Cinema

To buy a gaming console, two teenagers have an idea to launch an online fundraiser and claim that they are collecting money for cancer treatment for one of them. Cut off from the world in a small isolated village, they are convinced that this lie will never catch up with them.

Candid but ingenious, Bécassine leaves her native Brittany and her parents to live her life. On her way to Paris, she meets the Marchioness of Grand-Air, who hires her to look after her baby, Loulotte. At the castle, Bécassine blossoms. But the arrival of a strange puppeteer with less than laudable intentions causes trouble.

Armand is kept on his toes by his pharmacy and his passion for magic. Sentimentally, he is torn between his wife, Hélène, and his mistress, Alix, and also has to juggle with his father who has Alzheimer's and his busybody mother-in-law. When his grandmother passes away, he is rapidly overwhelmed.

Michel is a computer graphics designer and an avid fan of airmail. One day, he discovers a new passion for kayaking. He decides to buy a kit boat and, encouraged by his wife, Rachelle, heads off on a solo trip. He is soon meeting more and more people along the river.

Jaded young millionaire Arthur wants to kill himself. Mr Goh, an old friend, suggests he take out a life insurance policy in his name. He will take care of his death. Arthur accepts but then finds love and rediscovers a taste for life. But Mr Goh's killers are after him.

Habib dreams of the theatre and film, but earns a living by taking on one small role after another. His Moroccan immigrant family have difficulty understanding his passion, which pays him nothing. Until the day he lands a contract alongside Catherine Deneuve...

In a fictional South American country in 1907, after the death of her father, an Irish terrorist, Maria joins a travelling music-hall show which offers her a place as a Parisian duettist. Her partner has the same first name as her. Together, they find themselves embroiled in a peasants' revolt.

Jan, a provocative artist with varying degrees of success, finds himself on the brink of the precipice with his daughter Marie, an occasional stripper. She blames him for being an absent father and threatens to jump. He decides to tell her stories to keep her attention and stop her from taking the plunge.

Convinced that his portliness may be one of the reasons for his professional setbacks, Victor Lasnier, a writer and director, decides to go on a diet. He discovers an industry designed to take his money and his extra kilos.

Paris, 1963. It's back to school for 13-year-old Anne and her sister Frédérique, who is 15. In their all-girls secondary school, the teaching method remains very strict. In spite of the rules, Frédérique is interested in boys and politics. Anne, for the moment, lives in her sister's shadow.

1996, Timgad in Algeria, twelve babies are born on the same night. Twelve years later, Mokhtar, their teacher, dreams of forming a football team with them, the Juventus of Timgad. Jamel, archaeologist and former footballer, who is back in the country to carry out excavations, is going to help out.

The 1920s, during the Prohibition. Cornélius, a rum trafficker flees to Mexico to escape the American coastguards. It is here that he discovers Linda Larue, the film-star of the moment. Spellbound, madly in love, he sails to and fro in order to admire her films. One day, their paths cross...

Jean and Marina, a Franco-Greek couple, go to Athens on their summer holiday. They meet up with Marina's exuberant family and find a Greece in crisis. When they plan a romantic getaway for a few days on a small island in the Cyclades, the whole family decides to join them.

Senegal, 2011. Augustin lives in the Dakar suburbs. Following budget cuts, he loses his job as a civil servant and is forced to live off his wife's money. He then tries all possible means to regain his male pride which he thinks he has lost...

Aziz runs a clothing factory with fifty employees that he terrorises. The day that his wife discovers that he can also be a gentleman when he needs to convince a foreign customer, she decides to curse him. Aziz becomes a feminist in spite of himself; his life becomes hell...

The 1970s. Fugain has just found a body. For Superintendent Buron, charged with taking his statement, Fugain is the prime suspect. The questioning lasts all night, becoming an interminable head-to-head, bordering on the absurd... But what if it was just a joke? All Fugain wants to do is go home.

North of France in the 15th century. Colinot Trousse-Chemise, a handsome young farmer who is not very sharp, falls in love with Bergamotte. Unfortunately, she is kidnapped by three bandits on the evening of their engagement. Colinot sets off on a chase after them and launches a search full of surprises and encounters.

Valentin, a charming if rather melancholy young man, is torn between his insatiable girlfriend, three rather flirty young women on the fifth floor and an overly demonstrative caretaker. But when he invited all his neighbours to his housewarming party, he never imagined it would trigger an uncontrollable spiral of violence!

The king promised his dying queen he would only marry again to a woman even more beautiful than her. But the only person in the kingdom to surpass the queen's beauty is his own daughter. To avoid an unthinkable marriage, the princess asks her godmother, the Lilac Fairy, for advice.

A father and his son have an appointment with a psychiatrist to try to understand the young man's OCD behaviour and rituals that all revolve around the number 13.

Aglaé has only one stable anchor in her life: her job in a car crash test factory. When the work is relocated offshore, she surprises everyone by agreeing to move to India to avoid losing her job. Accompanied by two colleagues, she begins the long drive East by car...

