Gilles Sacuto

Gilles Sacuto

Perfil

Gilles Sacuto

Filmes

Richelieu
Co-Producer
A translator working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.
The Channel
Producer
Natacha (25), a young single parent who works as a fast-food waitress, struggles to raise her 8-year-old son Enzo. Torn between a strong desire for independence and the comfort that her mother Irène unfailingly wants to provide for them, Natacha feels trapped. Her encounter with Walid, who is waiting to save enough money to pay for his crossing to England will open new horizons for her.
Seven Winters in Tehran
Co-Producer
After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
On the Adamant
Producer
The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.
Lie with Me
Producer
Upon agreeing to be the brand ambassador for a famous cognac celebrating their bicentennial, novelist Stéphane Belcourt returns to his hometown for the first time in many years. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.
The Heroics
Executive Producer
Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the baby he just had with his ex, and fights not to make the same mistakes and be a good guy.
Les petits maîtres du grand hôtel
Producer
L'Adieu à Solférino
Associate Producer
Tel Aviv em Chamas
Producer
Salam, um jovem palestino inexperiente, torna-se escritor em uma novela popular depois de um encontro casual com um soldado israelense.
De toutes mes forces
Producer
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
A Vida de uma Mulher
Producer
Jeanne volta para casa após completar os estudos e passa a ajudar os zelosos pais nas tarefas do campo. Certo dia o visconde Julien de Lamare aparece nas redondezas e logo conquista o coração da jovem, que, encantada, com ele se casa e vai morar. Conforme o tempo avança Julien se mostra infiel, avarento e nada companheiro, o que vai minando a alegria de viver da antes esperançosa Jeanne.
Uma Dama em Paris
Producer
A estoniana Anne (Laine Mägi) é contratada para cuidar de uma senhora de idade, a também estoniana Frida (Jeanne Moreau), que mora há muitos anos em Paris. Apesar de todo o esforço em trocar o seu país natal pela França, Anne é mal acolhida por Frida, que não quer ser ajudada. A única preocupação desta mulher é conquistar novamente Stéphane (Patrick Pineau), seu antigo amante. Juntas, elas descobrem a amizade e o prazer de se sentirem novamente sedutoras.
Uma Primavera com Minha Mãe
Producer
Com quase 50 anos, Alain é obrigado a voltar a morar com a mãe. Será, forçosamente, uma convivência complicada e explosiva, à imagem da relação tumultuada dos dois. É então que Alain descobre que a mãe está doente e que seus dias estão contados.
Incêndios
Co-Producer
Nawal, uma mulher moribunda do Oriente Médio que vive em Montreal, deixa cartas para seus filhos gêmeos para serem lidas quando ela falecer. Jeanne deve entregar a dela para o pai que nunca conheceu e Simon deve entregar a dele para o irmão que nunca soube que tinha. Os irmãos viajam para o Oriente Médio separados e vivenciam atos de brutalidade, descobrem uma história familiar surpreendente e têm revelações sobre si mesmos.
Ordinary People
Producer
The story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Džoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Džoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.
Séraphine
Producer
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.
The Grocer's Son
Producer
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.
Anjos Exterminadores
Producer
Enquanto faz testes de elenco para uma cena de nudez feminina, o cineasta François (Frédéric van de Driessche) fica fascinado com o prazer que algumas mulheres sentem em transgredir tabus sexuais. Certo de que encontrou algo inovador, decide fazer um filme que misture ficção e realidade, explorando os mistérios do prazer feminino.
DANÇAR - DESPERTAR DE UM DESEJO
Producer
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...
O Ódio
Production Director
Um dia na vida de três jovens delinquentes, um árabe, um judeu e um negro que moram num conjunto habitacional pobre de Paris, mostra a que ponto pode chegar a discriminação racial de policiais hostis.
La Vie de Bohème
Rock Group
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Dane-se a Morte
Location Manager
O beninês Dah e o caribenho Jocelyn ganham dinheiro organizando lutas ilegais de galos. Quando Pierre, o proprietário do restaurante onde decorrem as lutas, os encoraja a torná-las mais violentas, Jocelyn procura uma escapatória desse ambiente sórdido.