Crystel Fournier

Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island where she tries to survive, then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour guide and together they find the resilience to forge ahead.

Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.

Es la historia real de Hans en tres momentos (1945, 1957 y 1969) de su relación con Viktor, un asesino convicto: un amor carcelario, propiciado por las entradas y salidas de prisión de Hans a causa de la represión a la que fueron sometidas las personas homosexuales en la Alemania democrática de posguerra.

The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past but uncovered secrets and resentments which have been buried deep, threaten to overwhelm them.

Brillante, inteligente, apasionada y libre, Eleanor es la hija más joven de Karl Marx. Siendo una de las primeras mujeres que relaciona el feminismo con el socialismo, defiende los derechos de los trabajadores, de las mujeres y lucha por la abolición del trabajo infantil. En 1883 conoce a Edward Aveling y se ve inmersa en una ardiente historia de amor.

Tras un acto de violencia cometido por su propio hermano, Emma huye con su madre al campo, donde encuentran refugio en un retiro aislado a la sombra de una central nuclear.

La musa de Andy Warhol, Christa Päffgen, nombre artístico Nico, cantante de la banda Velvet Underground y una mujer de belleza legendaria. Ella ganó una nueva vida después de la historia que todos saben, cuando lanzó su carrera en solitario.

Anne se encuentra en una encrucijada en su vida. Casada con un exitoso productor de cine, un día se encuentra de forma inesperada viajando en coche desde Cannes a París con un socio de negocios de su marido. Lo que debería ser un viaje de siete horas se convierte en una aventura de dos días repleta de diversión llena de lugares pintorescos, buena comida y mejor vino, mucho humor, sabiduría y romance, despertando los sentidos de Anne y dándole un nuevo deseo a su vida.

Vital, de 40 años, es jefe de taller en una fábrica textil. Es elegido como "cobaya" por Alix, la hija de 25 años del jefe de la fábrica, que ha venido para hacer un estudio ergonómico. La hija del jefe se rendirá pronto a los encantos de Vital, quien se irá abriendo poco a poco a Alix.

Para Marieme la vida es una sucesión de prohibiciones. Se siente agobiada por su familia, por la escuela y por la implacable ley de los chicos del barrio. Pero su vida cambia cuando conoce a un grupo de chicas de espíritu libre. Entonces cambia su nombre, su modo de vestir y abandona la escuela para ser aceptada en el grupo. Convertida en Vic, abraza el código de la calle donde se mezclan violencia, amistad y libertad.

Tras instalarse con su familia en un barrio de las afueras de París, Laure, una niña de diez años, aprovecha su aspecto y su corte de pelo para hacerse pasar por un chico. En su papel de Mickaël, se verá inmersa en situaciones comprometidas; por ejemplo, Lisa, una chica del grupo, se enamora de ella. ¿Cuáles serán las consecuencias cuando se descubra su engaño?

David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends and nothing can separate them. But then David learns that he is about to be transferred to another clinic in another town. How will he be able to break the news to Romain? And how will Romain cope with this new crisis in his life?

Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.

Simon Nardis was once an internationally renowned jazz pianist but for the past ten years he has led a more orderly life as a husband and father. But all that changes when he walks into a jazz club by chance one evening. He comes face-to-face with the demons he thought he had tamed: music, alcohol and doubts about himself. He wonders if he really is happy...

Louis was adopted when he was just a baby. Now sixteen-year-old Louis wants to know where he comes from. He therefore heads south to find the mother he's never known. Totally thrown by this unexpected visit, Solange rejects the child she never desired. Louis will nevertheless do everything he can to make her accept him.

El verano ha llegado a los suburbios de París y, como siempre los adolescentes se aburren. En esas circunstancias, se conocen Marie, Anne y Floriane, las tres de quince años. Anne y Marie entabla una tierna e ingenua amistad, pero Floriane, mucho más desarrollada físicamente, se interpondrá entre ellas, pues Marie empieza a sentirse fascinada por esa chica que tanto atrae a los chicos.

Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so...

In Uruguay, where he lives with his wife and son Thomas, Orlando Vargas suffers from pressure from the government. Permanently watched by a policeman, Orlando seems not to care about danger. He decides to leave with his family to go to Josefina, the last village by the sea before Brazil. There, things move faster: on the day of his arrival, Orlando fails to return home.

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?

Bruno y Fréderic son los dos hermanos Saltim, de padre italiano y madre francesa. Bruno, el mayor, ocupa un cargo importante en el banco en que su hermano pequeño trabaja de director. Renuncia a postular al cargo de máximo directivo a cambio de que se le proporcione financiación para un teatro de las afueras de Paris. Justo en plenos preparativos de dos nuevos espectáculos : El tío Vania de Tchekov y Ester de Racine, la dirección del banco anuncia recortes de sueldo a sus empleados, cosa que también afecta a Bruno.

After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.

Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holidays. In the face of her daughter's disappointment and incomprehension, she does all she can to find the money.