Jonathan Zaccaï

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. (imdb)

28-year-old Tom follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty real estate deals. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life.

Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he? (imdb)

The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.

An author of cheesy photo-novels and her demure musician sister both search for Mr. Right (slantmagazine.com)

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)

Jonas, a teenager who is doing badly at school, meets Pierre, a man in his thirties, who is moved by his situation and takes him under his wing. On the strength of this special bond, Jonas drops out of school. Incapable of setting limits on their relationship, the cost of continuing his education keeps rising for Jonas.

My Life on Ice presents the unique point of view of 16-year-old Etienne, a cute would-be ice skating champion living in provincial Rouen who is obsessed with filming his daily life with a digital camera. Told from his subjective perspective, the focus of Etienne's video diary subtly takes shape as he records his single mother, his best friend Ludovic, and, almost stalker-like, his handsome male geography teacher Laurent. (imdb)

On his way back from a business trip, comic artist Thomas accidently takes the wrong train - and arrives in the small French mountain village he grew up in. Like in a dream, Thomas is suddenly transported back to his life as a 14-year-old teenager: He helps his father in his tailoring, runs errands for his mother and re-experiences his first love. But then Thomas realizes, that fate brought him back there for a reason: He has to keep his father from leaving and destroying the family. (filmportal.de)

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run (imdb)

A high-end car dealership owner is forced to deal with the Finnish mafia over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.

Margaret leads her high powered job with an iron hand. On her 40th birthday, a retired lawyer starts delivering her a series of packages containing letters written by a little girl: this little girl was Margaret. She wrote the letters when she was 7 years old, the age of reason. Although reluctant at first to read the letters and stir up these deeply buried memories, Margaret ends up getting hocked... and suddenly everything she was ever certain gets turned upside down.

A French romantic follows his dream girl to NYC, but a weekend of white lies, one-night-stands and tangled love triangles prove infatuation and romance are not what they seem. (imdb)

A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son. (imdb)

Forty year old Joe is talented a property broker, but a complete catastrophe as a family man, father and husband, and with a neighbor he can't stand. one day he does something he never should have done. (imdb)

While an assistant at a fashion magazine, Claire Rocher (Karin Viard) meets movie star Elisabeth Becker (Agnès Jaoui). Everything seems to push them apart, their way of life, relationships, wealth and of course fame. When Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant, her life goes into a tailspin. The two women start to bond, or so Claire assumes... (Rotten Tomatoes)

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)

Simon and Helen live in Paris together, they decide to sell a basement in their building. The man who buys it has a troubled past and the couple's life is turning upside down.

Pierre is a famous explorer and writer who regularly travels the world in search of adventure. One evening, he drunkenly climbs the front of a hotel and falls several stories. The shock plunges him into a deep coma. When he wakes up, barely able to stand and against everyone's advice, he decides to travel France on foot, following forgotten paths...

The famous detective Sam Spade is now 60 and living as an expat in the south of France in 1963. (imdb)