Emmanuel Finkiel

Emmanuel Finkiel

Birth : 1961-10-30, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Emmanuel Finkiel

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Memoir of War
Screenplay
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.
Memoir of War
Director
In the last days of the Nazi-occupied France, writer Marguerite Duras awaits the return of her husband, Robert Antelme, arrested for being a Resistance fighter and then deported, while she maintains a tense relationship with her ambiguous lover and a dangerous game with a French collaborationist. Even when the Liberation arrives, she must still endure the unbearable pain of waiting.
A Decent Man
Screenplay
Eddie is no longer living with his wife and their son Noam. One night, he gets mugged and badly injured, and consequently becomes a hero to his son and the victim of a vicious crime to his wife. But when Ahmed, the perfect scapegoat for the attack, is charged, the gravitas of his accusation sucks Eddie into an infernal spiral of self-doubt and lies, marking the start of a dangerous freefall.
A Decent Man
Director
Eddie is no longer living with his wife and their son Noam. One night, he gets mugged and badly injured, and consequently becomes a hero to his son and the victim of a vicious crime to his wife. But when Ahmed, the perfect scapegoat for the attack, is charged, the gravitas of his accusation sucks Eddie into an infernal spiral of self-doubt and lies, marking the start of a dangerous freefall.
The Dune
The veterinarian
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.
Je suis
Director
They have been sports people, lovers, leaders, parents, children. And then one day, an accident at work, an accident of life, a stroke. For several months, Emmanuel Finkiel filmed the daily efforts of three patients, their families, and the nursing staff in a therapy centre. A moving and sensitive block calendar recording the evolution of these men and women on a path that will lead them to recover their awareness and their identity.
Nulle Part, Terre Promise
Writer
A group of Kurdish refugees tries to get to Great Britain. A female student travels through Europa. A young executive relocates a factory to Hungary.
Nulle Part, Terre Promise
Director
A group of Kurdish refugees tries to get to Great Britain. A female student travels through Europa. A young executive relocates a factory to Hungary.
57,000 Kilometers Between Us
Thomas
A teenager searches for meaningful connections with others while trying to build a steady relationship with her transsexual father and a stepdad who posts everything about their family online.
Les Européens
Director
5 short films on the theme of European identity.
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Conservatory Professor
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
Motus
Antoine
Samedi à dimanche
Writer
Two young people meet at a nightclub. At home, as they prepare to make love, the young girl is seized with discomfort...
Samedi à dimanche
Director
Two young people meet at a nightclub. At home, as they prepare to make love, the young girl is seized with discomfort...
Voyages
Writer
In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the bus breaks down. In the second episode, one of them confronts the possibility that her father, long presumed to be among the Six Million, in fact survived; but is he her father?
Voyages
Director
In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the bus breaks down. In the second episode, one of them confronts the possibility that her father, long presumed to be among the Six Million, in fact survived; but is he her father?
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Writer
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Director
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
La Chambre de Mariana
Screenplay
La Chambre de Mariana
Director