Maurice Bénichou

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)

An apocalyptic calamity has left the people of Europe struggling to survive amidst drastic shortages of food and water. A couple decides to flee the city to their country house with what meager supplies they can find in hopes of protecting their children. To their surprise and horror they find the house already occupied by another equally desperate family. The ensuing confrontation forever changes their -- setting them adrift in a chaotic, often indifferent world in which their survival hinges on the strained compassion of those they encounter. (Palm Pictures)

Georges (Auteuil), a television talk show host, and his wife Anne (Binoche), are living the perfect life of modern comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why... (Sony Pictures Classics)

Simon Eskanazy is a thirty-year-old gay musician. Born into a Jewish family, he took great pains to accept his homosexuality, and to get his family (including his mother and his uncle, Salomon) to do the same. The latter, Uncle Salomon is a wealthy banker who offered him a deal: he'll give him 10 million francs and will bequeath his mansion to Simon only if Simon agrees to marry a woman. (wikipedia)

At 18, Ariel Brenner leaves Paris and his family to live in Israel. He secretly joins the Mossad, the Isreali secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist... We will assist to the methods, the manipulations, the abuses, the machiavellism, the doubts of secret agents. (imdb)

A Polish writer, disillusioned with the current political system, attends an event organized by former radicals. He soon finds himself in the middle of a protest he doesn't support which could destroy his livelihood.

An examination of the patriarchal Jesuits and the matriarchal partisans of the cult of the Virgin Mary (library.aftrs.edu.au)

Alex Fayard is an internationally successful crime novel author. He has been invited to Japan for the release of his latest book. One night, he encounters Tamao, a geisha who confides to him her fears. One of her former lovers, who may well be Shundei Oe, a novelist famous for his extremely violent and disturbing books, is threatening to kill her. Alex Fayard, a prominent Oe specialist, agrees to help her. (altinportakal.tursak.org.tr)

After the recently re-elected President of a fictitious state has been assassinated, one of the members of the investigation committee refuses to sign the final report and is given the task of investigating once more. In the course of his search he finds evidence that casts serious doubt on the committee's "lone-gunman" theory... A very bold film that basically told the "JFK" story thinly disguised as having taken place not in the US. (imdb)

Four friends, Etienne, Daniel, Simon and Bouly, have a hard time growing older and are still playing tricks among themselves. Etienne, who always stayed faithful to his wife, suddenly falls in love with Marthe after seeing her only once. He does everything he can to conquer her heart, "helped" by his friends. Hilarity ensues.

A woman sifts through boxes filled with memories of her past seeks forgiveness from the ghosts who still haunt her. (imdb)

In Algeria in 1930's, a cat who belongs to the daughter of a rabbi, gains the ability to speak. With his new ability he devours information just as he has devoured the family parrot and he develops an urge to become a Jewish cat like his family. But a cat's mind might be too brutally honest and piercing for human religions which are full of contradictions.

What if you woke up one day and found the police at your door? What if they told you that the woman you had always thought of as a mother was murdered and that, moments before she died, she wrote in her own blood that it was you who killed her? These were the facts that lead Omar Raddad to be imprisoned for eighteen years. (tiff.net)

When the party's official candidate, suffering from cancer, is forced to resign, Michel Dedieu is named to replace him at the last minute. He's to be confronted very shortly with his opponent at a TV debate and as he is little known, his campaign committee decides to coach him in a TV studio reproduced in his own home. Michel complies reluctantly. Worse he has a row with his wife, who disappears after having shaken off her bodyguard. The atmosphere is so tense that Dedieu suddenly feels unwell. (imdb)

In 1958, there is an open referendum for the adoption of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic. The film follows the daily life of Irene, a communist activist who was rescued from concentration camps by the Red Army when she was young, and who is married to Bernard small Gaullist trader.

In a barren landscape, there is a 'water factory' where everything is run with absurdly incomprehensible rules and games. The workers are chosen by how far they can rotate a toy airplane, the work involves strange sisyphean contraptions for carrying water, and the currency is miserly portions of water handed out in pots and pans, and cut-up newspaper coupons. But no sooner do they get paid and carefully put together the pieces, the workers have to spend it on various odds and ends... (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

Follows three brothers who are going to discover the greatest secret of their late mother. This trip is going to change their lives.

A psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer is brutally shot while his wife is standing over him with a revolver in her hand. (imdb)