Lolita Chammah

París, 1985. Vanessa tiene trece años cuando conoce a Gabriel Matzneff, un hombre muy inteligente y manipulador. El reconocido escritor de cincuenta años seduce a la joven. La adolescente se convierte en la amante y musa de un hombre celebrado por el mundo cultural y político. Perdiéndose en la relación, gradualmente comienza a darse cuenta de cuán destructiva y anormal es la situación, hasta que finalmente ve a Gabriel Matzneff como el depredador que realmente es. Vanessa ahora tiene un largo viaje para liberarse de su influencia y sanar de su sufrimiento.

Juliette creció sola con su padre Raphaël en el norte de Francia. Él un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La niña, apasionada por el canto y la música, conoce un verano a un mago que le promete que unas velas escarlatas algún día la sacarán de su pueblo. Juliette nunca dejó de creer en esta profecía.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

El mundo es un lugar misterioso cuando se ve a través de los ojos de un animal. EO, un burro gris de ojos melancólicos, se encuentra con personas buenas y malas en el camino de su vida, experimenta alegría y dolor, soporta la rueda de la fortuna al azar y convierte su suerte en desastre y su desesperación en dicha inesperada. Pero ni por un momento pierde su inocencia.

It is the summer of 1982. Garance is eleven years old and lives in a remote hamlet in the Cevennes where her parents are trying to lead an alternative life. When two Italian activists rob a bank in the area, things go wrong. This event turns Garance and her family's life upside down.

Durante el verano, Gabriel, un padre adolescente, se enamora de la misteriosa Corey, la novia de Joel, su mejor amigo, que, profundamente herido, revela la verdad sobre el pasado de Gabriel.

Culture shock between a pork butcher from the Basque country and a Parisian bohemian.

El jefe del club nocturno de moda de Cap d'Agde es asesinado en su propia oficina. La fiscal adjunta Elisabeth Richard y el capitán del gendarme Charles Jouanic se vuelven a reunir para investigar lo que parece un crimen con un motivo claro, ya que la caja fuerte ha sido vaciada y no hay ni rastro de dinero.

School is over. Benjamin is five years old and goes on vacation to the sea with his mother and 12-year-old sister. "A comme Azur" is the chronicle of this summer which unfolds all the letters of the alphabet.

Naïma acaba de cumplir 16. Este verano, tendrá que decidir qué quiere de la vida si no quiere perdérselo. Luego llega su prima Sofía, con un cuerpo increíble y un estilo de vida peligrosamente seductor. Naïma solo desea seguir su propio camino, siempre que conduzca hacia arriba ... A pesar de las advertencias de su mejor amiga Dodo, ella y Sofía vivirán encuentros inolvidables durante un largo verano que los marcará para siempre.

Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, in the intimacy of his room, he sees her - She is waiting for him. And she will not let go.

El pintor holandés post-impresionista, Van Gogh, se mudó en 1886 a Francia. En concreto, a Arles y Auvers-sur-Oise, donde vivió un tiempo conociendo a miembros de la vanguardia incluyendo a Paul Gauguin. Un tiempo en el que se esforzó en crear las obras maestras espectaculares que son reconocibles en todo el mundo a día de hoy.

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself. One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North. Begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling world of motherly love, only to find out that sometimes the true opponent is yourself.

Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...

Axèle es fotógrafa, Camille, escritora. Las dos se van un año a una estancia en la Villa Medici de Roma. A Camille la acompaña su marido, el reputado escritor Marc Landré. Mientras que una extraña rivalidad se establece entre las dos, Camille se acerca a Axèle. ¿Pero quién es en realidad Axèle? ¿Una artista completa, sin límites, que se confunde con su obra? ¿O el mismo fantasma del lugar? De este año en la Villa Medici, en donde los cuerpos y las almas se liberarán, nadie saldrá indemne...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.

'Woman Under Influence' es la terrible historia de Alexandra, una mujer madre de cuatro hijos, que tras 17 años de soportar el maltrato constante de su marido, se tiene que enfrentar al juicio por su asesinato. Aterrorizada y viviendo una pesadilla bajo su propio techo, Alexandra lo había intentado todo para librarse de su esposo y obtener ayuda sin tener que poner en peligro a sus hijos. Todo fue en vano. Completamente sola en su lucha, finalmente se defiende y mata a su marido para poder seguir con vida y salvar también la de sus hijos. Durante los tres días de juicio se mostrará a una mujer que tiene todas las de perder y se demostrará cómo la sociedad no la protegió ni a ella ni a sus hijos de las garras de su marido.

Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Nicolas, an expert in loneliness, for help.

