Xavier Thibault

In the Name of Blood (2025)

In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox priest, finds himself finds himself alone with his grieving mother. Gabriel, his older brother with a troub ...

Facing Darkness (2024)

Following Bosnia and Herzegovina's declaration of independence in April 1992, Bosnian Serb troops besieged and bombed Sarajevo. Over a period of four years, five young filmmakers documented the bombardments and daily life during the siege—for some, the a ...

Beaks (2024)

In northern France, where cockfighting is still allowed, Anaïs, 18, finds herself facing a mountain of debt following the death of her father, a former cockfighting breeder. ...

The Basement (2024)

The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens and crops are green again. People support one another and families have reunited. In a movement of solidarity, local youth help rebuild what was devastated ...

Double foyer (2024)

Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of life which, someday, will call their way of life into question. ...

Grand Prix (2022)

Thirty-year-old Thomas has to face facts and accept to forget about his dreams of becoming a film director. But this weekend, his short film is selected in a small, country festival. His last festival before letting it all go. He hopes, for once, to win th ...

La naissance d'un guerrier (2022)

An Ordinary Mother (2022)

Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know the yo ...

Soul Food (2021)

Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend's apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenager ...

The Blood in the Vein (2021)

Simon and Zoé meet on Tinder. They live in the same suburban town and Zoé, wasting no time, invites him right over to her house. Simon can't believe his luck! But once he arrives, he quickly understands that his date may prove more complicated than expec ...

Abada (2021)

The son wrote a comic book about his childhood. He sent it to his father who's been living in the south for years. But the father didn't really care about reading that story where he is drawn naked in most panels. ...

Intermission (2020)

No matter the cost, Yacine and his two pals want to see Fast & Furious 8 at the multiplex in the high rise suburb where they live. Unfortunately for them, they can only afford to see the cine-club session. For Yacine, what was meant to be a strategy transf ...

Shine Your Eyes (2020)

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought. ...

Summer Lights (2016)

On the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Akihiro, a native Japanese filmmaker living in Paris, travels to Japan to interview survivors for a documentary commemorating the victims of the attack. Deeply moved by the interviews, he decides ...

The Rooftops (2013)

A sprawling, masterful depiction of a day in the life of Algiers by arguably Algeria's greatest living filmmaker, Merzak Allouache. ...

The Repentant (2013)

Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the police and ...

Lunch with Gertrude Stein (2013)

A fairy is invited for lunch by Gertrude Stein, and suddenly the world changes. ...

Happiness... Promised Land (2012)

Filmmaker Laurent Hasse travels through France and reflects on happiness and the meaning of life. ...

The Devil (2012)

Documentary short about the Black Panther movement. ...

Respect (2011)

The story is simply set around a couple fighting at the breakfast table. All is well, nothing out of the ordinary. Steph announces to his life partner Flippy, the mascot bear for Flipp's cereals, that he wishes to go to Japan to fulfill his childhood's dre ...

Coloscopia (2011)

The sublime Jackie Larose, queen of the charm and the eroticism, undergoes an operation of the bowel which leaves her with a colostomy. ...

I Could've Been a Hooker (2011)

Mina has a panic attack at the checkout of a DIY shop and falls into Pierre's arms. This is the story of a slightly mad girl, a guy who's too normal, a big pair of pruning shears and an old piano teacher. ...

The Barbarians (2010)

If politics were to come back, it could only be from its savage and disreputable fringe. Then, a muffled rumor shall arise whence that roar is heard: "We are scum! We are barbarian! ...

L'Antivirus (2009)

200,000 Phantoms (2007)

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. "Atomic Dome" – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition ...

Candy Boy (2007)

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries. ...

A Truck Under Repair (2006)

Twenty-year-old Eugène is somewhat aimless and has not been doing well in university. He is staying in a small village for the summer. He awkwardly seduces Pierre, a slightly older man who is working for Mathilde as caretaker for the season. Pierre is ini ...

Far West (2003)

Eric is forced to spend his holidays on his grandfather's farm in the countryside. Bored out of his mind, an unexpected visit from over-the-top friends Mika and Koko, and the appearance of a hunky farmhand, pull Eric out of the doldrums. ...

The Barbarians (2010)

If politics were to come back, it could only be from its savage and disreputable fringe. Then, a muffled rumor shall arise whence that roar is heard: "We are scum! We are barbarian! ...