Because We Were Born (2009)

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.

After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.

First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first meets and "falls in love" with a girl, but when the girl spurns him for an older teenager, his attentions and affections are soon shifted to him. A touching and sensitive tale.

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.

Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

A young man from a small Kazakh village migrates to the big city. Initially sure of himself as he travels by bus and train, he meets a young woman he feels he could easily fall in love with. Later, in the city, he sees her again by accident and realizes that he already has lost his heart to her.

14살 때 교통사고를 당해 10년 동안 혼수상태에 빠져있던 요시이(니시지마 히데토시)는 어느 날 갑자기 기적적으로 깨어난다. 10년이라는 세월 동안 그의 가족은 뿔뿔이 흩어져버렸고, 깨어난 그를 찾아온 사람은 가해자와 아버지의 친구인 후지모리(야쿠쇼 코지)뿐이다. 요시이는 후지모리의 도움을 받아 새로운 생활을 시작하게 된다. 하지만 그가 진정으로 바라는 것은 사고 전처럼 온가족이 함께 모여 화목하게 사는 것이다. 소식을 들은 가족들이 하나둘씩 그를 찾아와 곁에 머무르지만, 잃어버린 10년은 쉽게 회복되지 않는다. 시간을 잃어버린 청년이 느끼는 존재에 대한 불안감을 절제된 롱테이크와 롱쇼트로 표현해냄으로써, 손쉬운 감동보다는 적극적인 사유를 요구하는 작품. 극적인 소재를 다루면서도 오히려 특별한 사건이 일어나지 않는 일상을 무덤덤하고 담담하게 그려내고 있다. 1999년 베를린영화제 출품작. 이 작품은 감동보다는 사유를 요구하는 구로사와 감독의 의지를 드러낸다. 다작을 생산하는 감독으로 알려진 그는 독특한 작가성을 인정받고 있는 반면, 계속되는 실험 지향적 성향을 우려하는 목소리도 적지 않다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 구로사와에서 구로사와까지, 일본영화의 절대강자들)

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.

Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.

A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history.

Ten years old Phil who is living with his mother and likes skateboarding with his friends has fallen in love with a girl of his age.

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

René is an artist. His studio is set up in a former nightclub that is now closed down. He lives and works there with his friend. All goes well, and yet not as well as all that. René believes he’s caught something. He doesn’t really feel sick, but he’s doesn’t feel absorbed by the world around him. Why do things that enter his mind no longer want to leave it? One of them is this photo of two strange clowns that he cut out of a magazine.

Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..

Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on se confie facilement. Il est saisonnier et travaille dans la restauration. Betty, 20 ans, est une jeune mère pleine de vie et de tendresse pour son fils, Damien, 5 ans. Ils vivent encore dans la cellule familiale et les relations entre Betty et son père sont conflictuelles. Damien est perturbé par cette ambiance. Sa mère trouve du travail, quitte le foyer familial et acquiert de l'indépendance. Betty et Philippe se croiseront...