Sébastien Buchmann

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.

피에르와 블라디미르 형제는 러시아인인 조부모님이 1930~40년대에 파리의 소련 공산당 정보국에서 일했는지 의문을 품고 러시아로 향한다. 모든 만남과 대화들, 노랗게 바래 버린 사진들과 보드카를 뒤로 한 채 이들은 과거를 마주하고, 잃어버린 세계는 되살아나 현재를 괴롭히게 된다.

In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone’s attention. Suspected by the police, he’s also chased by a mysterious organization, the Green Perfume, that seems to have ordered the murder. While leading his own investigation, Martin receives the unexpected help of Claire, an eccentric cartoonist in need of adventure. This unlikely duo will live an adventure across Europe to foil the plans of the mysterious Green Perfume.

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an attempt to mend his broken heart and ego, he tries to seduce them all but none are receptive to his elaborate (and musical) advances. Meanwhile, at the theater, the leading lady quits and the production brings in Laurent’s ex-fiancée as the replacement.

Paris, 1981. The winds of change are blowing on election night and the French storm the streets, elated. But Élisabeth struggles to share the general mood of optimism. Her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support her family. She is distraught, and her father and teenage children are worried that her tears simply will not dry. But what if listening to her emotions could help her to start filling the blank page of her future? What if she were to write a letter on a whim to the host of her favourite radio programme? Or invite a homeless girl into her house? What would happen if she were to make the kind of gestures that actually change lives?

Solange is a typical 13 year old, curious and full of life, with perhaps the peculiarity of being overly sentimental and adoring her parents. But when her parents begin to argue, fight and slowly drift apart, the threat of divorce looms near and Solange’s world begins to splinter. To keep her family together, she will worry, act out, suffer. It’s the story of a young and overly tender teen who wants the impossible: for love to never end.

마르세유의 옛 어촌이었던 말무스크에는 새로 온 주민들, 해수욕을 즐기는 사람들이 어울려 지내고 있다. 비지니는 도망간 고양이를 찾기 위해 동네를 돌아다닌다. 엘리나는 남편이 자신의 휴대폰에 스파이웨어를 설치했다고 확신하고 있다. 이 둘은 자신들의 대화를 남이 들을 수 없게 카약을 타고 바다로 떠난다.

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

30년간 정치인으로 살아온 리옹시의 시장 폴은 완전히 지쳐버렸다. 그의 보좌관들은 폴에게 정신적 활력을 불어넣을 젊고 똑똑한 철학도 엘리스를 비서로 붙여준다. 이 만남은 폴의 생각과 정치적 행보에 어떤 변화를 초래할까?

파리에서 민박집을 관리하는 스물 네살 ‘다비드’(뱅상 라코스테)는 보르도에서 상경한 ‘레나’(스테이시 마틴)와 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 어느 날 누나 ‘상드린’(오펠리아 콜브)이 세상을 떠나자 슬픔을 뒤로한 채 일곱 살 조카 ‘아만다’(이조르 뮐트리에)를 오롯이 책임져야 하는데.. 평화로웠던 일상으로 돌아가려는 삼촌과 조카의 뭉클하면서도 씩씩한 여정이 시작된다.

A boy, a girl. They live in the same building. They share a passion for music. But when they meet in the elevator, Théo doesn’t see that Élise is blind. It’s hate at first sight. Love takes its time. Will that early misunderstanding bring them together or drive them apart?

Pierre, 20, looks like any other guy his age. But to support his studies in molecular biology, he also has another life which he prefers to remain secret—to make some extra money, Pierre works as an escort. One day, he receives an insistent SMS from Hélène, one of his regular clients. Intrigued, the young man will discover a side to her that he did not know existed.

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.

할리우드의 여신에서 모나코의 왕비로! 아름답고 우아한 이미지로 전 세계인의 사랑을 받던 '할리우드의 여신' 그레이스 켈리는 모나코의 레니에 3세와 세기의 결혼식을 올리면서 할리우드를 떠난다. 하지만 답답한 왕실 생활에 서서히 지쳐가던 그녀는 히치콕 감독의 영화계 복귀 제안에 마음이 흔들리고, 모나코를 합병시키고 싶었던 프랑스는 할리우드 복귀를 고민하는 그녀를 이용해 모나코 왕실을 위기에 빠트리는데… 모나코의 운명을 바꾼 그녀 생애 가장 위대한 순간이 펼쳐진다!

At 25, Nina adopts a dog. She is sure: with her new companion Jojo, she will be doing better.

Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.

In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.

어두운 소재를 젊음의 활기로 끌어올리는 희망 넘치는 수작. 로메오와 줄리엣은 클럽에서 만나 한눈에 반한다. 달콤한 연애 끝에 결혼에 골인하지만 신혼의 기쁨도 잠시, 아기가 뇌종양에 걸린 걸 알게 되면서 젊은 부부에게는 전쟁이 시작된다. 그것은 아들을 살리기 위한 마라톤이자 그들이 ‘어른’으로서 성숙해가는 여정이기도 하다. (2011년 16회 부산국제영화제)

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.

François Darcy, a young MP, gets back to his hotel in the morning. A rumor starts spreading around town : the President may have incidentally died.

A documentary investigation of the world of French agriculture today through various testimonials. A world that manages to resist the upheavals that it faces – economic, scientific, social – and which continues, for better or for worse, to maintain the link between generations.

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse.

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.

"Avant que tu reviennes" is the fragmented, deliberately cubist story of a group of friends who get together in a nightclub a few days after one their tribe, who had ties with all of them, abruptly killed himself, leaving no note of explanation.

May 6th, 2007: Alice, a socialist activist, still believes in Ségolène Royal and decides to do everything in her power to help the socialist candidate win. Unfortunately, nothing goes as expected.

A party, musical love stories: head North, on a Northern Soul rhythm.

A party, musical love stories: head North, on a Northern Soul rhythm.

Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment’s owner, and a friend of his mother’s, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears.

On Christmas Eve, a West suburb of Paris. Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia (25 years old) decide to take a stroll down the big park overhanging the city of their youth, musing on pop music, their work, sex and their disappointed ambitions.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

Before he marries his current girlfriend, eccentric speech therapist Richard (Serge Bozon) asks his friend Raphael (Mods star Laurent Lacotte) to help him destroy photos kept by his ex-girlfriend, Mademoiselle Dornet, as a record of their relationship. Raphael in turn enlists an actor (Laurent Le Doyen) to pose as a Turkish doctor and convince Dornet that she must rid herself of the photos in order to cure her depression.

In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. After being told he's not convincing enough for a role in a gangster flick, Ange dons a mask and stages a parking-lot holdup, terrifying the film's director and casting director to prove his point.