Mountain Man
The mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.
The News Puppets
Like any other day, French Prime Minister Lionel Jopsin was about to go to Matignon but his driver is missing! He drives the car himself only to find out that every street of Paris is empty, everyone is gone!
The Associate
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
French Fly
A fly returns home to find his world completely French.
Idiot in Paris
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Three Lives and a Rope
The idea is a simple one: three alpinists climb in the Mont Blanc Massif. This situation brings one face to face with the dangers of the mountain: avalanches, crevasses, fog, the climbing of the rocks, roping up, etc. All of this is magnified, transcended by a remarkable and strong use of the language of cinema. One of the first films about high mountains with Roger Frison-Roche and magnificent music by Maurice Jaubert
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Standing in front of her bedroom mirror, Alice reflects on the young girl she will soon become. The inverted world she sees there suddenly arouses her curiosity. Is everything different? In reverse? Alice can't resist the temptation to find out for herself by going through the mirror... This itinerary follows the rules of a life-size chess game... Most of the people Alice meets in "Mirrorland" are unkind, cowardly and selfish. This is the worrying image that children can sometimes have of adults. Alice decides what she wants to become: a free and fulfilled young girl. "De l'autre côté du Miroir" describes the path Alice takes to leave childhood behind and become herself.
Two Snails Set Off
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Colonel Chabert
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Seven Men, One Woman
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
French Anglais: Escape Deux Sudbury
Two teams of rogue missionaries, on separate sides of the French Anglais wars, race for a powerful weapon in a futuristic Ontario, where speaking English is illegal and French is king.
Putain de travail !
The Miracle of Life
The women in an apartment block are all suddenly six months pregnant.
Pachyderm
As every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden, the swimming in the lake, the fishing with Grandpa, everything seems as sweet as Grandma's strawberry pies. Yet this year, the snow will fall in summer and a monster will die.
Sorrel Flower
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
Succession
Through the opposition of two temporalities, Succession questions the parallel yet divergent evolution of humans and plants. The film explores the confrontation between two living beings, one gradually taking over the other.
Karakoram
Account of the first French expedition to the Himalayas, which attempted to climb the hidden peak (Gasherbrum I) in 1936, from the preparations for the trip to the end of the ascent. After a long approach walk through quasi-desert regions, then on a huge glacier, the caravan of 700 porters arrives at the foot of Hidden Peak. The expedition was led by Henry de Ségogne, with Jean Charignon, Pierre Allain, Raymond Leininger, Jean Carle, Jean Deudon, Louis Neltner, Jacques Azémar, doctor Jeand Arlaud and director Marcel Ichac. Weather conditions, logistical problems and a strike among Sherpas forced the team to retire at 6900m on the south face. The film received the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1938.
JTÉPARAKONTÉ
SAM and RAPHAËL, two roommates on the brink of thirty, fill their lives solely with the few anecdotes they have to share with each other.
Les Caresses de L'aube
La Barrière
Géraldine, a young film production assistant, blocks off a deserted road for a shoot near Calais. There's little traffic, except for Amar, a Syrian refugee. Burdened by her barrier and her walkie-talkie constantly blaring orders, Géraldine tries her best to complete her task under Amar's intrigued and amused gaze. This unexpected encounter will subtly intertwine the destinies of these two lonely souls.