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
Copyright photo (c) Eric DUMONT - Les Films Velvet
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 FRIENDS
a film by :Emmanuel Mouret
Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no (...)
France
117 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color
Original language : French
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
TO HAVE (OR NOT)
a film by :Laëtitia Masson
Boulogne-sur-Mer. One morning, 26-year-old Alice, a worker in a fish cannery, loses her job. She tells herself that now's the time to make a fresh start, but doing what ? Stay here and rot or get a real life somewhere else ? In Lyon, 27-year-old Bruno, a (...)
France
90min - 35mm - 1.66 - Color - Drama
Original language: French
To Paint or Make Love
a film by :Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu
William and Madeleine live in a town at the foot of mountains. Married for a long time, faithful to each other and in love, they lead a quiet life. Their only child, Elise, moving to Italy, they have nobody but themselves to look out for. During one of her (...)
France
98min - 35 mm - 1.66 - Color - Drama
Original language : French
TOTAL KHEOPS
a film by :Alain Bévérini
Twenty years ago, three likely lads from the Panier with a sweet habit of holding up drug stores and gas stations just for kicks and buzzing around Lole, a teenage enchantress of Spanish extraction they all know they're love in with - until that is, (...)
France
90min - 35 mm - 1.66 - Color - Thriller
Original language : French
Totally Flaky
a film by :Jacques Doillon
In Paris, where he wields his money scams, Alex has an unexpected encounter with two girls: Fred, who’s nothing to do with his world and who he falls for straight away, and Sylvia - sweet, but lonely, Sylvia. To test Alex, Fred devises a curious game of (...)
France
97min - 35 mm - 1.66 - Color - Drama
Original language :French
TRALALA
a film by :Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu
Tralala, in his forties, a singer in the streets of Paris, meets one night a very beautiful young woman who sends him a single message before disappearing: «Above all, don’t be yourself». Did Tralala dream? He leaves the capital and ends up finding in (...)
France
120min - DCP - Scope - Color
Original language: French
Copyright photo (c) Jérôme Prébois / SBS Productions