Franck Beckmann

Alan, a withdrawn and solitary young man, usually finds solace in his inner world. Today is the big day: he’s leaving the family home to enter working life.

In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings from private collections that would be hidden there as well.

In August 2021, the director Thierry Mauvignier revisited a Poitevine legend of "the grave of the child" with his brother, the writer Laurent Mauvignier. This immersive and humanist documentary retraces the long road that Thierry and his actors and his technical team had to travel to reach the end of his production.

A woman meets a man in a bar late in the evening and goes to his apartment. A woman picks up a girl from school and runs with the child through the park. If we see such scenes in a movie, or are we watching such situations in life, we quickly believe we know who these women are: a woman looking for a fleeting adventure in the first scene, a caring mother in the second.

In 1919, in a small town under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. Outside, his mangy dog barks night and day. Not far off in the countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is coming to sort out this case of which it is better not to speak.

Clémence and her parents take part in a big country picnic. Arriving late, Clémence joins the other children who are already playing away from the adults, but it doesn't turn out to be as much fun as she expected.

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...

Jérôme has killed Driss, of Moroccan ancestry, who used to be his best friend. Is it an accident, a drama caused by jealousy or a racist murder? The story of Jérôme's long drift is discovered as the police carry out its investigation.

60-something Henri meets 50-something Lila, and sparks fly - until they both must reconcile their very different lives and backgrounds.

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.

1942년 7월, 어느 날. 갑자기 들이닥친 경찰들이 유대인들을 하나 둘씩 체포하기 시작한다. 10살 소녀 사라는 경찰들의 눈을 피해 동생 미셸을 벽장에 숨기고 열쇠를 감춘다. 사라는 동생에게 금방 돌아와서 꺼내주겠다는 약속을 남긴 채, 부모님과 함께 수용소로 강제 이송된다. 수용소에 갇혀 있는 내내 오직 벽장 속에 갇혀있는 동생을 구해야겠다는 일념뿐인 사라. 벽장 열쇠를 목숨처럼 지키던 사라는 수용소에서 탈출을 시도하는데... 그리고, 2009년 프랑스의 어느 신문사. 프랑스인과 결혼한 미국인 기자 줄리아는 1942년 프랑스 유대인 집단 체포사건에 대해 취재 하던 중, 자신과 묘하게 이어져 있는 사라의 흔적을 찾게 된다. 그리고 사라의 발자취를 따라 사건에 얽힌 실타래를 풀어갈수록 줄리아와 가족의 삶은 점점 흔들리게 되는데… 사라진 소녀의 흔적… 이제, 그 진실의 문이 열린다.

During the Occupation, a kid is taken in by his old grandfather, wrongly considered a collaborator.

In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...