Sabrina Leurquin
2021Il n'y a pas d'amour sans histoires
Jérôme Foulon
Jordan Santoul, Clémentine Célarié
Monique is a single mother who lives with her son Olivier in a town of North of France.She wanted to have a child and the father went away.Besides Monique is taxi driver.Olivier doesn't feel well with his mother.In the school his neighbor Julien begins to ask him about his father: Olivier answers that first that is father is dead , but later that his father is a spy who has a boat. Then Julien asks about his mother, Olivier answers that she is a top: as Olivier has to go meet his mother in a supermarket, Julien and Olivier see a model: Olivier goes to the model and asks her to give him a kiss. She gives him a kiss on the cheeks and Julien believes that the supermarket model is the mother of Olivier.
There Is No Love Without Stories
Confort Moderne
Dominique Choisy
Nathalie Richard, Valérie Mairesse
Irene is an ordinary married woman living in Amiens, in the North of France. She works in a bank where, one day, she finds herself duty-bound to strip a client of her credit card and check book for ten years. Later on, while walking in a park Irene notices a mysterious homeless woman wearing a yellow coat. At a time she witnesses her shoplifting in a store. One night, on her way back home, she is attacked by the mysterious woman.
Modern Comforts
The Eighth Day
Jaco Van Dormael
Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
The Eighth Day
Rouget le braconnier
Gilles Cousin
Jean-Michel Noirey, Olivia Brunaux
The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
Rouget le braconnier
Hors la vie
Maroun Bagdadi
Hippolyte Girardot, Rafic Ali Ahmad
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
Out of Life
Petits Arrangements avec les morts
Pascale Ferran
Didier Sandre, Charles Berling
It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
Coming to Terms with the Dead
La solitude du pouvoir
Josée Dayan
Pascal Elbé, Jacques Spiesser
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, and parrying opposition attacks-not to mention dealing with the tense relationship he has with his daughter.
La solitude du pouvoir
Tous à table
Ursula Meier
Stéphane Auberghen, Bernard Breuse
A group of friends get together for a birthday dinner. It's the end of the meal and the atmosphere's high: people are singing, drinking, hugging each other, telling jokes. Then someone asks a riddle: "In the Amazon, three ants are walking on a tree stump…". The evening will soon change tune.
Tous à table
Dancing North
Paolo Quaregna
Frédéric Deban, Sabrina Leurquin
Franco, singer of a successful rock band, is tired of a job that is more repetitive than creative. On a whim, he decides to go far away to recharge his batteries: he agrees to coach a group of musicians in a small Inuit village in Canada. It will be a difficult initiatory experience, the approach of a different civilization and culture leading to musical crossbreeding.
Dancing North
