Gilles Sacuto

A translator working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.

Natacha (25), a young single parent who works as a fast-food waitress, struggles to raise her 8-year-old son Enzo. Torn between a strong desire for independence and the comfort that her mother Irène unfailingly wants to provide for them, Natacha feels trapped. Her encounter with Walid, who is waiting to save enough money to pay for his crossing to England will open new horizons for her.

After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.

The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.

소설가 스테판 벨코트는 수년 만에 돌아간 고향에서 첫사랑 토마스의 아들 루카스를 만난다. 스페판은 오래전 기억 속에 묻어두었던 사랑의 기억을 떠올린다.

Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the baby he just had with his ex, and fights not to make the same mistakes and be a good guy.

살람은 팔레스타인 유명 연속극 「포화 속의 텔아비브」의 인턴으로 일한다. 그는 매일같이 텔레비전 스튜디오로 향하기 위해 경계가 삼엄한 이스라엘 검문소를 통과한다. 그곳에서 만나게 된 검문소장 아시의 아내는 살람이 참여하는 연속극의 열혈 시청자이다. 아시는 아내를 만족시키기 위해 연속극의 전개를 바꾸도록 살람을 압박한다.

Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.

목가적이고 평화로운 일상을 보내던 노르망디 지방의 귀족 ‘잔느’는 가난한 자작 ‘줄리앙’을 만나 사랑에 빠지고 그와 함께하는 행복한 삶을 꿈꾼다. 하지만 기대와 달리 생각지 못한 사건들이 연달아 일어나자 괴로워하던 ‘잔느’는 신부님을 찾아가 진실을 털어놓는데…

Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. Stéphane, however, is desperate for Anne to stay and look after Frida, even against the old lady's will. In this conflict of strangers, Anne will find her own way…

Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?

쌍둥이 남매인 잔느와 시몽은 어느 날 갑자기 의식을 잃은 어머니 나왈의 유언을 전해 듣고 혼란에 빠진다. 유언의 내용은 죽은 줄로만 알았던 생부와 존재조차 몰랐던 형제를 찾아 자신이 남긴 편지를 전해달라는 것. 또한 편지를 전하기 전까지는 절대 장례를 치르지 말라는 당부도 함께 담겨있다. 시몬은 유언을 따르길 거부하지만 진실이 궁금한 잔느는 지도교수의 도움을 얻어 중동에 있는 어머니의 고향으로 떠난다. 베일에 싸여 있던 그녀의 과거와 마주한 잔느. 어둠 속에 묻혀 있던 어머니의 과거의 끝에는 충격적인 진실이 기다리고 있는데...

The story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Džoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Džoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...

경찰의 심문을 받던 16세 아랍소년, 압델 이샤하는 혼수상태다. 시가전이 벌어진 지역에는 경찰의 계엄령이 선포되고, 성난 젊은이들은 위험한 긴장 속에서 경찰과 대치 중이다. 더 이상 살아 숨쉴 여지도 가지지 못한 젊은이들과 총과 헬멧으로 무장한 경찰 사이의 '증오'는 더욱 커져만 간다. 유태계 프랑스인 빈츠, 아랍계 소년 사이드, 흑인 위베르. 그들은 2000년이 될 때까지 살아남는 것이 절대과제인 거리의 단짝 친구들이다. 이들은 경찰과의 격렬한 전투가 있던 다음날, 여느때처럼 모여 할 일없이 거리를 쏘다닌다.

알바니아 망명자인 화가 로돌포(마티 펠론파), 프랑스 시인 마르셀, 아일랜드 출신 작곡가 슈나르드는 우연히 만나 우정을 나누게 된다. 어느 날 로돌포는 갈 곳이 없는 아름다운 미미(에블린 디디)에게 자신의 잠자리를 내주고 이를 계기로 그녀를 사랑하게 된다. 그러나 진정한 예술을 추구하는 이들 보헤미안의 삶은 가난하고 애달프기만 하다. 19세기 프랑스의 앙리 미제르의 소설, 을 원작으로 한 이 영화는 카우리스마키 특유의 유머와 풍자가 녹아 있는 비극이다.

Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.