Nathanaël Maïni
2021
A Prophet
Jacques Audiard
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
A Prophet
Féeroce
Fabien Ara
Capucine Lespinas, Ange-Nicolas Castellotti
Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender.
Fairyocious
Un cœur de femme
Marie Murcia
Davia Benedetti, Emmie Bernardini
A small town in the Mediterranean wakes up. Antonia takes refuge and loses herself in the arms of young lover because she isn't managing to mourn her dead husband. Isabelle, an actress, struggles against a disease. Paola is a lawyer who defends women's rights. For her, seducing a man is a challenge laid down, and the challenges follow one after the other. Anghjula, a stay-at-home mother, must also mourn her husband even though he's still alive. Maria stays the course by hook or by crook in her domestic and professional life. Five friends who together chase after their lives.
Un cœur de femme
Le viol
Alain Tasma
Clotilde Courau, Hippolyte Girardot
21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
Le viol
Vie Sauvage
Cédric Kahn
Mathieu Kassovitz, Céline Sallette
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in the shadow, hunted by the police but always free and on the move.
Wild Life
Catch the Wind
Gaël Morel
Sandrine Bonnaire, Mouna Fettou
Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.
Catch the Wind
Three Dancing Slaves
Gaël Morel
Nicolas Cazalé, Stéphane Rideau
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham...
Three Dancing Slaves
Fidelio, l’odyssée d’Alice
Lucie Borleteau
Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
The One Thing to Do
Michaël R. Roskam
Matthias Schoenaerts, Tibo Vandenborre
Edward Monskii, is in a very bad shape, and Botter Gaarman, obviously tired, are in the terrace of a coffee of a Mediterranean city, ready for a long time prepared mission. When a quite old man, Ernest Carpentier, joined their table, the situation becomes tense and dangerous.
The One Thing to Do
One Nation, One King
Pierre Schöller
Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Haenel
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.
One Nation, One King
The Corsican File
Alain Berbérian
Christian Clavier, Jean Reno
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was...
The Corsican File
Mr Gaspacho
Guillaume Tordjman
Patrick Timsit, Zoé Héran
The end of the school year is approaching and Méline, an introverted teenager, has only one week left to get close to the boy she loves. Assisted by her loyal advisor Mr Gaspacho, and her best friend, Méline will attempt what would normally be impossible for her.
Mr Gaspacho
