Georges Lechaptois

Judith Godrèche, who plays her fictional alter ego, returns to Paris after ten years of exile in Hollywood with the intention of making a comeback. Haunted by her past, Judith must confront the realities of her personal ambition and maternal angst with humor and disillusionment.

Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet again in the family house in the Alps, between mountains, lake and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem to be interested in reconciling with the man he used to be.

Who has never heard of pregnancy denial? This condition, often caused by miscellaneous circumstances, escapes our understanding and even science. How can the mind of a pregnant woman hide a child growing in her body?

When he leaves hospital, 30-something Basil moves in with his younger sister and closest confidant, Sarah. Living with a psychiatric disorder, Basil tries his best to re-establish a sense of normality in both his work and his love life. But, whilst hiding his illness from his new relatives, how long can he maintain this fragile stability?

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.

Freshly hired as a labor nurse in a chemical factory, Nour discovers that small arrangements exist between management and her father, Slimane, the staff representative, and the company's pivot. Lies about polluting discharges, hidden illnesses of employees, hidden accidents ... Nour, little by little, no longer accepts the compromises of his father to preserve the image of the company. She decides to launch the alert.

Uma astronauta francesa em treinamento é convocada para uma missão oficial. Ela precisa deixar sua filha de sete anos com o pai e seguir viagem para o espaço junto com outros dois homens, um americano e outro russo. Desde o anúncio de sua convocação até depois da partida, ela passa a lidar diariamente com as dificuldades de ser mulher em um mundo dominado por homens incapazes de compreender os sentimentos ligados à maternidade e ao íntimo feminino.

A successful top manager of an investment company, Ivanov, is fleeing the harassment of security officials from Moscow to Kiev, a city without rules, and is trying to find a place for himself there. He discovers the opportunity for easy money, as everything around can be stolen. In Kiev, Ivanov, with his friend and business partner Spitsin, goes to night clubs, visits the gallery of modern art and prepares a deal to buy shipwrecks from a local scam. "Ivanov", shot in Kiev before the Maidan, is based on real events, it is a strange and bewitching tragicomedy about corruption, infidelity and loneliness.

Naïma acaba de fazer 16 anos. Neste verão, ela terá que decidir o que quer da vida se não quiser perder. Então chega sua prima Sofia, com um corpo incrível e um estilo de vida perigosamente sedutor. Naïma deseja apenas seguir seu próprio caminho, desde que ele conduza para cima ... Apesar dos avisos de seu melhor amigo Dodo, ela e Sofia viverão encontros inesquecíveis durante um longo verão que os marcará para sempre

Na ausência de sua irmã Rim, o que Yasmina estava fazendo em um estacionamento com Salim e Majid, seus namorados? Se Rim não sabe nada, é porque Yasmina está fazendo tudo o que não consegue aprender. O que? O vergonhoso ... o pior ... a vergonha XXL, tudo imortalizado por Salim em um vídeo potencialmente muito volátil.

Mariana, chilena de classe alta, está presa no papel que o pai e o marido criaram para ela. Encontra consolo na companhia de Juan, um instrutor de equitação e ex-coronel com um passado sombrio.

Na Moscou da década de 1990, Polina (Nastya Shevtzoda) desenvolve uma grande capacidade como bailarina desde os oito anos de idade. Ela entra para a escola do professor Bojinsky, que trabalha o seu tremendo potencial, e, com apenas 18 anos, ela realiza seu estimado sonho de entrar para o Bolshoi. Nessa época ela conhece Adrien (Niels Schneider), um charmoso francês que apresenta a ela não apenas o amor, mas também uma outra forma de dançar, mais contemporânea e expressiva.

Paris, 1943. As irmãs Laura (Natalie Portman) e Kate Barlow (Lily-Rose Depp) realizam uma série de apresentações onde se comunicam com os mortos. Fascinado com a possibilidade, o produtor francês André Korben (Emmanuel Salinger) solicita uma sessão particular. Decidido a encontrar um meio de filmar seres sobrenaturais, ele apresenta o cinema às irmãs. Enquanto Laura experimenta a possibilidade de se tornar atriz, Korben realiza seguidas gravações ao lado de Kate, que possui poderes mediúnicos.

