Laurent Benaïm

A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers no longer want to hear about politics. When Citroën decides to pay back the Grenelle Agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime per week for free, Robert and some others see the possibility of a social movement.

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls into the hands of his family.

The story centres on Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman who has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The two of them dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship…

1993년 파리, 17살 셀마는 부르주아 계급의 베르베르인 가정에서 자란다. 도발적인 성격의 청년 줄리앙을 만난 후, 누군가와 친밀함을 느끼는 데 가부장적인 가정 환경이 얼마나 큰 영향을 미치는지 깨닫는다. 셀마는 자신의 두려움과 직면하고 욕망의 힘과 위험을 탐구한다.

12년 동안 교도소에 있다 나온 뱅상. 그는 한 여자를 찾아간다. 그간의 공백을 채우기 위해 그들은 처음 만난 사람처럼 서로를 조금씩 알아가는데….

Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities.

At the top of their career, Eric & Quentin are doing a terrible bad buzz that threatens to wipe out their reputation. To save their skin, they have only one solution: to realize a good buzz in less than 48 hours!

Solange, in her sixties, her 3 daughters, and Zouzou, her 14 year-old granddaughter, spend a few days in the country. An opportunity for Solange to announce the news: she has a new man in her life. And the sexual side of the relationship, should they discuss it or ignore it?

In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.

Through this short window open on a two days into the life of the characters you have to guess who they are and from where they have come from. There is this lonely male character, mostly pathetic, this bored women in the middle of a painful lame life, this naive actress in search of her soul mate.

파리, 브루노는 친구 피에르와 자신의 아파트에서 여자친구인 로제트를 기다리고 있다. 브루노와 8개월을 사귀는 동안 단 한 번도 제 시간에 나온 적이 없는 그녀를 기다리며 브루노는 오늘 그녀가 45분 이상 늦는다면 결별을 선언하겠다며 독하게 마음 먹는다. 시간에 철저한 브루노에게 지금까지 구렁이 담 넘어가듯 능청스럽게 대응해 온 로제트는 과연 어떤 반응을 보일까?

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.

Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello. It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer Cindy Sherman, a brunette, and her model, a blonde who strangely resemble one another. The film was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

A young man is walking in a public garden. There are hardly any other people.

La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends, the pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules as they leave their bucolic, rural hometown to separately pursue their baccalaureate - and real world - educations.

Four friends have taken their final exams and waiting for their results... and their lives to begin. In the mean time Wein is worrying about his Asian heritage, Cedric is struggling to come to terms with being gay and Gaelle and Chloe are trying to forget about everything until the results are in.