Adèle Haenel

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance. (imdb)

Two troubled children struggle to survive on their own while trying to make it across country in search for their unknown parents.

Set at the dawn of the 20th century, a prostitute is disfigured for life by a man - bearing a facial scar in the shape of a tragic smile. (screenbase.screendaily.com)

Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can join him and change his life. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne. (imdb)

Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies. He expects nothing; she prepares for the worst. He takes things as they come, likes a good laugh. She fights, runs, swims, pushes herself to the limit. Given she hasn't asked him for anything, just how far will he go along with her? It's a love story. Or a story of survival. (imdb)

Nice, 1976. Agnès Le Roux, daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with a beautiful lawyer ten years his senior Maurice Agnelet. It has other links, she loves to madness. Against a background of war casinos, he connects with Fratoni, sour competitor of his mother, who offers him three million francs to take control of the casino. Agnes accepts but resents his betrayal. Maurice away. After a suicide attempt, the young woman disappears ...

A doctor attempts to uncover the identity of a patient who died after she refused her treatment. (imdb)

The story of a woman as she lives her entire life, from infancy to old age, set against the backdrop of her struggle for freedom and identity. (Cineuropa)

One morning in Paris. A fistful of adolescents, from different backgrounds. Individually, they begin a strange dance through the labyrinth of the metro and the streets of the capital. They seem to be following a plan. Their gestures are precise, almost dangerous. They come together in the same place, a department store, at closing time. Paris erupts. The assault begins... (wildbunch.biz)

A renowned German Holocaust researcher, grandson of a prominent Nazi war criminal, is struggling with his family history, his career, and his hatred of people in general. At the height of his personal crisis, he encounters a passionate, manic French Jewess with a Teutonic complex. Her remarkably frank and unconventional manner turns his professional and family life upside down and helps him finally break down the barriers he has built around his life. (Tokyo International Film Festival)

Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle. (imdb)

In a town on the French Riviera, detective Yvonne is the young widow of police chief Santi, a local hero. When she realizes her husband was not exactly the model of virtue so idolized by their young son and that an innocent young man, Antoine has spent 8 years in prison as Santi's scapegoat, she is thrown into turmoil. Yvonne wants to do everything she can to help this very charming Antoine get back to his life and his wife. (imdb)

The movie retraces the French Revolution, the constitution of the new parliament and the condemnation of the King Louis XVI.

A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. (imdb)

On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. (imdb)

A man on the Parisian streets just claimed he is the reincarnation of a Bosnian man who died on Joachim's birth date. Overwhelmed with nightmares and writing things in his sleep he talks to his friend Alice, who definitely does not believe it to be true, but decides to accompany Joachim to Bosnia to find the truth. Journalist Alice also brings a sound technician and a camera man to create a story around the strange happenings. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)

A young woman chronicles her childhood of neglect and isolation. (imdb)

Based on the novel by Didier Eribon, the film tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.