Xavier Thieulin

Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.

After 30 years of exile in Paris, Jana travels back to Vilnius. She wants to see again the lake that Paulius, her first love, called “Walden”.

Witness at her best friend's wedding, Pauline hopes to enjoy this extraordinary day and to get closer to Raphael. But it will be hard for her to take her eyes off her disabled daughter Emma, whom she could not bring herself to let keep.

Eighteen-year-old Victor loses his parents in a car accident three months before his baccalauréat. He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a chateau with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood.

Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its refugee-status. Life becomes unpredictable and their days in Japan seem numbered. A haunting story about the balancing act of finding your place in the world.

A man is dreaming of a city. Unless the city is dreaming of him.

Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project.

Belleville. A working-class Parisian neighborhood. Nadia teaches french to Chinese prostitutes in an association. Committed to her work, she gets close to one of her students, Mei, who is saving money to make his son travel to France.

After a long night of partying, Nora announces to her friends that she is going to leave them for good. Adrift, the little group spends their last hours together in a bittersweet atmosphere, but Leo, the quietest of the group, slowly sinks into deep distress.

В 1950-х годах юная Алиса уезжает из Швейцарии в солнечный и кипучий Ливан. Там она влюбляется в Жозефа, мечтательного астрофизика, который намерен отправить в космос первого ливанца. Алиса быстро приживается в его семье. Но после многих лет счастливой жизни их рай разрушает гражданская война...

Чтобы спасти свою ферму от банкротства, мать-одиночка начинает бизнес по разведению съедобных кузнечиков. Вскоре у нее складываются странные, навязчивые отношения с ними.

In Dulce - New Mexico, Leon Reval loses the tribal elections and his position as councilman. The uncertainty of his future echoes with the one of Jicarillas tribe. Today, they try - in vain - to keep on the fight that began with Geronimo against Mexico and United States, in order to preserve the Native American's rights.

Joseph isn't particularly happy, even though he's good at hiding it. The day his brother dies, he becomes certain he'll miss out on his life. So that it doesn't slip away from him, one night he gives in to his desire.

One of the most far-reaching events in a human life is the birth of your baby. But life with a newborn can be so ordinary and at the same time all-embracing: the wash is drying in the corridor, the bathroom has to be cleaned. In the calm rhythm of the day, 'Ordinary Time' skims past authentic moments like this.

Менахем Ланг, актёр, обладающий необыкновенным голосом, возвращается в израильский город Бней-Брак, где прошло его детство и где находится центр ультра-ортодоксального иудаизма. Сейчас Лангу за 30, из города он уехал, когда ему было 20, после того как многие годы терпел изнасилования и сексуальные домогательства старших истово верующих членов общины. И случай Ланга далеко не единичный...

Менахем Ланг, актёр, обладающий необыкновенным голосом, возвращается в израильский город Бней-Брак, где прошло его детство и где находится центр ультра-ортодоксального иудаизма. Сейчас Лангу за 30, из города он уехал, когда ему было 20, после того как многие годы терпел изнасилования и сексуальные домогательства старших истово верующих членов общины. И случай Ланга далеко не единичный...

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise. Living in a world of role play, Miguel spends all his time playing with his sister Clara. They have a close bond that is made even more intense by Clara's illness. Yet despite all his efforts, Miguel senses that there's something missing in Clara's life that he cannot give her. Time is running out, and her health is deteriorating. One evening, he decides to approach a young man.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verdean creole rap, runs away from the housing project to which he had been relocated.

A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating app.

Each one in their apartment, Mitsuko and Daisuke remember.

1992 год. Семнадцатилетний Мартин снимает свою повседневную жизнь камерой формата Hi8. Он снимает все подряд: свою комнату, окружающий его мир... Но в кадр никогда не попадает его отец. Он об этом просто не думает. Однажды он знакомится с Домиником, которому двадцать три года, и который работает «надзирателем» в лицее.

В оккупированном немцами Париже рабочий и поэт Миссак Манукян организует вокруг себя группу молодежи — евреев, венгров, поляков, румын, испанцев, итальянцев, армян, — полных решимости сражаться за ту Францию, которую они любят — за родину прав человека. Ведя подпольную борьбу, рискуя жизнью, они становятся героями. Теракты, подготовленные этими партизанами-иностранцами, не дают покоя немцам и коллаборационистам. Французская полиция принимает экстренные меры, задействует дополнительные силы, использует слежку, доносы, шантаж, пытки.