Sébastien Buchmann

Ari (2025)

Right in the middle of a school inspector's visit, Ari, a 27-year-old student teacher, collapses. Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle ...

Rue du Conservatoire (2024)

In 1996 I took the conservatory exam. I missed it. A year ago I was asked to do a masterclass on acting in cinema. I went there. I met a lively, joyful and passionate youth. Among my students there was Clémence. The following year, she asked me to film th ...

Being Maria (2024)

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell. ...

Big Kids (2023)

A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but curiously with the experience of people much older than they seem. The watchful and caring waiter of the café responds to them in song, offering a touching ...

COOL (News from Belarus) (2023)

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic. ...

My Dear Spies (2023)

Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and ...

The Green Perfume (2022)

In the middle of a performance at la Comédie-Française, an actor dies on stage, poisoned. Martin, member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes the center of everyone's attention. Suspected by the police, he's also chased by a mysterious organiz ...

Don Juan (2022)

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an attempt to mend his broken heart and ego, he tries to seduce them all but none are recepti ...

The Passengers of the Night (2022)

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds ...

Little Solange (2022)

A sensitive 13-year-old watches her parents' marriage unravel and struggles to keep her family together, clinging to the impossible hope that love will never end. ...

Malmousque by the Sea (2021)

In Malmousque, a former fishermen's district in Marseille, new residents and bathers from all over the city mix. Virginie wanders the streets looking for her cat, while Elina is convinced that her husband has put spyware on her cell phone. The two friends ...

We are Red Star (2021)

The filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet in 1897, while several personalities share their experiences and testimonies. ...

James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre (2020)

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist ...

Alice and the Mayor (2019)

The mayor of Lyon, Paul Théraneau, is in a delicate position. After 30 years in politics, he is running out of ideas and is faced with a feeling of existential emptiness. To overcome this, Paul hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Then ...

Cavatine (2019)

Determined to change his life, the Count of Servadac donated his castle and each of the bodies of the family members to the avant-garde medicine of William Stein (great-grandson of Victor Frankenstein), duly poisoned for this purpose. . Opportunity for Ste ...

Amanda (2018)

David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his yo ...

No Man Is an Island (2018)

No Man Is an Island travels across Europe, from the farmers working together in the Galline Felici cooperative in Sicily to the architects, craftspersons and elected representatives who collaborate in the Swiss Alps and in Austria. All are engaged in polit ...

Vitalium, Valentine ! (2017)

The Apple of My Eye (2016)

A boy, a girl. They live in the same building. They share a passion for music. But when they meet in the elevator, Théo doesn't see that Élise is blind. It's hate at first sight. Love takes its time. Will that early misunderstanding bring them together o ...

Le Ramage et le Plumage (2016)

I Am Not a Swan (2016)

Pierre, 20, looks like any other guy his age. But to support his studies in molecular biology, he also has another life which he prefers to remain secret—to make some extra money, Pierre works as an escort. One day, he receives an insistent SMS from Hé ...

The Great Game (2015)

Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on ...

This Summer Feeling (2015)

In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York. ...

The Watershed (2014)

Line watershed falls within the scope of the watershed of the Loire, the source of the Vienna Convention on the Millevaches to the estuary. Watershed, not the Loire river! That is to say the inclined to the sea level, all of the irrigated area, not only t ...

Grace of Monaco (2014)

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. ...

Animal Serenade (2013)

At 25, Nina adopts a dog. She is sure: with her new companion Jojo, she will be doing better. ...

Just Love! (2013)

Silvia's father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she's promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress. ...

Electra, for Instance (2013)

An homage to Greek tragedy. ...

Hand in Hand (2012)

From the moment they meet - and against their will - Helene and Joachim begin a lovers' dance they are powerless to stop. ...

Cap Nord (2012)

A party, musical love stories: head North, on a Northern Soul rhythm. ...

Lads & Jockeys (2011)

In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- fl ...

Declaration of War (2011)

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try har ...

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 ...

La République (2010)

François Darcy, a young MP, gets back to his hotel in the morning. A rumor starts spreading around town : the President may have incidentally died. ...

Time of the Gifts (2010)

A documentary investigation of the world of French agriculture today through various testimonials. A world that manages to resist the upheavals that it faces – economic, scientific, social – and which continues, for better or for worse, to maintain the ...

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. ...

The Queen of Hearts (2009)

In this musical take on everyday life, Adele is devastated after a painful breakup. Her distant cousin, Rachel, finds her a job and suggests that Adele sleep with other men to get over her heartbreak. The search begins, but Adele can't escape the visage of ...

I Did Not Die (2008)

Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love. ...

Avant que tu reviennes (2008)

"Avant que tu reviennes" is the fragmented, deliberately cubist story of a group of friends who get together in a nightclub a few days after one their tribe, who had ties with all of them, abruptly killed himself, leaving no note of explanation. ...

Le Gros Lucas (2008)

Adieu la rue des radiateurs – Nina (2008)

Writer Mathieu Riboulet read an excerpt from his work "Le Regard de la source" at home. In this passage emerges a portrait of a woman "neither a close friend nor a relative, but certainly a little like one and a little like the other": Nina. The words read ...

Le Jour où Ségolène a gagné (2008)

May 6th, 2007: Alice, a socialist activist, still believes in Ségolène Royal and decides to do everything in her power to help the socialist candidate win. Unfortunately, nothing goes as expected. ...

Little Red Riding Hood (2008)

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her. ...

Guillaume et les sortilèges (2007)

Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment's owner, and a friend of his mother's, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears. ...

Primrose Hill (2007)

On Christmas Eve, a West suburb of Paris. Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia (25 years old) decide to take a stroll down the big park overhanging the city of their youth, musing on pop music, their work, sex and their disappointed ambitions. ...

Octobre (2006)

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment. ...

Le Dieu Saturne (2004)

Laurent comes to visit his father not far from Bethune. But his father, who lives a hermit's life deep in the woods, has only one thing on his mind : to do away with his six children in order to relieve them of the miseries of life. Welcomed at the Caboche ...

Mystification ou L'histoire des portraits (2003)

Before he marries his current girlfriend, eccentric speech therapist Richard (Serge Bozon) asks his friend Raphael (Mods star Laurent Lacotte) to help him destroy photos kept by his ex-girlfriend, Mademoiselle Dornet, as a record of their relationship. Rap ...

The Adolescent (2001)

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky's novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature. ...

L'Étonnement (2001)

Foul Play (1998)

In this French comedy-drama, actor Angelo Bastiani installs satellite dishes when not auditioning for films. After being told he's not convincing enough for a role in a gangster flick, Ange dons a mask and stages a parking-lot holdup, terrifying the film's ...

Loin du front (1998)

Three war stories, far from the Front. The first two take place during the Great War, one in the summer of 1916, when allegiance still reigns, the other in the winter of 1916, when a convalescent soldier and his young cousin go for a walk in the woods. The ...

Cap Nord (2012)

A party, musical love stories: head North, on a Northern Soul rhythm. ...

Octobre (2006)

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment. ...

Je n'en ferai pas un drame (1996)

A couple finds themselves for a decisive weekend in the countryside after three months of dissonant relationships. She is playful and philanthropist, he is Protestant, she is an atheist, he is thoughtful, she is impatient, he is dreamer. ...