Gilbert Melki

In her early forties, Sofia lives in the mountains, isolated from the world, a place where even basic Internet technology seems to be an unknown entity. She runs an old farmhouse, located at the highest point outside the village, an age-old structure that she has converted into a holiday farm, whilst taking tending to her cows, her curative herbs and producing special milk used for the making top-quality Parmesan. One day, a foreigner from a well-known telecommunications company shows up. He considers that particular location the ideal spot to erect a cellphone repeater, a tower that will bring progress not only to Sofia, but to the whole area… How can ancient customs, peaceful silence and recipes coexist with the inevitable approach of new technologies which can improve our lives?

The story of four lifelong friends who met in the 2000s when they were presidents of the BDE of the Nantes Institute of Business. At the time, they were the "Bioman": the kings of partying, excess and "transmutation". 20 years later, they have mellowed out and lead well-ordered lives. Except... Once a year, when they get together for the WEB: the Bioman Weekend. There, they "transmute" hard as they like to say. In short: they drink and sing in a pathetic way.

A delightful and ebullient comedy on Paris’ first suburban “green school”.

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

In 1980s Paris - Patrick, Dov, Yvan and Serge are young men seeking success in love and business... with varying success.

Nathalie is a jeweler who has just moved to Paris for a new job and a new life with her two sons. But the jewelry store manager suddenly changes his mind and tells her the job is no longer hers. Nathalie wants to protect her children and decides to say nothing. This first lie will spark others and soon Nathalie is entangled in a dangerous spiral.

Serge is a winner, he sells kitchen furniture like hot cakes. His son, Gérald, who has just lost his restaurant, applies for a job in his dad's firm. It's Gerald's wish but it's Serge's reality and you do not become a top salesman overnight.

Eddie, Dov, Yvan e os outros migraram do tradicional bairro de confecções do Sentier, moribundo, para o subúrbio florescente de Aubervilliers. Os empresários judeus devem agora dividir o território com atacadistas chineses.

Juliette, a mother of wealthy family and a little snobbish, has gradually developed a kind of generalized contempt against his fellows. One day a bunch of little naive thugs manages to remove it. Because it is often obnoxious with his entourage, his family decided not to pay anything for her release. Shocked, Ellie began to join her captors in order to concoct a revenge more expensive. The unsympathetic billionaire turns against her will in a sort of Robin embittered and vengeful wood. Soon, his family is forced to pay more attention to his kidnapping: worrying samples are taken by Juliette, free-spending ...

A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.

Um banqueiro bem-educado é forçado a passar por um notório gângster e cafetão.

Two police detectives investigate the murder of a high-end male prostitute, and his relationship with his girlfriend.

Realizado por Jérôme Salle, esta é a adaptação da novela gráfica francesa de Philippe Francq, Largo Winch que conta a história de um jovem iugoslavo órfão que viveu toda a sua infância num orfanato, agora em fase adulto vivendo num arranha-céus em Nova Iorque, Largo decide procurar as suas origens, não sabendo que ele próprio vale milhões, o que é motivo de procura para muita gente. O protagonista é desempenhado por Tomer Sisley, e quanto à obra, esta já originou um série de televisão e vários videogames.

French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, wonderful and ideal, like a child’s dream.

Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.

Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...

A dura vida de dois indivíduos comuns: Alex, um contador e sua esposa Béatrice, uma motorista de táxi.

Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch with him but, after several rejections, finds herself descending into despair and, ultimately, hatred.

After falling off her horse, a teenage girl is rescued by a manly, older fireman with whom she falls in love with tragic consequences.

In the Belgian town of Liege, in order to buy a moped for the wife of their friend Patrick, three men decide to organise a large-scale hold-up. As expected, nothing goes to plan.

Endividado até a alma, o neurótico André (Jamel Debbouze) decide colocar um fim na incansável perseguição que sofre pelos credores, sacrificando a própria vida. Na mesma ponte de Paris que pretende se atirar, uma mulher de cabelos loiros também tenta o suicídio, mas é impedida pelo rapaz. Ela é Angela (Rie Rasmussen) e decide retribuir a ajuda de seu salvador. Os dois passam a noite tentando resolver seus problemas, além de um mistério.

Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.

An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.

Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.

In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of success, they're joined by Federico, the best, a true artist. Things go well until Pilar, a woman from Federico's past, re-enters his life with a proposal to con a golden goose - a swindle that will put them all on easy street. A double-cross may be in the cards. The flashback over, can Ernesto hold his own in the present?

The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.

Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) acredita que seu casamento está em crise e decide consultar um psicanalista. Por distração ela entra na sala errada e acaba confessando seus problemas matrimoniais ao consultor de finanças William Faber (Fabrice Luchini). Fascinado pela mulher e seus segredos, Faber persiste na farsa, muitas vezes sem ter certeza se Anna está sendo de fato enganada. Ao longo das supostas consultas, a dupla desenvolve um estranho pacto de dependência, passando a questionar suas vidas e suas relações amorosas.

In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

Século XI, época das primeiras Cruzadas. Félix tem 15 anos. Encontramo-lo a dormitar debaixo de uma árvore, lutando para se manter acordado. Se adormecer, o frio vai matá-lo. É Inverno e as oliveiras estão geladas. Nos seus joelhos tem um bem de grande valor: um livro encadernado a ouro que conta a história de Guillaume de Montauban, o Maior cavaleiro do Mundo, um caminhante lendário conhecido como o Dragão Vermelho. As páginas do livro flutuam ao vento quando, um soldado de olhar louco surge do bosque, levando-o ao encontro de Guillaume. Começa aqui a grande aventura de Félix. Será que também ele se tornará algum dia num cavaleiro...

Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.

People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and when she receives a letter from Philippe asking her to meet him atop the Empire State Building, she swoons. She's writing a book on an aged painter, so she organizes a trip to New York ostensibly to secure photographs of some of his pieces. The publisher assigns her a photographer, Matt, on the surface spontaneous and flip, but also aggressive about his attraction to her. Will she be with the one she loves? Will she smile? Written by

The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.

A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.

Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.

Antoine é um bicão profissional. O maior prazer de sua vida é entrar em baladas para comer e beber de graça. Mas um dia, o tiro sai pela culatra e rapaz entra numa grande fria ao usar em vão o nome de um misterioso homem, que é procurado por um bando de fanáticos. Agora a vida de Antoine está um inferno. Ele é preso e torturado, envolve um amigo na trama, que também corre risco de vida e conhece Violaine, uma misteriosa mulher que quase o leva a loucura. Ela esconde um diabólico segredo. Antoine certamente nunca esquecerá o que passou..

Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world of large distribution after striking a deal with Eurodiscount, a European hypermarket chain.

One fine day, at about 10 am, in a suburban house, three men, in their thirties are waiting for a fourth buddy. When he arrives, they plan to hold up the local bank where Séverine, their accomplice, is waiting for them. This could well be the beginning of a thrilling crime story, but these tough men, sporting tattoos, are not what they appear. "On fait comme on dit" is a comedy, and these guys could be descendants of the Keystone Cops. They are dreamers not gangsters. So much is riding on this bank heist, the pressure is intense. This tension creates the most diverse and unexpected obstacles for them...

This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute, who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently hear well enough. When the Mute's cellmate escapes, both the Warden and the Chief Guard try to get him to tell what he knows about the disappearance -- the Guard through violence, the Warden by transferring him to a new cell with four other prisoners and cutting off TV privileges to the inmates until the Mute spills the beans. One of the Mute's new roommates is a white collar criminal who has just landed in prison and is not dealing well with the pressures of life behind bars, but his skills with computers make him a very usefully ally among the prisoners. Meanwhile, Flic, a self-important police detective, is investigating the escape of the Mute's cellmate and is not happy with the low level of cooperation among the prison's population.

After many years spent in prison, Pitou returns back to his native town of Marseille. He couldn't even imagine all the disappointments he would face there.

Living in perfect harmony with three former boy friends, three kids from these boy friends and her grand mother, Irène came to France from Chili twenty years ago.It would be broken with the arrival of Claude.

Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he finds his way to Paris, where a woman taking surveys takes pity on him and brings him home for a meal and a bed for the night. Naphtali finds himself spending the evening with the survey woman, her brother who works in publishing, his lovely but unhappy wife, an alcoholic doctor, and his wife, an ill-tempered judge. In a simple and unpretentious manner, Naphtali forces them all to open up about themselves and discuss elements of their lives that they usually prefer to avoid.

This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?

Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still dreams of the big day, Angèle no longer believes in love. Marie, the youngest of the three employees, discovers love in the hands of a sixty year-old former pilot, who risks everything...

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.

While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.

The sentimental and comedic adventures of Eddie, a non-Jew trying to pass as Jewish though totally ignorant of Jewish traditions, as he works in a Jewish community

Short film.

Drunk, Betty is feeling worse and worse, the previous evening is slowly coming back to her: her husband and her husband's family had criticized her harshly, had sent her away. But Betty hadn't wanted to get married in the first place. She knows that she always ruined everything, that she drinks to much, that she has had several affairs. Laure, who is taking care of her, suggests that Betty stay with her in the hotel where she lives, as long as Betty would like. Laure, too, finds solace and companionship in alcohol.