François Négret

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.

Nancy, East of France. Summertime. Seeking to escape her troublesome family environment, Sophie, 15, jumps at the chance to get the spare keys to her wealthy friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought deserted for summer, she bumps into her friend's older brother Stéphane, who, as fate would have it, was also planning on staying. But instead of chasing her out, Stéphane will choose to leave the door open as an invitation to a summer Sophie never expected.

Индокитай, 1945 год. Робер Тассен - молодой французский солдат, единственный, оставшийся в живых после жуткой резни, в которой на его глазах погиб брат. Ослепленный желанием мести, он клянется разыскать и покарать убийц. Познакомившись с юной вьетнамкой, Робер начинает сомневаться в праведности своей цели.

A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.

Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)

When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.

Сорокалетний архитектор Матье живёт в Париже, занимается любимым делом. Он счастлив в браке. Но, узнав, что его мать серьёзно больна, он срочно возвращается в город, где провёл детство и случайно встречает школьную подругу Майю, в которую был влюблён. Давно забытый роман разгорается с новой силой. Но не слишком ли поздно начинать всё сначала?

During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.

Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.

A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.

Литературный критик Джордж получает по почте коробку. Он раскрывает ее и обнаруживает видеопленки, где записаны фрагменты жизни его самого и его семьи. Постепенно эти кадры наводят Джорджа на мысль, что отправитель странной посылки неплохо его знает. Он начинает тревожиться. Но полиция отказывается действовать, пока Джорджу ничто не угрожает. Кто отправитель посылки и какую цель он преследует?

The deeds of Jean Moulin, a hero of the French Resistance.

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is travelling, Sébastien has asked Linda to organise the photographs with a view to an exhibition. Mikael invites Linda to reside with him. She accepts. That is the heart of the film – an intertwining of photographs which, juxtaposed by Linda, begin to speak. In parallel with this, Linda receives cassette-letters from Sébastien. A subtle relationship is established between Linda, the young debutante, and Mikael, the man of experience. Mikael goes off to direct his psalm, Linda stays alone. The walls become covered with photographs – wall of happiness, wall of misery – the fight between Good and Evil. Linda learns of the accidental death of Sébastien and stays alone.

While hiking in the countryside near a coastal town in Normandy, two young lovers have a spat and separate. The woman is run down by a ghostly Land Rover and disappears. Meanwhile, her beau comes to a big old house where he is taken in by an old and lonely man. It doesn't take long for the young man to realize that his host is wacko and terrified of dying and is willing to take extreme measures to prevent this from happening. Though billed as a thriller, director Michael Ferry chose to focus on the inner thoughts and fears of the protagonists rather than exciting action sequences. All of the violence occurs off screen.

In 1940, a young teacher who dreams of the Mediterranean is appointed to a remote village in Lozère. Despite the war and the savagery of the world, he awakens in his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But he will have to leave the refuge of childhood and books to become involved in the obligatory violence of the resistance.

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married to the old Pharaoh Amanophis III. She must say goodbye to her lover, the sculptor Yame. But in Egypt she appears to have a great talent for power. After the death of Amanophis she collapses on the heir to the throne Akhematon.

A young girl sees the theater in which her parents play burn down, and they disappear in the fire. Twenty years later, the orphan girl, who has become an actress, is summoned by a director who wants to remount the play and offers her the role of her mother on condition that she finds the text. Immediately, and as if by magic, the father, like the ghost of the opera, reappears and dictates his conditions for access.

Дьен Бьен Фу - местечко в долине в северо-восточной части Вьетнама, где произошло главное сражение Первой Индокитайской войны 1946-1954 гг. Вьетнамцами, которыми командовал генерал Во Нгуен Зиап, удалось окружить 14-тысячный французский гарнизон Дьен Бьен Фу своей 72-тысячной армией. Сосредоточив на окружающих высотах артиллерию и минометы, вьетнамцы разрушили взлетные полосы и лишили осажденных подвоза боеприпасов. 7 мая 1954 года французы, потеряв около 2 300 чел. убитыми, капитулировали. После этого поражения Франция согласилась на переговоры, завершившиеся признанием независимости Вьетнама и его разделом. Американский репортер оказывается в самом центре этого 57-дневного сражения, которое в конце концов привело к поражению и сдаче французских сил и уходу Франции из Вьетнама...

Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.

“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay by James McManus, it tells the story of when Geoffrey Harrison (Brian Cox), a top executive with British Defence Industries, is kidnapped in Paris and, when held to ransom, his company and the British Embassy are unwilling to meet his captors demands. Wanting to avoid publicity and secure a lucrative French defence contract, matters are made worse when the British and French Governments refuse to negotiate with the kidnappers. Archie Carpenter (John Hurt), Head of Internal Security at BDI, is assigned to investigate the kidnapping, and finds an unexpected ally in an Paul de Vigny (Didier Flamand), an agent with the French MI5. As Harrison’s fate hangs in the balance, Carpenter risks his life in the fight to save him but the nightmare has only just begun…

On a deserted island, an old caretaker with a waning memory wanders among the ruins of a former children’s prison, which was destroyed by a mutiny and a fire a long time ago.

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.

Мистический триллер о маньяке-убийце мистере Фросте, который считал себя самим дьяволом, принявшим человеческий облик. Оказавшись в полиции, Фрост признается, что на его совести 24 убийства. Такое чудовищное признание не могло не заинтересовать врачей-психиатров. И Фрост попадает в психиатрическую лечебницу. Вскоре там начинает происходить нечто странное...

Матильда — трудный подросток с неустойчивой психикой, которая делает шатким и весь мир вокруг. Задача Франсуа — ее умудренного опытом и летами педагога по философии — проста и очевидна: вернуть девушку в цивилизованное общество, к устоявшимся нормам, ввести ее в круг хрестоматийных ценностей. Он думал, что ступает по податливому песку, в то время как сделал шаг прямо на гребень волны. Вспыхнувшая между ними страсть таила огромную разрушительную силу. И когда Франсуа решил отступить, спрятаться за семьей и обычной жизнью, Матильда преградила ему дорогу…

Стареющий, отошедший от дел адвокат живет в свое удовольствие, но в какой-то момент и ему приходится платить по счетам. Для начала приходится класть в клинику опекаемую проститутку и пуститься на поиски денег. Так на горизонте появляется подозрительная личность по кличке «Молекула». Этот субъект скупил несколько обшарпанных отелей на побережье и собирается открыть в них игорную сеть. Адвокат ему нужен, конечно же, чтобы отмывать грязные делишки. За хорошее вознаграждение можно пойти на риск

Четырнадцать лет – сложный возраст для любого ребенка. Особенно сложным он становится, если в семье не все в порядке, если в школе на тебя никто не обращает внимания и считает далеко не самым интеллектуально одаренным. Четырнадцатилетний герой фильма находит себе друзей на улице, которые не требуют от него блистать интеллектом. Эти ребята и сами не Эйнштейны, зато они знают, как можно по легкому срубить денег. Так и начинается извилистая дорожка, которая может привести не только в тюрьму, но и в могилу.

Вторая мировая война, Франция оккупирована нацистами. Настоятель католического колледжа для мальчиков решается дать приют нескольким еврейским детям. Главный герой, мальчик-француз по имени Жюльен Кантен, подружился с одним из них. И когда гестапо по чьей-то наводке обнаруживает прегрешение настоятеля, и его вместе с еврейскими детьми увозят на верную смерть, это становится для Жюльена страшным ударом на всю жизнь.

Ближайшее будущее… Мир приобрел новые краски. Однако движущими силами человеческих страстей по-прежнему остались уничтожающие друг друга страсть к наживе и любовь. Главный герой оказывается втянут в преступную операцию с целью похищения из лаборатории вакцины от вируса новой опасной болезни. Но любовь героя разрушает планы преступников.

Отец отсидел пять лет. Выйдя на свободу, он опять принимается за старое. Более того, приобщает к «семейному делу» тринадцатилетнего сына. Когда мальчишке надоедает изображать гангстера, он сдает отца полиции…

The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Rayenari discovers through dreams that Artaud has been committed to a mental hospital. It will be through this connection that Rayenari will help his friend to recover what he lost.