Véra Belmont

Bruselas, Bélgica, 1959. Michel y Charly Kichka, dos hermanos judíos, disfrutan de una infancia feliz con sus padres y sus dos hermanas. Henri, su discreto y habitualmente silencioso padre, no habla en absoluto de su pasado, así que ellos imaginan que de joven fue un aventurero, un pirata o un cazador de tesoros.

Bruselas, Bélgica, 1959. Michel y Charly Kichka, dos hermanos judíos, disfrutan de una infancia feliz con sus padres y sus dos hermanas. Henri, su discreto y habitualmente silencioso padre, no habla en absoluto de su pasado, así que ellos imaginan que de joven fue un aventurero, un pirata o un cazador de tesoros.

El ambiente se sitúa en 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Misha, una niña judía de ocho años sale de Bruselas en busca de sus padres quienes fueron deportados por los nazis. Sólo sabe que fueron enviados al este. Con la ayuda de una pequeña brújula, Misha viaja a pie sola por Bélgica, Alemania, Polonia y Ucrania. Durante su travesía, roba comida y ropa y se integra a una manada de lobos salvajes para sobrevivir.

El ambiente se sitúa en 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Misha, una niña judía de ocho años sale de Bruselas en busca de sus padres quienes fueron deportados por los nazis. Sólo sabe que fueron enviados al este. Con la ayuda de una pequeña brújula, Misha viaja a pie sola por Bélgica, Alemania, Polonia y Ucrania. Durante su travesía, roba comida y ropa y se integra a una manada de lobos salvajes para sobrevivir.

El ambiente se sitúa en 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Misha, una niña judía de ocho años sale de Bruselas en busca de sus padres quienes fueron deportados por los nazis. Sólo sabe que fueron enviados al este. Con la ayuda de una pequeña brújula, Misha viaja a pie sola por Bélgica, Alemania, Polonia y Ucrania. Durante su travesía, roba comida y ropa y se integra a una manada de lobos salvajes para sobrevivir.

Chok Dee está inspirada en la historia real de Dida, once veces campeón de Thai boxing. El protagonista, un delincuente de poca monta, acaba en prisión. Allí conoce a Jean, un antiguo campeón de boxeo, quien le adentra en uno de los deportes más violentos del mundo, el Thai boxing, en el que también convergen una serie de valores morales. Al salir de la cárcel Dida marcha a Tailandia y pronto descubre que el aprendizaje de este deporte resulta inaccesible para los extranjeros. Pero su constancia le lleva a aceptar un primer combate cuyo precio es la humillación. Su segundo combate en cambio será muy distinto...

During the German occupation of France, a young woman - Marie - finds a Jewish boy in her room. His parents and other Jewish neighbors have been just been deported, but Maurice (the boy) escaped. Marie decides to hide him, secretly.

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

La repatriación de un grupo de supervivientes italianos, procedentes del campo de exterminio de Auschwitz, se convierte, por razones nunca aclaradas, en una angustiosa odisea.

Relato de la vida de Carlo Broschi, célebre castrado que triunfó en la ópera en el XVIII. Con 32 años y en la cumbre del éxito, Farinelli, artista que en el siglo XVIII ennobleció el arte del canto, se retira misteriosamente para dedicar en exclusividad al rey Felipe V de España su prodigiosa voz. Doce años antes, Farinelli y un virtuoso trompetista miden su destreza musical en una plaza repleta de curiosos. El joven cantante impone con facilidad su voz pura y perfecta. El público, entusiasmado, le aclama. Haendel, el compositor oficial de la corte de Inglaterra, que ha asistido a la representación oculto en su carroza, propone a Farinelli que vaya a Londres. Este encuentro supone el inicio de una relación marcada por el odio y la admiración mutua.

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.

Intriga y chantaje contra un miembro de la KGB de Polonia.

The French military is known for its draconian treatment of soldiers who desert or otherwise tangibly register disagreements with official policy. In this movie the story takes place during the Algerian War (late 1950s). Alain (Luc Thullier) is a deserter who has been sent back to the front lines as a member of a special disciplinary battalion. Such battalions are given only the most dangerous assignments, and most of the soldiers in them are expected to die in combat. As his unit skirmishes with the enemy, it suffers many losses until Alain is the only one left. Freed from supervision once more, he escapes again, this time to Tunisia, with the intention of trying to inform the French public about what is really happening in Algeria.

A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.

1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.

A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.

To Take Possession of Maleficient Powers, Dracula must take control of a lady in a Flee Market, Paris , France. But without wasting any time, her friends take on Dracula to save her from this terrible curse of Vampirism.

Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.

Huyendo de París y del escándalo que amenaza perderle, Antoine Durrieux, médico brillante pero descarriado, va a encontrar en el barco que le conduce al exilio a Clara Greenhill. Una extraña àsión en la que el odio y el desprecio mutuo se confunden inexplicablemente con el amor, llegará a unir a estos dos seres, el médico hastiado y la mujer que Mirbeau llama "el hada de los cadáveres".

Esta película puede entenderse como un contraplano de El niño salvaje de Truffaut (que fue productor de Ce gamin, là). Jean Itard, instructor del niño salvaje de Aveyron; violencia del adiestramiento y del esfuerzo desesperado del maestro por reducir el carácter extraño del niño inspirado por un ideal, ciertamente noble; y por otro lado, en Ce gamin, là; la puesta al día de “un trazar primordial”, un gesto (escritura o dibujo) que no viene guiado por ninguna intención, ni voluntad de representación, ni terapéutica, ni pedagógica, sino por la voluntad de saberse siempre en relación a los otros, aunque parezcan no decir nada.

Directed by Véra Belmont

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business of everyday living.

The main character is a woman trapped in the long stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting relationships, one of which is with a woman.

Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.

Mientras investiga un caso de drogas, un inspector de policía es asesinado a tiros por un gánster. Su colega, el Inspector Favenin es responsable de aclarar este crimen. Él está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para salvar el honor de su colega, incluyendo violar la ley.

Después de haber sido abandonado por sus padres, François, un niño de nueve años, es acogido por una familia obrera. Pero se dan cuenta de que François tiene graves problemas de comportamiento y pronto se convierte en una carga para ellos. Los servicios sociales le buscan una nueva familia de acogida, una vieja pareja que cuida de otro niño abandonado.

Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wanders between the park and the salons, playing the songs he composed on the guitar. He notices strange people around the castle.

Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.