Alexandre Westphal

Pour ton mariage (2023)

Getting married to Enrico Macias' daughter, I didn't know that, 30 years later, I will still be mad at him for turning our wedding into an excessive show. When I watch my wedding's footage, I realize that I started a family at that precise moment : two son ...

Through the writer's mirror (2023)

In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the space and intermingling with Everett's ...

The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty ...

A Brighter Tomorrow (2021)

Thirty-something Mehdi is a safecracker. He and his mates are just trying to get by, but robbery isn't paying like it used to. Day to day Mehdi tries to be a good son to his mother, and a good father to his 1-year-old son to win back his ex, Sarah. ...

A questo punto (2021)

After meeting at a party, Isaac and Ava spend the night walking in the cold Parisian winter and fall in love without even realizing it. But Ava has to go to Brazil the next day. As he waits for her alone, Isaac learns that Ava's plane has gone missing. ...

Out of the Blue (2019)

Tarek Lakhrissi's futuristic narrative Out of the Blue takes place at a radical moment in time, when a politically conservative era is suddenly coming to an end. Lakhrissi avoids traditional apocalyptic narratives to meditate instead on the nature of trans ...

Guy (2018)

Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960's to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on ...

Ông Ngoai (Grand-Père) (2017)

À mots couverts (2014)

Twenty-five years after the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, filmmakers visit a country still haunted by the massacres of spring 1994. A group of inmates try to understand what made their participation in the fourth genocide of the 20th century possible. In K ...

Through the writer's mirror (2023)

In a small office cluttered with books and other detritus of the writer's life, filmmaker Alexandre Westphal and the writer Percival Everett explore his work. Archival images are projected onto the walls, invading the space and intermingling with Everett's ...