Brigitte Sy

Nice

Maud Alpi

Sacha Gorce, Brigitte Sy

Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.

Les Ministères de l'art

Philippe Garrel

Chantal Akerman, Juliet Berto

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.

Liberté, la nuit

Philippe Garrel

Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

Declaration of War

Valérie Donzelli

Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

J'entends plus la guitare

Philippe Garrel

Mireille Perrier, Anouk Grinberg

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

Les Baisers de secours

Philippe Garrel

Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.

Choisir d'aimer

Rachid Hami

Louis Garrel, Leïla Bekhti

In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.

Regular Lovers

Philippe Garrel

Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?

Les Mains Libres

Brigitte Sy

Ronit Elkabetz, Carlo Brandt

Versailles

Pierre Schöller

Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive

A young mother Nina and her son Enzo find themselves sleeping on the streets of Paris. Eventually there lifestyle leads them to Versailles.

Fear(s) of the Dark

Marie Caillou, Charles Burns

Gil Alma, Aure Atika

Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.

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.

A Better Life

Cédric Kahn

Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

Invisibles

Louis-Julien Petit

Audrey Lamy, Corinne Masiero

Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.

Une Place Sur La Terre

Fabienne Godet

Benoît Poelvoorde, Ariane Labed

Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.

Généalogies d'un crime

Raúl Ruiz

Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.