Dana Farzanehpour

Jeanne lives on a military base with an abrasive father, forced to care for their younger siblings while dreaming of breaking out of the family’s milieu by becoming a high-powered financial analyst.

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Yuri, 16, viveu toda a sua vida em Gagarin Towers, um vasto projeto habitacional de tijolos vermelhos nos arredores de Paris. Ele sonha em se tornar um astronauta. Quando os planos de demolir as Torres Gagarin vazam, Yuri se junta à resistência. Com seus amigos Diana e Houssam, ele embarca em uma missão para salvar sua casa, que se tornou sua “nave estelar”.

Josefina viaja para a região do Douro, em Portugal, para tomar conta do sobrinho Alexandre. Ela se dedica ao garoto, que foi abandonado pela mãe. Mas Alexandre acaba de chegar à adolescência e quer namorar. O jovem quer afirmar sua independência, o que acaba gerando um embate com a tia. Ele se aproxima da mãe, Ângela, que reaparece para reclamar sua partilha da herança. No entanto, a dedicação de Josefina é muito forte para ser esquecida.

Maryam matou acidentalmente seu marido Nasser e foi condenada à morte. A única pessoa que pode salvá-la é Mona, filha de Nasser. Tudo que Mona precisa fazer é aparecer em um programa de TV e perdoar Maryam. Mas o perdão se mostra difícil quando eles são forçados a reviver o passado.

Voltando ao cinema da era de 1968 e avançando com entrevistas atuais de jovens que relembram trechos de filmes que saltam do passado, Nossas Derrotas traçam o retrato de nossas relações atuais com a política. Nossas derrotas ou mantemos forças suficientes para nos confrontarmos com o caos de hoje?

One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.

Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.

Akihiro, a native japanese filmmaker living in Paris, came to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary celebrating the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decided to take a break and wanders through the city during which he meets Michiko, a merry and enigmatic young woman. Michiko takes him for a joyful and improvised journey from the city towards the sea where the horrors of the past are mingled to the simplicity of the present.

In Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?

Este drama mostra a ruína da relação entre um marido iraniano e sua esposa francesa, vivendo na Europa. Após muitas disputas, ele abandona a família e os dois filhos para retornar ao seu país de origem. Quando a esposa pede o divórcio oficial, ele descobre que o pedido é motivado pelo fato de ela ter conhecido outro homem. Assim, sem demoras, ele retorna ao lar para confrontar a esposa e o novo pretendente dela.

No Afeganistão, um herói de guerra em estado vegetativo, após um acidente em que levou uma bala no pescoço, é abandonado pelos companheiros do Jihad e por seus irmãos. Sua mulher o observa em um quarto decadente e começa uma confissão solitária, falando sobre sua infância, seus sofrimentos, sua solidão e seus sonhos. Por meio de suas palavras para o marido, ela procura um caminho para recomeçar a vida.

Why do the citizens of Okinawa live longer lives than almost anyone else on Earth? Explore this culture of good health and happiness, through the eyes of Okinawa citizens, in this documentary.

Adam Ousmane é ajudante em uma piscina de um resort local. Quando os novos gerentes decidem cortar gastos, Adam perde seu emprego para seu próprio filho, Abdel. Abalado pelos acontecimentos, Adam é pressionado a contribuir com a guerra no Chade. Sem dinheiro, o único bem que pode doar é seu filho.

Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.

A portrait of director Sam Peckinpah focusing more on his personal life than his moviemaking - featuring lots of interviews, backstage footage and even some of his TV commercials and rock videos.

Nicola, a young filmmaker, drags an amateur film crew along to meet Matthieu, a paralyzed poet in an electric wheelchair, who lives in a mill. As time goes by and nothing really takes shape, Nicola realizes the inanity of his project, the film slips more and more out of his control and he becomes increasingly absorbed in a ludicrous, poetical search for inspiration.

A funny, charming faux-fairy tale about ogres, knights and maidens.

Infidels (Koffar) is a film about the Godars—artist-Gypsies living in Northern Iran. The film recounts the four ways which the Godars make their living: dancing, acting, hunting and music, and showcases their dedication to preserve their art and age-old rituals. In this film the Godars sing songs, play music, and tell the ancient tales of their heritage which often deal with their problems with God.