Antoine Chappey

Recientemente enviudada, Béatrice vive con su hijo y su madre. Su encuentro con Mokhtar, un profesor iraní que ha llegado ilegalmente a Europa, cambiará su día a día y sus convicciones. Por amor a él, tendrá que desafiar los prejuicios de quienes la rodean y las leyes de su país.

En el corazón de la Borgoña, Nico, el último veterinario de la zona, lucha por salvar a sus pacientes, su clínica y su familia. Cuando Michel, su compañero y mentor, anuncia su jubilación, Nico sabe que lo difícil está por venir: encontrar un nuevo compañero. Esta será Alexandra, una recién graduada brillante, misántropa y que no tiene ningún deseo de enterrarse en el pueblo de su infancia. ¿Conseguirá Nico que se quede?

Just vagabundea por las calles de París, recogiendo el último recuerdo de algunas personas antes de que pasen a otro mundo. Un día, se cruza con una chica de cabellera pelirroja y ojos azulados, que dice conocerle. ¿Podrían amarse? No será fácil, pues ella está viva, y él es un fantasma.

Anna and Adam, a young couple from Paris with Polish Jewish origins, leave for the first time of their lives in Poland. They were invited to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the destruction of the birth village community of Adam's grandfather. If Adam is not very excited about this trip, Anna is excited to discover the land that is also her grandmother's. Finally - from what little she knows. Here they are, looking for their origins in a journey full of surprises, during which they will not find exactly what they came for.

Una boda de lujo en un castillo francés del siglo XVIII se les va de las manos a sus responsables. La película narra los entresijos de la boda desde la perspectiva del personal de catering, el fotógrafo y el DJ.

Después de la derrota francesa del verano de 1940, Addi Ba, un joven fusilero senegalés se escapa y se esconde en los Vosgos. Ayudado por algunos aldeanos, recibe documentos falsos que le permiten vivir abiertamente.

El cuerpo del monje Yves es encontrado colgando boca abajo en una cruz en el cementerio de Montjoyer, cerca de la Abadía de Fresange, en el sur de Francia. ¿Quién pudo matar al monje y por qué motivo? Los investigadores Alicia Tirard y Alex Lazzari descubren que la clave para descifrar el misterio es la fórmula secreta de un licor de plantas que los monjes de Fresange llevan fabricando desde la Edad Media.

Ondine and Paul have loved each other. When she leaves him, he swears not to love again. To prove this to himself, he pursues the beautiful Camille, whom he intends to seduce and abandon. But Camille puts a spell on Paul whom she desires for herself alone. And, while falling under Camille’s charms, Paul has to deal with the memory of his past love.

1997 - An old notable French provincial family falls under the spell of a manipulator with no scruples able to make a whole family become paranoid.

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?

Una inmensa pradera, en el este de Francia, acoge un encuentro de amantes del estilo de vida country y del Lejano Oeste americano. Alain baila con su hija Kelly, de 16 años, mientras su esposa y el hijo pequeño de la familia, Kid, los miran desde un segundo plano. Pero ese mismo día Kelly desaparece y la familia se desmorona. Alain emprende una búsqueda sin tregua para encontrar a su hija, aunque le cueste todo lo que tiene y le lleve a recorrer lugares remotos: lugares siniestros e inquietantes en los que el único apoyo se lo dará Kid, quien sacrifica su juventud para acompañar a su padre en una misión que parece interminable.

Cuatro jóvenes scouts se ahogan y un joven tratando de salvarlos. La encuesta de una asociación católica fundamentalista y disidente liderada por el Padre Vialard, revela defectos de entrenamiento imperdonables.

Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each other.

At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another film, new and unexpected.

After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a crime has been committed in the environs. She ropes a handsome lifeguard into her investigation...

It is the moment of the first holiday departures, the weather is nice and warm. Leo, aged nine, is alone with his father, his mother has just died. He does not know what he is going to do, tomorrow, or later.

An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.

Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis...

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined.

An Indian delegation, headed by Kuldip Badhwar, is going to Cateneau's French power plant to negotiate the purchase of four new generation nuclear reactors. Before signing the contract, the Indian representative requires guarantees on the safety of the installations and requests an emergency shutdown test of the reactor. But a succession of incidents occur and seem to turn to disaster.

Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out more about the girl, Elsa uses Thomas as a way into the girl's family by aiding to develop a friendship between Thomas and the girl's brother Jeremy so that in turn Elsa can then befriend the girl's mother Claire. She uses Thomas more and more in her pursuit of this obsession telling her employer and fellow employees that Thomas is seriously ill so that she can run off watch the girl (Lola) wherever she goes. Elsa even tells her parents lies that she is going out with a friend so they will baby-sit so Elsa can even go as far as hiding in the bushes outside of Lola's house and watching her at night.

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.

Año 1943. Jamás han pisado suelo francés, pero ahora, por causa de la guerra, Saïd, Abdelkader, Messaoud y Yassir, cuatro argelinos musulmanes, se presentan voluntarios al ejército francés: van a alistarse para liberar a la madre patria del enemigo nazi: lo mismo que otros 130.000 "oriundos". Además de enfrentarse a los nazis, deberán sufrir la intolerancia y el racismo de sus compañeros, sus superiores y sus supuestos aliados. Olvidados por la Historia, estos héroes saldrán victoriosos en Italia, en Provenza y en los Vosgos antes de quedarse solos en la defensa de una aldea alsaciana frente a un batallón alemán...