At Berck Hospital, a man has stopped eating. He only eats piroshkis cooked by his wife. Informed of this by their mother, the patient's children "kidnap" him and make this day a quest to rediscover lost harmony.

Pauline, separated, tries to balance motherhood and work as a landscape designer. Her life becomes even more complicated when her mother announces she's moving abroad and won't be able to help any more. So when she's finally given a major project to manage, a total burnout is on the horizon...

As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. When they meet again, several years later, they decide to finally take the trip they'd always dreamed of: to Greece! The only problem is that the two former friends now have very different approaches to life... and holidays!

Adrien witnesses the kidnapping of Agnès, his fiancée. This follows the disappearance of an Amazon statuette and the ethnologist who brought it over from Brazil-who also happens to be Agnès' tutor. Setting off in pursuit of the kidnappers, Adrien secretly boards a plane heading for... Rio de Janeiro.

Alice, a 20-year-old thief, has never known her father. Her mother reveals that she loved two men before Alice was born. But before taking a paternity test, Léo and Julien must help their "daughter" to escape the Russian Mafia.

Alice, an independent prostitute, finds her clients unbearable and hopes therapy will give her the strength to change. Xavier, psychoanalyst, living alone after his wife leaves him and bored by his patients, calls on the services of a professional in an attempt to overcome his loneliness. Alice and Xavier meet...

Jackson, a ventriloquist, has been sentenced to twenty years for a murder he didn't commit. He manages to escape and sets off in search of the witnesses who lied when giving evidence against him at his trial. From one lead to another, he follows the trail to someone called Simon...

Just as Julie thought she'd obtained a permanent contract with a luxury shoe manufacturer, a redundancy scheme wrecks her dream. Which should she choose, between keeping a low profile or fighting alongside the other workers... Soon, Samy, a lorry driver who's as wily as he is charming, joins the struggle.

A couple of pensioners, a few punks and imposter golfers, an umbrella salesman and a sado-maso mistress, the story of a kite, a funeral, adultery, games of Scrabble and drawing lessons, sports cars and licence-free cars... An everyday tale of seaside holidays in a little town on the Atlantic coast...

Aged 75 Germain, a contemplative home-body, finds himself widowed and having to cope with his children's somewhat invasive concern about him. Determined to keep a promise made to his wife years earlier, he has to take part in a contemporary dance creation, but without letting the family know.

Hud, a notorious gunslinger, heads for Blackstone to avenge his brother Charlie, lynched by a mob who accused him of stealing from the bank. Convinced of Charlie´s innocence, Hud investigates. But no one´s talking and the loot is nowhere to be found.

For the holidays, Dora has sent her family to the Île de Ré: husband Martin, son Clément and two nieces, particularly annoying little brats. She remains in Paris for the month of August, with her friends, who've also sent husbands and children away to the seaside!

Without knowing it, Johnny, a young rock musician, finds himself involved with a drugs gang. Realising he was being manipulated, he threw the drugs into the Seine and took refuge in the Camargue with his family and his fiancée, Gigi. Meanwhile, the dealers are hot on their heels..

Idriss, Momo and Willy use a business conference in Abidjan as an excuse to spend a whole weekend with their mistresses. But when the plane supposedly taking them to Abidjan crashes mid-flight, they panic... How to face their wives after so obviously cheating on them?

It's the final day of high school. Janus and Sam have to provide the drinks for the end-of-year party. Searching through the contents of Janus's father's cellar in search of a few bottles, they discover a strange machine...

Brigitte, madly in love with her politician father's principle private secretary, is so successful in compromising him that he has no choice but to marry her, and in record time! But faced with her husband's indifference, the young woman decides she needs to make him jealous...

Agnès, a general's daughter, provokes her father's ire after publishing a satirical book that stirred up a scandal. She runs away to Paris where she meets Daniel Roy, a journalist. To earn some money, Agnès takes part, masked, in a striptease competition. Watching, Daniel, falls under her charm...

One day, Georges Lachaunaye, son of an impoverished aristocratic Catholic family, is convinced he's received a divine revelation: to meet the needs of his family he should steal from church collection boxes...

Henry, psychoanalyst in New-York, offers to swap his luxury apartment for a Parisian pied-à-terre, for six weeks. And that was how a finicky withdrawn man suddenly finds himself in the midst of the vibrant working class district of Belleville, surrounded by the joyful chaos created by the exuberant Béatrice!

The editor of photo-novels for a magazine, Ariane tends to transpose her and her sister Lena's lives, embellished, into her work. But, their lives are no great novel: Ariane is attached to Farid, who seems uninterested, whereas Lena is tired of her boyfriend François.

With the help of his Chinese watchmaker friend, the ambitious mayor of Delémont hosts the Miss China semi-finals in Switzerland. This highly publicized event's goal is to boost their popularity, but the struggles of these beautiful Chinese women in the Jura Mountains trigger a lot of personal and political tension.

