Déborah François

Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted piano player. That is why her parents and herself decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, unfortunately she gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes the former president of the jury's page turner, waiting patiently to be revenged... (imdb.com)

A sprawling drama centered around five keys days in a family's life. (imdb)

n May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. (imdb)

16-years-old Alex manages a lonely gas station in the Belgian mountains together with her father. Father Frank has fallen into a deep apathy after his wife's death. Alex has to make sure that things work out although she misses her mother herself as well. At the same time she is busy becoming a grown-up. She gradually slips into the role of replacement wife until she meets 22-years-old Hector who opens her eyes. (iffmh.de)

Competing at Sundance in January 2009, Dos Santos' second feature film after his debut Glue is a visually striking, bittersweet story of love, loss, identity, sex and friendship set in cosmopolitan East London. Twenty-year-old naïve Spanish Axl comes to London to find his father who had abandoned him as a child. But instead, he finds there an underground squat, or communal dwelling, filled with an assortment of colourful, multi-cultural, free spirited characters... (iiksv.org)

A young girl witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam. (imdb)

Laura is a 19-year-old university freshman who desperately wants to do well in school. She works a part-time job but cannot make ends meet. One evening in which she is short of funds, she answers a personal ad online by "Joe," 57, who seeks a female student for "tender moments." The pay is 100 euros per hour. Laura pledges to do this just once, and three days later, she goes to a hotel room with Joe. And then her spiral begins. (imdb)

Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word (imdb)

After landing her first job as a secretary in the city, small-town girl Rose has a chance to enter the regional speed typewriting competition. First stop, Normandy. Next... the world!

Jean-Jacques meets a young woman named Elizabeth in a bar, and makes the mistake of telling his girlfriend, Ariane, about her. Ariane is convinced he wants to sleep with Elizabeth, and gives him her blessing. Reluctantly, but to please Ariane, the young man accepts an invitation from Elizabeth to visit her home, where he discovers in amazement that she is the daughter of the president... (showtimes.com)

Henry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere. Charmed by his benevolence, feelings hitherto unknown are aroused, while Rovere, intrigued by Henry's dream, lives this shoot as an unexpected gift. (imdb)

The ambitious drama chronicles the complex, decade-long friendship between Cezanne, who was born into a wealthy family but struggled to make a living as a painter, and Zola, who came from a poor background but achieved fame and prosperity as a politically-engaged novelist. (Variety)

Julien, thirty good dough and modest, applications for smartphone maker, is madly in love with Eva, a journalist in the professional press. After accepting the marriage proposal Julien, Eva is obliged to present it to his parents who live on the island of Ré. In a crazy adventures weekend, Julien will blow his future in-laws who were up by lies and pretenses ...

An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises. (imdb)

Angel works in an ambulance service. After a tragic accident, his personal life begins to deteriorate as he becomes more and more suspicious of his partner Vane. (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.