Lolita Chammah

Vanessa Springora tells how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. She explains how she was the victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary and psychic. But beyond her individual story, she also questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

In northern France, Juliette grows up alone with her father, Raphaël, a veteran of the First World War. Passionate about singing and music, one summer the lonely young girl meets a magician who promises that scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Um burro que encontra pessoas boas e más em suas viagens experimenta alegria e dor, explorando uma visão da Europa moderna através de seus olhos.

It is the summer of 1982. Garance is eleven years old and lives in a remote hamlet in the Cevennes where her parents are trying to lead an alternative life. When two Italian activists rob a bank in the area, things go wrong. This event turns Garance and her family's life upside down.

Durante um Verão, Gabriel, um pai adolescente, apaixona-se pela misteriosa Corey, a namorada do seu melhor amigo Joel. Profundamente ferido pelas suas intenções desonestas, Joel revela a verdade sobre o complicado passado de Gabriel: ele não tem apenas um filho.

Culture shock between a pork butcher from the Basque country and a Parisian bohemian.

Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders.

School is over. Benjamin is five years old and goes on vacation to the sea with his mother and 12-year-old sister. "A comme Azur" is the chronicle of this summer which unfolds all the letters of the alphabet.

Naïma acaba de fazer 16 anos. Neste verão, ela terá que decidir o que quer da vida se não quiser perder. Então chega sua prima Sofia, com um corpo incrível e um estilo de vida perigosamente sedutor. Naïma deseja apenas seguir seu próprio caminho, desde que ele conduza para cima ... Apesar dos avisos de seu melhor amigo Dodo, ela e Sofia viverão encontros inesquecíveis durante um longo verão que os marcará para sempre

Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, in the intimacy of his room, he sees her - She is waiting for him. And she will not let go.

1888. Após sofrer com o ostracismo e a rejeição de suas pinturas em galerias de arte, Vincent Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) decide ouvir o conselho de seu mentor, Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac), e se mudar para Arles, no sul da França. Lá, lutando contra os avanços da loucura, da depressão e as pressões sociais, o pintor holandês adentra uma das fases mais conturbadas e prolíficas de sua curta, porém meteórica trajetória.

Depois de dez anos no exterior, Catherine volta para Luxemburgo para se reconciliar com a filha Alba, a quem tinha deixado aos cuidados de sua mãe, Elisabeth. Alba é fria e distante com essa estranha que aparece do nada em sua vida, assim como Elisabeth, que deseja continuar com a menina.

Uma mulher de 27 anos sonha com um futuro como escritora, mas é atormentada pela dúvida e pela incerteza. Ela se muda para Paris onde algo mágico acontece e acaba se conectando com um misantropo de 76 anos, que dirige uma livraria. Porém, quando um segredo do homem é revelado, a relação deles pode se tornar algo muito distinto.

Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds with Axèle. But who is Axèle really ? A total artist, who never compromises and confuses herself with her oeuvre ? Or a ghost ? This year at the Villa Medici, where bodies and souls free themselves, no one will come out unscathed.

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.

"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in the dock of the foundations of Douai for the murder of her husband. How does a woman manage to kill the father of her children with a knife? During the three days of the trial, panting narrative takes us into the daily life of Alexandra, a mother that the society has failed to protect, neither she nor her children from the control of a monster she has loved. Through this incident that made headlines and upset the public, an event movie that raises the question of the balance of justice. Will she be heard?

Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Nicolas, an expert in loneliness, for help.

A young woman invents the love she does not get and she needs. She has always done that, since childhood. It has become a disease. When Nicolas leaves her she refuses to believe it. He will love her anyway, it is needed, she needs it.

Nos seus trinta anos, cinco mulheres francesas procuram objetivos para suas vidas. Elas não querem falar sobre o amor, mas sim sobre o que elas realmente querem para suas vidas.

A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links that are woven.

In a loveless relationship, Zoé ditches her faceless boyfriend in a cheap motel room and sets off north without a penny to her name. She hitch-hikes, pilfers a meal from a gas station, encounters strangers who could be her next ride or a passing glimpse, ambling toward some unknown destination. At the end of her pilgrimage, Zoé reaches the English Channel; on the ferry a woman mysteriously disappears. A new coat gives Zoé a new identity, but even in a new country she's not quite sure she's escaped herself.

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!

A notícia da tomada da Bastilha chega à Corte, afugentando nobres e servos que abandonam o Rei Luís XVI. Uma jovem leitora devotada à Maria Antonieta ignora os acontecimentos e inicia uma relação com a rainha durante a Revolução Francesa.

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, the big one that marks a life forever.

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing.

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.

A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character.

There’s Evelyne who loves Albert, who loves Arthur, who loves the girl who plays the actress, who loves the man driving the convertible. There’s the night which only loves itself and death which only loves once. It would take more breath to kiss everyone and more time not to displease anyone.

Babou parece capaz de ultrapassar qualquer coisa. Empregos, maridos, responsabilidades, quem os quer? Mas quando descobre que a sua própria filha sente demasiada vergonha dela para a convidar para o seu casamento, Babou decide fazer algumas mudanças na sua vida e aceita um emprego de venda de time-sharing no litoral belga. Para sua própria surpresa, transforma-se numa empregada modelo mas acaba por atrapalhar o seu próprio sucesso…

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a “quickie”. But is it as simple as that?

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse.

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.

The newspapers announce the left's defeat in the upcoming elections. A confused young mother gets up in the night to take care of her child. Leftist teens, completely puzzled, throw themselves headlong into every kind of extreme behavior. The child asks his grandfather for advice.

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

It’s a tough winter for young Julien: he meets up with his mother and she asks him to write a statement against his father for the divorce trial; he meets up with his friend Arthur and he tells him that his girl, Lolita, slept with Demian, another friend; he meets up with Demian, who confesses the betrayal; he meets up with his father, who warns him that if he testifies against him, Julien will be a dead man for him; he meets up with the beautiful Lolita and she makes it clear that, for her, being with him or with any of his friends or with all of them is the same thing; he meets up with his sister, who cries over their parents’ fighting, and asks Julian for help.

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.

Yann and Lena are brother and sister, but they don’t realize it. Meanwhile, Yann wants to get closer to her…

Mia Hansen-Løve's debut begins her career-long chronicle of a family. In this short film, a father breaks the news to his children that he and their mother are separating - the repercussions of which surface everywhere elsewhere in Hansen-Løve's filmography, in particular her most recent feature Things To Come (2016), for which she won the Silver Bear at the 2016 Berlinale

The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live.

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.

Ambientado em Vienna, o filme narra a forma como a vida de uma escritora é tomada pela autodestruição ao ser dividida entre seu marido e seu amante. Isabelle Huppert é a estrela na adaptação de Werner Schroeter do romance de Ingeborg Bachmann, coescrito por Elfriede Jelinek (A Professora de Piano)

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, na França ocupada, uma mulher de baixa escolaridade cria seus dois filhos em um apartamento cheio de ratos. Ela é Marie Latour. Em 1941, seu marido retorna da Frente, fraco demais para manter um emprego. Depois de um episódio envolvendo sua vizinha, Marie descobre que pode fazer abortos clandestinos para sustentar sua família.