France, October 1918. Sent to Marville to disarm a German bomb that's about to explode. The British soldier Charles Plumpick discovers a town deserted by its population, except for those living in the local asylum. Heedless of the danger that threatens them, they turn the town into a vast playground!

Reims, 1969. Paul Coutard, sports journalist and serial womanizer, provokes his editor into organising a women's football match. He is unexpectedly helped by Emmanuelle, the personal assistant, his best enemy in the office. Together they will go down in history by creating the first ever women's football team!

A group of Italian supporters arrive in Paris to watch a football match. They have twenty-four hours to kill. Full of illusions, they each go their separate ways, ready for fun in the city of every fantasy. Only Franco escapes deception, falling in love as soon as he arrives...

Sixteen-year-old Billie thinks that she is behind with everything. She is a lifeguard at a water park with her sister and her friends this summer. There she met Pierre and fell in love at first sight. Unfortunately, so does her sister... Billie will have to assert herself and fight for her love story.

On his return from Tajikistan, Paul is arrested on the French border. It transpires that his homonym made a trip to the URSS in 1980. Plunged into his past, he remembers his childhood in Roubaix, his family, the blossoming of his passion for anthropology, and Esther, his first love.

Eva, twenty-something, lands a job as a chambermaid in a prestigious Parisian hotel. Her colleagues are a close-knit team of strong characters. She also discovers the reality of this world where the client is king. When a social movement begins to take root, each employee has a choice to make.

Two powerful men are at war and are settling their scores through the gunfire of stock options, financial plots and takeovers. Léonard is the son of one of these businessmen and wants to prove his abilities. We also meet an heir, two kings, a chamberlain, a madman and a commoner.

Natacha, a single mother, is having trouble making ends meet. Walid, a migrant from Iraq, is also struggling to survive. He is trying to save enough money to pay for his passage to England. Exhausted but desperate for hope, they join forces to launch an amateurish channel of clandestine passengers.

When invited to his cousin Irwin Moyneux's house Archibald Soper, Bishop of Bedford, rigorously denounces the novels of successful author Félix Chapel. He doesn't know that in reality behind the pseudonym hides... his host! Intrigued by the absence of Margaret, Irwin's wife, he deduces that she has been assassinated.

Vienna in the 1930s. Jean has no work and nowhere to live. He is so desperate that he thinks about drowning himself in the Danube. But a young woman, Marie, jumps off a bridge just before him. Jean saves her and comforts her. Suicide is never an option again.

Hopeless alcoholic Robert Avranche sees his life turned upside down the day when he meets a stranger in a railway carriage. They make love and then she disappears. Frantic, he chases her and hangs on to her as his last hope...

France, 1974. Through Annie's story, a worker and mother of two children, the history of the battle for the right to abortion.

Forced to return to Loulouj, his childhood village, Kamel is warmly welcomed by his friends and family. But in wanting to help Louisa, a singer who has fled her husband and is shunned by the community, he is also excluded by the men in the village.

At the Vienna Conservatory, Sophie and Elisa are in love with their singing teacher, famous tenor, Eric Walter. He is deeply in love with his wife Marie, a great opera singer, but she is currently putting her career first. Awaiting her return, Eric finds comfort in the two young women...

For the last few months, Fazia has begun her days as a cleaner at the Martin-Pelissards', who are reluctant for her work to be legally declared. Then, one morning, an incident turns into a race against time and a desperate attempt to keep her job.

Between two phone calls, a grandfather recounts his memories from when he was 20 and from the war.

Bertrand Saint-Jean, Minister for Transport, is woken in the middle of the night by his chief of staff. A coach has plunged into a ravine. He has no choice, he must go on site. And so the statesman is drawn into an ever more complex and hostile world of intrigue.

Approached by Quebec's prime minister in the hope of bringing a younger look to his government, Arlette Saint-Amour, fashion magazine editor, is appointed minister of culture. Through her audacity and impeccable image management, she tries to make a place for herself in the world of politics.

To avoid an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, organised by his aunt, a young man of good family passes Chérie, a night club hostess, off as a rich aristocrat. Persuaded that he's found the ideal partner, and having fallen totally under Chérie's charm, the family agrees to the marriage...

The 1920s, an unhappy young woman staying with her jealous husband in a seaside hotel makes the most of a magic show to disappear. Demanding his wife's return, the husband is given a box he must only open if he has absolute faith in her. Charles begins to have doubts...

Maja, member of the Landes maritime police force, is reluctantly nearing retirement. But the disappearance of a holidaymaker has the entire coast on alert: a shark has been seen in the bay! Helped by her young colleagues Eugénie and Blaise, Maja seizes the opportunity for one last case.

Marie-Line, energetic and cheerful, leads a precarious life in Le Havre and cares for her depressive father. After a row with her boyfriend, she ends up having to pay damages and interest, and loses her job. Not having a driving licence, the judge invites her to become his chauffeur.

June 1789. With the Revolution already brewing across France, aristocrats in the province of Roussillon are regularly robbed of their valuables by a mysterious masked vigilante: the Black Tulip.

