Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

A tragicomic romp based on director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's memories growing up in a privileged Italian family that immigrated to France in the 1970's. (New Yorker Films)

5x2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of love, and how adult relationships evolve over time. Returning to a more intimate scale following his international smash "Swimming Pool," Ozon's chamber drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in reverse chronology. (ThinkFilm)

A family's summer vacation on the Mediterranean collapses into hilarious chaos. (Strand Releasing)

An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other. (IMDB)

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. (imdb)

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice... (imdb)

The title "Life doesn't scare me" tells a lot about this movie. We follow how four ordinary little girls, then teenage girls (the movie took several years to shoot so the actresses could grow up), learn about life, love and all that sort of things. (imdb comments)

In Lyons, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young... (imdb)

A handsome, successful fashion photographer (Poupaud) learns that he has a malignant brain tumor that will soon kill him. Hiding his diagnosis, he alienates his family and his young boyfriend, but during a short stay with his grandmother (Moreau), his vulnerability is met with a big heart and sound advice. A chance encounter with a roadside café waitress (Bruni-Tedeschi) results in an unusual bargain that provides a happy, playful dimension to the proceedings. (Strand Releasing)

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board are a family of Albanian refugees, a professor who daydreams conversations with a lost love, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband, accompanied by a community service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness. (IMDB)

After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. (imdb)

Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront. (imdb)

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plotless images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth. (imdb)

Friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems. (imdb)

Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself. (imdb)

A woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder falls in love with a cello teacher from afar and struggles over trying to connect with him.

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage - she will shine. But things don't go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie

A contemplative ode to the home. The home as a centre of everyday routine and relationships. The home with all it's comings and goings. The home as a centre of unions and separations.The home as a centre of life that shelters its inhabitants from a wedding, a funeral, fireworks... Each character who lives, passes, enters or leaves the home, each room plays it's own role. (festival-cannes.com)

After the death of his mother, fortysomething introvert Mathieu enters into a second relationship with his high-school girlfriend, Maya.

A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.

Italy today. Two young brothers, Cosimo and Elia, fanciful construction workers, travel from Rome to a remote town on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to renovate the Villa of the area's only wealthy man, popular singer Fausto Mieli. The conflict that arises upon the "foreigners'" arrival will have terrible and unexpected consequences on all the inhabitants of the town... (mubi.com)

A family is forced to sell their Italian home. (imdb)

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ... (imdb)

The secretary of the main opposition party, Enrico Oliveri, is in crisis, and the polls for the upcoming electoral competition predict his defeat. One night, after yet another protest, Oliveri vanishes without a trace. In institutional settings and party the allegations follow one other. The right-hand man of the Secretary, Andrea Bottini, and his wife Anna try to discover the reasons of his escape and the identity of a possible accomplice. Finally they turn to the twin brother of the Secretary.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. (imdb)

Yves Saint Laurent's life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.

A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle. (imdb)

A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other.

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation. (imdb)

Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. (imdb)

Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she's in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures. (cineuropa.org)

Ten years after the death of film star Saverio Crispo, his four daughters, whom he had with different women from across the world, get together with his two widows in Apulia, the actor's hometown.

Alex, a prison guard, is offered a large sum by a VIP prisoner to seduce and defraud his wife, who dumped him and ran off with his loot after he was put behind bars. Once the plan is underway though, Alex begins to fall for her.

Adapted from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, which deconstructs the language of love. (imdb)

On vacancy in a villa on the french riviera, Anna has to manage with a recent breakup and the writing of her next film. (imdb)

Veteran ambulance chaser Oscar gets 'bitten' by a dog and decides to make some cash by suing its owner. However, this turns out to be Armando, a penniless man just released from jail after 30 years for a crime he didn't commit, shunned by everyone except his dog. (imdb)

A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret. (imdb)

Jérôme, a senior executive, has just left his company. Determined to never work for nobody else ever again, he attempts to set up his own company, come what may, even ignoring the reluctance of his wife Laura. Ugo, their 11-year-old son, is a tennis player and a promising champion. To reach his goal, he must make it into the Roland Garros national training center. Just like his dad, he's willing to do whatever it takes to make it. (imdb)

A documentary about the life and work of Eric Rohmer, filmed just before his death and directed by Marie Rivière, who appeared in several of his films (including having the starring role in SUMMER, aka THE GREEN RAY).

What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself. (imdb)

In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo's including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new school teacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. (imdb)

based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. (imdb)

A psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer is brutally shot while his wife is standing over him with a revolver in her hand. (imdb)

Follows Anaïs, a 30-year old woman that is broke and has a lover she doesn't think she loves anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Emilie - whom Anaïs also falls for. (imdb)

In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters to be themselves and give meaning to their lives. A tribute to poetry, theatre and art. (imdb)

In a hospital, two women facing their separation meet one hurt demonstrator and wait for their turn during a tense shift

Margaret, charged with a three-month restraining order for having hit her mother. But the 200 meters that now separate her from her home only exacerbate her desire to come closer to her family.

A French journalists attempts to uncover a scandal about police facilitating and supervising the drug trade in the country.

The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur. (imdb)

Follow the rebellious girls of a Catholic boarding school before Christmas, a time of war and scarcity.

Nathalie loves a man who is no longer interested in her. The man who does love her mainly gives her heartache. She has fleeting and chance encounters with people who are usually at odds with each other. They plunge unthinkingly into barren adventures, quarrel and do not recognise happiness when it comes their way.

A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works.

A Sicilian young woman named Modesta, born into an impoverished family in early 1900 and driven by a strong belief that she's destined for a better life. (imdb)

Inspired by 24 real events, different forms of violence against women on a daily basis. From the most banal story to the most terrible drama. (imdb)