Il coraggio di Blanche (2023)

Wow!

Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming pool and RER view", and a small modern apartment in the heart of Bougival's golden triangle.

I figli degli altri

Rachel è una donna solare, che ama il suo lavoro di insegnante, i suoi amici, la famiglia, ha un buon rapporto con il suo ex e un nuovo amore, Alì, che la riempie di felicità. Quando il tempo è maturo perché cominci a conoscere e frequentare la bambina di Alì, Leila, Rachel si affeziona profondamente a lei, nonostante all'inizio farsi accettare non sia sempre facile. Desidererebbe anche avere un figlio con Alì, ma ha più di quarant'anni e le probabilità che rimanga incinta sono basse. Più i mesi passano, e la nuova configurazione familiare si fa quotidiana, più Rachel e Leila si legano l'una all'altra. Ma improvvisamente Alì non è più sicuro di quel che vuole.

Le Principal

Sabri Lahlali, the assistant principal of a local high school, is ready to do anything to ensure that his son, who is about to take his high school diploma, has the ideal academic record. But he doesn't know how far his enterprise will take him.

The King of Algiers

Omar, better known as Omar the Strawberry, is an old-fashioned bandit. Forced to flee to Algeria, he makes a living out of petty crime, accompanied by his famous sidekick Roger. After decades of ruling the French criminal underworld, they must come to terms with their new life together, which until now has been one of debauchery and violence.

The Green Shutters

The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.

Soul Mates

Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet again in the family house in the Alps, between mountains, lake and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem to be interested in reconciling with the man he used to be.

Sparta

Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed. Sparta is the brother film to Rimini (2022), and the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl's diptych about the inescapability of the past and the pain of finding yourself.

Il Boemo

L'anno è il 1764. Da oltre un anno Josef conduce una vita precaria a Venezia. Spera di diventare un compositore d'opera. La città, piena di talentuosi e già affermati compositori, gli sembra chiusa. In cerca di lavoro come violinista, entra nell'orbita di una giovane donna ricca. Grazie a lei, ha l'opportunità di suonare nei saloni. Ma la sua vera occasione si presenta quando diventa l'amante di una marchesa libertina. Gli insegna le buone maniere mondane, lo libera dai segni di un'educazione provinciale e lo introduce a un'esistenza edonistica libera dall'intolleranza religiosa. Così trasformato, Josef ottiene un incarico incredibile: scrivere un'opera per il San Carlo, il teatro più grande d'Europa.

Under the Rainbow

An association takes in young LGBT people made homeless by their families. Behind the apparent comedy, the excesses, the desire to assert themselves, lie shattered lives. They all have this furious desire to exist, to find their place in society. Here, they have six months to find a job, a place to live and accept themselves as they are. It's a race against time, during which Noëlle, who runs the association, and Alex, who helps her in her mission, are also forced to face up to their own failings and question their motivation for helping others.

La villa del venerdì

Stefano e Alina decidono, come per gioco, di trasformare il loro matrimonio in una coppia aperta. Nei suoi "giorni di libertà" Alina allaccia un'intensa relazione con Paolo, un pianista. Stefano, tormentato da una gelosia ossessiva al punto da fargli spiare i due amanti, architetta un omicidio.

Des mains en or

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.

Sombre

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

Funan

Cambogia, 1975. Il partito degli Khmer Rossi - nati come costola dell’esercito popolare del Vietnam del Nord - prende brutalmente il potere nel paese, evacuando le città ritenute “corrotte” e costringendo i cittadini a riorganizzarsi nelle campagne, nel nome di una furia purificatrice che mira all’autosufficienza politica, economica, e sanitaria del paese. Tra i tanti deportati ci sono anche i giovani Chou e Khoun, che durante la fuga dalla città di Phnom Penh vengono separati dal figlio Sovanh. Costretti a lavorare in un campo sotto la supervisione di un cugino, da poco convertitosi all’ideologia Khmer, la loro ragione di vita diventa ritrovare il bambino.

Paint it Gold

Willing to risk it all, an unscrupulous art dealer and his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.

Un uomo innamorato

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.

The Dead Don't Hurt

In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.

Kyan Khojandi : Une bonne soirée

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Sacerdoce

For centuries, priests assist many people through their lives, through moments of joy as in difficulties. As pedophilia scandals tarnish the Catholic Church lately, their duty require a drastic lifestyle, living the single and simple life, and abandoning paternity aspirations.

