Samir Guesmi

A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this ...

Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her ...

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality ...

Simon, a forty-year-old filmmaker, is more prone to shooting himself in the foot than he is to shooting films. After losing a bet, he shaves off ...

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in ...

After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French ...

A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.

Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.

On peut être un couple de bons Français, toujours amoureux, parents modèles, travailleurs et économes jusqu’à la manie et écouler au noir ...

Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of ...

Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. ...

François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the ...

A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets ...

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he ...

Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a ...

Voluptuous and bored, rebellious sixteen-year-old Sabine is interested in sex and clubbing, and not much else. But when she leaves home to move ...

A man’s wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a ...

This French prison drama focuses on a penitentiary inmate known as the Mute, who either cannot or will not speak, even though he can apparently ...

In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with ...

Amélie, a 20-year-old girl, loses both her job as a waitress and her home. Without money, she tries to survive on the streets.

Lucien Hastier, known as “Lulu”, is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been ...

Three short films based on short stories by expatriate American novelist Paul Bowles capture the sense of loss and alienation so common in his ...

On a Saturday evening in Paris, Juliette, Héloïse and Marianne each get their first separate experience of “Parisian life”.

Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car ...