Cinematography: Jean-Paul Rosa da Costa

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Gaële Le Roi · Anny Romand · Hélène Roussel · Yves Neff

Synopsis Miéville’s first feature film is an incisive tale of three generations of women - daughter, mother, and grandmother - who form what the director calls "a living chain." The 20-year-old Angèle is studying to become a soprano and struggles with...

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Aurore Clément · Bernadette Lafont · Jean-Luc Godard · Vincent Babel

Synopsis Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading a 20th century philosophical text about totaliarism) at the...

Direction Jean-Claude Sussfeld

Cast Hippolyte Girardot · Patrick Bouchitey · Salomé Lelouch · Dimitri Rougeul

Synopsis This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a...

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Geneviève Pasquier · Marie Bunel · Manuel Blanc · Caroline Micla

Direction Claire Devers

Cast Catherine Belkhodja · Marc Berman · Arnaud Carbonnier · Isaach de Bankole

Direction João Mário Grilo

Cast José Abreu · Geraldine Chaplin · António Cordeiro · Marques D'Arede

Synopsis Set in the 17th century, this earnest religious drama follows the struggle of the Catholic church to establish itself in Japan. Through missionaries and young Japanese converts, the Church seems about to solidify its position in the Nagasaki area when...

Direction Jacques Bral

Cast Jean-François Balmer · Sandra Montaigu · Pierre Santini · Roland Dubillard

Synopsis A private detective ponders another profession until a mysterious woman hires him to solve her roommate's murder.