At 18, Lina, arrives in Paris to study. But she's also in search of something else, something she'd never found in Lebanon, her native country: a taste of freedom. Armed only with her instinct for survival, she discovers a very different Paris each time she falls in love...

Out of love for his daughter and in the hope of being forgiven for his little lies, Christian, a wheeler-dealing salesman, takes part in the Summer Triathlon, a popular televised competition. When he meets Christine, a pregnant single mother, a new life finally seems possible. But reality soon catches up...

Émile, a retired widow, spends his free time fishing or with his mates from the local bar whilst his friend Edmond enjoys a chaotic but very discrete love life with innumerable different partners. When he dies suddenly, Émile is plunged into an existential crisis that revives his fantasies and desires...

Three elderly sisters meet up every Sunday. And as it's Epiphany they have a busy schedule ahead: meal at a Chinese restaurant, sharing the Epiphany cake, and then, with great reluctance, attending the show put on by their extravagant and scandalous fourth sister, member of a senior citizens' comedy troupe...

Within the walls of the Family Planning offices, women listen to other women grapple with the freedom to love. Women of all ages and all backgrounds, who can finally confide without fear. To at last be able to talk freely, see their desires more clearly, and make the right choices.

A garrison town in 1913. A charming lieutenant bets that he will be able to seduce Marie-Louise Rivière, a Parisian who recently opened a milliner's shop. Engaged to a wealthy bourgeois, she brushes off Armand's attempts to court her. A reaction that ensures he falls seriously in love with her...

Violent with his wife Cathy, Dominique leaves and takes their children, Clarisse and Ferdinand, with him. Finding refuge in an upmarket hotel on the other side of the border, he tries to create an illusory world to win back their hearts. And yet they both already love him, unconditionally...

Unemployed and penniless, Alexandre is financially dependent on Marie, his mistress. One day he meets a young nurse, Veronika, who rapidly becomes his lover, but without his leaving Marie. The two women accept the situation at first, but gradually things become increasingly complicated...

Up until today, Simon Polaris, a well-known novelist, married, two children, has been the perfect example of a happy man. But when he hides a revolver, sets fire to his office chair, visits his wife's lover and even robs his psychotherapist, it's a fair bet that something's wrong with Simon...

When Horace Tumelat, former minister, leader of a political party, learns of the death of his uncle Eusèbe, he immediately rushes to the latter's home. He soon realises that a compromising letter has disappeared, a letter that could well ruin his career...

For Lickma, Bienvenue, Mathilde and Victor life is one of financial insecurity. Taking inspiration from a close friend, they let Herman get them involved in a robbery that will change their lives forever...

Paul Théraneau, the mayor of Lyon, is in a sticky situation. After 30 years in politics, for the first time in his life he's run out of ideas! As a solution, he hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Their discussions see their respective certainties severely challenged...

Two friends, Pierre and Paul, join forces to write a screenplay based on real events: the story of a young worker, Rosemonde, accused of attempting to murder her uncle, before finally being acquitted for lack of evidence. Paul, something of a dreamer, imagines the character. Pierre, anchored in reality, investigates.

Gérard, a young student, discovers a fragment from a Phoenician amphora in Corsica. Several years later he sets off on a smuggling boat, looking for the treasure he thinks he has found. When he get back to island, he falls in love with the young Manina...

1940. Jews, communists and other opponents of the Nazi regime are interned in the Les Milles camp near Aix-en-Provence. Amongst them are many who fled Hitler's Germany back in 1933. But as France has just signed the armistice, Major Perrochon can't bring himself to hand them over to the Nazis...

The young Nianankoro will receive the ancestral knowledge of the Bambara, enabling him to master the forces around him. But his father does not accept him as an equal. Nianankoro must flee his wrath and embark on a journey of initiation to gain his new powers, before the inevitable confrontation with his father...

Dom, a deep-sea fisherman, is often away from home and sees little of his children, Mailys and Mattéo. They have chosen to live with him but the judge is asking him to be more present. He tries to set up his own business to keep his children from being taken away from him.

Samuel needs to take a step back from his life and goes to isolate in his chalet in the Italian Alps. One night, Chehreh, a young Afghan migrant, takes refuge in his house. She wants to cross the border to Briançon. Moved by her story, Samuel decides to help her.

Esther, in the midst of emotional turmoil, receives a mysterious diary written by a stranger whose break-up echoes her own. Signs reveal that she lives in Toulouse. She decides to find her and sets off on to a journey that will shed light on the meaning of her own existence.

Back from a mission in Afghanistan that decimated his unit, the soldier Christian Lafayette is trying to get his life back to normal. He soon becomes embroiled in an opium smuggling operation to save two surviving brothers-in-arms.

Nélie rose out of poverty by becoming a nurse on the front line in 1914. During the war, she saw her friend Rose die, who was going to be hired as a reader to a bourgeois widow. Nélie assumed her identity and became Rose. In the hope that no one would discover her secret.

