Benoît Poelvoorde

A man (Benoît Poelvoorde) decides to train his son to break the world's record for door-openings so they can get a new car from a local shop.

A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. (imdb)

A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner. (imdb)

The short film is presented as a trailer of a film (non-existent) named "No C4 for Daniel Daniel", supposed to follow a first film (also nonexistent) named "Daniel Daniel filibuster Sidereal".

In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves. (imdb)

Three social media victims declare war on the tech giants. (imdb)

Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive, married and with a son. He used to have antother profession: to be French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause. (imdb)

Narco is a French film about Gus, a narcoleptic, whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his narcolepsy.

A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world. (imdb)

Our heroes' Olympic adventures

Stuntman James Bataille is in love with Concia, who has dreams of being a country singer. But when a motorcycle stunt turns sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. He escapes determined to find Concia, but unfortunately tentacled monsters from another dimension invade the town.

Actress Nicole Garcia directed L'Adversaire in 2002 and is even more ambitious with this complex story of a range of characters in a French town on the Atlantic Coast. It should be said first that Charlie is a ten year old boy - and that it is not always what he actually says that is important. Rather, as the original title suggests, this is life 'according to Charlie', life through Charlie's perceptions. (habitusnetwork.org)

Louise is a corpulent and suppressed middle aged woman who loses her job at the factory after the owner dismantles it over night and disappears. The union members soon realise that there is no chance of putting the factory owner to justice. Instead, Louise suggests they hire a hit man; at least this will get rid of the prick. They unanimously agree and Louise has to find a man for the job. Michel is a "professional". (Kosmorama.no)

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world. (imdb)

Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to the center of the earth. (imdb)

In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. (imdb)

Daniel Piron, a lousy, depressed, disillusioned TV journalist, would love to track down and film Tony Sacchi, who had taken hostage a bus full of school kids when he was younger because he was upset by the social economical situation of the country. Unfortunately, Sacchi became a cynical gigolo.. (TonyS.)

Parisian friends (two brothers and their one-time girl friends) fly to Corsica for a mountain trek. Cora goes because her psychic says she'll meet a man with a load on his shoulders, which she guesses is a backpack. Nadine goes to be with her lover, Eric, the trek's guide, who is married but promises to leave his wife and daughters soon. The brothers go because Nadine has promised that the beautiful Bernadette will accompany them, plus Louis wants a break from his possessive lover, Jennifer. (imdb)

Four salesmen hit the open road, searching for adventure and hoping to unload some encyclopedias in this eccentric comedy from France. Jerome is a timid man who lands a job that doesn't seem immediately appropriate for his temperament. He hits the road along with three other salesmen -- crafty Patrick, polished Michel, and good-natured long-timer Jacques -- as well as their supervisor, Regis, who appears to have adopted Alec Guinness' character in The Bridge on the River Kwai as his role model. (answers.com)

Tough criminal Moltes lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk. Prison guard Reggio lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket in exchange for his relationship advice. When Moltes learns that he has a winning lottery ticket, he breaks out of jail to claim his money. However, Reggio's girlfriend, Pauline, has the ticket with her in Africa. The action involves the odd couple teaming up to find the ticket while being chased by Det. Youssouf, along with the vengeful Turk and the Giant. (answers.com)

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former employers failed to do the requisite paperwork. So off goes Serge, riding his old Munch "Mammut" bike, in search of the missing documents (imdb)

Medical pioneer Dr Kruger wants to modernize suicide. His dream is to create a therapeutic framework where suicide is no longer a tragedy but a simple, medically assisted act. His exclusive clinic attracts a cast of strange characters with a death wish: a famous comedian with terminal cancer, a traveling salesman hiding sordid secrets, a rich Luxembourg heir, a beautiful but auto-destrucive young girl, an old Berlin cabaret singer whose voice is destroyed and a man who has lost everything... (www.ipreview.ca)

A Belge-Francophobe customs officer is forced to team up with a Frenchman during the elimination of the Franco-Belge borders in the 90s.

Nobody knows Auguste Maquet, and yet everybody knows "The Three Musketeers", Everybody knows Alexandre Dumas who wrote the swashbuckling masterpiece but who knows that Maquet is his co-writer? Nobody does, as his name does not appear on the cover. At least not Charlotte Desrives, the lovely daughter of a doctor stagnating in prison for his political opinions. The lively girl mistakes the shy Maquet for the fiery ex-revolutionary Dumas, begging him to help her to have her father released... (Guy Bellinger (imdb)

A "happily" married bourgeois couple suddenly find their lives turned upside down when a breezy worker is hired to do some renovations in their apartment. In this light-hearted comedy, everyone finds a new life, and some have second thoughts. (tiff.net)

What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. (imdb)

A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot. (imdb)

