Françoise Lebrun

Tras pelearse con unos productores que no entienden nada de su trabajo, Marc, un excéntrico director de cine, huye con su película para terminarla. Acompañado de su fiel equipo, se esconde en un pequeño pueblo rural de Francia con su tía Denise, su mejor consejera. Allí, su creatividad se manifiesta en un millón de ideas que lo sumergen en un extraño caos. Consumido por su neurosis, Marc comienza a escribir “El libro de las soluciones”, una guía de consejos prácticos que bien podría tener la respuesta a todos sus problemas.

The French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre pass. Daytime reality: tourism, capital invested to make the mountain profitable. At night: the fragile destiny of more than ten thousand men, women and children who, in four years, risked their lives to cross the border.

Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier.

Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.

José, un argentino que se muda a Francia con su pareja y su hija, conoce a su nuevo vecino. En un impulso, mientras escucha la pieza de jazz “Petite fleur”, algo extremo sucede. A partir de este momento, José se ve atrapado en una extraña rutina diaria nada rutinaria.

La historia sigue a una pareja de ancianos. Él tiene problemas de corazón y ella padece Alzheimer. Una mirada cercana a la realidad de este matrimonio que trata de lidiar con sus enfermedades y el paso del tiempo.

Frédéric and Suzanne bought their first VHS camera in 1989. The camera becomes a witness to their everyday life, their family time, and vacations with friends. A few years later, their son Tim is born. As their relationship slowly falls apart, Suzanne embarks on a desperate battle to fight forgetting by filming her loved ones.

While he loses his clandestine work, and because he believes that Maroussia and him will no longer be able to love each other as well, Frank leaves to earn as much as she: twelve thousand, just what it takes to have a year before them. No more no less.

Alice vive una vida normal y feliz como madre, hasta que todo su mundo se da vuelta: Thomas, el hombre de su vida y padre de su hijo, es sospechoso de ser Antoine Durieux-Jelosse, el infame asesino que desapareció hace quince años. después de asesinar a toda su familia. Han pasado años, pero la jefa de policía Sophie Lancelle nunca ha renunciado a su incesante búsqueda del hombre que cometió ese crimen impensable. Está decidida a demostrar, pase lo que pase, que Thomas es ese hombre perdido en la lista de buscados de todos. Atrapado en la oleada de dudas y sospechas, en el fuego cruzado entre dos mujeres opuestas en todo sentido, todo lo que Thomas puede hacer es alegar su inocencia. Pero, ¿es realmente un hombre inocente presunto culpable o es al revés? ¿Quién miente y quién dice la verdad?

Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love.

Martin, en una última esperanza, viene a encontrarse con Leah en París. Ambos tienen veinticinco años y han vivido juntos su primera historia de amor. De ahora en adelante, todos están trabajando duro para construir una vida adulta.

Gina es una azafata de vuelo traumatizada por el reciente suicidio de su novio. Cuando una de sus rutas la lleva a París, la joven se deja intoxicar por Jérôme, un camarero de personalidad turbia, y su exnovia Clémence.

Todavía ansioso por su ex novio, Géraud ha venido a una ciudad costera francesa para presentar su nueva película experimental, pero la única persona interesada en verla es el proyeccionista de menores de edad que se enamora del guapo director.

Violette está en edad de casarse cuando en 1852 su pueblo es brutalmente privado de todos sus hombres tras la represión ordenada por Napoleón III. Las mujeres pasan meses en aislamiento total. Desesperadas por ver a sus hombres de nuevo, hacen un juramento: si un hombre viene, será para todas. La vida debe continuar en el vientre de todas y cada una de ellas.

An elderly woman discovers an adolescent wild boar on her doorstep and decides to adopt the beast as her last -- and most beloved -- child.

