Irène Jacob

Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.

In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.

Com Clive Owen e Irène Jacob. Dois estranhos, ambos presos numa vida de mentiras, partem juntos numa extraordinária viagem pela Europa explorando lugares esquecidos, enquanto se reconciliam com os seus próprios passados.

Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film protesting against Swiss military export. After blowing up an arms factory they are brought to justice, but many hail them as heroes.

At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !

The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. This is a letter addressed to him in the form of a film.

Schrader repurposes what was released Dying of the Light (2014), combining it with previously unseen footage to create what he considers a new film much closer to his original vision.

The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico through the decades. La Habitación will reunite eight directors that will expose the reality of each historical period resulting in a profound and inspiring portrait of modern Mexico.

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").

A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo, where they find connections to their own homes in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.Throughout their journey, they run into the same Japanese woman named Akiko. Meanwhile, a writer in Paris recalls her encounter with Akiko in Tokyo.

No final do século 19, Valentine casa-se com Jules. No fim do século 20, uma doce jovem encontra um rapaz na casa de seu primo, em Paris. Entre as realidades dos casais, uma família cujo chefe foi para a guerra. O que une todas as histórias é o vínculo eterno entre as perdas e as reparações que o tempo e os conflitos promovem.

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.

Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off drugs. In Kabul she realizes to have lost all certainties and faces the difficult search for herself. For a year she travels alone in the British Indies, a keen observer of the colonial system, living from moment to moment while war ravages Europe. Letters, diaries, film footage and photographs reveal a portrait of Ella Maillart (1903-1997), one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century. Narrated by the voice of a great actress, Irène Jacob.

Arnaud é um diretor charmoso e agitado. Com dificuldades para encontrar investidores para o seu filme, a noiva pede para ele se empenhar mais no relacionamento. Ao mesmo tempo, ele se apaixona pela jovem e ambiciosa atriz Gabrielle, e sua mãe morre, marcando um momento decisivo na sua vida.

Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.

Evan Lake é um condecorado agente da CIA cuja entrega, determinação e patriotismo constituem uma inspiração para todos. No entanto, uma doença terminal obriga-o a retirar-se. Mas a reforma vai ter de esperar. Quando o veterano descobre que o terrorista Muhammad Banir ainda está vivo, decide lançar-se numa derradeira missão: dedicar o seu último fôlego a perseguir e eliminar de vez o seu inimigo de morte.

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.

When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his puppets, triggering the spiritual connection between the creator and his alter-egos: the charismatic Don Quixote, the loving Penelope, the inquisitive Baptiste, or the mysterious Antigone. THE MAN WHO MADE ANGELS FLY is a poetic story about a master of his craft that has inspired audiences to reflect upon common issues of suffering and the mortal coil. Visionary and un-biographic, imaginary tribute to the puppeteer.

Elisabeth Lanzac dirige com autoridade um importante grupo industrial especializado em madeiras. Seu filho mais velho, Nicolas, é seu sucessor designado, mas morre num acidente na estrada. Durante a leitura do testamento, a família descobre, estupefata, que ele lega sua parte a Julien, seu filho escondido...

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hotel room in Paris to another in Budapest, from Istanbul to Bucharest, the journeys weave a fabric of the contemporary world. Its testimonials – some famous, others anonymous – say or dance their vision of the universe.

Pierre Vasseur es Presidente de la República. Tiene una agenda ocupada: debe resolver las crisis políticas, contener la ira popular, soportar la ironía de la prensa y los ataques de la oposición. En lo que respecta a su vida privada, debe manejar principalmente las relaciones tensas que mantiene con su hija.

Uma cirurgiã plástica inglesa (Charlotte Rampling) vai ao Rio de Janeiro e percorre clínicas tentando desencorajar as pessoas que procuram na estética a felicidade máxima. Ao mesmo tempo, o novo embaixador dos Estados Unidos (Bill Pullman) chega à cidade e resolve explorar uma favela por conta própria. Vai parar no Vidigal, onde cai nas mãos de um guia turístico não convencional (Fish) e uma mulher jeitosa, que tenta abrir os seus olhos para a realidade. Já a pesquisadora Irène (Irène Jacob) desembarca como seu marido intelectual para fazer um filme antropológico sobre a cidade, mas tem que se dividir entre a família, a casa e o cunhado...

Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Genevieve.

A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters.

Diretor de cinema conta a sua história e a de seus pais, revelando a sua trajetória familiar.

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.

Um escritor de sucesso acabou de publicar o seu último romance e decide ir descansar sozinho para uma casa de campo. Na manhã do seu primeiro dia na casa, ele descobre uma misteriosa e surpreendente mulher deitada a seu lado. Fascinado pela sua beleza e inteligência, Martin apaixona-se profundamente por ela. Ele encontrou a musa que o leva sem remissão a escrever o seu livro mais perfeito. Mas quem é essa estranha mulher que tão bem conhece a sua vida e o seu trabalho? Será uma musa verdadeira? Ou imaginária? Ou um fantasma que se introduziu na vida interior de Martin Frost?

A vida de um homem é virada de cabeça para baixo depois que é abandonado pela mulher que ele ama. Nicolás (Ricardo Darín) é um inventor de brinquedos. Ele encontrou em Ingrid (Irène Jacob), uma ornitóloga belga, a mulher de seus sonhos. O filho dela, Raul (Víctor Valdivia), tem 7 anos e uma imaginação fértil. Para Nicolás é como se o garoto fosse o filho que ele nunca teve. Todos vivem em plena felicidade até o dia em que Ingrid, subitamente, decide terminar a relação sem qualquer explicação. Desesperado, Nicolás tenta de tudo para recuperar a harmonia de sua família. Deixe que eu te acompanhe porque não é hora de andar sozinho.

Em meados do século XVIII, a França e a Inglaterra estão em disputa pelo domínio da colônia canadense Nova França. Em meio à disputa é a igreja quem oferece consolo à população, com o padre Thomas Blondeau (Gérard Depardieu) sendo bastante respeitado. Entretanto o padre Thomas sente uma intensa paixão pela jovem viúva Marie (Noémie Godin-Vigneau), o que faz com que traia sua confiança e a afaste propositalmente de seu grande amor, o aristocrata François Le Gardeur (David La Haye).

Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her, but she has her own secrets: she sells bomb components to thugs. He hears rumors of a missing briefcase, which he finds in Michelle's flat. He asks no questions, and soon both of them are in trouble with Jean-Pierre's ex-employer and with her bomb buyers. Two other characters complicate the maneuvering: Jean-Pierre's best friend, who's always losing money on the ponies, and the ex-employer's new contract killer, a seemingly fragile woman. Is there any way that Jean-Pierre can protect Michelle and escape with his life? Written by

A relação entre um realizador e uma atriz complicam-se quando as linhas entre a arte e a vida se cruzam.

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.

This romantic comedy deals with the fleeting attractions between men and women. When American Ben arrives in London to become a writer on a well-known sitcom, he never dreamed that he would end up in a complex love quadrangle. Sitcom star Carly is married to show producer Allen. French make-up artist Fiona is single, as is Ben. Though Carly quickly develops a crush on Ben, she decides that Fiona w

A famous author receives a letter from a stranger that reveals how, without him having ever known anything, she dedicated her life to and burned her love for him.

Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life to her boundless love. In her letter, Rose looks back on a variety of meetings with Albert: Since childhood, she is slavishly in love with him and she never got away from her throughout her life. In many encounters Rank could not recognize them, even if the shared moments had been wonderful. As an adult woman, Rose's love is too painful to go on, and she has dire consequences.

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant

O agente da CIA Harry e a agente da inteligência russa Natasha são amantes que têm pouco a fazer em Helsinki, exceto espionar um ao outro, até um mensageiro aparecer com um vídeo pornográfico contendo códigos ultrassecretos de satélites americanos.

