Catherine Paillé

Movies

A Zone to Defend
Co-Writer
Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy that Greg discovers, despite the risks of being unmasked. For each of them, time is short: soon everything will disappear.
Midwives
Screenplay
After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?
The Sixth Child
Writer
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.
Magnetic Beats
Screenplay
Brittany, France, 1980s. A group of friends, fed up with the boring country life and eager for excitement, create a radio station.
All Hands on Deck!
Writer
An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.
Shéhérazade
Screenplay
Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. He falls in love with Shéhérazade, a young prostitute of whom he becomes the pimp without realizing it...
A Polar Year
Screenplay
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.
Daguerrotype
Writer
An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.
Ogres
Writer
There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.
Land Legs
Writer
Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his teenaged children decided to live with him since the divorce of the parents. But when his daughter Mailys gets pregnant, Dom understands that he will have to choose between the sea and his family.
Gente de bien
Writer
Eric moves in with his father, a man he barely knows, and they have trouble bonding until Maria takes Eric under her wing.
Tonnerre
Co-Writer
The story of Maxime, a 33-year-old musician, who has come to find refuge in his father’s home in the town of Tonnerre. There he will have the joy and the bad luck of meeting Mélodie, a 21-year-old girl trapped by her love for her childhood sweetheart. One and the other will not experience the same story at the same time, which will trigger a series of incidents.
Little Lion
Screenplay
A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe.
A Better Life
Screenplay
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Eastern Drift
Writer
A drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.
Kissing Tigers
Screenplay
In Grenoble's Gypsy community, a young kick-boxing champion learns about manhood from his gay elder brother.