Georges Lechaptois

Judith Godrèche, who plays her fictional alter ego, returns to Paris after ten years of exile in Hollywood with the intention of making a comeback. Haunted by her past, Judith must confront the realities of her personal ambition and maternal angst with humor and disillusionment.

Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet again in the family house in the Alps, between mountains, lake and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem to be interested in reconciling with the man he used to be.

Who has never heard of pregnancy denial? This condition, often caused by miscellaneous circumstances, escapes our understanding and even science. How can the mind of a pregnant woman hide a child growing in her body?

When he leaves hospital, 30-something Basil moves in with his younger sister and closest confidant, Sarah. Living with a psychiatric disorder, Basil tries his best to re-establish a sense of normality in both his work and his love life. But, whilst hiding his illness from his new relatives, how long can he maintain this fragile stability?

Rachel tiene 40 años, no tiene hijos. Ella ama su vida: sus estudiantes de secundaria, sus amigos, sus ex, sus lecciones de guitarra. Al enamorarse de Ali, se encariña con Leila, su hija de 4 años. Ella la arropa y la ama como si fuera suya. Pero amar a los hijos de otras personas es un riesgo que vale la pena correr...

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

Esther está al final de su carrera como jefa de costureras en el taller de Dior Avenue Montaigne. Un día, una mujer de 20 años, Jade, le roba el bolso en el metro. En lugar de llamar a la policía, decide hacerse cargo de Jade.

Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.

Sarah es una astronauta francesa que se entrena en la Agencia Espacial Europea en Colonia. Es la única mujer dentro del exigente programa. Vive sola con Stella, su hija de siete años. Sarah se siente culpable por no poder pasar más tiempo con la niña. Su amor es abrumador, inquietante. Cuando Sarah es elegida para formar parte de la tripulación de una misión espacial de un año de duración llamada Proxima, se produce el caos en la relación entre madre e hija.

A successful top manager of an investment company, Ivanov, is fleeing the harassment of security officials from Moscow to Kiev, a city without rules, and is trying to find a place for himself there. He discovers the opportunity for easy money, as everything around can be stolen. In Kiev, Ivanov, with his friend and business partner Spitsin, goes to night clubs, visits the gallery of modern art and prepares a deal to buy shipwrecks from a local scam. "Ivanov", shot in Kiev before the Maidan, is based on real events, it is a strange and bewitching tragicomedy about corruption, infidelity and loneliness.

Naïma acaba de cumplir 16. Este verano, tendrá que decidir qué quiere de la vida si no quiere perdérselo. Luego llega su prima Sofía, con un cuerpo increíble y un estilo de vida peligrosamente seductor. Naïma solo desea seguir su propio camino, siempre que conduzca hacia arriba ... A pesar de las advertencias de su mejor amiga Dodo, ella y Sofía vivirán encuentros inolvidables durante un largo verano que los marcará para siempre.

In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a car park with their boyfriends Salim and Majid? Rim knows nothing about it, but that's because Yasmina is doing her utmost to prevent her from finding out. What was it, then? The unmentionable... the worst thing ever... supersize shame - and it was all captured by Salim in a potentially highly volatile video...

Mariana, una chilena de clase alta, siente una extraña atracción por su profesor de equitación, Juan, un excoronel con un pasado turbio.

Una bailarina viaja a Moscú para integrarse en el prestigioso Ballet Bolshoi.

Dos hermanas que tienen la habilidad de comunicarse con los fantasmas, todo se complica cuando sus caminos se cruzan con un productor de cine francés mientras están actuando en el París de los años 30.

Un veterano soldado, que sufre un síndrome de estrés postraumático, se encuentra con la carga de proteger a la mujer y el hijo de un rico hombre de negocios libanés mientras éste está fuera de la ciudad.

Michele and Helene seem to be the perfect couple. However, on weekends, Michele steps into a secret life, as a transvestite, Mylene, in a hidden French forest. There, Mylene meets with a lover, Flavia, another transvestite who once fought alongside Michele in war. Michele works to balance his double life, but soon, Helene becomes concerned with her husband's mysterious trips.

Gary es joven, ágil y aprende con facilidad. Es de esas personas a las que nunca se les ha prometido algo. Después de una sucesión de pequeños trabajaos, es contratado en una central nuclear. Ahí, cerca de los reactores, donde las dosis radioactivas son más fuertes, encuentra por fin lo que buscaba, dinero, un equipo, una familia. Pero en el equipo, también está Karole, la mujer de Toni de quien se enamora. El amor prohibido y las radiaciones contaminan lentamente a Gary. Cada día es una amenaza.

Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.

Incapaz de hacer frente a la muerte de su madre, Martin decide irse a Tijuana en busca de Lola, una mexicana que conoció de pequeño y que ocupaba un lugar especial en la vida de su madre. Finalmente la encontrará en el “Americano”, un club privado donde Lola actúa como stripper todas las noches. Debut en la dirección del actor Mathieu Demy, hijo del cineasta Jacques Demy.

Prudence Friedman tiene 17 años. Sola y a la deriva en el apartamento de la familia, conoce a Marilyne, una chica inadaptada de la escuela que le hace descubrir las carreras ilegales y peligrosas de Rungis. Fascinada por Reynald, Franck y los otros chicos de la pandilla de Rungis, Prudence trata ganar su plaza en la banda, intentando hacer pasar su soledad por libertad.

Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.

David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.

In his small apartment, a middle-aged man has reached the end of his tether. He has become indifferent, even to his only true passion, classical music. He decides to end it all. But his plans are thwarted by the jarring sounds from his new neighbor above, a novice celloist. They end up trading selected musical pieces in a ruthless duell...

Barely relieved from a serious depression and against the advice of his psychiatrist, Slah, theater director, mentally weakened by his career, announces to his wife Amel, a rich woman who finances his projects, his decision to mount the famous play Essoud (The Dam) of Mahmoud Messadi renowned for its complexity. But the same evening, driving his car, Slah overthrows a young woman named Aisha. At first distraught, he then experiences a strange fascination for this beautiful young girl contrarian who becomes his friend and his muse. Amel, her husband's moral, emotional and financial support, convinced the director of the theater to program Le Barrage. Although suffering in silence of the presence of Aisha, Amel decides for love for her husband to invite the young woman near them, in the field of her parents, in an oasis of the south of Tunisia. A strange three-way household is formed when doubts and suspicions, desires and temptations, love and complexities are revealed.

A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, buried under the snow. He takes him in and nurses him until he's recovered. The host seduces Arezki's daughter. She is pregnant. This is an unsupportable shame to the father of the female sinner. Arezki claims vengeance. He leaves his house and takes the oath not to come back before having killed Larbi who betrayed him under his own roof.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she tries to control the young woman's destiny, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the throes of a singular and devastating passion. A major work of French literature is born from this devastation.