Anna wants to rebuild ties with her son Jason, who she abandoned twenty years ago. But she runs off at the last minute and secretly takes refuge in an elderly couple's house. Unusual events lead to her forming a bond with the couple's wife...

Three days before the first round of the presidential election, Élizabeth de Raincy, President of the Republic, wants to retire from politics. But Franck L'Herbier, Secretary General of the Élysée Palace, tells her that a foreign scandal from is likely to hand victory to the far-right candidate.

Diane lives with her two sisters and daughter on a Canadian farm near the American border. She is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her father, who died in an accident. Paranoia leads her to believe that her house is haunted. Her concerned mother comes to her aid.

Chouf means "look" in Arabic. It also refers to the lookouts for the Marseille drug gangs. When his brother, a local gangster, is killed, Sofiane joins the "business" in his district to try and find the killers. He abandons his family and studies, quickly working his way up.

Nora is about to get remarried and finds out that her father is dying. Her life and that of her son, Élias, are turned upside down. At the same time, Ismaël, her ex-husband, is sectioned. While he tries to get his life back on track, their paths cross again.

Rose leaves the Ivory Coast for France with her two sons, Jean and Ernest. The single mother gets a job as a chambermaid and struggles every day to keep her family afloat. As teenagers and then young adults, Jean and Ernest are confronted by the difficulties of integration.

Soane leaves Wallis and Futuna and an authoritarian father to join a rugby team in France. Although he is French, he is treated as an outsider in France. His greatest challenge is the other players' hostility who, like him, want to rise the ranks in a very popular sport.

Normandy, in the 1980s. Between the cows, Club Dorothée and chunky woollen jumpers, life for 10 year-old Louloute is one of dreams, love and family squabbles. But as the family farm falls further into debt, that life is about the change forever...

1968. Robert, graduated from École Normale Supérieur and extreme left militant, is hired by Citroën as assembly line worker to revive the revolutionary fire. When the company requires workers to work three hours overtime per week for no pay, Robert and some others see the opportunity for a social movement.

In Douala, in a poor district in the city, the everyday life of Pierrette, a seamstress who takes care of her two children and invalid mother alone. Bravely determined and discrete, she is used to getting by from day-to-day but never gives up.

In a youth centre, when a tragic event provokes an altercation between educators and teenage girls, Lora, the director, has to defend her way of working. She is faced with a rigid board of directors, young women whose trust has been shaken and rules that are showing their limits.

Inès is bringing up her teenage son alone and is threatened with eviction. In search of a steady job, she is hired at Anti-squat, which houses people in unoccupied offices to keep squatters away. Her role is to recruit residents, keep an eye on them and enforce strict rules.

Sixteen-year-old Camille is pregnant. A youth court judge removes her from her toxic family and places her in a youth centre. She finds herself under the authority of Nadine and meets Alison, another resident. In this healthier environment, she is able to think about the future of her pregnancy.

After losing her husband and baby during World War I, Louise decides to devote her life to caring for the children of others as nanny and governess. Many years later, thanks to one of these children, she meets up again with all the children she raised over a Christmas meal.

By chance, Roland Cassard, a disillusioned young man, meets childhood sweetheart Cécile in Nantes. Cécile has become Lola, a cabaret dancer popular with visiting sailors. Roland still loves her. But Lola is waiting for Michel, her great love and father of her child, who's been gone for seven years...

Max, a committed and persistent landscaper, has been working on a wild garden project in an impoverished district in Marseille. After years of refusal, his proposal reaches the final of an architecture contest.

Turner, a black American soldier, meets Miriam, a white French woman, during a three-day pass in Paris. They decide to spend the weekend together in a hotel in Normandy but are confronted with racial prejudice.

Madagascar, today. Kwame tries to earn a living in the clandestine sapphire mines. But he is forced to return to his hometown. Confronted with the corruption plaguing his country, he has to choose between easy money and brotherhood, individualism and awakening of a political conscience.

On the way to join her future husband, Sira and her family are attacked by terrorists in the desert. Raped and left for dead, she finds herself alone having to rely on her survival instinct. Between grief and desire for revenge, Sira does everything to thwart the attackers' plans.

2013. 15 year-old Olga, a gymnast preparing for the European Championships, has to leave Ukraine in a hurry when her mother, a political journalist, receives a death threat. But as she tries to settle in Switzerland, her father's country, the Maidan Uprising erupts in Kiev, involving others close to her...

Paris, 1933. 18 year-old Violette lives in a tiny flat, between an overly-controlling father and a mother dreaming of social success for her. But she manages to escape by living a double life. Until, pretending to try to cure them of a hereditary disease, she decides to poison her parents.

Marie Prieur, a young doctor, takes up a post on Ouessant Island. Quickly adopted by the inhabitants, she becomes friends with the school teacher. When she falls in love with a young engineer, André Lorenzi, he quickly makes it clear that she must choose between marriage and her profession.

