Brigitte Sy

At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods. She reads Jeanne's journal, documenting René's criminal tendencies. Solange believes him innocent, manipulated into the murder or framed... (IMDB)

Tired of the social services system she can't negotiate, homeless Nina is a loving but inadequate mother to 5-year-old Enzo. Chancing upon Damien in his shack in the Versailles woods, she does a runner after one night, leaving Enzo so she can put her life in order. Though largely controlled by his id, Damien grows close to the boy; as winter comes he returns to his estranged father to give Enzo a home. (Variety.com)

J'Entends Plus La Guitare draws on the filmmaker's long-term relationship with Nico, who passed away three years before this film was made, to tell the story of addictive love between Marianne, a pensive German woman and Gerard, her articulate, indecisive French lover. Gerard lets his emotional and chemical dependency shelter him from the responsibilities he cannot bear to accept, and Marianne uses hers as a weapon to draw him irrevocably closer to him. (www.silentmovietheatre.com)

A film director creates familial strife when he won't cast his actress wife in a role that she inspired.

Yann (Guillaume Canet) trained as a chef and walks with a chef's swagger. It's as easy for him to boast about his future plans as it is to pick up a woman in a bar, in this case the beautiful Nadia (Leila Bekhti). What he can't seem to do is find the right job in Paris's cutthroat restaurant world. (tiff.net)

A young couple wrestle with their child's cancer diagnosis. (imdb)

A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole’s death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma.

In the housing projects of their Parisian suburb, 16 year-old Arco, Malik and Mustapha, are known as “Devils.” During an eagerly awaited hip-hop party, there’s a shoot-out in the night-club parking-lot. The police wade in and the riot begins. (mubi.com)

Like the stolen car he is driving in circles, Chérif's life is going nowhere in a hurry. When he is arrested for the umpteenth time, Chérif's exasperated mother strikes a last-chance deal with a judge to send the troubled juvenile to live quietly with his aunt and uncle and attend vocational school. (imdb)