Laurent Cantet

Franck (Lespert), a Parisian business school student, takes an internship in the Human Resources department at the factory where his father (Vallod) has labored for 30 years. Franck's efforts lead to the firing of many employees, including his father. (Shooting Gallery)

After losing his job, Vincent (Recoing) can't bring himself to tell his wife (Viard) and children, so he wanders around France during the day, while they think he's at work, and finds himself on a moral and ethical journey of conscience that challenges the notions he's formed about life. (ThinkFilm)

On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the '70s, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda (Young), Ellen (Rampling) and Sue (Portal), three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their colorless jobs and marriages. They find what they are looking for in Legba (Cesar), an enigmatic local Adonis whose beauty and passion has them enthralled... (Celluloid Dreams)

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics is put to the test when his students begin to challenge his teaching methods ... (festival-cannes.fr)

In December of 1999, François organizes a retreat to a small island for himself, some friends, and their children to avoid the craziness of Paris during the turn of the millennium. Things quickly become tense between François and the young man who is the island's caretaker. Boredom and bickering add to the growing foreboding... (imdb)

7 Days in Havana is a snapshot of Havana in 2011: a contemporary portrait of this eclectic city, vital and forward-looking, told through a single feature-length movie made of 7 chapters, directed by 7 internationally acclaimed directors. (mubi.com)

The latest film from Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) is a vivid adaptation of the celebrated Joyce Carol Oates novel about a small-town girl gang in the 1950s. (tiff.net)

Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid. (imdb)

When a celebrated mystery author visits the small French coastal town of La Ciotat, she's astonished to find the disparate students of her writing workshop are bursting at the seams with inspired ideas and strong, differing opinions on the state of the world. No topic is taboo and quickly lines are drawn in the sand between the most vocal students. An unsettling admiration begins to emerge between the novelist and her volatile student as the reins of the class dangerously slip from her grasp (Strand Releasing)

Karim gets its first big success as a writer, but while he enjoys his success, old outrageous tweets of him on a side Twitter account are being revealed

Follows a 16-year-old boy who defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world. (imdb)