Elli Medeiros

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making). (imdb)

Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered two men; one, the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison. (imdb)

A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. (imdb)

Luca is a French writer who is brought back to Italy, his country of birth, for his father's funeral. While trying to make sense of his life, Luca must juggle his emotionally fragile mother and sister, his father's company, and some very forward Italians, all the time trying to find a moment's peace to reconnect with the Italy of his youth.

A look at the final moments of a ruler in Haiti as a violent revolution erupts around him. (imdb)

Sophie and Daneel, both in their early thirties, are a close and passionate couple living in Paris. Sophie initiates a surprise journey to Bulgaria. Daneel explicitly refuses to go, but Sophie insists and finally convinces him to leave. When they arrive, Sophie discovers that Daneel was born there... (mubi.com)

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.

A potential love triangle between Emma, Sammy, and Cyril is shattered by the emergence of the AIDS crisis. Expecting the worst, each character's destiny takes an unexpected path. (imdb)