Nina Meurisse

“Respect for the vanquished”, remarks Steve “is what separates man from beast.” As a champion in Swiss-style wrestling, Steve knows a thing or two about observing codes of combat. But when his family farm faces repossession, he is forced to join hands with his ex-convict brother Joel and enter the lucrative, clandestine world of no-rules fighting.

Decidido a hacer justicia y sacar provecho de su ingrato trabajo, un empleado de una fábrica urde un plan para robarle perfumes de lujo a su jefe y venderlos por su lado.

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?

Drama sobre la infancia, protagonizado por dos niños de ocho años. Nelly tiene 8 años y acaba de perder a su abuela. Mientras ayuda a sus padres a vaciar la casa en la que su madre creció, explora con intriga el bosque que la rodea, donde su mamá solía jugar de pequeña. Allí Nelly conoce a otra niña de su edad y la inmediata conexión entre ambas da paso a una preciosa amistad. Juntas construyen una cabaña en el bosque y, entre juegos y confidencias, desvelarán un fascinante secreto. A pesar de las circunstancias familiares, el viaje se convierte en una emocionante aventura para Nelly, quien descubrirá maravillada el universo de su mamá cuando era pequeña, y podrá conectarse con ella de una forma mágica e inusual.

In the storeroom of the bakery where she works, twenty-seven-year-old Luna dreams of a Prince Charming and a life in a castle. On the same day, she will cross paths with a trash can full of dollar notes and a young man who stutters. What do we do with our childhood dreams when we are nearly thirty years old?

Camille, una joven fotógrafa muy idealista, decide viajar a la República Central Africana para cubrir la guerra civil que allí tiene lugar. Lo que ve cambia su vida para siempre.

Things can get tumultuous in the home of the city of love. An anthology of charming, award winning short films all about sex, love and everything in between.

Castro es un antiguo presentador estrella de la televisión, ahora en plena decadencia. Un día, asiste como invitado a la inauguración de la nueva casa de su productora y vieja amiga, Nathalie, a las afueras de París. Hélène, hermana de la anfitriona y exmujer de Castro, también está invitada, al igual que muchos compañeros relacionados con el mundo de la farándula.

A collection of the best gay stories France has to offer. From tales of teenage sexual awakening, to searing studies of complex adult relationships, these six films are both quintessentially French and undeniably Universal. Includes: Apollo [Apollon] (2016); Body of Angels [Le corps des anges] (2016); Electric July [Juillet électrique] (2014); Herculanum (2016); In Return [En retour] (2013); Ruptures (or André and Gabriel) [Ruptures (ou André et Gabriel)] (2016).

Normandía, 1819. Jeanne es una chica joven, inocente y repleta de sueños infantiles cuando regresa a casa tras acabar sus estudios escolares en un convento. Se casa con un vizconde local, Julien de Lamare, que no tarda en mostrarse como un hombre miserable e infiel. Poco a poco, las ilusiones vitales de Jeanne se desvanecen.

"Ruptures (or André and Gabriel)" is the last episode of this short film trilogy of love encounters. This film follows Gabriel, while introducing André, his ex-boyfriend, with whom he's meeting by chance in Paris after 10 years. This encounter happens exactly in the moment when Gabriel is filming a documentary about break-ups. Gabriel then ends up inviting André to take part of it.

Agathe despacha a un seductor del tres al cuarto con un aplomo desconcertante bajo el cual, sin embargo, se adivina cierta fragilidad. Samir, que observa la escena tímidamente desde un rincón del café, se queda maravillado. En un momento, este joven amable y alelado con una mirada de una candidez desarmante, se enamora perdidamente de ella. Sin dudar ni un segundo, el joven compra un abono trimestral en la piscina municipal en la que Agathe da clases, rodeada por una curiosa tropa de empleados municipales. Cuando Agathe vuelve a marcharse para participar en un congreso internacional de monitores de natación, Samir hace la maleta inmediatamente.

