French

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THE WOUND

a film by :John Trengove

Xolani, a lonely factory worker, joins the men of his community in the mountains of the Eastern Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. When a defiant initiate from the city discovers his best kept secret, Xolani's entire existence begins to (...)

South Africa - France - Germany - Austria

88min - DCP - Scope - Color - Drama

Original language: Xhosa

THIS SUMMER FEELING

a film by :Mikhaël Hers

In high summer, Sasha, 30, dies suddenly. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York. Three summers, three cities, the time (...)

France - Germany

106min - DCP - 1.85 - Color

Original language: French, English

THREE MONKEYS

a film by :Nuri Bilge Ceylan

A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to stay together by covering up the truth... In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to (...)

Turkey - France - Italy

109min - 35 mm - Scope - Color - Drama 

Original language : Turkish

THREE NIGHTS A WEEK

a film by :Florent Gouëlou

29-years-old Baptiste is in a relationship with Samia when he first meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene who immediately mesmerises him. Initially motivated by the idea of a photography project revolving around Cookie, he immerses (...)

France 

103min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language: French

Three Worlds

a film by :Catherine Corsini

Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he commits a hit-and-run accident, urged by his two childhood (...)

France

101min - 35 mm / DCP - Scope - Color - Drama

Original language : French

 

 

THROUGH THE FOREST

a film by :Jean-Paul Civeyrac

After Renaud’s death in a motorcycle accident, Armelle can’t get her lover out of her mind and believes he is still living by her side. Her sisters Roxane and Bérénice are worried about her and one of them suggests she should go to a medium for help. (...)

France

65min - 35mm - Scope - Color

Original language: French

 

TIME OUT

a film by :Eve Duchemin

For the first time in a long time, three inmates are granted a weekend leave. 48 hours to settle down. 48 hours to reconnect with their loved ones. 48 hours to try to make up for lost (...)

France - Benelux

118 min - DCP - Scope - Color

Original language : French