O retrato de uma família sob o ponto de vista de uma criança travessa. Baseado no livro de memórias de infância de Sir Denis Forman, Son of Adam, Fraser Pettigrew (Robert Norman), um menino de 10 anos, vive com a mãe (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), o pai (Colin Firth) e os irmãos em um casarão dos campos da Escócia. A excêntrica família é tomada por mistérios e intrigas sexuais que envolvem os adultos a sua volta. Quando completa 10 anos, ele amadurece ao descobrir as fraquezas do pai e se apaixonar pela noiva francesa (Irène Jacob) de seu tio (Malcolm McDowell).

Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.

Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...

O voo de um rude agente americano, Sam Gerard cai no deserto. A bordo do mesmo voo está Mark Sheridan, um preso federal acusado de duplo assassinato, que escapa durante o caos que se segue, mas não sem antes resgatar várias pessoas dos escombros. Gerard tem ordens para caçar o fugitivo junto com o agente do Departamento de Estado John Royce. Os dois perseguem Sheridan apesar das dúvidas sobre sua culpa.

Harry Donovan, um falsificador que pinta Rembrandt, se apaixona por uma especialista em artes que seus clientes contratam para verificar o quadro que ele pintou. Enganado e acusado de assassinato, ele tenta provar sua inocência.

Axel Heyst é um recluso americano com um passado duvidoso que viveu no porto de Surabaya nas Índias Orientais Holandesas por volta de 1913. Hospedando-se em um hotel alemão lá, Heyst fica fascinado com um membro da orquestra feminina do hotel.

O heroico general Othello, único africano no exército veneziano, se casa com uma mulher nobre, Desdêmona. Porém, o tenente Iago, ciumento e invejoso, tenta convencê-lo de que está sendo traído pela esposa, o que pode provocar uma tragédia.

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".

A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the cast of the film.

A modelo Valentine atropela um cachorro e sem saber o que fazer leva o animal para a casa do dono seguindo o endereço na coleira. O dono do animal é Joseph, um velho juiz que passa seus dias escutando as conversas telefônicas dos vizinhos. A princípio a moça sente repulsa do senhor, mas aos poucos começa a entendê-lo e uma amizade que vai fazer Valentine refletir sobre sua própria vida se inicia.

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.

Adaptação do clássico conto de fadas de Frances Hodgson Burnett, o Jardim Secreto. Mary Lennox é uma órfã enviada para viver na mansão de seu tio, que é cheia de segredos. Ela descobre um primo doente que nunca soube que tinha e um jardim abandonado, o qual está determinada a trazer de volta para a vida.

A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his life back on track.

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.

Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.

Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone called today Mont Saint Michel. Winter 1991, the Mount is deserted. Unaware of the curse that keeps her there, Sarah transforms herself every night into a strange creature that feeds the dragon the dreams of sleeping men.

Weronika vive na Polónia. Véronique vive em Paris. Não se conhecem e não tem nenhuma relação. No entanto, são idênticas: ambas são esquerdinas, gostam de andar descalças, têm o mesmo brilho no olhar, uma voz sublime, um sentido musical absoluto e, acima de tudo, partilham o mesmo problema cardíaco dificilmente detectável. Sem o saber, uma irá beneficiar das experiências e sabedoria da outra. Como se cada vez que a primeira se magoasse com um qualquer objecto a segunda evitasse tocar no mesmo. Em França, Véronique descobre o amor na figura de um escritor e criador de teatro de marionetas...

The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscretion. One was a Russian film, the other was a French picture, originally titled Erreur de Jeunesse. In this one, would-be poet Francis Frappat breezes through a number of relationships. Of paramount importance to Frappat are his attempts to seduce the lovely Géraldine Danon.

Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious strange.

Uma história comovente de amizade e perda devastadora sobre dois meninos que vivem na França ocupada pelos nazistas. Em um internato católico provincial, os jovens precoces conhecem a verdadeira camaradagem – até que um segredo é revelado.