Jean-Claude Deret

The Swallows of Kabul

Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, Zabou Breitman

Simon Abkarian, Zita Hanrot

Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.

Beautiful Memories

Zabou Breitman

Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan

Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.

The Nativity Story

Catherine Hardwicke

Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.

J'aurais pu être une pute

Baya Kasmi

Vimala Pons, Bruno Podalydès

The Venus de Milo Instead

Danny Boyle

Brigid Erin Bates, Lorcan Cranitch

A group of children and their teachers from a Protestant school in Northern Ireland go on a trip to Paris.

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

Ben Lewin

Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Salauds de pauvres

Rémi Cotta, Charles Dubois

Arielle Dombasle, Zabou Breitman

Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.

An American Werewolf in Paris

Anthony Waller

Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy

An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

Fallait pas buter mémé!

Olivier Bardy

Venantino Venantini, Nicky Naudé

On one side, the last representatives of a gangster family. On the other side, Choubert, the new pope of high tech grocery. They have decided to eliminate Choubert who is responsible, according to them, for granny's death, shot during her Sunday robbery.

Incomplets

Mickaël Schapira Villain

Jean-Claude Deret, Raphaël Ferret

An old man, almost deaf, observing and listening to hospital patients. A 12-year old boy, with a pain-insensitive disorder, feeling like a super hero. A nurse, who lost all sense of smell, treating wounded soldiers during WWII. A mute man about to become a father. And a young lad into a coma surrounded by his owns. Five stories in one film, five characters facing their disabilities.