Anne Benoît

Elsa sees the dead, especially Oscar, with whom she falls in love... (Télérama)

Sister Lucie has been a nun in an austere convent for around twenty years. On the occasion of the sisters' biannual outing to go to the doctor, Sister Lucie gets on the first bus that comes along to escape and begins to live "real life" in this modern world of which she has not known the evolution for twenty years. (wikipedia)

Louise de Pileggi, a brilliant deputy prosecutor, has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Judith, whom she has not seen for 15 years. When she finds herself transferred to the small court where Judith is clerk, Louise becomes her mother's head. And worse still: they will have to collaborate in a matter that appears banal at first glance, but which will put their nerves on edge. (allociné)

A young woman known as Machine tries to escape from a commando unit of the Intelligence and Security Directorate. (imdb)

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of offences the opportunity to dialogue through secure systems, supervised by professionals and volunteers such as Judith, Fanny or Michel. Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, sentenced for theft with violence, Gregoire, Nawelle and Sabine, victims of home jacking, robbery and purse snatching.

As a missile alert rings in Hawaii, a group of friends on vacation, feeling the end is near, all speak out their grudge to each other. They learn that it was a false alarm afterwards. They're now stuck together for one last week. (imdb)

Max and Lou are a happy and fulfilled couple. To confirm this love, the couple are looking to adopt a child. Unfortunately for them, the authorities tell them that if they want a real chance of adoption, marriage is necessary. A small wedding, just between them and their two witnesses, and that's the end of the matter. But soon, family and friends join in the festivities, and from 4, they end up with 300. (wikipedia)

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 day of their lives. The first contractions at birth, the film traces their journey, between laughter and tears. (imdb)

The members of an apparently happy couple, each with their respective lovers, have the same idea: spending the weekend at their holiday home. Finding each other there is only the beginning of an awkward and hilarious weekend. (imdb)

Gaston gets hired as an intern. With its wacky inventions he puts the daily life of his colleague's on stilts. Our brilliant hobbyist experience crazy adventures with a cat, a gull, a cow and the Flat Vid Phone. (imdb)

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer. (imdb)

Out of job and out of shelter, Sandrine goes back to her mother's house where she is sent to work in her uncle's dogs kennels. (imdb)

Elisa is a physiotherapist who unsuccessfully tried to find her biological mother. But they meet each other without even being aware of it, when the mother is admitted as a patient into the medical office where her unknown daughter works. (imdb)

Seeking inspiration for the main character in her next novel, Japanese author Kyoko Murakai heads to the French capital of Paris to meet six women from all walks of life. Instead, she finds herself on a mythical journey of self-discovery and renewal. (imdb)

Gaspard, famous television presenter, is starting the decline of his career. Along with dealing with his aging, must lodge Hubert, his elderly and rebellious father. Hubert hates all attendants hired for him until Zana enters their lives (imdb)

Miriam, with her two children, escapes her husband, whom she fears. (imdb)

After being dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline lets herself be dragged along by her sister to a luxurious hotel on the Italian riviera. Instead of indulging in the pleasures of loungeing around and doing nothing, Pauline convinces herself that a crime has been commited in the hotel and starts playing at being detective, carting along a seductive lifeguard with her into her investigations. (imdb)

A woman who moves to the countryside to write a new novel discovers a sealed up room on her basement. From there she will find easy to write but as she starts to have hallucinations some girls from the village disappear.

After a painful separation, Louise Wimmer is keen to put her past life behind her. On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, she lives in her car and has just one objective - to find an apartment so that she can make a fresh start. With her only assets being her car and her seductive voice, Louise is willing to do whatever it takes to get her life back... (filmaffinity)

In France during the 70s, drama unravels when an experimental photographer starts taking highly erotic pictures of her nine year old daughter.

When their tour operator vanished without paying their trip back to France, the passengers of Low Cost flight Djerba Beauvais are desperate to go home. (imdb)

A promoter takes an American neo-burlesque troupe around France (New York Times)

Lily is an imaginative, nature-loving girl romping through the French countryside in a flimsy negligee, unnaturally (and comically) drawn to furry animals and with a humorously creative streak that expresses itself compulsively. When her sweet-tempered mother dies unexpectedly Lily is obviously in no condition to be left to her own devices and, after a disastrous trial period, her older sister Clara moves in to take care of her which puts her marriage to a nice young lawyer at risk. (hollywoodreporter.com)

Tale of an obsessive woman (Anne Marie) who left her lover and got lost in herself.

On a farm in the West of France, Catherine a plump little girl, dreams of escaping her joyless life.

Jean-Claude is a 50 year old bailiff who lives alone and has a boring life. At weekend he usually visits his rude, old father in the retirement home. But then he takes tango lessons and meets the beautiful Françoise.

Louis and his Daddy are driving back home. Daddy is a past master at clowning, which does not necessarily make Louis laugh. At times Daddy gets awfully mad, picking on people who don't deserve it. But Daddy IS sweet. He knows how to soothe Louis when he is very very upset. Daddy has been rather slipshod lately. And ill-shaved. And has had hair-raising nightmares. Louis can burst into tears just because a little girl refuses a sticker he wants to give her. What's wrong with Louis and his Daddy ? (imdb)

New French translation of Myrto Gondicas and Pierre Judet de la Combe. Recorded in the Cour d'Honneur du Palais des Papes in Avignon in 2000. (worldcat.org)