Catherine Paillé

Filmes

A Zone to Defend
Co-Writer
Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy that Greg discovers, despite the risks of being unmasked. For each of them, time is short: soon everything will disappear.
Midwives
Screenplay
After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?
The Sixth Child
Writer
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.
Magnetic Beats
Screenplay
Um garoto que vivia na Grã Bretanha na década de 1980 é convocado para o serviço militar, servindo na Alemanha Ocidental.
Embarque
Writer
Félix e Alma se conhecem em uma noite de verão em Paris. Ele decide surpreendê-la no lugar onde a família dela está de férias no sul e chama o melhor amigo para uma aventura transformadora.
Shéhérazade
Screenplay
Acabado de sair de um reformatório de Marselha, Zach apaixona-se por uma jovem prostituta e cedo se depara com um grande dilema enquanto trabalha como proxeneta.
A Polar Year
Screenplay
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.
O Segredo da Câmera Escura
Writer
Quando um assistente se apaixona pela filha e modelo de um fotógrafo viúvo, obcecado por um antigo método de fotografia e atormentado pela morte de sua esposa, o relacionamento espelha a forma de arte.
Ogros
Writer
Uma companhia francesa de teatro itinerante viaja de cidade em cidade com sua tenda de circo. Eles levam fantasia e desordem às pessoas. Orgulhosamente excêntricos, vivem como uma tribo, misturando família, trabalho, amor e amizade, sem ressalvas. Mas o retorno de uma antiga paixão e uma criança que está para nascer reabrirão feridas que eles pensavam estar curadas.
Land Legs
Writer
Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his teenaged children decided to live with him since the divorce of the parents. But when his daughter Mailys gets pregnant, Dom understands that he will have to choose between the sea and his family.
Gente de bien
Writer
Eric moves in with his father, a man he barely knows, and they have trouble bonding until Maria takes Eric under her wing.
Tonnerre
Co-Writer
Músico introvertido retorna para a casa do pai, em Tonnerre, para buscar inspiração ao novo álbum. Apaixona-se por uma jovem jornalista que rapidamente se torna uma obsessão para ele. Quando descobre que ela decidiu voltar para o ex, não consegue controlar um impulso vingativo e se dispõe a tê-la a qualquer custo.
Little Lion
Screenplay
A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe.
A Better Life
Screenplay
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Eastern Drift
Writer
A drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.
Kissing Tigers
Screenplay
In Grenoble's Gypsy community, a young kick-boxing champion learns about manhood from his gay elder brother.