Philippe Guilbert

Willing to risk it all, an unscrupulous art dealer and his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.

Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.

Thierry is convinced that the best is behind him. When Claire, his wife, tired of «it was better before», announced that she is leaving him, Thierry, devastated, decided to go back to Greece where they spend their best family holidays 20 years ago. Officially, he wants to spend one last week with their children before announcing their separation. Unofficially, he hopes to win back his wife... By trying to rekindle the flame of his couple, Thierry may well set his family on fire...

Agosto 1970, en pleno periodo yéyé. Como cada año, el millonario Claude Trachant y su mujer Eliane han invitado a lo más granado del show-business a su suntuosa villa de Saint-Tropez. Parecía que nada podría aguar la fiesta generalizada hasta que el descapotable de la pareja es saboteado. Convencido de ser víctima de un intento de homicidio, Tranchant llama a su amigo Chirac para conseguir el contacto del mejor detective de París. Pero en mitad del verano, solo el comisario Boulin, a punto de jubilarse, está disponible.

Christine (Catherine Frot) es una sintecho que vive en París. Una noche de invierno encuentra a Suli (Mahamadou Yaffa), un niño eritreo de 8 años, sollozando frente a su refugio. Unidos por sus condición de marginales, ambos se embarcarán en un viaje emocional para intentar encontrar en París a la madre del niño.

When French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-96) published her novel The Sea Wall in 1950, she came very close to winning the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Meanwhile, in Indochina, France was suffering its first military defeats in its war against the Việt Minh, the rebel movement for independence.

Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife Carole. Soon, the fragile family balance is broken when Jimmy is interned in a psychiatric hospital. When Gina meets Nico, a boy from her neighborhood, she awakens to love and sees a chance to escape her father.

Ambientada en la Venecia de finales del siglo XIX y basada en una de las novelas más aclamadas de Henry James, Los papeles de Aspern es una historia de obsesiones, pérdidas y sueños. El ambicioso editor Morton Vint ansía tener en sus manos las cartas que el mítico poeta romántico Jefferey Aspern escribió en su día a su amante y musa Juliana Bordereau. Aunque ya han pasado varias décadas de aquella historia de amor, Juliana sigue manteniendo el íntimo y preciado secreto bajo llave en el palazzo donde vive junto a su sobrina Tina. La intención inicial de Morton es entrar como huésped y cautivar a Tina ocultando sus reales intenciones... Este no dudará en manipular a las dos mujeres y hará todo lo posible por conseguir las valiosas cartas.

Bajo la presión de su jefa, un productor musical a la deriva decide iniciar una banda formada por un rabino, un sacerdote y un imam para hacerlos cantar juntos.

In a small town lost in the middle of nowhere, Edmond Zweck's funeral business is on the wing. The company now has only two employees: Georges, Zweck's right-hand man, and Eddy, a young man still a novice in the trade. One fine morning, however, a dead man pointed his nose. Hope is born again. Georges and Eddy are responsible for leading the deceased to his last abode. But in search of the cemetery that can not be found, the funeral convoy goes astray and the journey turns into a fiasco.

Jean-Etienne Fougerole es un intelectual humanista casado con una rica heredera desconectado de la realidad. Mientras promociona su libro "À bras ouverts" en un debate de televisión invita a los telespectadores a acoger en su casa a personas necesitadas. El presentador le reta a que aplique lo que preconiza en su libro.

A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide she should attempt a comeback.

Mathieu tiene 33 años y vive con la incógnita de no haber conocido a su padre. Su madre siempre le dijo que fue fruto de una aventura de una noche. Una mañana, en su apartamento de París, recibe una llamada de Canadá de un desconocido que dice ser amigo de su padre y le informa de que éste ha fallecido, y que le quiere enviar lo que aparentemente le ha dejado en herencia: un cuadro. También le dice que tiene dos hermanos. Movido por la curiosidad, decide viajar a Montreal para conocer a esa parte de su familia que vive allí, que no serán, ni mucho menos, los que Mathieu esperaba.

En el corazón de la Provenza, Louise cría sola a sus dos hijos e intenta mantener a flote el negocio familiar. Un día en el que casi atropella a un desconocido, Louise descubre que es un hombre distinto al resto de la gente. La fascinación que siente por él es tal que sospecha que podría cambiar su vida y la de su familia.

Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winter's day, he stops at a roadside parking lot and is approached by Laura, an 18-year-old young woman who asks him to drive her home. He accepts, and on the way, she offers him "her services" in exchange for money. Daniel is furious, and throws her out of his car. But his feelings of remorse and the violence of his reaction lead him to turn around and retrace his steps, only to discover that Laura has disappeared...

An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest area and their son's tombstone. Having lost the keys to their car, they walk down into the woods together, then apart, to better find themselves and each other.

The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality

Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live...

After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly.

La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screens.

In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?

After several years in the United States, Sylvain heads back to France to attend his grandson’s christening. He wastes no time trying to catch up with his ex-wife and their children, but not everyone is pleased by his unexpected return...

Alex, de 16 años, vive con su padre Frank en un pueblo aislado en los bosques de las Ardenas. Obligada a ayudarle después de la trágica muerte de su madre, Alex siente que está creciendo demasiado deprisa para su edad. Mientras Frank intenta superar la apatía en la que está sumido desde la muerte de su mujer, Alex reaviva involuntariamente el dolor de su padre. Ambos acaban sumergiéndose en un mundo ambiguo con una frágil frontera entre la ternura y el deseo. El encuentro inesperado con Hector, un huérfano de 22 años cuya tía hace todo lo posible para que no madure, abrirá los ojos de la joven respecto a la relación que tiene con su padre...

En París, dos hermanas, llevan una vida con la que no son felices. Ariane escribe en la revista ‘Tú y yo’ fotonovelas en las que idealiza, tanto su vida como la de su hermana Lena. Ariane lleva mucho tiempo con su novio Farid, pero este no la quiere. Por otra parte, Lena es una violonchelista, tranquila y prudente, tanto en su vida como en su trabajo. Su historia de amor con su novio François no tiene pasión, a pesar de que ellos están hablando de tener un bebé. Tanto Ariane como Lena tienen una salida para escapar de sus vidas. Ariane podría dejarse llevar y empezar una historia de amor con Pablo, un constructor español que trabaja en su edificio. Lena se siente atraída por Mark, un gran violinista que pronto se irá a Asia. ¿Qué harán Lena y Ariane?

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost...

Roger Closset is a man who obviously loves his family, though that doesn't always make them feel better. Dad is an obsessive type with a short fuse and a long list of curious ideas, and his wife and children must often bear the brunt of his eccentricities. Roger works as a reporter, a job he doesn't like which doesn't pay especially well, either. One day, Roger learns an area business association is sponsoring a contest for a family that can break a world record, with the grand prize being a new car. Suddenly, Roger gets a brainstorm -- if his son can open and shut a door 40,000 times in 24 hours, the car will be theirs. 15-year-old Michel, however, is not at all happy to have been drafted into this new responsibility, especially when dad builds a practice door in the backyard and finds a trainer to teach Michel how to open and close it with greatest efficiency.

In musical terminology, the term " study " designates pieces to approach a specific problem : study for arpeggios, for the left-handed etc. The question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell/dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet ? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today. Twenty-one micro fictions by four Cie Michèle Anne De Mey dancers in witch the educational aspect of experimentation soon gives way to the pleasur of joyful poetics: an original blend of tender insolence and srtict elegance.