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95-96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversitý and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.
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Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's convinced he's going to die. When his cardiologist warns him : We all need others. Alone, we're nothing. Tony decides to reconnect with the daughter he abandoned twenty years earlier, when she was just a baby. Still a coward, he's unable to screw up the courage to actually confront her directly. So he decides to sign up for a dance class she's teaching in Paris. Incognito, of course. To get to know her gradually… in a desperate attempt to give some meaning to his empty life. In the process, he has more than a few dance steps to learn!
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アメリカに贈られた自由の女神像の制作に協力した、ギュスターヴ・エッフェル。1889年に開催されるパリ万国博覧会を数年後に控え、シンボルモニュメントの制作コンクールが催されるが彼は無関心だった。ところが、あるパーティーで友人の妻アドリエンヌから「ぜひ見てみたい。野心作を」と言われて奮起。その席上で「パリの真ん中に300メートルの塔を全て金属で造る」と宣言する。その後もエッフェルが反対運動や資金不足にめげずにまい進する理由には、アドリエンヌとの秘めた過去が大きく関わっていた。
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1960年代後半のフランスを舞台に、良妻賢母を理想とする花嫁学校の教師と生徒が、“五月革命”の波にも刺激を受けて、自分たちが盲目的に受け入れていた古い価値観に疑問を持ち始める姿をユーモラスに描いたコメディ・ドラマ。主演は「ポンヌフの恋人」「ショコラ」のジュリエット・ビノシュ。共演にヨランド・モロー、ノエミ・ルヴォフスキー、エドゥアール・ベール。監督は「セラフィーヌの庭」「ルージュの手紙」のマルタン・プロヴォ。 1967年、フランス。アルザス地方の小さな村にあるヴァン・デル・ベック家政学校。理想の良妻賢母を育成するこの学校に18人の少女たちが入学する。しかし校長のポーレットと２人の講師が行う授業は、女性解放運動の風を受け始めた生徒たちには納得いかないことばかりだった。そんな中、学校の経営者だったポーレットの夫が急死し、多額の借金が発覚する。破産寸前に追い込まれた学校を救うために銀行に駆け込んだポーレットは、そこでかつての恋人アンドレと思いがけない再会を果たす。彼のサポートを受け、経営の立て直しに取り組むポーレットだったが…。
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ブリュノは今日も朝から大忙し。自閉症の青少年を支援する団体〈正義の声〉を運営しているのだが、どんな問題を抱えていても断らないために、各所で見放された子供たちで施設はいつもいっぱいだ。〈正義の声〉で働くのは、ブリュノの友人のマリクが運営する団体〈寄港〉で教育されたドロップアウトした若者たち。黙っていればコワモテのふたりだが、「何とかする」の口癖と大きく包み込む笑顔で、社会からはじかれた子供たちを、まとめて救おうとしているのだ。その成果は現れ、最悪の問題児だったディランと、最も重症のヴァランタンの間に、絆が芽生えようとしていた。だが、無認可・赤字経営の〈正義の声〉に監査が入ることになり、閉鎖の危機に迫られる。さらに、ディランが目を離した隙にヴァランタンが失踪するという事件が起きてしまう─。
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What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole.
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Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
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日本でも3度アニメ化されたフランスの名作児童文学「家なき子」を実写映画化。南フランスの農村で暮らす11歳の少年レミは、優しい母と貧しいながらも幸せな毎日を送っていた。そんなある日、長い間パリへ出稼ぎに出ていた義父により、レミは旅芸人の親方ヴィタリスに売り飛ばされてしまう。情の深い親方に歌の才能を見いだされたレミは、犬のカピや猿のジョリクールと親交を深めながら、ひたむきに旅を続けていく。オーディションで選出されたマロム・パキンが主人公レミを演じ、美しい歌声も披露。「隠された記憶」のダニエル・オートゥイユ、「8人の女たち」のリュディビーヌ・サニエ、「ニュー・シネマ・パラダイス」のジャック・ペランが脇を固める。
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The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing he possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.
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Antoine, a bachelor party-goer, gets new roommates: Jeanne and her two children.
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Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
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Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
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The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
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Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.
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フランスに来て10年の黒人サンバに、国外退去命令が出ていたことが発覚。職場を追われた彼は移民支援のボランティアをしている女性と出会う。そんな二人の風変わりな関係を描いた、オマール・シー主演の感動作。
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After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he has to support the daily visits of doctors,nurse and hospital staff then his closes including his brother Herve. Visits after visits, funny or touching, Pierre starts to reconsider some people and reexamine his environment. And after all, his stay becomes a second chance ...
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A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
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With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers...
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Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
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A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
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A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
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Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