Maya, 28, has to face it: she can’t carry a child. However, a miracle happens: she gets pregnant. It’s most likely her only chance, yet she hesitates. With a clever lightness, Naturally deals with the intimate conflict of a modern woman, between her strive for freedom and the weight of maternal responsibilities. A feminist film engaging with the gender: what does it take to be a woman and not a man?

Perrine es una artista musical casi profesional que vive sola. Por accidente, un hombre cae en el contenedor de basura cerca de su casa y entra en coma, pero Perrine está desesperada por que despierte. Termina por interferir en su vida para tomar prestado su trabajo, su apartamento y su perro… ¿conseguirá también su amor?

A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.

Between her job, her boyfriend and fellow Japanese house, Julie moves decisively in life without seeing Sebastien, who nevertheless tries to seduce her with his shyness and awkwardness.

Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, which is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then, one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.

After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.

Juliette tiene 25 años, una edad en donde todo es posible, una edad para amar. Pertenece a una generación que prefiere reir a llorar, pero aún así, Juliette va a tener que crecer...

Laura todavía espera a sus 24 años un príncipe azul. Cuando Sandro aparezca en una fiesta, ella piensa que por fin lo ha encontrado. Todo cambiará al conocer a Maxime, punto en el que Laura empezará a preguntarse si algunos príncipes podrían ser más encantadores que otros. Por su lado, Sandro tiene sus propios problemas de la mano de un padre, Pierre, que tropezará en el funeral de su progenitor con Irma, quien años atrás predijo la fecha de su muerte. Ahora, Pierre es incapaz de hacer planes, ni con su nueva pareja Eleonore, ni con su hijo. Para terminar, a Maxime tampoco le faltan preocupaciones, así como a Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline y muchos otros. (FILMAFFINITY)

Crawl is set in Brittany and tells the story of the emerging romance between Martin, a small-time crook, and Gwen, a mysterious girl who lives on her own and goes swimming everyday in the high sea.

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is happy – even if she doesn’t act like others expect her to. She appears to live a joyfully infantile existence after calmly letting go of life’s pressures. Léa captures her mother’s life on film and focuses her attention on examining the old super-8 films from the family archives. When she is left to drive her mother back to the clinic after a weekend at home, Léa grabs her opportunity: She turns the car around and whisks Suzanne off on a journey; a road trip without the judgements of others. AVANTI follows a mother-daughter relationship with an ease and depth that highlights the complexity of the emotional ties within a family.

Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.

Francis Vanverberghe, aka "Francis le Belge", was shot to death in September 2000 in a bar on the Champs Elysées. An old relic of the French Connection, his death sealed the faith of the french organized crime. He was a pimp, a drug smuggler and a multifaceted man risking his life and those of others every day, until the last day. Through his daugther's eyes, this film reveals the man behind the myth. A female look into a world where women don't belong...

France, Normandy, towards the end of World War II: Young French women are recruited as wives for American GIs. In US Army recreation camps, the so-called "Cigarette Camps", they are being prepared for their trip to the US - to men who have married them.

Francia /// Vincent Bouvier, que se dedica a la prostitución masculina, y Rebecca, una chica burguesa con un lado rebelde, se enamoran a primera vista en un cybercafé. Ella no sabe a qué se dedica él. Ambos son jóvenes, apenas mayores de edad, y tienen una actitud despreocupada hacia la vida. Sin embargo, dos meses más tarde, el cuerpo de Vincent aparece flotando en el río Rhone, y Rebecca está desaparecida. El teniente Hervé Cagan y su compañera Karine Mangin están a cargo de la investigación.

Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel is babysitter to the two-year-old baby Hugo. When Hugo's single father has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine.

A young woman obsessively trains to be a track-and-field star.

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.

Not less than 3 men and 40 animals were found dead on the Breton beaches. The identity of the killer is an open secret: green algae. Inès Léraud is still a young journalist when, driven by an ecological conscience, she decides to go to Brittany to investigate this phenomenon. Through her encounters with whistleblowers, scientists, farmers and politicians, she elucidates, not without difficulty, half a century of silence: samples that disappear in laboratories, bodies buried before being autopsied, influence games, pressure... Will the truth win?