Jean-Guy Véran

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.

With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town. After Purna returns home to start his mayoral election campaign, Rakib bonds with the older man, who becomes a close mentor and father figure, and finds his calling as Purna’s assistant in work and life. When Purna’s election poster is found vandalised one day, Rakib doesn’t hesitate to track down the culprit, kicking off an escalating chain of violence.

A group of teenagers spend their summer working in the fig harvest in rural northwest Tunisia. Melek and her friends work in the orchards during the summer to pay for their studies, prepare for their weddings or help their families. Between the fig trees, under the gaze of older workers and young men, they reveal and project themselves, on the threshold of an adult life. The fig orchard becomes a real theater of emotions, where their relationships with work, love, friendship and the land are played out.

For the first time, Marie spends her holidays alone with her kids, without her husband. One evening, she is seduced by a strange and fascinating young man, who slowly set a trap for her. Then the night turns into a nightmare...

For the first time, Marie spends her holidays alone with her kids, without her husband. One evening, she is seduced by a strange and fascinating young man, who slowly set a trap for her. Then the night turns into a nightmare...

Em algum lugar no Kosovo, três mulheres decidem fugir de suas vidas cotidianas para perseguir seus sonhos e ambições maiores. Entre eles: formar uma banda.

After meeting at a party, Isaac and Ava spend the night walking in the cold Parisian winter and fall in love without even realizing it. But Ava has to go to Brazil the next day. As he waits for her alone, Isaac learns that Ava's plane has gone missing.

Os cineastas Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb e Manar, amigos próximos por muitos anos, deixaram sua pátria nos anos 60 e 70 para estudar cinema no exterior e fundaram o Sudanese Film Group em 1989. Após anos de distância e exílio, eles estão reunidos, esperando finalmente realizar seu velho sonho: trazer de volta o cinema ao Sudão reabrindo o Halfaia Cinema, um teatro dilapidado em Khartoum.

From inside Bolivia's craziest prison a cocaine worker, a drug mule and his little sister reveal the countries relationship with cocaine.

The brief but intense encounter of a Greek police officer and a Syrian refugee changes the way the two see this world.

Nuria, Fabio e sua mãe Amparo chegam a uma ilha desconhecida na fronteira entre Brasil, Colômbia e Peru. Fugindo dos conflitos armados na Colômbia, eles descobrem que o pai, supostamente morto num deslizamento de terra causado por uma mineradora, se esconde na casa onde vivem.

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.

Maria Callas nasceu na cidade de Nova York em 1923, numa família de imigrantes gregos. Incentivada pela mãe a desenvolver dotes artísticos desde cedo, teve aulas de canto lírico com Elvira Hidalgo no Conservatório de Atenas e não tardou a ser reconhecida internacionalmente como a melhor cantora de ópera de todos os tempos. Através de entrevistas, imagens raras de arquivo, filmagens pessoais e cartas íntimas, a vida e a carreira da artista são reconstituídas.

Um casal composto por um escultor e uma dançarina divide seu apartamento vazio com uma fita adesiva para marcar seus respectivos espaços de trabalho. Essa divisão acabará por afetar a relação. Pouco a pouco, as obras dos jovens artistas começam a se misturar e inspirar um ao outro.

O filme conta a história de Rokas, um jovem da Lituânia, que nunca viveu a guerra, mas cresceu à sombra dela. Transportando um caminhão de ajuda humanitária de Vilnius para a Ucrânia, ele entra numa viagem de descoberta e sacrifício, cruzando fronteiras entre países, entre pessoas.

A group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, and they are tired of being treated like children, they are grown-ups and want to live as such.

On a summer day, a man, his daughter and his companion arrive at their country house to spend the weekend. The daughter has just moved in with her father, whose attention she desires. The man is tired of his life, and does not know where to find the strength to carry on living. The woman, a violinist, is confused in her priorities - music, love or career. Despite the fact that the man and the woman love each other, their tense relationship is on the brink of collapse.

Alfonso retorna para casa após 17 anos ausente. Quando ele volta, descobre que tudo que conhecia não está mais a mesma coisa, tudo ao redor de sua velha casa que sobrevive foi tomado pela plantação de cana-de-açúcar. Seu filho que agora é o "homem da casa" está muito doente e a família precisa de ajuda.

A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.

Alejandro, a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man is crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past.

Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic experiences and hearbreak - and discovers a silent world in the shadow of her own : that of the Mapuche Indians who demand access to the land and clash with her father.

Arash é um jovem académico que vive no Ocidente. Regressa ao Irão para dar aulas em Shiraz, uma cidade longe de Teerão onde a mãe vive. Arrastado para uma série de dramas familiares e financeiros, enfrenta um país que agora lhe é estranho. Na sequência da morte do pai e ao descobrir aquilo em que a sua “família respeitável” se transformou, vê-se forçado a fazer escolhas.

Ao não conseguir o trabalho de transcrever o livro de um grande escritor, Julio finge ter conseguido o emprego e começa a escrever seu próprio. Ao buscar um argumento, revive um romance do passado.

A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing paramilitary groups and leftist guerrillas, the idea of a rescue attempt is too tempting to resist.

In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.

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.

At a dangerous time in Algeria, 'Douar de Femmes' is a story of ordinary women who manage to defend themselves in extraordinary situations. The film focuses on a small village that has been attacked more often by terrorists from the surrounding mountains. While the men work, the women learn how to handle machine guns and explore the area. “Fear has armed us,” says the young woman Sabrina. But despite that fear, people get married, children come and keep watch.

Numa aldeia muçulmana do Senegal a mutilação vaginal é uma prática ritualística pela qual todas as meninas ao entrarem na puberdade devem passar. Quatro meninas conseguem fugir do ritual e buscam proteção na casa de Collé, uma mulher que há pouco tempo foi a primeira a não permitir que sua filha fosse cortada. Para proteger as meninas Collé inicia o Moolaadé, uma tradição em que nenhuma mulher pode entrar em sua casa e que se pode ser quebrada se Collé pronunciar uma palavra. Uma disputa política vai se iniciar na aldeia para fazer com que Collé pronuncie a palavra a qualquer custo.

A profile of Boubacar Traore, "Mali's Elvis Presley", a love story told by a singer whose music takes us on a social, political and geographic voyage of Mali from 1960 to our days.

Nina, nine years old, loses her parents Hélène and Jean in a car accident. A few months later, in front of the reunited family, the guardianship judge opens the will that designates Thomas, Hélène's brother, as Nina's guardian. But Thomas, 35 years old, shares his apartment with Hervé, an architect, with whom he has been in a relationship for 5 years.