Emmanuel Salinger

I Swear (2025)

Thirtysomething Marco goes through life without a compass. Employed at a Forbach recycling center, he finds comfort in alcohol. And a little with Madeleine, a mature woman with whom he secretly has a relationship. One day, he is drawn by lot to be a juror ...

This Life of Mine (2024)

Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities. ...

Les Sentinelles de l'oubli (2023)

The war memorials of 1914-1918 have become so familiar that we no longer see them. They've become an invisible museum, blending into the landscape of France. Then, one fine day, a sculpture catches our eye. Another History appears, perhaps the most giganti ...

The Taste of Things (2023)

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook fo ...

Summer Frost (2023)

It's summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet's Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of ...

Til Death Do Us Part (2023)

John Dubury, a fifty-year-old man disappointed by his life, sees his wife die from a fatal fall while they are on vacation together. And while an accident is initially thought to be the cause of death, suspicions soon turn to John... especially since a wit ...

X14 (2022)

Liz, thirty-something, lives in her appartement in the Paris suburbs with her cat and her robot butler. Somewhere between a peaceful Golddorak and a protective creature from Studio Ghibli, with a punky Mohican and two blue LED eyes, X14 looks after the hom ...

Online Justice (2021)

A man is caught in a storm of public rage when a 16-year-old girl mounts a social media campaign accusing him of murdering her father. ...

My Last Lullaby (2019)

Is there a suitable age to face a loss for the first time? 20-year-old Paloma has just lost her grandfather. Her entire family gathers in the grandparents' house the day before the funeral. It is a place full of memories, and without noticing, Paloma is le ...

2 ou 3 choses de Marie Jacobson (2019)

Marie is a doctor. She smokes and reads a lot. And speaks from time to time with the dead. Today, she learns that it is her turn to die. She only has to live a few weeks. It's short. She must act quikly, dream, laugh and still live. ...

The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema (2017)

The two decades following the Russian revolution are marked by a gang of young people who profoundly influenced Russian Cinema. This artistic revolution was led by directors, actors, technicians and poets. They are the characters and voices of our film. Th ...

Planetarium (2016)

In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris. ...

La plage (2015)

Under the sun, the feet in the water, even at the beach people does not succeed to relax. Nobody may deny than something wrong is happening right beside them but everyone fake to not see anything... ...

Par accident (2015)

One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as ...

Marguerite & Julien (2015)

Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion. ...

The Girls (2015)

It's the summer. Charlotte is working in a tollbooth on the Autoroute du Sud motorway and training for the amateur football match organised by her sister Nathalie. ...

The Wheel of Emotions (2015)

Marc is an intern in the prestigious neuroscience lab of Professor Georges Erwin. He is working on an experiment that enables to make people laugh, and, in term, maybe to control one's emotions. He has met Elsa, a first year student in the school where he ...

Blue Pills (2014)

The shy comic book writer JB meets the newly divorced young mother Laura at a party. Love magic rises. But Laura and her son Oscar are both HIV positive. ...

I'm Not Dead (2013)

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown ...

La Mouette (2012)

A French adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull", staged by Arthur Nauzyciel. ...

Comment je me suis réveillé (2011)

Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or (2011)

Simon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to shooting films. After losing a bet, he shaves off his hair and discovers a strange bump on top of his scull. Believing he's got a terminal illness, he gathers hi ...

The Sentiment of the Flesh (2010)

During a medical exam, Helena, a student in anatomical drawing, meets Benoit, a young radiologist. Their mutual fascination for the human body incites them to start a passionate romance. Helena's capability to memorize every detail of Benoit's body and Ben ...

Low Cost (Claude Jutra) (2010)

Since he is 9 years old, David Miller has known the date of the day he dies. As it nears, he meets those he cares about for the last time, obsessed by the idea of learning how to tie a tie and by the the fall into water of the Quebecker filmmaker Claude Ju ...

Great life (2009)

Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom in his lethargic high-school students. Circumstances lead him to Paris where he encounters a new student i ...

Nulle Part, Terre Promise (2009)

A group of Kurdish refugees tries to get to Great Britain. A female student travels through Europa. A young executive relocates a factory to Hungary. ...

The Key (2007)

Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de r ...

Belhorizon (2006)

A group of friends blessed with the privileges of birth and status are about to leave for a short break. Carl is the first to arrive and discovers that the four-star hotel they've booked is nothing more than an ordinary family pension. This means the begin ...

Triple Agent (2004)

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging ...

April Captains (2000)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it. ...

Across the Road (2000)

Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends ...

Kill by Inches (1999)

An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients; but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His younger sister - an expert seamstress - arrives back in town, discovers ...

1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)

An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital. ...

My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers? ...

Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1996)

Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control ...

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. ...

Forget Me (1995)

Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In her despair, she tortures herself, Antoine, and ...

Queen Margot (1994)

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre. ...

Shattered Lives (1994)

August 1939. The fate of four young people, Ramona, Georges, Brigitte and Hans is upset by the outbreak of war. ...

Grande petite (1994)

An indecisive, shy young woman, Benedicte is 20 years old and lives with Henri who is considerably older. She is still haunted by two former loves, Pierre, whom she still cares for, and Paul, who still cares for her. She is faced with a major decision when ...

Bête de scène (1994)

Bernard Nissille's little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. An actor who appeared with Bulle Ogier in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep, Nissille enlisted the brilliant ...

Poorly Extinguished Fires (1994)

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and qu ...

Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs (1993)

After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies. ...

Sauve-toi (1993)

A young man who has just committed a hold-up finds refuge in an old house. ...

The Sentinel (1992)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage. ...

The Life of the Dead (1991)

A young woman convenes with her extended family in a provincial village where her cousin, in a coma, is hospitalized after attempting suicide. ...

Tell Me Yes, Tell Me No (1989)

Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite. ...

Story of Annette Zelman (2022)

1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausio ...

Great life (2009)

Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom in his lethargic high-school students. Circumstances lead him to Paris where he encounters a new student i ...

Max & Co (2007)

15-year-old Max is in search of his father, the famous troubadour Johnny Bigoude, who disappeared shortly after Max's birth. He reaches Saint-Hilare where Madam Doudou, the old teacher, takes care of him and finds him a job as elevator musician in the fly ...

Man of the Crowds (2001)

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret. ...

Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1996)

Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control ...

Forget Me (1995)

Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In her despair, she tortures herself, Antoine, and ...

The Sentinel (1992)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage. ...

Tell Me Yes, Tell Me No (1989)

Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite. ...

Palais de Tokyo (1986)

A short film about the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, commissioned by the IDHEC. ...