Terek is in high school, enjoying making super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. Then the Lebanese civil war breaks out dividing Beirut into East and West. At first the war is an adventure; the school is closed and the violence fascinating but as they come of age adventure turns to tragedy. Winner of the International Film Critics award at Toronto Film Festival and the François Chalais Award at Cannes Film Festival 1998.
Michaela, a first year university student from a deeply religious family, is struggling with academic expectations as well as epilepsy. For the first time in her young life, Michaela begins to get a taste of freedom, friendship and love but soon an ill-advised abandonment of her medication sets of a chilling series of events. Winner of the FIPRESCI prize and for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.
28 year-old Katy is an advertising executive more concerned with scaling the corporate ladder than being a good person. Soon however, her ambition ruins the relationship with the love of her life and Kate is forced see beyond greed and shallowness in order to win him back.
Political conspiracy and dangerous power games lie at the heart of a high profile assassination. Reporter, Jim de Booy, stumbles into the investigation that puts his life, and the lives of others at risk. Based upon the bestselling book by Tomas Ross.
Terek is in high school, enjoying making super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. Then the Lebanese civil war breaks out dividing Beirut into East and West. At first the war is an adventure; the school is closed and the violence fascinating but as they come of age adventure turns to tragedy. Winner of the International Film Critics award at Toronto Film Festival and the François Chalais Award at Cannes Film Festival 1998.
Joseph manages a French Boxing Club where he trains his daughter and niece. Boxing means everything to the threesome, but when a setback in the French Championship throws the club into peril and shatters the family's equilibrium. A dangerous rivalry begins to fester within the two girls, both inside the ring and out.
28 year-old Katy is an advertising executive more concerned with scaling the corporate ladder than being a good person. Soon however, her ambition ruins the relationship with the love of her life and Kate is forced see beyond greed and shallowness in order to win him back.
Michaela, a first year university student from a deeply religious family, is struggling with academic expectations as well as epilepsy. For the first time in her young life, Michaela begins to get a taste of freedom, friendship and love but soon an ill-advised abandonment of her medication sets of a chilling series of events. Winner of the FIPRESCI prize and for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The story of three women in the film industry told through video diary format. Pill popping independent film producer Phyllis is trying not to collapse along with her fatal film project, failed actress/masseuse Gina. Blames Darren Star for stealing her ideas and the casting director Sara's marriage is falling apart.
Georges Deblache is a fifty-something police inspector who appears to have lost his lust for life. As a worn out bachelor he envies his young partner Didier Theron, who is repeatedly cheating on his beautiful new wife and Georges soon realises that he is becoming intensely drawn to her.
Thirteen-year-old Anaïs is overweight and has a classic love/hate relationship with her older sister, Elena, who is slim and pretty. While on summer holiday with their parents, Anaïs observes her older sister becoming no more than an object of desire as she is seduced by an Italian student. Winner of the Manfred Salzgeber Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the France Culture Award at the Cannes Film Festival
This film portraits the sexual awakening of a young girl called Alice. Out of boredom while holidaying with her parents, she starts exploring her developing body and finds herself strongly attracted to a local saw mill worker, but is too shy to approach him.
