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Original Film Writer
An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
Screenplay
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.
Director
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.
Co-Writer
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing decision ...
Notary
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
Screenplay
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
Director
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.
Screenplay
In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.
Writer
Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an underage gypsy prostitute. Torn by the pressure from all sides, he almost turns into an unscrupulous pimp. His feelings for the girl will help him keep the last thing he has – his dignity.
Director
Le docteur Stroesser
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
Screenplay
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
Le directeur du supermarché
フランスの港町カレーにたどり着いたイラク国籍のクルド難民、ビラル(フィラ・エヴェルディ)はイギリスへ密航しようとするも失敗。恋人のいるロンドンへどうしても行きたいビラルは泳いで行こうと思いついたが、偶然出会った水泳コーチのシモン(ヴァンサン・ランドン)は「無理だ」と一刀両断。それでもビラルは練習を続け……。
Screenplay
フランスの港町カレーにたどり着いたイラク国籍のクルド難民、ビラル(フィラ・エヴェルディ)はイギリスへ密航しようとするも失敗。恋人のいるロンドンへどうしても行きたいビラルは泳いで行こうと思いついたが、偶然出会った水泳コーチのシモン(ヴァンサン・ランドン)は「無理だ」と一刀両断。それでもビラルは練習を続け……。
Writer
フランスの港町カレーにたどり着いたイラク国籍のクルド難民、ビラル(フィラ・エヴェルディ)はイギリスへ密航しようとするも失敗。恋人のいるロンドンへどうしても行きたいビラルは泳いで行こうと思いついたが、偶然出会った水泳コーチのシモン(ヴァンサン・ランドン)は「無理だ」と一刀両断。それでもビラルは練習を続け……。
Jacques Desmoines
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
Writer
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Gardien Gilles
In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a six-month sentence for drug smuggling; he protests his innocence and will do anything to secure an early release. Francky is a hardened criminal who has all but lost his wife and family and who seeks comfort in self-inflicted abuse. Kader is in prison for theft; he is the most philosophical of the three men, he is growing accustomed to prison life and seems to prefer it to the world outside.
Le conducteur
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
Director
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