Claude Waringo

Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to follow her instinct. Despite all the love she has for her life partner Mathieu, who is very supportive through her illness, she leaves him behind in France and will cross all Europe to Norway alone in search of a new path and to meet a blogger named Mister that she found on the internet.

Sigue los pasos de Kitty, la amiga imaginaria de Anne Frank a la que le dedicó su diario. Como una decidida adolescente, Kitty se despierta en el futuro, dentro de la casa de Frank en Amsterdam, y se embarca en una aventura para encontrar a su mejor amiga convencida de que sigue viva en algún lugar de Europa. Aunque la joven muchacha queda impresionada ante los avatares del mundo moderno, también se sorprende por el legado que ha dejado Anne tras de sí.

Like every year, André, manager of a company named ALTER NATIVE that furnishes sanitary article, invites his seven employees to a quietly festive Christmas weekend. Yet, unlike the years before, André has bad news. He is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of them. He will announce his successor in the course of the weekend. His collaborators immediately turn into competitors. When his own son, Philippe, whom nobody knew about, makes a sudden appearance, cards are redistributed, but suspicion quickly arises that André plays a deceptive game. While his employees, in a crazy race behind the back of the others, try to make their mark, Philippe tries to understand the obscure game his father is playing. And what role does the hotel owner play in all this? Jingle bells? Jingle bells!

Since she’s started a passionate new relationship with the handsome and mysterious Joakim, life is smiling back at Lara again. Her marriage to detective Toni is but a distant memory. But when he accuses Joakim of having committed a series of unsolved murders in Luxembourg City’s Peitruss Valley, Lara’s world is thrown upside down. While trying to prove his innocence, she starts to wonder how well she really knows the one she loves.

A finales de la década de 1980, Qodrat, de 15 años, vive en las calles de Kabul y vende entradas de cine en el mercado negro. Es un gran fanático de Bollywood y se sueña despierto en algunas de sus escenas de películas favoritas. Un día, la policía lo lleva al orfanato soviético. Pero en Kabul la situación política está cambiando. Qodrat y todos los niños quieren defender su hogar.

In order to save tiny Luxembourg from a cosmic catastrophe, a civil servant in a midlife crisis has to find back his lost superpowers and face his biggest fear: his family.

Ambientada en España, la película narra la relación entre tres hermanos, a punto de desmoronarse. Uno de ellos viaja desde Bélgica al otro lado de los Pirineos, para resolver el futuro de una herencia. El reencuentro despertará los fantasmas del pasado y enfrentará sus diferentes visiones del mundo: Gustave, un transportista al borde de la bancarrota, Jules el anarquista militante y Lou, la más joven, perdida entre sus hermanos.

En Irlanda durante la Gran Hambruna, un Ranger irlandés que ha estado luchando por el ejército británico en el extranjero abandona su puesto para reunirse con su familia. A pesar de experimentar los horrores de la guerra, se sorprende por la destrucción de su patria por el hambre y la brutalización de su pueblo y su familia.

In February 1945, Jules Ternes returns to Luxembourg. To escape conscription, he fled the country and joined the resistance movement in France. Back in his hometown, Jules hopes to find peace of mind and put the war behind him. But he returns to a country devastated by the Battle of the Bulge and deeply divided from four years of occupation. His sister Mathilde is now engaged to Armand, the leader of the local resistance and his girlfriend Leonie has another man in her life. Jules nevertheless resumes a relationship with her and accepts a post as an auxiliary policeman. When Leonie is assassinated along with the German farmers she works for, the life Jules was struggling to rebuild collapses. The ensuing investigation will reveal grey areas of the Occupation along with the efforts made in high places to cover them up.

Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.

Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman 48 years old who can no longer have children. To make sure everything goes well and keep an eye on her future child, Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home and stay by her side throughout the pregnancy. Although they first appear to come from completely different worlds, the two women end up adopting each other: Melody finds in Emily the mother she never had, and Emily sees in Melody the daughter she always wanted to have. Evidently, the bonds that emerge during this double maternity create all sorts of doubts and questions.

Jean-Christophe, un guardia de prisiones, lleva una vida completamente normal. Su única extravagancia es que acude a clases de tango una noche por semana. Es allí donde un día conoce a Alice. Inesperadamente, al día siguiente, vuelve a verla durante las horas de visitas a los presos: ha ido a ver a su marido y a su amante. El reglamento penitenciario prohíbe toda relación de los guardias con los familiares de los internos. Sin embargo, JC termina saltándose todas las reglas que había seguido hasta entonces. (FILMAFFINITY)

Mat trabaja en la policía criminal. Personaje duro y solitario, atraído por los abismos y habitado por fantasmas, ha perdido la esperanza de que su vida pueda ser distinta. Sin embargo, un día cambia su destino: Frank, su amigo del alma, le propone un plan ambicioso y sencillo: malversar dinero sucio. (FILMAFFINITY)

The Aire de Berchem on the Luxembourg - Dudelange motorway is the most important service station in Europe in terms of fuel flow. Summer and winter, day and night, people of all nationalities, all ages and all social classes meet there in a constant stream of cars and trucks. The film will attempt to highlight both the differences and the similarities in the behavior of this population, which represents a melting pot of Europe.

Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he discovers more than he could have ever imagined...

Luxembourg's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003

Between 1880 and 1960, hundreds of Luxembourgers went to settle in the Belgian Congo to live and work there; some for some time, others for ever. The film tells their story and their experiences.

Jaime es un muchacho de 13 años que vive en Oporto con su madre, quien ha dejado a su padre, y el amante de ésta. El niño está haciendo todo lo posible para que sus padres arreglen sus problemas y vuelvan a estar juntos. Piensa que la separación fue causada por el robo de la motocicleta de su padre, lo que provocó que éste perdiera su trabajo. Por tanto, Jaime comienza a trabajar para conseguir dinero con la intención de comprar una nueva motocicleta.

Quentin, un boxeador aficionado que se gana la vida como gigoló, inicia una relación pasional con Dominique, una mujer madura que trabaja en el mundo de la moda, pero enseguida se pondrán de manifiesto las diferencias que los separan. Sin embargo, la dependencia emocional de Dominique respecto al inestable Quentin la lleva a instalarlo en su casa y a mantenerlo económicamente.

Max is a Sicilian living in Brussels who makes a living as a hairdresser. His flourishing business goes bankrupt when he gets hairdresser's eczema overnight. He loses his customers and his wife. What is more, he is in trouble with the law. At the police station, he encounters heavyweight Bobo who asks him for all his money. When Max refuses, Bobo gets the impression that he must be tough. In reality, he just wants to be left alone. In his good old days, Max never cared for anyone, so now there is no one he can turn to. Bobo, who spent all his life in foster homes and youth centers, seems to be the only one to care for him. Together they devise a plan to find some quick money. Bobo's idea is to rob a jewelry store.

This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.

La vida de Igor, un adolescente belga, es plácida. Carece de toda ética y trabaja ayudando a su padre, Roger, un déspota que utiliza a inmigrantes ilegales para sus negocios de construcción. Cuando un inspector se presenta de improviso en la obra, uno de los empleados sufre un terrible accidente y, antes de morir, arranca a Igor la promesa de que protegerá a su esposa e hijo.

A 30 minute documentary about Roger Dahm, who was voted the second most popular Luxembourger of 2010.

Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline's wager.