Serge Catoire

Le Faux Soir (2026)

November 1943, German-occupied Belgium. In the face of grave danger if caught, the Independent Front, a Belgian resistance organization, publishes a spoof edition of Le Soir to satirize the German occupiers and the nation's main propaganda-controlled newsp ...

The Ice Tower (2025)

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing. ...

The Plough (2023)

Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only a ...

Earwig (2022)

Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Unti ...

Oxygen (2021)

A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air. ...

The Salt of Tears (2020)

Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has ...

It Must Be Heaven (2019)

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. ...

Climax (2018)

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late. ...

Nocturama (2016)

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center. ...

Love (2015)

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed. ...

The New Girlfriend (2014)

A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend. ...

Jealousy (2013)

The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director's son Louis and Anna Mouglalis. ...

A Burning Hot Summer (2011)

Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest. ...

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 ...

Paris monopole (2010)

Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, w ...

The Pope's Toilet (2007)

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet. ...

French Kiss (2005)

"Deep shit : listen in life chance only comes once, unless you're lucky : then it can come twice. But for you it will only come once. So, you must chat to Kate the Amercain, where is she ? ...

Changement de trottoir (2004)

Transatlantique (1997)

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, ...

Crack 6T (1997)

Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this volatile drama seems to call for violence to rectify social injustices. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who ...

Face au vent, partition buissonnière (2010)

There is no denying that autobiographical intentions and introspection have their pitfalls. But a man's voice off screen sets the tone from the start: "There is no such thing as a private diary. The very expression is nonsensical." No chance then to see ou ...