Summer 96

The eternal August 15 picnic on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset, stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.

Le village des endormis

While a murderer, Lucas, escapes during a prison transfer, a strange phenomenon suddenly disrupts the life of a village. One after another, the inhabitants fall into a prolonged sleep. It is in this climate of panic and anguish that Mathieu, a gendarmerie captain on the verge of divorce, must find Lucas and investigate a series of crimes. With the help of Elise, a sleep specialist who has come to the hospital as a backup, he will discover the origin of these mysterious sleepings, which is not unrelated to the murders he is investigating.

Behind Open Doors

Gökçe (30), who is fed up with Turkey's political and social life, has recently moved to Berlin as a computer engineer. After staying in temporary accommodation for a while, she finds a place where she can settle for a longer period, but the real estate agency asks for a guarantor. Thinking she can get support from her close friends who also moved to Berlin, Gökçe is mistaken as none of them agree to help. After a long and eventful day, her thoughts about herself, her life in Berlin, and her future start to change.

You're Dead Hélène

Maxime lives with the ghost of his girlfriend Hélène. Wishing to put an end to this frankly unbearable situation, Maxime finally decides to break up with her. Hélène doesn't seem ready to accept this decision.

Man Is Not a Bird

A Serbian engineer falls for a younger woman, but he is inept at courtship.

Una storia d'amore e di desiderio

Ahmed, 18 anni, francese di origine algerina, è cresciuto nella periferia di Parigi. Sui banchi dell'università incontra Farah, una giovane tunisina piena di energia arrivata da poco a Parigi. Mentre scopre un corpo di letteratura araba sensuale ed erotica di cui non ha mai saputo l'esistenza, Ahmed si innamora profondamente di lei e sebbene letteralmente sopraffatto dal desiderio, cercherà di resistervi.

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard

The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.

Big Kids

Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.

Bâtiment 5

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

Half Sister, Full Love

Mourning his brother's recent death, Pierrick accepts his best friend Tessa's invitation to stay in her family home — at last, a week alone. But when her gets there, he finds the house already occupied by Tessa's sister Marie.

Una donna chiamata Maixabel

Nel 2000, Juan María Jaúregui, marito di Maixabel Lasa, venne assassinato dall’ETA. Undici anni dopo la donna riceve un’incredibile richiesta: uno degli assassini vuole incontrarla. Nonostante i dubbi e l’immenso dolore, Maixabel accetta un incontro faccia a faccia con coloro che hanno messo fine alla vita dell’uomo di cui era stata compagna da quando era sedicenne.

Parla più forte

Antoine, un insegnante di storia sulla cinquantina, scopre di essere diventato molto duro di udito. Incapace di accettare il suo handicap, si rassegna a vivere nella sua bolla, anche se il suo entourage trova il suo comportamento sempre più strano. Il suo incontro con Claire, vedova e madre di una giovane ragazza che ha smesso di parlare, lo porterà ad aprirsi al mondo.

Hunger

Cinque completi sconosciuti, tre uomini e due donne, si risvegliano in una prigione sotterranea. Sono in trappola, ma non sanno il perché. Si renderanno presto conto di essere le cavie umane di un sadico esperimento attuato per testare la volontà di sopravvivenza. E mentre i giorni passano senza nessuna possibilità di fuga e la fame aumenta, la loro umanità via via scompare...

Tutto in un giorno

Una giornata nella vita di Azucena, che non ha più tempo per evitare che lei e la sua famiglia vengano sfrattate, di Rafael, un avvocato che cerca di ricongiungere una madre con la figlia, e di Teodora, un'anziana malata che cerca il figlio perduto da tempo prima che sia troppo tardi.

Il profumo della papaya verde

Una serva vietnamita, Mui, osserva le vite all'interno di due diverse famiglie di Saigon: la prima, una venditrice di tessuti con tre ragazzi e un marito spesso assente; il secondo, un bel giovane pianista con la sua fidanzata.

Jean-Philippe

A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.

Riabbracciare Parigi

Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.

Under the stars

Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making. Raised between foster homes and group homes, the young man will try to make his dream come true: to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best.

The House

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

Along Came Love

1947. On a beach, Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant, mother of a little boy, meets François, a rich and cultivated student. The force of attraction that pushes them towards each other is commensurate with the secrecy that each carries. If we know what Madeleine wants to leave behind by following this young man, we discover over time, what François is desperately trying to flee by mixing Madeleine's fate with his.