Lolita Chammah

In the Hand of Dante (2026)

A writer helps a mob boss steal Dante's handwritten "Divine Comedy" manuscript as a parallel tale follows the 14th-century poet creating his masterpiece. ...

Élise sous emprise (2026)

Le Voyage en pyjama (2024)

40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne. ...

Consent (2023)

In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions ...

Scarlet (2023)

A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter. ...

Forever Young (2022)

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life ...

Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival. ...

EO (2022)

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life's path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and ...

Libre Garance ! (2022)

It is the summer of 1982. Garance is eleven years old and lives in a remote hamlet in the Cevennes where her parents are trying to lead an alternative life. When two Italian activists rob a bank in the area, things go wrong. This event turns Garance and he ...

Le Sapin (2022)

Soul of a Beast (2021)

During the summer, Gabriel, a teenage father, falls in love with the mysterious Corey, the girlfriend of Joel, his best friend, who, deeply hurt, reveals the truth about Gabriel's past. ...

100% Organic (2020)

The daughter of a Basque butcher brings her new boyfriend — a Parisian vegan — home to meet her family. ...

A comme Azur (2020)

School is over. Benjamin is five years old and goes on vacation to the sea with his mother and 12-year-old sister. "A comme Azur" is the chronicle of this summer which unfolds all the letters of the alphabet. ...

Murder in Hérault (2019)

Elisabeth and Charles search for a link between three very different murders. ...

An Easy Girl (2019)

Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn't want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her own path, ...

Moi, maman, ma mère et moi (2019)

Benedict missed Mother's funeral. He was stuck in the Eurostar. In the offbeat as always, and a little pitiful, he joined the family home to find his brother, his two sisters - and in a merry bazaar, many memories. There, in the remnants of his childhood, ...

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him. ...

All About Mothers (2018)

They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it's their party. ...

Barrage (2017)

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine's mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her prot ...

Strange Birds (2017)

Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take ...

Daydreams (2017)

Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds with ...

Anton Tchekhov 1890 (2015)

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is impr ...

L'Emprise (2015)

"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in the dock of the foundations of Douai for the murder of her husband. How does ...

The Revelations 2015 (2015)

For the 9th consecutive year, the Revelations Committee of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques took care to distinguish 16 actresses and 16 actors whose performances particularly marked the year 2014. Mathieu César, a talented photographer with an ...

Gaby Baby Doll (2014)

Gaby mustn't be left alone at night. Yet that's exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Ni ...

La mal aimée (2014)

A young woman invents the love she does not get and she needs. She has always done that, since childhood. It has become a disease. When Nicolas leaves her she refuses to believe it. He will love her anyway, it is needed, she needs it. ...

Les Gazelles (2014)

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision... ...

Passer l'hiver (2014)

A gas station. Two women. Winter. Trips. Daily life. And then a risk. The hotel in Normandy. A step aside. The investigation. The red Lada. The beach. The death that works the living. A movement and a suspension. The brown girl. The love. A story of links ...

Cherry Pie (2013)

In a loveless relationship, Zoé ditches her faceless boyfriend in a cheap motel room and sets off north without a penny to her name. She hitch-hikes, pilfers a meal from a gas station, encounters strangers who could be her next ride or a passing glimpse, ...

The French Trilogy (2013)

The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, ...

Les Coquillettes (2013)

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival. ...

Bankable (2012)

The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis! ...

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. ...

My First Time (2012)

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, ...

Demain? (2011)

The short life of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini is colourfully portrayed, not as a conventional biopic, but as a visual poem which evokes the turbulent life and complex personality of the literary heroine as she develops her genius for writing. ...

Innocent (2011)

Life takes Lucie and mistreats Ezra. It is not because somewhere else it is better, but it is that here to live is impossible. ...

Memory Lane (2010)

August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their fam ...

Don't Touch Me Please (2010)

A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character. ...

Little Tailor (2010)

Arthur is twenty five years old, he is an apprentice tailor in Albert's workshop, Albert is eighty. Albert loves Arthur as his son, who returns these feelings, he will soon retire. He chose Arthur as his successor. But one evening, Arthur is taken to the t ...

Copacabana (2010)

Babou seems to be able to shrug off anything. Real jobs, husbands, responsibilities, who needs them? But when she finds out that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to make some changes. ...

Just for Sex (2009)

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a "quickie". But is it as simple as that? ...

Nucingen House (2009)

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there. ...

Montparnasse (2009)

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse. ...

God's Offices (2008)

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. ...

The Fire, The Blood, The Stars (2008)

The newspapers announce the left's defeat in the upcoming elections. A confused young mother gets up in the night to take care of her child. Leftist teens, completely puzzled, throw themselves headlong into every kind of extreme behavior. The child asks hi ...

My Friends (2008)

It's a tough winter for young Julien: he meets up with his mother and she asks him to write a statement against his father for the divorce trial; he meets up with his friend Arthur and he tells him that his girl, Lolita, slept with Demian, another friend; ...

Private Life (2007)

The Intruder (2005)

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son. ...

Thousand Suns (2005)

Yann and Lena are brother and sister, but they don't realize it. ...

After Much Thought (2004)

Jacques summons to lunch his two children, adults already. He is about to break up with their mother and the time has come for him to return, in a most honest possible way, on the stories of his past and present love life. ...

Process (2004)

The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live. ...

Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later (2003)

Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first time in ...

Modern Life (2000)

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been ...

Malina (1991)

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can n ...

Story of Women (1988)

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his ...