Dominique Cabrera

Hi Mister Comolli (2023)

A few months before he died, Jean-Louis Comolli meets up with Dominique Cabrera for some free conversations with Isabelle Le Corff. They talk about cinema, life, love, death and Chassagne-Montrachet wine. There is laughter and smiles. One is not really ser ...

Mensch (2023)

As death hovers, Dominique films precious moments of a great love story. ...

Ceux qui nous restent (Chronique d'un cinéma en lutte) (2019)

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille (2019)

For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films. ...

Corniche Kennedy (2017)

Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life ...

Grandir (O Happy Days!) (2013)

In 2002, on the occasion of her brother's wedding, Dominique Cabrera begun to shoot the gathering, and decided to continue over 10 years, time imprinting its marks on her family and "becoming the film" as she expresses it. Halfway between Agnès Varda and ...

Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça! (2013)

With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky chosen one is a member of the Comédie-Française but he is also shy, unexciting and often consigned to t ...

Ranger les photos (2010)

Quand la ville mord (2009)

A Wonderful Spell (2004)

Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming flame of hope and humanity that endures, even in times of war and dispair. As young Julien, his family and a ...

The Milk of Human Kindness (2001)

A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place. ...

Nadia and the Hippos (2000)

Single mother Nadia is surviving on welfare while transport strikes are paralyzing France in December 1995. While watching the news, she recognizes the father of her child among the strikers and decides to go and search for him. But she has nowhere to go. ...

Tomorrow and Again Tomorrow, Journal 1995 (1998)

French filmmaker Dominique Cabrera made this documentary diary by videotaping for nine months during 1995, probing her own life as a single mother in a Paris suburb and capturing her depression, therapist, lover, and intake of food and Prozac ...

The Other Shore (1997)

This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a re ...

Une poste à la Courneuve (1994)

A few days in the life of the postal workers and customers at La Courneuve. ...

Réjane dans la tour (1993)

Réjane is a cleaning-woman in one of the tower-building in Val Fourré, a suburb near Paris. Following her, listening to her and watching her in action we learn what it means to be a woman of 45 and hanging by a thread. Balancing delicately between her cr ...

Rêves de ville (1993)

1992, September. Val Fourré, Mantes-la-Jolie. A suburb near Paris. Watched by the crowd, the four towers in Val Fourré crash with a terrible noise. In a cloud of dust, journalists, statesmen (members of the government) and the people of the neighbourhood ...

Chronicle of an Ordinary Suburb (1992)

On September 26, 1992, four towers in the Val Fourré neighborhood of Mantes-la-Jolie were destroyed. In the spring of 1991, Dominique Cabrera proposed to some of the former residents to retrace their steps. They go through their old dwellings evoking the ...

Rester là-bas (1992)

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier". If most of the pieds-noirs left Algeria in the summe ...

La politique du pire (1987)

L'air d'aimer (1986)

J'ai droit à la parole (1981)

In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants' association takes part in renovating the buildings. ...

Hi Mister Comolli (2023)

A few months before he died, Jean-Louis Comolli meets up with Dominique Cabrera for some free conversations with Isabelle Le Corff. They talk about cinema, life, love, death and Chassagne-Montrachet wine. There is laughter and smiles. One is not really ser ...

Grandir (O Happy Days!) (2013)

In 2002, on the occasion of her brother's wedding, Dominique Cabrera begun to shoot the gathering, and decided to continue over 10 years, time imprinting its marks on her family and "becoming the film" as she expresses it. Halfway between Agnès Varda and ...

Belleville Tokyo (2011)

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu'il part en rejoindre une autre et s'en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. ...

Un petit cas de conscience (2002)

Two lesbians are victims of a break-in. Together with their clan of friends, they undertake a wild investigation, with suspense and rigour, to arrive at the truth. Sensitivities are aroused around life choices, and political choices. Questions of morality ...

Chronicle of an Ordinary Suburb (1992)

On September 26, 1992, four towers in the Val Fourré neighborhood of Mantes-la-Jolie were destroyed. In the spring of 1991, Dominique Cabrera proposed to some of the former residents to retrace their steps. They go through their old dwellings evoking the ...