Agnès, a young interior decorator, arrives on a small Spanish island to redesign a certain Zaylor's house. She is also experiencing a terrible heartbreak. On the way, she meets Daniel, an intriguing man who provokes hostility in the people around him.

Victoire Du Sault, a bold and visionary shoemaker, founded the company that made the fortune of the Dufresne family. But to achieve the success she sought, she had to abandon her first great love. A secret that, whatever happened, she needed to keep secret from her husband.

Franck, a fireman in Paris, is happy. He loves his job, his wife has just given birth to twins... But soon, his life turns upside-down. Severely burned during a difficult operation whilst trying to save his men, his face melted in the flames. He now begins a long, slow reconstruction...

After abandoning her career as a playwright to follow her husband to Switzerland, Lisa is distraught when her twin brother falls seriously ill. She moves heaven and earth to return to the stage, reconnecting with her Berlin roots and her dreams. A transfiguration that takes her marriage to the brink...

Lili dreams of going fishing in the far North. After persuading Ian, a trawler captain, to give her a chance, she boards the "Rebel". The only woman in the crew, the "sparrow" is going to stay determined to complete her quest.

Margaux, 15 years old, is spending her holidays with her father and his new partner. During an internship at a home for children in difficulty, she befriends Juliette, 7 years old, and Joel, a thirty-something fisherman returning from Indonesia. A meeting that will upend her summer...

A fan of painting and poetry, Mireille combines her job as a waitress at the Café des Beaux-Arts in Charleville with a bit of petty theft and an illegal cigarette trade. Not able to maintain the big family home that she inherits, she decides to take on three lodgers...

On a hot summer's day, a mother needs a break and a child needs to exist.

Mathias, a linguistics professor at a Flemish university, is having an affair with Anne. When he has to travel far from home to give a lecture, Anne, to his great surprise, joins him on the train. But when he wakes up, the young woman has disappeared...

When Leïla leaves prison, she meets Yannick, an athlete who has just lost his sight. Running is the only discipline that he can still practise, with someone to guide him during training. Leïla, a former, top-level athlete, decides to help him.

The scene is Mostaganem, on the Algerian coast. This is the story of a group preparing to illegally cross the Mediterranean to try and reach Spain, which they see as an open door to the European Eldorado. Hassan, a people smuggler, sets about training ten "illegals" from southern Algeria.

Given the omerta on the subject of the algal blooms around Brittany's coasts, the journalist Inès Léraud decides to investigate. By meeting scientists, farmers and politicians, she's finally able to expose the pitiless system imposed by the agri-food industry and its interests, which couldn't care less about people and environment.

Much the worse for drink, two brothers set fire to the family farm, inadvertently causing the death of a tramp hiding there. The elder shoulders the blame, protecting his younger brother. Ten years later, Roland leaves prison and returns to see Gérard who immediately thinks Roland is out for revenge...

Ever since childhood, Mounir has lived with Dr. Pinget, who provides him with a materially comfortable life. When the young man decides to marry Murielle and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes overwhelming. Murielle finds herself locked into a suffocating environment...

A small village in summertime. The heatwave threatens the harvests and people are irritable. The villagers are concerned about the arrival of Josef, a simple-minded and violent young man. His strange behaviour sees him accused of everything from theft to harassment. Emotions are soon running high over this worrying scapegoat.

Algiers, the 1990s. Nedjma, passionate about fashion design, defies the repression of the time by selling her designs in nightclubs. The constraint of the hijab weighs heavily on women. Devastated by her journalist sister's murder, Nedjma decides to break the rules and organise a catwalk show on the university campus...

They come from anywhere, everywhere, but now share one thing in common: the Foreign Legion, their new family. The film recounts their stories. Of the women fighting to keep their love alive, of the men fighting for France and of the couples who build a relationship in hostile territory...

Lebanon, 2008. Two documentary film-makers invite the French star Catherine Deneuve and their favourite actor Rabih Mroué to travel together through the regions affected by the 2006 war. Through their presence, they hope to once again capture the beauty their own eyes are no longer able to discern...

Adja, age 18, is trying to find her way in life, between an influencer best friend and footballer older brother. She soon discovers a camp established by a group of activists trying to stop a new shopping centre being built nearby. Alongside the ecologists, she finds herself taking unimaginable risks.

As a young country priest suffering from amnesia, Father Mouret is captivated by the beautiful Albine. She leads him, in a dream-like state, to a wondrous garden, where they become lost, and discover love and sensuality.

After his mother's death, Zino decides to go looking for his father, Farid, who disappeared 25 years earlier. When he arrives by motorbike at a house in the south of France, instead of finding Farid he finds Lola. He doesn't know yet that his father has become a woman.

An accident at a nearby nuclear power station, leaves Victor locked-down in a farm with his former friends from the village. With a thunderstorm threatening, they try to track the passage of the radioactive cloud, whereas they should already have evacuated the area. In twenty-four hours, all their certainties evaporate...

