Simon Beaufils

The gorgeous astrakhan fur, that looks so soft, shiny and warm, actually comes from fetal or newborn or even unborn karakul lambs. While the white lamb is the Christian symbol of purity and innocence, the astrakhan evokes the early sacrifice by society of the black lamb, equally innocent, slaughtered before or right after birth.

When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.

Victor, in his early 20s, works at the town hall and lives with his girlfriend Charlotte, who is expecting their first child. When an incident happens at the nearby nuclear power plant, he and his high school friends are forced to confine themselves inside a farmhouse, whereas they should have evacuated the area. As the rain is threatening, they are keeping an eye out for the radioactive cloud. The next 24 hours will be crucial.

When his right-hand man and only mate has to go away for a few weeks, Georges - an ageing film star - is given a substitute, Aïssa. The disillusioned actor and the young female security guard forge a special relationship.

Há meses, Antoinette espera o verão e a promessa de uma semana romântica com seu amante, Vladimir. Assim, quando ele cancela as férias para ir ao Cévennes com sua esposa e filha, Antoinette não pensa duas vezes: ela segue o rastro deles.

Sibyl (Virginie Efira) é uma psicoterapeuta que luta para se manter sóbria após superar o vício em álcool. Quando decide interromper os atendimentos de pacientes para se dedicar à escrita, recebe a visita inesperada de Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), uma atriz em crise durante uma filmagem. Apesar da recusa inicial, Sibyl aceita atendê-la, e logo percebe que a vida conturbada da artista representa o material perfeito para seu novo romance. .

A Greek couple, Anna (Katia Goulioni) and Petros (Andreas Konstantinou), have recently moved to a small industrial town in Siberia. It’s a long process to adapt, especially for Anna, since Petros is quite occupied with his job. That will cause a conflict between them and inevitably the couple is distanced. Everything is escalated as for the past period there is no sexual intercourse between them. This slow-paced decay is intensified when an unexpected event occurs, changing everything between them. Balancing between trust and disbelief the haunting suspense evolves.

Fabien, former star of a television show, always seems disoriented when he wakes up. He feels abandoned since the disappearance of Corinne, his co-star, whom he loved so much. Nothing surprises him already, not even his encounter with Yoni, a sad young man, who carries in a bag a beautiful and disturbing token of his own loss.

Paris, verão de 1979. Anne é produtora de pornografia gay barata. Quando Lois, sua editora e companheira, a deixa, ela tenta recuperá-la, fazendo um filme mais ambicioso com o extravagante Archibald.

Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.

Victoria é uma advogada criminal e mãe de duas crianças. Ao se encontrar com alguns amigos de longa data em um casamento, ela descobre que um deles é acusado de tentativa de homicídio. Sua vida está prestes a ficar ainda mais complicada.

Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his dreams of adventures.

Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help him find his son. Roman happens to go to the same school as Rose, and she finds him attractive. After an unexpectedly wonderful experience with Roman, she falls desperately in love with him.

For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.

Alice (Ariane Labed) é engenheira especializada em cargueiros. Ela trabalha muito bem e é reconhecida por sua postura profissional, sendo frequentemente a única mulher entre dezenas de homens. Alice tem um namorado norueguês, que sempre espera por ela em solo. Mas durante as viagens, ela reencontra um antigo amor, o capitão Gaël (Melvil Poupaud), e pensa que esta pode ser a oportunidade de reatar com um dos únicos homens que realmente amou.

Treze cineastas europeus pensam Sarajevo, e o que a cidade representou para a história europeia dos últimos cem anos, desde o início da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Todos eles realizadores proeminentes, de diferentes origens e gerações, oferecem estilos e visões excepcionalmente singulares sobre a cidade, o velho continente, os fantasmas do passado e o seu reflexo no presente.

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

Every night, in the heart of the forest, Abel and Nadja challenge the curfew and make love. One night, they discover a place which seems protected from the abstract war which surrounds them. A camp where, among others, Leila, Ivan and Samuel welcome them. Then life is going to waste away very hardly and quickly.

Two men spend a day of vacation by a lake. They accompany their peregrination with formulae and commercial promises taken from a marabout's pamphlet, bathe, navigate, banter, dredge, steal a little money, buy souvenirs, challenge gravity and, by force of circumstance, find themselves in the skin of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein Young person.

Quando um ex-presidiário é contratado para cuidar de um aristocrata francês, seu novo trabalho se torna uma aventura imprevisível. Acelerar uma Maserati em Paris, seduzir mulheres, e fazer parapente sobre os Alpes é apenas o começo, pois ele vira o mundo da classe alta de Paris de cabeça para baixo.

Macha, Nathan and Walter are awaited by a young man outside the high-school. He's here to lead them. Away from the city. To the sea. Into a night they might never return from.

Juliette retorna à sua família e à sociedade, após 15 anos de ausência e rejeição. Apesar de uma separação familiar drástica no passado, sua irmã mais nova, Léa, decide abrigá-la em sua casa, onde mora com o marido, as duas filhas e o sogro. Aos poucos, a trama revela a aparente amoralidade por trás da tragédia que manteve Juliette afastada por tanto tempo da vida real.

A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.

Four men dance in the set of a beach bar off season. This film puts in parallel an episode of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars and a choreographed digest of the history of the Twist.

Jérémie has a job recruiting subjects for testing. He'd rather recruit Rodrigue for something else entirely.

Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the love he he feels for her, the strength to confront her.

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.