Jacques Comets

Belgian civil engineer Gustave Verniory still had a lot to learn when in 1889 he was hired to construct a railroad across the unspoiled natural landscape of Araucanía, a region that had recently become part of Chile. The tumultuous past and the ever-changing landscape are a constant background presence in Notes for a Film.

할아버지뻘의 남자와 정략결혼을 한 미리암은 남편의 갑작스러운 죽음으로 인해 미필적 고의에 의한 살인 혐의로 사형 선고를 받는다. 이란의 사회적 관습대로 그녀는 죽은 남편의 유일한 혈육인 외동딸 모나에게 용서를 받아야만 사형을 면할 수 있다. 미리암과 그녀의 엄마는 밤이 가장 긴 성축일인 얄다의 밤, TV 생방송 쇼를 통해 모나에게 용서를 구하려 한다. 미디어의 속성과 성차별, 자본주의, 계급의 문제 등 복잡한 주제가 음모와 배신, 반전의 이야기로 엮어져 숨돌릴 틈 없이 관객을 몰입시키는 영화.

Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.

A young widow is hired as the domestic helper for a wealthy architect, but social divides come to the fore as an unlikely attraction grows between them.

14살 소녀 포르투나는 에티오피아 난민으로 스위스의 한 시설에 임시로 머물러 있다. 부모와 연락이 끊겨 외로웠던 그녀는 26살 난민 청년과 사랑에 빠지게 되는데…. 이들의 운명은 어떻게 될 것인가? (2018년 제5회 가톨릭영화제)

Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.

아부 샤디는 나사렛에 살고 있는 60대 중반의 교사다. 그는 오래 전 이혼한 전력이 있고, 한 달 후에 있을 딸의 결혼식이 끝나면 정말로 혼자 살게 될 것이다. 한편, 건축가인 그의 아들 샤디는 팔레스타인의 지역 풍습에 따라 청첩장을 일일이 전달하려는 아버지를 돕기 위해 몇 년 만에 로마에서 돌아온다. 오랜만에 만나 서먹서먹한 부자는 온종일 함께 시간을 보내게 되는데, 두 사람 사이는 팽팽한 긴장감으로 가득 차 있고, 그들이 사는 서로 다른 세상은 부서질 듯 흔들리기 시작한다.

At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, Cuban boxing champion Horacio's punishment for failing a drug test is to watch over the brash, combative Daniel, a patient in a sanatorium where HIV patients are compulsorily confined. The two collide as Daniel yearns for freedom while Horacio dreams of returning to the ring.

퉁과 후옌은 하노이에 사는 젊은 커플로, 아기를 가지게 된 것을 알게 되자 낙태를 위해 필사적으로 돈을 벌러 나선다. 퉁이 불법 투계에 빠진 사이 매춘에 나선 후옌은 놀라운 사실을 알게 되는데…

A grandfather, in the final stage of his existence, asks two of his grandchildren to kill him because he wants to die by the hand of someone who bears his own blood. However, the young children discover a truth that will make them take the opposite decision.

Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following the death of his father and the discovery of what his “respectable family” has become, he is forced to make choices.

It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the country. Traveling through an arid landscape littered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women's quest for their own independence.

타이완의 한 영화감독이 살로메의 신화를 바탕으로 한 영화를 만들려고 한다. 그러나 영화제작이 시작되자마자 감독의 모친이 죽게 되고, 그는 이승을 떠나기 싫어하는 엄마의 혼령이 깃든 아파트에서 깊은 잠에 빠진다.

Writer-director Pablo Agüero's feature debut follows Inti (Joaquin Aguila), a 6-year-old boy caught up in the madness of post-"Dirty War" Argentina. Upon her release from prison, Inti's mother, Alba (Dolores Fonzi), a former dissident, whisks him away from his grandmother's care. Still unsure of her own direction in life, Alba takes Inti to live in a hippie commune in Patagonia. Velvet Underground founder John Cale co-stars.

In 1889, mounted on a small gray horse named Serko, Dimitri leaves his garrison on the Asian borders of the Russian Empire on the banks of the Amur River. After extraordinary adventures, they both arrive in St. Petersburg, at the court of the Tsar. Having covered more than 9000 kilometers in less than 200 days, this young rider has achieved the most fantastic equestrian feat of all time.

2005년 르완다 내의 한 학교에서 선생직을 맡고 있는 어거스틴은 동생의 전범 재판에 참석을 앞두고 과거를 회상한다. 1994년 4월 르완다에 후투족 형제 어거스틴과 호노레가 살고 있었다. 어거스틴은 정부군인으로 투치족 여성과 결혼 하여 아들과 딸을 낳고 살고 있으며 그의 형제 호노레는 반투치 정치성향의 라디오 방송으로 인기를 얻는 방송인이었다. 4월 6일 대통령 암살후 후투족과 투치족은 전쟁을 시작하였고 어거스틴은 투치족인 아내와 아이들을 피신시킨채 정부군으로서 전쟁에 참여한다. 허나 차마 이웃들과 친구들을 죽일 수 없던 그는 될 수 있는 한 그들을 살려주려 하였으나 내전이라는 소용돌이 속에 그것은 만만치 않은 일이었다. 그의 형제 호노레 역시 직접적으로 남을 해하지 않았고 오히려 살리려 노력하였으나 전쟁직전 그의 정치적 성향 때문에 내전이후 전범으로 몰려 감옥에 들어간다. 전쟁중 부인과 아이들, 친한 친구들이 죽은 어거스틴이 전범으로 몰린 형제의 재판에서 본 것은 형제를 전범으로 몰아세우는 내전기간에는 모른척했던 서양 열강 출신의 재판자들과 호노레를 옹호하는 투치족 출신의 변호인들이다.

People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and when she receives a letter from Philippe asking her to meet him atop the Empire State Building, she swoons. She's writing a book on an aged painter, so she organizes a trip to New York ostensibly to secure photographs of some of his pieces. The publisher assigns her a photographer, Matt, on the surface spontaneous and flip, but also aggressive about his attraction to her. Will she be with the one she loves? Will she smile? Written by

Krystof, an architect whose main priority is his job, has been living for several years with Tereza, who has a somewhat different outlook on life. Their love story reveals the distinctness and contradictory nature of each person's subjective worlds and shows how the line between dream and reality differs in each and every one of us.

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

Two middle-aged friends meet a beautiful woman whom they set out to seduce. She invites them but only has eyes for one man: François Mitterrand.

Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything...

On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...

This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both turn to sexual liason's to ease their tension. Bruno ends up enacting a dark sexual fantasy with a stranger while Fabienne eventually succumbs to the advances of Bruno's friend Simon, a fortyish Lebanese businessman and part-time drug dealer. The comedy takes on overtones of psycho-drama when the contest winner announced and the couple discovers the truth of each other's actions. A cache of drugs, discovered in an apartment only adds to their troubles.

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Pierre (Christian Vadim) is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille (Lio), an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.

It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?