It's the story of an obsession. Over twenty-five years, from 1979 to 2004, a man and a woman wait together in a huge night club, for a mysterious event. Something incredible that will change their lives forever...

Zahira, an eighteen year-old Belgian-Pakistani, is very close to her family, until they day they try to impose a traditional marriage. Torn between her parents' demands and her own desire for freedom, the young girl relies on the help of her older brother and confident, Amir.

François is a 49 year old teacher from Saint-Etienne who lives a peaceful life with his wife Catherine. One day, he decides to help one of his pupils, Mathilde. Mathilde is touched. She quickly worms her way into the teacher's life and tries to become his mistress.

The 1960s. A seaside holiday villa, out of season. Suzanna Andler, age 40, married, is there with her young lover, Michel. A story that reveals solitude, doubts, a desire for freedom, the choices we make in life... and love.

Switzerland, 1900. Just as she's about to pronounce her vows, 17 year-old Élisabeth, learns that her older sister has died suddenly. Élisabeth has no choice; she must leave the convent and return to the family farm. But the young woman rapidly becomes obsessed by the mysteries surrounding her sister's disappearance...

In a provincial town, Michel Dolannes is fed up with seeing his articles constantly censured and decides to launch his own newspaper. Published weekly, the aim of "Cosmopolite" is to reveal the scandals mainstream media takes such great care to conceal. But attacking the powers-that-be brings its own consequences...

During a report on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie meets Tom, a young boy who seems to know the philosopher without realising it. Intrigued, she passes the pictures onto Auguste, a specialist, and organises a meeting between them. Young Tom will shake the solitary professor's beliefs.

In a polygamous Muslim family, Aladji takes a fourth wife, Sakina. Welcomed by Aissatou and Nafissa, his first and third wives, Djaili is jealous and keeps her distance. When Sakina finds it difficult remaining without news of her husband, Aissatou decides it's time to explain the principle of "walaandé".

High summer on a campsite in Tuscany. Whilst his parents try to save their marriage, 12 year-old Nic proves incapable of controlling his sometimes violent reactions, just like his father. He's been accepted by a group of other children, but has difficulty in expressing his feeling for the pretty Marie...

A mixture of archive footage and fiction, a look back at the events and intrigues which led Swissair, the airline and pride of the swiss nation, to have its planes grounded on October 2 2001. The chronicle of its death after 70 years of existence.

Cameroon. Recently, 40 year-old Franck has begun to find the behaviour of his father, Bayo, strange and irrational. The diagnosis is unforgiving: it's Alzheimer's disease. Franck employs a carer, Rachel, to keep an eye on him but the 20 year-old woman herself suffers from a serious kidney disorder...

France in the early 1980s. In a small provincial town, Philippe lives in the shadow of his brother Jérôme. Their world is dominated by pirate radio in their father's garage and the looming threat of military service. However, they are unaware that this world is soon about to change forever.

In Jean-Luc Godard's final film he takes editing to the level of a major art in its own right. Extracts from films, photos, pictures or drawings: each sequence following the last at breakneck speed. A tidal wave of images evoking the violence of the constant streams on our screens today.

The president of the Republic of Zogbeland wants to stand down in favour of his vice-president. The next day, his suicide is announced. His son Michel, returning to his homeland to investigate this suspicious death, has to confront his mother, the formidable and ambitious first lady, already imagining herself president...

Iris and Peter von Roten embody one of the most emblematic Swiss couples. He is a Catholic intellectual from Valais, she a protestant feminist from Zurich. Through the 1940s and 1950s, they fought for gender equality and votes for women, against the conservative dogmas of the time.

One day. One family. Three people, three times, three journeys. At dawn Serge thinks he's committed a crime. At midday, Pietra discovers her betrayal. At one o'clock, Vlad experiences his first childhood heartbreak. All day, Serge, Pietra and Vlad observe, seek, try to understand, and meet a mysterious stranger.

The destinies of Adriana, a young and rebellious city girl, and of Bernard, an elderly misanthropist, cross in a remote valley lost amidst the Alpine massif of the Mercantour. A meeting between two loners that leads them towards a form of redemption: for Adriana, it will be through artistic creation.

Independence beats fiercely in Edmond's heart, so he rejects even the suggestion of moving into an old people's home. He equally refuses care from Rose, a home nurse who knows the storm that assails the heart when we're forced to accept the unacceptable. She determines to stand up to him...

1942. The economy in Payerne, in rural Switzerland, is really suffering and the cafés are full of people complaining. Amongst them, Fernand and his stooges, Nazi sympathisers. Seeking a way to show their loyalty to Hitler they think of Arthur Bloch, a Jewish merchant who will be in Payerne soon...

Orphaned and sent to live with her grandfather, 11 year-old Heidi gradually wins the solitary old man's heart. So when she has to leave for Berlin, as a companion for her cousin Clara, their separation is a veritable wrench and getting back to her grandfather becomes an obsession.

When he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, Robert, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is no longer capable of concentrating on his patients. He soon identifies with one of them, Léo, a depressive and psychotic bachelor who has never got over his split, fifteen years earlier, with an actress.