A young woman invents the love she does not get and she needs. She has always done that, since childhood. It has become a disease. When Nicolas leaves her she refuses to believe it. He will love her anyway, it is needed, she needs it.

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...

A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links that are woven.

Zoé intenta escapar de ella misma. Dejando tras de sí aglomeraciones y gasolineras anónimas se dirige al norte. Como un pasajero invisible sube a un ferry, donde una misteriosa mujer desaparece de repente. Vestida con el abrigo de un desconocido, Zoé entra en territorio desconocido. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!

Una mirada a la relación entre Maria Antonieta y uno de sus lectores durante los días finales de la revolución francesa. En 1789 la corte de Luis XV vive en Versalles, ajena a los acontecimientos que ocurren la capital francesa. Con la llegada de las noticias de la toma de la cárcel de la Bastilla, la corte se afaña en huir. En ese clima enrarecido e inquieto, Sidonie Laborde, una muchacha que ha entrado a servir en palacio como lectora de la reina, se conviertirá en la principal confidente de la reina mientras a su alrededor las tensiones entre las cortesanas irá en aumento a la par que las agitaciones provinientes del exterior.

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, the big one that marks a life forever.

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.

A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character.

There’s Evelyne who loves Albert, who loves Arthur, who loves the girl who plays the actress, who loves the man driving the convertible. There’s the night which only loves itself and death which only loves once. It would take more breath to kiss everyone and more time not to displease anyone.

Babou es una mujer poco convencional y alegre que nunca se ha preocupado por las convenciones sociales. Pero, cuando descubre que su hija no piensa invitarla a su boda porque se avergüenza de ella, decide cambiar de vida. Herida en su amor de madre, se pone a vender apartamentos en Ostende, en pleno invierno. En el ambiente particular de esta ciudad balnearia fuera de temporada, Babou intentará recuperar el aprecio de su hija y ofrecerle un digno regalo de boda.

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a “quickie”. But is it as simple as that?

Al principio pensaba que no era cierto. Creía que los demás no se fijaban en mí porque no me encontraban interesante, porque en el fondo, yo no valía nada. Luego, en cambio, comprendí que había momentos en que me volvía realmente invisible. ¡Seguía estando allí pero la gente ya no me veía!

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse.

Mezcla de documental y ficción en la que cinco mujeres se convierten en apoyo y guía para los jóvenes que acuden a un centro de planificación familiar. (FILMAFFINTY)

The newspapers announce the left's defeat in the upcoming elections. A confused young mother gets up in the night to take care of her child. Leftist teens, completely puzzled, throw themselves headlong into every kind of extreme behavior. The child asks his grandfather for advice.

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

It’s a tough winter for young Julien: he meets up with his mother and she asks him to write a statement against his father for the divorce trial; he meets up with his friend Arthur and he tells him that his girl, Lolita, slept with Demian, another friend; he meets up with Demian, who confesses the betrayal; he meets up with his father, who warns him that if he testifies against him, Julien will be a dead man for him; he meets up with the beautiful Lolita and she makes it clear that, for her, being with him or with any of his friends or with all of them is the same thing; he meets up with his sister, who cries over their parents’ fighting, and asks Julian for help.

Un ciudadano francés, ya sexagenario, saca una importante suma de dinero de un banco suizo para sufragar su transplante de corazón. Después de la operación, viaja a Corea del Sur para discutir sus planes de construir el barco de sus sueños. Más tarde, el hombre continuará con un viaje hasta Tahití en busca de un hijo perdido.

Yann and Lena are brother and sister, but they don’t realize it. Meanwhile, Yann wants to get closer to her…

Mia Hansen-Løve's debut begins her career-long chronicle of a family. In this short film, a father breaks the news to his children that he and their mother are separating - the repercussions of which surface everywhere elsewhere in Hansen-Løve's filmography, in particular her most recent feature Things To Come (2016), for which she won the Silver Bear at the 2016 Berlinale

The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live.

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.

Película basada en una novela de Ingeborg Bachmann, con guión de la Premio Nobel de Literatura Elfriede Jelinek. Cuenta la historia de Malina (Isabelle Huppert), una mujer que encierra una doble personalidad.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). La vida en la Francia ocupada es muy difícil. Marie Latour, una mujer casada, decide ayudar a una vecina a interrumpir un embarazo no deseado. Poco a poco empiezan a requerir sus servicios otras mujeres encintas, bien porque han sido violadas, bien porque sus maridos están en el frente. Mientras tanto, el marido de Marie, que permanece en casa debido a una herida de guerra, contempla sorprendido cómo mejora la economía familiar.