Xavier Beauvois

An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him. All to no avail. But then, when she is in despair, her mother does come back ... (imdb)

French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested in her mind, her body, or merely her checkbook... (All Movie Guide)

A kaleidoscope of gritty interlocking stories set at Christmas time and mostly taking place after dark. (european-films.net)

Benoit (Xavier Beauvois) has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia (Chiara Mastroianni)... (imdb)

Villa Amalia is the story of Ann, a musician, whose life is turned upside down by a kiss. When she sees Thomas kissing another woman, Ann makes a clean break, leaving him and everything else far behind her. Suddenly unsure of everything, Ann knows only that she must change her life and become someone else to find herself. With her music and the friendship of Georges, who pops out of her distant past, she sets off on a journey that will take her to an island where Villa Amalia stands. (imdb)

The film follows a French author who fled to Mexico for a quiet life and an actress who is willing to seduce him to get a part in a film adapted from one of his books.

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution. (mubi.com)

Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act. (imdb)

The portrait of a provincial French chemist who destroys himself and his family through drinking. (mubi.com)

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

Mathieu Amalric plays a befuddled, womanizing professor whose complicated life takes a turn for the worse following the disappearance of a student, in Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu's wickedly fun comic thriller. (tiff.net)

Gérard Depardieu sits alone at his dining table, talking to the dog. They then set out hunting together. But the nearby forest, where the dog disappears and the hunter gets lost shortly afterwards, turns into a mysterious place full of strange creatures. (berlinale.de)

The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943

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

Two cops infiltrate the porn scene in the early 80's . (imdb)

A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris. (imdb)

A house is opened in spring where some men and women in search of love are living.Life has different means for them. (imdb)

A handsome 15-year-old looks to his worldly, adventurous, older sister for guidance but finally takes charge of his own life as he comes to terms with his homosexuality. (imdb)

Workers fighting to protect the factory from being relocated but nothing goes as planned. Joseph wants to get into the film industry, agrees to direct and takes his role very seriously and starts following around the crew. (imdb)