Josiane Balasko

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie ...

Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the ...

Inspired by a case of pedophilia in the diocese of Lyon, “Grâce à Dieu” recounts the struggle of former victims to reveal a scandal ...

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion… And ...

Suffering from empty nest syndrome, two lonely parents concoct a scheme to get their kids interested in them again: they pretend they’ve ...

Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and ...

While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending “a few days” with her eldest daughter ...

Five women are about to give birth. They do not know each other, are not alike, but will find themselves in the same maternity to live the best ...

A writer must face the sudden death of his father, but after the burial, the latter reappears to him. He will have to learn to live with this ...

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work ...

A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.

February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it ...

Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby ...

The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols ...

It’s Julie’s birthday but she seems to be the only one who remembers… Until Marco, the man she secretly loves, calls her and ...

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, ...

At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and ...

An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called ...

Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by ...

Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile Attilem, a new ...

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary ...

When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is ...

A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.

25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor’s permit, driver’s license, and even ...

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. ...

After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel’s awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find ...