Meg is a troubled teenager with a talent for poetry who has been abandoned by her father and is constantly neglected by her distant mother. On top of that, her younger sister is suffering from an aggravating mental condition and, as her family conditions worsens, Meg starts relying more and more on her suspiciously encouraging teacher.
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
Hopeless career criminal Ronnie Dobbs keeps appearing on a cops-type TV crime show called "Fuzz" and becomes more and more popular with the viewers. Eventually, would be host Terry Twillstein realises the building hype around Ronnie and decides to give him is own show.
Bulcsú is a ticket inspector in the underground of Budapest who along with his colleagues has to deal with free riders showing them no respect. They also deal with another ticket inspection team with a better success rate and a mysterious man pushing people in front of incoming trains.
Jorge is a guy in his mid-twenties trying to get his life in order while looking after his father who has recently suffered a stroke. Things gets complicated however, when Jorge's brother Antonio, serving time for theft, announces that he wants Jorge to try and get his new girlfriend and fellow prisoner, Paula pregnant.
Giles De'Ath, a highly acclaimed British novelist whose wife passed away, accidentally ends up watching teen movie "Hotpants College II". As soon as Giles sees the movie's lead actress Ronnie Bostock on the screen he becomes infatuated by her beauty. Soon after Giles develops an obsession for the actress which completely changes his life.
Meg is a troubled teenager with a talent for poetry who has been abandoned by her father and is constantly neglected by her distant mother. On top of that, her younger sister is suffering from an aggravating mental condition and, as her family conditions worsens, Meg starts relying more and more on her suspiciously encouraging teacher.
Hopeless career criminal Ronnie Dobbs keeps appearing on a cops-type TV crime show called "Fuzz" and becomes more and more popular with the viewers. Eventually, would be host Terry Twillstein realises the building hype around Ronnie and decides to give him is own show.
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.
55 year-old and newly laid off from his job, Frank is not the likeliest candidate for an adventure. Feelings buried under years of routine and discipline compounded with a strained relationship with his grown son however leaves Frank faced with a sink or swim choice. So why not over the English channel?
Emmet Ray is a 1930s jazz guitarist considered to be one of the finest musicians ever. But off-stage he is a slacker, throwing his money away and having affairs with every woman that comes in his way. When he meets Hattie, a shy, mute woman who loves his music, he falls for her but his arrogance and inability to be faithful makes the relationship difficult.
A photographer, haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing. He finds himself obliged to put up a young relative who has left his hometown to find work in Istanbul. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury, the France Culture Award - Foreign Cineaste of the Year as well as Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
