Emmanuelle Castro

Por primera vez en su vida, víctima de problemas cardiacos, Daniel Blake, carpintero inglés de 59 años, se ve obligado a acudir a las ayudas sociales. Sin embargo, a pesar de que el médico le ha prohibido trabajar, la administración le obliga a buscar un empleo si no desea recibir una sanción. En el transcurso de sus citas al “job center”, Daniel se cruza con Rachel, una madre soltera de dos niños que tuvo que aceptar un alojamiento a 450 km de su ciudad para evitar que la envíen a un hogar de acogida. Prisioneros de la maraña de aberraciones administrativas actuales de Gran Bretaña, Daniel y Rachel intentarán ayudarse mutuamente.

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds.

Análisis de los problemas de tres adolescentes de una pequeña población francesa: ¿cómo soportar a una madre que corta la corriente eléctrica durante dos semanas?, ¿quién es el más fuerte entre los judokas y los karatecas?, ¿se le puede reprochar a un padre que beba en exceso?, ¿cómo perder 8 kilos en seis semanas?, ¿cómo vaciar completamente el tubo de pasta de dientes? ¿Existen personas que aman las desgracias?, ¿cómo hacer un trío amoroso en un hotel? También es la historia de unos padres pobres y unos padres ricos.

The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family's adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.

Catherine (Fanny Ardant), una atractiva ginecóloga de mediana edad y casada desde hace 25 años, descubre un día que su marido (Gérard Depardieu) la engaña. Decide entonces vengarse y, para ello, contrata a Nathalie (Emmanuelle Béart), una prostituta de un nightclub.

Basada en hechos reales. Narra la historia de Jean Claude Roman, aparentemente un marido ideal, amante perfecto, padre ejemplar e insospechado asesino.

An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka.

1991. Harrison lloyd, un reputado fotoperiodista que cubre la información sobre la guerra de Yugoslavia, es dado por desaparecido. Sarah, su esposa, convencida de que no ha muerto, decide ir a Bosnia con el propósito de encontrarlo.

Mehdi, 17 years old, arrives in a sawmill in the Monts du Forez to serve a sentence of community service. He is placed with Abel and Marie Vagney, in the family sawmill. Mehdi finds it difficult to adapt and his relationship with Abel is strained. However, between the young man and Abel, bonds are formed.

In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the bus breaks down. In the second episode, one of them confronts the possibility that her father, long presumed to be among the Six Million, in fact survived; but is he her father?

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.

The man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes towards the sea. It’s the goal of the travel. There in this big house with a view on the waves, despite Lise not being there, despite her death, he sees her, he is with her.

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...

Émile Vieuzac vive con su madre en una gran casa de campo. Cuando ella muere repentinamente, él invita a todos sus parientes a acudir al funeral. Son los tiempos de la revuelta estudiantil de mayo del 68. (FILMAFFINITY)

Au revoir les enfants cuenta una historia desgarradora de amistad y pérdida devastadora de dos niños que viven en la Francia ocupada por los nazis. En un internado católico provincial, los jóvenes precoces disfrutan de una verdadera camaradería, hasta que se revela un secreto. Basada en eventos de la propia infancia del escritor y director Malle, la película es una historia sutil, observada con precisión, de coraje, cobardía y trágico despertar.

American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms prove hard to resist, and Mo succumbs, though her conscience weighs heavy. Soon their bickering romance of convenience takes a serious turn, and, in spite of himself, Xavier finds he's falling in love.

En 1925, Gabriela se convierte en cocinera y esposa de Nacib, el propietario del bar de una pequeña localidad costera brasileña. Sin embargo, el hombre no tarda en cansarse de la forma de ser de su mujer, en muchas ocasiones algo ordinaria. Para colmo, un día la encuentra en la cama con su amigo Tonico, hecho que le llevará definitivamente a anular el matrimonio. (FILMAFFINITY)

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. Opportunist photographer Amado Pinheiro witnesses the scene and sees the opportunity to sell newspaper and, together with the despicable and abusive chief of police Cunha, accuses Arandir of homosexuality.

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe.

This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.

Cannes Film Festival 1975

Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean Sea. Natural sounds and creative camera work provide a mood film showing the effect of the fury of the wind on the life of southern France.

A family's life is transformed into an object of art.