Jake (Anton Yelchin) y Mati (Lucie Lucas) son dos extraños en la ciudad portuguesa de Porto que una vez tuvieron una breve conexión. El misterio en torno a los momentos que compartieron permanece, y en la búsqueda a través de sus recuerdos, reviven las profundidades de una noche sin inhibiciones.

Basado en uno de los cuentos menos conocidos de los hermanos Grimm, "La niña sin manos" es un trabajo de animación entre la estampa y el teatro de sombras, tintado de poesía, con un uso fauvista del color, manchas delicadas y expresivas rayas que recuerdan la caligrafía japonesa.

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.

Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.

Paul Dedalus deja Tayikistán recordando su infancia en Roubaix, las locas crisis de su madre, el vínculo que le unía a su hermano Ivan, niño piadoso y violento. Él recuerda sus 16 años, a su padre, viudo inconsolable, el viaje a la URSS donde una asignación clandestina le llevaría a ofrecer su propia identidad a un joven ruso. Recordará también sus 19 años, su hermana Delphine, su primo Bob, de sus escapadas con Pénélope, Mehdi y Kovalki, el amigo al que tuvo que traicionar. Sus estudios en París, el encuentro con el doctor Behanzin, su vocación inherente para la antropología. Y, sobre todo, Paul se acordará de Esther. El corazón de su vida.

At the twilight of their lives, Alice and Jean would have been lovers, parents and grandparents. But if this cycle ends peacefully for Alice, Jean, for his part, experiences the slow loss of his physical and mental means.

Falso documental que finge el secuestro del ganador del premio Goncourt de 2010 y autor de libros tan celebrados como La posibilidad de una isla. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two Parisian high school students murder a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter.

Nouk and Samuel love each other, but they are young and possessive and awkward. One day, Nouk abruptly loses Samuel, who finds himself in limbo.

At the end of June in Paris: Mireille accompanies his friend Thomas, a solitary and restless being, during a walk to Père Lachaise. Thomas is very agitated, worried. He confides to Mireille that he wishes to be cremated in the event of death. In September: after a period of holidays, Mireille returns at her home. She and his friends do not any more manage to contact Thomas. After investigation, Mireille learns that Thomas died in August, only. As he has no family his body was interred in the square of the needy of the new cemetery of Thiais. Mireille wants to honor the last wills of his friend, but the law is strict: to dig up the body and cremate it, the services of the city hall have to have the signature of a member of Thomas's family. Mireille learns that Thomas had a younger brother, Melchior. But But the young man, marginalized, abandoned for years by his older brother, refuses to sign the licence to dig up.

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette.

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.

Siglo XVIII. Suzanne, de 16 años, es forzada por su familia a entrar en una orden religiosa, aunque ella aspiraba a vivir en "el mundo". En el convento, se enfrenta a la arbitraria autoridad de las madres superioras. Gracias a su pasión y a su fuerza podrá resistir el rigor de la disciplina religiosa y luchará por conseguir su único objetivo: recuperar la ansiada libertad.

Australia /// Un joven fotógrafo que lleva las cenizas de su padre de Australia a Grecia se entera de que algo siniestro ocurrió en su familia en relación con un joven judío. A pesar de esforzarse para distraerse mediante sexo y drogas, Isaac se dará cuenta que no puede escapar de los fantasmas del pasado

A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.

Françoise Lebrun pens a love letter to all things English.

“I am a woman who does not know where she is going, but who, always, looks for beauty. As long as she does not flee me. Moritz, your beauty fled me. But I caught it and I carry it in me.”

Trata de la relación entre dos hermanos, el menor de los dos fascinado por las batallas histórica hasta el punto de vivir al margen de la realidad. La madre pide al mayor, Mathieu, que procure librar a su hermano de su dependencia…

Julie Powell (Amy Adams), decidida a hacer algo creativo para olvidar su rutinario trabajo, se plantea como un reto elaborar las 524 recetas del libro "Dominando el arte de la cocina francesa", un clásico de la gastronomía publicado en 1961 por Julia Child (Meryl Streep). Durante ese año, escribe cada día sus experiencias en un blog que tendrá múltiples seguidores.

