Films

That Summer (2011)

Paul meets Frédéric through a mutual friend. Frédéric is a painter. He lives with Angèle, a movie actress who’s making a film in Italy.To get by until he becomes an actor, Paul works as an extra... More information

Ordinary People (2009)

Early morning. A bus carrying seven soldiers to an unknow destination. Among them is 20-year-old Dzoni, a recruit who has trouble fitting in. More information

Far from the Village (2008)

April 2006. 13,000 members of the Dajo ethnic group have taken refuge on the plain of Gouroukoun in eastern Chad. They are all survivors of the Darfur conflict. More information

Salt of this Sea (2008)

Soraya 28, born and raised in Brooklyn, decides to return to live in Palestine, the country her family was exiled from 1948. On arriving in Ramallah, Soraya tries to recover her grandparent's money, frozen in an account in Jaffa More information

A Parting Shot (2007)

22-year-old nurse Frédérique may have had enough of life, but dying isn’t much easier either. After gathering all her courage, with her gun poised at the ready, she suddenly hears a child scream. More information

La Dignidad de los nadies (2005)

Filmmaker Fernando Solanos returns to the subject of his home country Argentina, which continues to be at the mercy of corrupt politicians and profit seeking international conglomerates. More information

Maria (2003)

Maria and lone once loved each other. But now, their seventh child is to be born, only to grow up in conflict and abject poverty. Maria can't find a job and depends on her neighbor's generosity to survive. More information

Memoria del Saqueo (2003)

After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberally everything. More information

Moi et mon Blanc (2003)

Mamadi is a doctoral student in Paris. He's studying international law so that he can go back to Africa to change the political situation in his country. While working as a parking garage attendant, he finds a bag of drugs and money and decides to keep it. More information

Thelma (2001)

Vincent Fleury, a taxi driver who has been rejected by his wife, embarks on an adventure from which he hopes to benefit: in exchange for a sum of money he agrees to set out for Crete with an unknown person... More information

Charmants voisins (1999)

Daniel Berger, a civil servant in land registry office in the canton of Vaud has an enviable life with his own villa and expensive car… It is well known around lake Leman that keeping relations on an even keel makes for good relations. More information

Karnaval (1999)

While Dunkirk is in the midst of its Carnival, Larbi, tired of working for nothing for his father, decides to pack it in and re-make his life in the sun of Marseille. When he is waiting for the first train which is to leave in the early hours of the morning, he makes the acquaintance of Béa... More information

Un soir après la guerre (1998)

Twenty-eight-year-old Savannah, after fighting the Khmer Rouge for four years, returns to Phnom Penh. There he meets Srey Poeuv, a young woman who is in despair, after being forced to become a prostitute to survive. More information

Valkanizater (1997)

A road movie follows the tragicomic adventure of Fotis and Starvos, two friends and partners whose attempts to "strike it rich" take them across the Balkans and Western Europe. More information

Fire in Paradise (1997)

Spring, 1912. Georgette, a mismatched newly-wed travelling by steamer on her honeymoon, meets Esther, who has been promised in marriage to a missionary. When Esther refuses to leave the ship in India to wed this unknown man of the cloth, Georgette dons her clothes and departs. More information

Bye Bye (1995)

How Ismael will overcome his guilt, which occurred after a family tragedy which prompted the departure of his parents for the "bled", and save his brother Mouloud, twelve years old, who refuses to return home, and has connexion with dangerous dealer in Marseille. More information

Men of the Port (1995)

I was 20 years old. I was determined to escape settled life. I left for Genoa to work in a marine company hoping, of course, to embark on a ship one day. It was my first contact with the working world, with seafaring men and ports. I returned to Genoa for the first time some 40 years later. More information

Bab el Oued City (1994)

Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algier, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Young Boualem works six nights a week in a French bakery. On the rooftop of his apartment building the fundamentalists have installed a loudspeaker... More information

Rice People (Neak Srê) (1994)

Cambodia, in other words, they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. "Rice people" tries to share this way of life, to demonstate the fra gile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents. More information

Wendemi, l'enfant du Bon Dieu (1993)

Twenty years ago, in Koudougou, a hamlet in Burkina Faso, Cécile, an unwed mother who refuses to reveal the identity of her child’s father, is thrown out by her parents. She abandons her baby and disappears… More information

Hyènes (1992)

Colobane has been bypassed by everything imaginable – the trains don’t even stop there anymore. But when the legendary Linguere Ramatou returns to the place she fled 30 years before, the train does come to a halt. More information

Laafi, tout va bien (1991)

In one of the capital cities of Africa, Joe and his friends (all aged between 16 ans 18) have just passed their Bacchalaureat examination. They dream of succeeding brilliantly in their college careers but are wondering which direction to follow. More information

Amelia Lopez O'Neill (1990)

After the death of their father, Amelia Lopes O?Neill and her sister Anna, by themselves, live in a house which dominates the harbor of Valparaiso. They will share a love story with the same man, Fernando. More information

Yaaba (1989)

Bila is a ten year old boy who makes friends with an old woman called Sana, who has been accused of witchcraft by her village, and has become a social outcast. More information