After having crossed the Mediterranean, Fortuna, a teenager from Ethiopia, is welcomed with other refugees to a Swiss monastery for the winter. She meets 28 year-old Kabir with whom she fall head-over-heels in love. Their relationship develops away from prying eyes. One day Kabir disappears...

When a burglary becomes a massacre, Christian, one of the criminals, is left for dead by Marcus, the gang leader. Thirteen years later, Marcus and his three accomplices escape from prison. Their route takes them to the monastery where Christian is attempting to make amends for his past life...

It's early 2000, and 25-year-old Jonas, who is married to Lila, has just graduated from cinema school. Like their friends, both are left feeling vulnerable due to the unstable world around them. Numerous meetings and incidents await them as the new century begins.

To escape from their miserable lives, a gang of youngsters regularly meet up in a disused Customs building that's been turned into a nightclub, on the France-Switzerland border.

1993. Selma, 17, lives in a secular, middle-class Berber family. When she meets Julien, she becomes aware of the suffocating family patriarchy that prevents her from fulfilling her potential. While radical Islamism is raging in Algeria and her family is falling apart, Selma discovers the power of her own desire...

A young woman from Mauritius arrives in Switzerland to marry her pen-pal, a small farmer in the Vaud. But she finds it hard to settle into her new life. After running away she meets Jean, son of a wealthy industrialist. But when she falls pregnant everything becomes much more complicated...

In the middle of a quiet, deserted spot in the countryside, a motorway stretches over the horizon, left to ruin since it was first built. A family lives in an isolated house set right next to the tarmac. One day, work on the motorway starts up again...

During the winter, Simon steals the skis belonging to tourists in the opulent ski station which overlooks the industrial town where he lives. As this trafficking activity grows, Louise, his older sister who has just lost her job, becomes increasingly dependent on him...

A Swiss television channel orders a film about the story of Rosemonde, who killed a man who was trying to rape her. When the screenwriter is unable to make her talk, they send Marie, a young actress, promising her the role if she succeeds. A strange relationship develops between them...

Émilie Tesson-Hansen, a young and brilliant HRD, is recruited to sack the aging managers of a big company. But when one of them commits suicide, the police start investigating and Émilie finds herself in the firing line.

Paul jumps ship when in port in Lisbon. The Swiss sailor loves the city. He strolls through the streets, armed with his Super 8 camera and sends the video cassettes to his wife Elisa. During his wandering he meets Rosa, a waitress in a bar..

Michel, age 40, engineer, spends his time rushing from one meeting to another. But when his father, refusing to die in hospital, escapes from his bedroom by the balcony and flees to the mountains, Michel has no choice but to chase after him!

Thirty-two year-old Margot has just arrived in a rehab centre where she meets Jérémy, Salomé, César, Sonia... They have nothing in common except an urgency to rebuild their lives and recreate the connection with others destroyed by addiction! Because there's always a greater chance of recovering with others, than alone.

In May 1968, 32 year-old Danièle is passionate and politically-committed young woman. But when she begins a relationship with Gérard, her 17 year-old student, the affair rapidly becomes a scandal. The teenager's parents bring charges against her for corrupting a minor. Danièle is sent to prison...

Paul is unable to accept his break-up with Anna. On the verge of depression he returns to live with his father in Paris and buries himself in his bedroom. All those around him, each in their own way, try to help him to get over his broken heart...

An unfiltered close-up look at everyday life of Belgians! In each episode, Kody, takes a humorous and sincere look on voice-off at the world, the passion or the project of four people.

The Olympique Lyonnais players are among the best having gone from victory to victory and won the French championship thirteen times. A glimpse into their daily lives, asking us to change the way we look at the place of women in sport, where the values of respect and openness are essential to move towards equality.

What is life like for girls who dream of becoming prima ballerinas at the Paris Opera? Aged between six and ten, they dance with passion every day. But it is a real challenge growing up in a world with intensive work, demands and competitions at such a young age.

A kaleidoscopic look at the issue of rape, presenting the true story by a victim, Ada, through several voices.

Through a series of immersive and authentic personal stories "Focales" shines a spotlight on those working to change society, awaken consciences and create a better future.

Mountain streams flow between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic. These powerful rivers are drained by corn fields and many barrages disrupt the water cycle and its biodiversity. A close look at beauty and disaster.

Nestor, Aaron and Benjamin are studying for a degree in economics at the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic. What are their day-to-day lives like? What are their dreams?

Dominique Marchais takes a waterside walk to explore the emblematic Loire river basin. And asks political, ecological and existential questions: how can we best develop the area in the general interest? How can we modernise without destroying past achievements? How can we live together?

A journey through the vineyards of Europe to meet the winemakers creating "organic", "biodynamic" and "natural" wines. Professionals eager to demonstrate that there is another way, chemical-free or almost, and that it is urgent to rediscover a taste for it and an accompanying respect for the environment.