Philippe Saïd

The Namessime (2023)

Xavie, an idealistic filmmaker, takes a motley film crew and two experienced actors in a country house, to shoot a film without a script, following chance, as A. Einstein understood it: "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous". ...

Sainte Sultana (2023)

Mado, a fierce pistolera, travels the roads of a wild country, a Provençal Wild West, on her bicycle, flanked by her two faithful acolytes. She is entrusted with a new mission: to escort Eisabèu, who has just murdered her husband, on a last pilgrimage wh ...

Eiffel (2021)

The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. ...

Les Damnés de la Commune (2021)

Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871. ...

Le Pain du diable (2010)

Charlotte Corday (2008)

Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte Corday plots to assassinate Jacobin newspaper editor Jean-Paul Marat. ...

The Girl from the Chartreuse (2005)

Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and crying ...

Holy Lola (2004)

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies an ...

Safe Conduct (2002)

During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals. ...

My Father Saved My Life (2001)

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a cha ...

Girls with Guns (1994)

In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster. ...

Sunfish (1993)

A Mediterranean scrubland. The relentless noise of crickets. In the distance a highway and the procession of lorries travelling through the countryside at top speed. Among the green oaks and thorn bushes the construction of a leisure Centre is nearing comp ...

In the Country of Juliets (1992)

Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station. ...