Un marido de naturaleza tacaña decide, por una vez, ser generoso con su mujer y comprarle una casa de campo. Pero como no puede dejar de intentar ahorrar al máximo, decide pasar por una agencia inmobiliaria, y una contrata de lo menos recomendable, que transforman la sorpresa del regalo en pesadilla.

At night she dreams about it, during the day she believes she's dreaming. However, Élise continues, reacts, and despite her pain, chooses life.

The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Raymond (Bernard Blancan) is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years. None sees him but people know he is around and, as all secretly reproach themselves to not have helped the young Raymond after his all family death before he disappeared, they consider the family house as haunted by Raymonds ghost.When Frédéric (Antoine Chappey), Caroline (Lucia Sanchez) and their children come from the city to install themselves in the countryside, they know nothing about these villages tells and find in Raymonds family house a rare opportunity.

Esta película plantea los problemas que surgen al convivir con otra persona. Relato de cinco momentos en la vida de una pareja de hoy en día.

A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.

A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he meets Clémentine, a girl who lives full time. All this will only deepen his anguish.

This tale of childhood and adolescence is told through brief sequences that take place in the life of a modest family from the Pas-de-Calais region during the forties, fifties and sixties. Paul, the main character, who we meet when he’s 5, 13 and 18, is the throughline of this tale told in a fragmentary way well adapted to the scattered nature of memories. Encounters, joy, fear, first love, friendship, disappointment, the relationship between brothers and parents, the discovery of the vocation of acting and writing: all these elements weave together to create the irreplaceable fabric of an ordinary life whose particularities guide spectators back to their own personal stories.

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.

A young female writer whose father was a militant activist struggles to come to terms with this cumbersome legacy.

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.

Fanfan leaves his friend Charles and thinks he can be accommodated by his friend, Joss. However, at the same time, Joss abandons the marital home. Fanfan and Joss have only to knock on the door of Manu, Fanfan's sister, who gathers them until Mytch, Manu's companion, throws everyone out. The three young women find themselves in the street and continue their run, while their lovers gang up to track them down. The mini-war of the sexes will flare up.

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...

Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.

La señorita De Chartres ha sufrido su primer desengaño amoroso. Una noche, una amiga de su madre le presenta a un médico de gran reputación, Jacques de Clèves. Este se enamora de ella, y ambos se casan, a pesar de que ella no le corresponde en su amor. En cambio, un cantante de moda sí hace nacer en ella este sentimiento. La lucha entre su matrimonio y sus sentimientos desembocarán en un callejón sin salida para la nueva señora de Clèves.

Raphaëlle André is a brillant lawyer. The enigmatic death of her husband lead her into an investigation where she discovers new sides of the life of her late husband.

Solange is unhappy. She's a meter maid in Tours, working in the rain, subject to verbal abuse from those she cites. Her husband Patrick is consumed by the work of finishing their new house: carpet, tile, faucets. He's also a hothead, subjecting Sonange to tantrums. While she's often quiet and withdrawn, she longs to be a singer. When by chance she meets Mylène, an accomplished, beautiful Parisian writer she admires, Solange gives her a demo tape. Mylène is encouraging, a friendship of sorts develops, and when Solange despairs after a series of personal, emotional setbacks, she heads for Mylène's doorstep in Paris. Does a singing career await, and what about Patrick?

French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.

Max is a kind of modern Zadig embarked upon an existential and sentimental quest. Jewish and Russian all rolled into one, he quickly feels cramped in his native Ukraine. One day, he leaves his parents, family and enemies for the city of his dreams: Paris. He discovers the capital and the occasionally ferocious and complex ways of its natives.

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

Cuando un extraño cae del cielo en una barcaza donde vive una familia de marineros...

La historia de un triángulo amoroso, en que todos los componentes llegan a conocerse íntimamente, hasta el punto que todas sus fantasías y fingimientos salen a la desagradable luz de la realidad. (FILMAFFINIT)

After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.

Los Ménard se reúnen todas las semanas en el café de Henri, el hijo mayor. Desde allí él, su esposa, su hermano, su cuñada y su madre acuden juntos a cenar al mejor restaurante de la zona, un barrio de la periferia. Sin embargo, un día, un incidente trastoca la cita: Arlette, la mujer de Henri, no aparece. Durante la reunión, se celebra el cumpleaños de Yolanda, la madre, y a partir de ese momento salen a relucir dramáticamente los viejos rencores y rencillas familiares.

Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who persuades her to move into his apartment. He soon takes control over Sandrine's life, organizing erotic rendezvous for her, taking her to her clients and waiting for her until she is through with her task.

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".

In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.

La hermosa Daiga ha emigrado de Lituania a París y está buscando un lugar donde vivir y un trabajo. Theo es un músico con dificultades y su hermano Camille un bailarín travestí. Uno de estos personajes puede estar conectado a un asesino en serie que está aterrorizando todo París.

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.

Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends with the even-temperred, almost saintly Max (Gerald Laroche), an auto mechanic. The three of them set out from their home in the north to journey to the Alpine mountains near Switzerland and Italy, where they will help a fourth friend take care of his pleasure boat business at Lake Annecy while he is in military service. As the trio attempt to establish some sort of equilibrium in their new lives, Max must constantly deal with Loockeed's testy, jealous barbs. Despite this, the three of them remain friends.

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...

Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Mona is the girlfriend of Pierre, who is a member of a rather pathetic rock band in France. Their hero is the singer "Johnny Valentine " who, seeing that Mona is being neglected, decides to make her his own.