Vincent é um soldado das Forças Especiais que vem sofrendo de transtorno pós-traumático desde que voltou do Afeganistão. Apesar de seu estado, ele aceita a proposta de trabalhar como segurança de Jessie, a esposa de um rico empresário que vive na luxuosa Mansão de Maryland. Com o passar dos dias, Vincent começa a desenvolver um estranho fascínio por Jessie, e o sentimento logo se transforma em paranoia e medo. Sua única chance de não sucumbir à loucura é descobrindo que o perigo que vislumbra, é de fato real..

Michele and Helene seem to be the perfect couple. However, on weekends, Michele steps into a secret life, as a transvestite, Mylene, in a hidden French forest. There, Mylene meets with a lover, Flavia, another transvestite who once fought alongside Michele in war. Michele works to balance his double life, but soon, Helene becomes concerned with her husband's mysterious trips.

Gary é um jovem que aprende rápido, sempre mudando de um trabalho para outro. Após ser contratado em uma usina nuclear, ele encontra tudo o que sempre procurou: dinheiro, uma equipe e uma família. No meio dos reatores, ele se apaixona pela mulher de um colega, e logo é ameaçado por esse amor proibido e pela constante contaminação radioativa.

Inverno de 1885, Paris. O professor Jean-Martin Charcot, do Hospital Pitié-Salpêtriere, está estudando uma doença misteriosa, a histeria, que atinge apenas as mulheres. Devido à pouca informação sobre a doença e suas características peculiares, os ataques de histeria por vezes são confundidos com possessões demoníacas, o que faz com que Charcot tenha que provar a seriedade de sua pesquisa. Um dia, chega ao hospital a jovem Augustine, de apenas 19 anos, que teve um ataque durante o trabalho. Logo ela se torna objeto de estudo de Charcot, que passa a dedicar um bom tempo à garota. Augustine acredita que Charcot possa curá-la e, aos poucos, desenvolve uma relação especial com o médico.

Com a morte da mãe que mora na Califórnia, Martin vai até lá para trasladar o corpo para a França e vender a casa. Ele sempre pensou que a mãe não dava a mínima para ele e, desde garoto foi para a Europa viver com o pai. Ao chegar a Los Angeles, o que parecia ser se torna constatação porque a casa a mãe deixou para Lola, uma mexicana a quem queria como filha. Lola foi deportada e vive agora em Tijuana. Sem pensar, Martin vai em busca dela, numa literal 'bad trip', em busca do passado esquecido.

After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. Prudence’s newfound lease of freedom becomes complicated when she falls for a boy Franck who wastes no time in taking advantage of her naivety...

Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.

David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.

In his small apartment, a middle-aged man has reached the end of his tether. He has become indifferent, even to his only true passion, classical music. He decides to end it all. But his plans are thwarted by the jarring sounds from his new neighbor above, a novice celloist. They end up trading selected musical pieces in a ruthless duell...

Barely relieved from a serious depression and against the advice of his psychiatrist, Slah, theater director, mentally weakened by his career, announces to his wife Amel, a rich woman who finances his projects, his decision to mount the famous play Essoud (The Dam) of Mahmoud Messadi renowned for its complexity. But the same evening, driving his car, Slah overthrows a young woman named Aisha. At first distraught, he then experiences a strange fascination for this beautiful young girl contrarian who becomes his friend and his muse. Amel, her husband's moral, emotional and financial support, convinced the director of the theater to program Le Barrage. Although suffering in silence of the presence of Aisha, Amel decides for love for her husband to invite the young woman near them, in the field of her parents, in an oasis of the south of Tunisia. A strange three-way household is formed when doubts and suspicions, desires and temptations, love and complexities are revealed.

A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, buried under the snow. He takes him in and nurses him until he's recovered. The host seduces Arezki's daughter. She is pregnant. This is an unsupportable shame to the father of the female sinner. Arezki claims vengeance. He leaves his house and takes the oath not to come back before having killed Larbi who betrayed him under his own roof.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she tries to control the young woman's destiny, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the throes of a singular and devastating passion. A major work of French literature is born from this devastation.