Four women, all journalists for the French daily "Libération", decide to have, over the course of a week-end, an experience with a male prostitute.

The comedienne Françoise Lebrun regularly comes to the Maniquerville gerontology center to read Proust to the residents. It is an opportunity for them to discuss together the memory of lost time. A strong bond develops between Françoise and Clara, the center’s host.

Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor de la revista Elle en Francia, sufrió en 1995, a la edad de 43 años, un derrame cerebral que paralizó todo su cuerpo a excepción del ojo izquierdo. Utilizando ese ojo para sacar a la luz sus memorias, Bauby describió elocuentemente los aspectos de su mundo interior, desde el tormento psicológico de estar atrapado dentro de su cuerpo a sus historias imaginadas de tierras que sólo había visitado en su mente.

A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal, Racine and of the “Friends of Truth”. The film itself comes up against the unanswerable question of grace.

The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...

The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters...

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.

Cuando su marido muere tras una larga enfermedad, Geneviève pierde sus puntos de referencia: da rienda suelta a su dolor y se aleja de sus familiares y amigos; sólo quiere estar sola. Pero un inmigrante sin papeles, único superviviente del vuelco del autocar en el que viajaba clandestinamente, se esconde en el portaequipajes de su coche y, en su afán por llegar a Inglaterra, la hará enfrentarse nuevamente a la necesidad de tomar decisiones, de actuar, de vivir.

Wanting to prove to his wife that he is cured after his brief stay in a psychiatric hospital, John insists on giving her a microwave oven.

Ivan's and Serge's occupation is to enter dance competitions where they meet each time new female partners; a wounded gangster who's just burglarized a bank ,forces them to drive him at gunpoint.

Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.

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)

Paul Vecchiali’s short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju’s Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love after death. With Vecchiali and Françoise Lebrun.

Cortometraje de Paul Vecchiali. Una de las últimas producciones para Diagonale, antes de De sueur et de sang, largo con el que Vecchiali cerraría el ciclo de la productora francesa.

On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.

On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back.

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.

The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist.

A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.

Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a contraceptive, it's her mother who goes alone to the drugstore with her. However, under this idyllic surface there are tensions at work. Jeanne's on and off affair with Pierre does not save her from feeling lonely, and Sarah is bored by school. Both of them dream of an independent life, though neither will admit it.

In 1979, under the presidency of the city mayor, the people of Pessac elect a virtuous and gracious maiden from amongst the residents, following a tradition that comes from times immemorial.

Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only submit to. She is married to a cad who says he only married her because she was pregnant, and now he wants his freedom. Her real love is a fellow medical student, who shows some interest in her. Nonetheless, she remains faithful to her unenthusiastic husband, until she becomes pregnant again. At this point, she begins to act more like the Benedict of her dreams and less like the "Ben" she has lived as until now.

A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem.

The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.

Recreación de la India de los años 30 a través de la historia de Anne-Marie, la esposa del vice-cónsul francés en el país. Harta del tedio cotidiano en que se ha convertido su vida, la mujer inicia una serie de aventuras amorosas que su marido conoce, pero pretende ignorar.

In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.

A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...

Alexandre es un joven burgués cínico y egoísta que vive en París. Se encuentra en un fase nihilista de su existencia: no estudia, no trabaja y apenas se interesa por los libros o por la música. Lo único que le interesa son las mujeres y, además, vive a su costa. Poco a poco va formando con Marie y Veronique, a pesar de la inicial resistencia de ambas, un atípico 'menage à trois', que, para él, es absolutamente satisfactorio porque representa un equilibrio entre lo sexual, lo maternal y lo material. Al mismo tiempo, es capaz de mantenerse al margen de los sentimientos de frustración o malestar que su conducta pueda provocar en sus amantes.

Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.