Bruno Todeschini

Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who's away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar's lap. Amadou, a young Franco-African, berates him. The police arrive, arrest Amadou and deport the beggar. Georges's girlfriend Anne is upset; it colors her relationship with Georges when he returns from the war. Separate lives intersect for the one moment, around the pastry bag, and all are altered. (imdb)

Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother's homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc's contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. (Strand Releasing)

Set in the suburban Paris neighbourhood of Sarcelles, known as 'Little Jerusalem' due to its large Jewish population, the film focuses on 18-year-old student Laura (Valette) as she tries to reconcile all the conflicting influences and feelings to which study and experience have introduced her. Religion, philosophy, romantic love and sensual desire all vie for the heart and mind of this smart, serious teenage girl in this skilfully balanced debut feature from writer-director Karin Albou. (Kino International)

Fontaine Leglou, in her thirties, has everything. A job as an anesthesiologist, a faithful lover she would never leave, and a cat, and yet ... Fontaine is afraid. And when her lover makes a marriage proposal, she can neither say yes or no.

An adventure is what Julien (Nicolas Duvauchelle) embarks on one night when, as he's coming home from work to his girlfriend, he runs into mystery woman Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier) and becomes obsessed with her. (ThePhoenix.com)

The film follows the story of three girls in contemporary Paris. One searches for her lost mother since she knows she's adopted. The other has come out of a coma and needs to have a love relationship aside from his mysterious father. The third one is a crook who redeems herself through love. The action is commented by songs and dance routines. (imdb)

Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems. (imdb)

Avignon Festival - Summer. First, there's Maud and Alex, who have just broken up but need to pretend to be two love birds on stage. Then there's the playwright of their play, Richard, who could start to fall in love with Léna, but is still grieving his lost wife. Léna is also grieving her ex but can't remember why she dumped him. (comedyfilmfest.com)

A young Jewish girl looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain while attempting to make their way to England is sheltered by an old friend whose status as a member of the "third" sex soon leads the Gestapo pounding on his door as well. Betrayed by a smuggler who sat idly by as her family was casually slaughtered by the SS, terrified Sara flees into the comforting care of childhood summer-vacation chum Jean and his faithful lover Philippe. (imdb)

Moles threaten to foil a team of secret agents' plan. (imdb)

A group of people try to flee from a dictatorship government

Grace is still grappling with the disappearance of her daughter five years earlier. Her husband Lukas is trapped in his own helpless grief. He and Grace have long since stopped communicating. As Grace confronts a series of small absurdities in her apartment building, Lukas finds himself unable to complete even the simplest of daily tasks. When something truly heartbreaking happens in a family, the deepest response is often unspoken. (Warsaw Film Festival)

Concerns the troubled history of a family. Eighteen-year-old Simon (Gaspard Ulliel) meets the attractive 17-year-old Louise (Melanie Laurent) while he travels on a train to spend Christmas with his family. She joins him on his visit home. The family mistakenly believes that Simon and Louise are intimately involved with each other. (allmovie.com)

Luca's father is a bank manager who doubles as a loan shark - and Bruno is heavily in debt to him. Luca is disgusted by his father's deadbeat double life and, we feel, shamed by his father's implied contempt for him.

Amidst the impersonal hubbub of Paris' Orly Airport, strangers meet, secrets are revealed, and sudden intimacies develop in this beautifully observed mosaic of lives in transit.

The relationship between a dutiful wife and her incarcerated husband grows increasingly complicated when a curious third party seduces her beyond her husband's reach.

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities. (imdb)

Anne is a woman who guards her secrets closely. She's utterly solitary, and keeps her distance from everyone. In her private life, Anne wanders alone. Then the strange thumping noise Anne keeps hearing in her flat works its way into her consciousness, and eventually she has to turn her attention to another living presence. (mubi.com)

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker. (imdb)

A Woman swaps her flat in canada for a flat in Paris, soon her whole identity has been taken and she is on the run from the police who suspect her of murder.

Biography of French chemist Louis Pasteur

The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away. (imdb)

Julia is a terminally-ill architect whose ultimate wish is to die in her home.

A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors. (imdb)

Fleeing away from a violent husband, Anna and her son Valerio struggle with the life in a new city. (imdb)

The story of Camille Lepage, a French photojournalist who was killed at age 26 in the Central African Republic. (imdb)

When the American Civil War breaks out, a family of french settlers must abandon their Missouri home to flee and go back to Paris. They're escorted by a former mercenary whose troubled past soon catches up with him.