Laurent Machuel

When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.

Gentle is a film set in modern-day South Vietnam and based on the short story 'A Gentle Creature' by the Russian novelist Dostoevsky.

Julien es un adolescente con un sueño: participar en la prueba de triatlón conocida como “Ironman”, que se celebra todos los años en Niza y está considerada una de las más duras del mundo. Pero hay un problema: Julien es tetrapléjico y vive anclado a una silla de ruedas. Sin embargo, sabe que no es la primera vez que alguien como él se ha atrevido a hacerlo. Cuando su padre, que corrió el “Ironman” en su juventud, queda sin trabajo, Julien hará todo lo posible y lo imposible para convencerle de que ambos participen juntos en la competición, aunque para ello tenga que provocar una auténtica revolución en su familia y poner su mundo boca abajo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Alice es una guapa y joven soltera farmacéutica que siente una insólita fascinación por Woody Allen. A pesar de que su soltería es un tema que no le preocupa en absoluto, su entorno familiar vive obsesionado por encontrarle pareja a toda costa, aunque en realidad ella desea a la pareja de su hermana. Como en los grandes amores, Victor aparecerá en la vida de Alice sin previo aviso, al acudir para instalar una alarma de seguridad en la farmacia que Alice ha heredado de su padre. Victor lo verá claro al instante y luchará por estar a su lado, aunque Alice necesitará un poco más de tiempo y de los imaginarios consejos de Woody Allen para aceptar lo que ella se niega repetidamente: el amor ha llamado a su puerta.

Narra la historia de Milo Malakian (Jean Reno), el jefe de una banda armenia tan virtuoso como violento, considerado como un padrino en la Costa Azul. Al mismo tiempo que prepara un golpe enorme que será también el último antes de retirarse, constata que su único hijo, Anton (Gaspard Ulliel), se aparta de él. El joven, enamorado de una enfermera (Vahina Giocante), aspira a otra existencia, pero deberá asumir las consecuencias ya que es con la sangre que se traza el Primer Círculo. Una lucha violenta opone el patriarca a su hijo y, para liberarse, Anton deberá también escapar de un policía (Sami Bouajila), que intenta desmantelar la banda.

Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.

Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.

When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.

En París suceden tres historias que, en principio, parece que no tienen nada que ver entre sí. Un viajante sale a comprar cerillas y regresa veinte años más tarde. Un catedrático de Universidad se hace pasar por mendigo. Finalmente, un hombre de negocios se inventa una familia ficticia en el extranjero para ocultar oscuros asuntos financieros.

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien's attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire's psychiatrist.