André Reybaz

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. (imdb)

Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. TURKISH CHRONICLES is a compendium of four pieces shot in Turkey. Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453.

Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. TURKISH CHRONICLES is a compendium of four pieces shot in Turkey. Corne D'Or juxtaposes a poem by Nerval with a powerful study of Ottoman architecture. (KG)

Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. TURKISH CHRONICLES is a compendium of four pieces shot in Turkey. Maitre Galip is another on Pialat's perceptive studies of children that includes a poem by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. (KG)

Story about arms trafficking between governments. (bfi)

Retired lawyer and town drunkard Hector Loursat returns to the courtroom to defend his daughter's gang member boyfriend after a criminal is found murdered in their house.

A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition? (imdb)