This is the story of two half brothers, played by Benoît Poelvoorde and Albert Dupontel. The first has become "the oldest punk dog in Europe," and the second, good boy and full of future business, goes wrong following his dismissal / divorce ... In short, the brother's parents (Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem) want more of them. How do they get rid of these two sons? (mubi.com)

During a North Sea cruise with his wife (Arly Jover), 40-something landscape architect Mathias (Rouve) spots a boy (Miljan Chatelain) who looks awfully familiar. Obsessed with this bizarre sighting, Mathias travels from Paris to stalk the young man in the northern town of Dunkirk, and soon discovers that the look-alike is also named Mathias and has the same set of parents, except that they're three decades younger. (hollywoodreporter.com)

A banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress. (imdb)

José est agent de footballeurs. Sa spécialité : repérer en Afrique des talents prometteurs. Lorsqu'il déniche Yaya, il l'emmène en Belgique pour en faire un champion. Il est persuadé d'avoir trouvé la poule aux œufs d'or. Mais rien ne se passera comme prévu... (Allocine)

Antoine is a depressed and alcoholic photographer who cheers up with other people's bad luck. One day, he listens someone playing piano across the street. She's Elena, a young and relentless idealist student who will change his life and will finally help him find his place on earth. (filmaffinity.com)

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters. (TIFF)

Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter? (imdb)

Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom. (imdb)

For Bruno, the agricultural show in Paris marks the high point of his year since it means he can go on a wine tasting tour through France's wine-growing regions and drink his way from one stand to the next without even leaving the exhibition hall. His father Jean apparently has but one aim in mind: to win a prize with his breeding bull Nabuchodonosor. Bruno is sick of being a farmer and wants to get out of the family business.... (berlinale.de)

A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype. (imdb)

Police officers at a station must solve a murder case. (imdb)

Depressed by his loneliness, Paul-André, a shy and wealthy man, offers to rent the family of a good-natured woman with two kids in exchange of settling his debts.

Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, formed a very close family. But Ivan, the youngest, out of the ordinary high school student in the midst of a mystical crisis, is angry at his two models, which he sees collapse. Because his older brother Joachim tirelessly rehash his last breakup, at the cost of jeopardizing his studies of psychiatry. Written by Le Pacte

12-year-old Paul lives an isolated existence with his mother, who works at a private psychiatric hospital in the woods near their house. One day, Paul encounters a young teen named Gloria, a mysterious new patient with whom he quickly becomes infatuated. As the fledgling pair forge a tentative friendship, Gloria convinces Paul to help her escape. But when they embark on a perilous journey together, his devotion is put to the test (IMDB).

This drama-comedy turns on a motley bunch of 40-year-old men who find a sanctuary from mid-life crisis and new zest for life forming a synchronized swimming team. (variety.com)

Mr Manatane is a well-dressed, cultured, arrogant prick who aims to teach "good" manners to the viewers and goes through a series of situations parodying famous people, films and society issues.

Raoul Taburin is the story of a little boy who has grown up without knowing how to ride a bike. The story of an immense misunderstanding lived as a curse. An impostor despite himself. (imdb)

The life of two men changed unexpectedly when Ajith, an Indian sailor who was robbed and lost everything, appears out of nowhere in front of Pierre, a single and grumpy Frenchman. (imdb)

Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed. Only problem, his parents decide to accompany him

Claire, a beautiful young woman works at her late father's hotel that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she's allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven "princes." (imdb)

Paris 2020, super­heroes are perfectly assimilated with­in soci­ety and want to be famous at all costs. A drug that gives superpow­ers to mere mor­tals is spread­ing all over town. Lieu­tenants More­au and Schaltz­mann are investigating the case with the sup­port of two ex-super­heroes (letterboxd.com).

Vincent Roméro is an osteopath who makes a point of being funny every minute he is awake. In fact it is his way to remain the center of attention. His antics wind up irritating his wife Camille, a geriatric doctor, to such an extent that she leaves him one day. At first Vincent is so persuaded his many qualities are hard to beat that he can't doubt she will soon come back. But as she doesn't, he starts questioning himself. (imdb)

The lives of a wealthy publisher and her novelist husband are changed by the arrival of a mysterious young woman at their country mansion (imdb).

François's life changes inexplicably overnight, from unlucky to miraculous.

A youth center leader from the suburbs of Paris becomes a candidate in the presidential election. But is France truly ready for a Black president ?

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

A young woman hitting a rough patch in life who ends up helping a lawyer threatened with disbarment by convincing him to represent a small-time crook claiming he is innocent. As Paul attempts a career comeback, Mimi makes it her mission to seek justice and find herself along the way. (Imdb).

Follows an improbable relationship between two people. A girl from an upper-middle-class family and a boy from a modest background fall in love but drift apart; he eventually becomes a criminal and spends 12 years in prison.

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance. (imdb)