Cécile Vargaftig

Películas

The Horizon
Writer
On the northern outskirts of Paris, where housing projects rise out of fields, Adja, 18, burns with the desire to live intensely. While her brother breaks out as a pro soccer player, her best friend blows up as an influencer on social media, and her mother struggles to save her hometown in Senegal, Adja has only a blurred vision of her future. With Arthur, who becomes more than a friend, her political and environmental awareness rises, and Adja joins the fight of her generation.
The Disqualified
Screenplay
Hailing from Mohammedia, Tunisia, the film documents twelve years in the life of Mehrez. A gifted dancer and actor, but also irresistibly addicted to gambling and horse races, he struggles on a daily basis with himself and the bewildering contradictions of his country. In his unstoppable quest for truthful emotions, Mehrez defies all rules.
As Happy As Possible
Writer
Salome gets a summer job in a junkyard somewhere in the country side. Under a western sun, in this place out of the world, her teenage rebellion springs up. From unexpected encounters to shared sorrows, arise promises of a new life.
Whatever Happened to My Revolution
Screenplay
Angela tenía 8 años cuando se abrió el primer McDonald's en Berlín oriental. Desde entonces, ha estado luchando contra la maldición de su generación: haber nacido "demasiado tarde", en el momento de la depresión política mundial. Ella proviene de una familia de activistas, pero su madre abandonó su lucha política de la noche a la mañana, para mudarse sola al campo y su hermana eligió el mundo de los negocios. Solo su padre, un antiguo maoísta con el que ella vuelve a vivir, se ha mantenido fiel a sus ideales. Enojada y decidida, Angela se dedica tanto a intentar cambiar el mundo como a huir de las encuentros amorosos.
Urgent
Writer
Driss and Zahra leave their fisherman's village to take their six-year-old son, Ayoub, to the emergency room of the Casablanca's public hospital. There they meet Driss' brother, Houcine, with whom they have been in conflict for years. The doctor diagnoses a brain problem requiring immediate action. This is the starting point of a painful journey exhausting each one. Are they ready to do everything to save Ayoub's life?
L'échappée, à la poursuite d'Annie Le Brun
Screenplay
Under the Starry Sky
Screenplay
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
Youth
Screenplay
Juliette, twenty, falls in love. At the same time her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Pas de politique à table
Writer
Pas de politique à table
Scenario Writer
Enough!
Writer
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
Buscando a Cheyenne
Writer
Cheyenne, una joven periodista en paro cuyas prestaciones de la seguridad social están a punto de ser cortadas, decide dejar Paris para vivir una vida marginal en el país. Ella se marcha dejando detrás a Sonia, la mujer que ama. Sonia es física y profesora de química en un instituto parisino. Ella intenta olvidar a Cheyenne, pero no es fácil. ¿Cómo reconciliamos lo que queremos con lo que somos en realidad capaces de hacer, lo que pensamos y como actuamos? ¿Cómo nos enfrentamos a la persona que amamos pero la tenemos que rechazar?. “Oublier Cheyenne” es una fábula contemporánea sobre los estados precarios creados por la sociedad moderna, la necesidad del cambio y el poder del amor.
Stormy Weather
Screenplay
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment.
Paris, My Little Body Is Very Tired of This Big World
Writer
Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling.
Katya Ismailova
Writer
A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband’s mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia’s husband is a real momma’s boy. They go to Irina’s summer house to work. There Katia encounters the intense and sexy Serguei who creates passionate longings with in her. Overcome she and Serguei engage in vigorous love-making upon a windowsill where Irina sees them. Irina has a weak heart. Quiet Katia, having rediscovered the joys of sex, changes and becomes more assertive and flighty. Serguei quickly loses interest in her. Strange and deadly things begin happening at the summer house which calls the attention of a judge who is extremely familiar with Irina’s writing.
Tell Me Yes, Tell Me No
Script Supervisor
Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.
Que demande le peuple
Screenplay
Quartier libre
Screenplay
Un champ de fraises pour l’éternité
Writer