Michel Fessler

In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. (imdb)

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape. (imdb)

A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action. (imdb)

When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is. (imdb)

When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was separated when he was nine. On his long and adventurous way home, he meets Aki, a Homo Sapiens woman... (Guy Bellinger)

Docu-drama re-creating the life of Louis XIV, France's `Sun King', who conducted dozens of love affairs, hosted lavish entertainments, and built the spectacular palace at Versailles. Filmed in the building's staterooms, bedrooms and gardens, and using interviews with the world's leading experts, the programme invokes the spirit and vitality of the flamboyant monarch's reign.

In 1913 Marstal, South Denmark. Former Captain and Ship Broker Albert Madsen dreams the town's sailors succumb to a violent death in an apocalyptic premonition. Cursed to wait for his vision to become a reality he drowns in his solitude (imdb).

Follows many families who inhabit the oak like a home, living together as in a proper society, with problems with the neighbors, education, solidarity, survival, etc.

An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational...

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a Fresh outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint. (imdb)