Pauline Étienne

The Divine Sarah Bernhardt (2024)

1915, Sarah Bernhardt is the world's first star. Free. Modern. Divine. Eccentric. Visionary... Between legend and fantasy, Sarah Bernhardt tells us the love story that marked her life. ...

Discordia (2024)

A middle-aged hermit lives in a cursed forest. Fifteen years ago, a mysterious tribe kidnapped his daughter. For years, he traveled the world to find and rescue her, in vain. Years later, she is the one who finds him. But she was followed... ...

Retrotherapy (2024)

Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a w ...

Les Gendarmes et les voleurs (2024)

In a small village, where no offence has been recorded for a long time, four policemen lead a peaceful existence. But one day they receive a terrible announcement: because of the absence of crime, the police station will close. They then have an idea to ke ...

Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)

Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down. ...

French Touch: Girls of Summer (2019)

Feeling smothered by both stifling heat and their parents, these young women long for a dip in the enticing pool of adulthood. An anthology of award-winning French Shorts. ...

Ainsi va la vie (2019)

A portrait of three women striving to forge their own rosy paths. ...

Dad Friend (2018)

Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idolatrous father for a doctor he can not stand, he will do everything to get his son-in-law back. His daught ...

The Collection (2018)

Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous ...

Old Boys (2018)

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher. ...

La cuillère en argent (2018)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (2018)

An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover. ...

Le retrait des troupes (2017)

Anna's life is well settled. She and her boyfriend Paul, a young soldier, diligently prepare for the arrival of their first child as the future father is set to leave on a mission abroad. But a few days before the departure, the French state decides to wit ...

Endangered Species (2017)

The fates of three entwined families. Joséphine and Tomas have just got married. It was a joyful celebration. But soon, Joséphine's parents will discover a darker side lurking behind the couple's sunny happiness. Meanwhile, Mélanie tells her parents tha ...

The Midwife (2017)

Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on th ...

Footnotes (2016)

When Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker, her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, they decide to resist, bringing back to life a bold and elegant shoe model to save ...

Family Ball (2015)

Today, Julie is strong, She is independent. She can go back home. Her family is waiting for her, they love her : her mother, her brother, her sister... and her father. ...

Eden (2014)

Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music. ...

Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery. ...

The Revelations 2014 (2014)

Every year since 2007, the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques highlights thirty-two young talents through the "Révélations" project, directed this year by Antoine Carlier. This talented and visionary photographer was able to magnify each of them by o ...

2 Autumns 3 Winters (2013)

At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It's a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart. ...

The Nun (2013)

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although ...

Une place (2012)

Alice is a young street girl, she is looking for a place where she can stay... ...

Lost Paradise (2012)

Lucie and her father Hugo have grown closer since Lucie's mother left unexpectedly a year prior. When her mother returns, Hugo becomes jealous and angry. ...

Driving Lesson (2012)

A 17-year-old girl who has just discovered that she is pregnant is obliged to take her outspoken grandmother along on a driving lesson. ...

Une vie française (2011)

When Paul Blick, 54, a renowned photographer, returns from a long trip abroad, he learns that his daughter Marie had been interned in a psychiatric hospital for schizophrenia. ...

La France qui se lève tôt (2011)

Souleymane has been living and working in France for years, with no residence permit. One day, his boss reports him. A musical about illegal immigrants. ...

Bowing Out (2011)

Simon, a depressed hitman, tries to hang himself in a forest. Bernard, a young man with no history who passes by by chance, saves him. The old man, sick, cannot drive without risking an accident. Claiming to be a rodent controler, he hires Bernard to take ...

Black Heaven (2010)

An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world. ...

That Sunday (2010)

Two girls, Gabrielle and Jeanne, freshly out of adolescence, escape by car on a Sunday afternoon without telling their parents. ...

Les Révélations 2010 (2010)

Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film. ...

Le Bel Âge (2009)

At 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and eccentric Maurice Reverdy takes her in in his big house, but the girl carefully avoids this faraway figure, who is none other than her grandfather. Proud, rebellious, ...

Silent Voice (2009)

An elderly woman wants to meet her son's murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of ...

Where the Boys Are (2009)

A few girls in an apartment. Across the street men are building a mosque. ...

Private Lessons (2009)

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart. ...

Guet-apens, des crimes invisibles (2023)

The result of an investigation that lasted several months, this documentary film reveals the extent of a phenomenon that we thought had disappeared: the traps, sometimes deadly, that target homosexuals on dating applications or sites. Ten years after the l ...

Mémoires Sélectives (2015)

At the twilight of their lives, Alice and Jean would have been lovers, parents and grandparents. But if this cycle ends peacefully for Alice, Jean, for his part, experiences the slow loss of his physical and mental means. ...