2001-2010

Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. With her, we reflect on the “album” of her life. The images flow: films of her childhood, the importantmoments in her career, intrpersed with interviews, impressing rehersals, scenes from films, and ordinary walks, in the center of a crowd that does not recognise her. We are given an insider’s view of a remakable actress, a discreet woman, who, in this portrait, gives us a glimpse at her emotions, her vocation, and her life.Read More »

A thriller loosely based on Ian Wishart’s book The Paradise Conspiracy, about the mysterious death of a New Zealander who happened upon international banking records after purchasing a used computer.Read More »

Ton Chatree struggles to fit in at his boarding school until he meets Vichien. When Ton learns that his new friend is a wandering spirit, he tries to help him move on to the afterlife.Read More »

Pim is a Thai woman living in Korea with her husband Wee. At her birthday a friend reads her fortune with a deck of cards and informs that something she has lost will soon return to her. But some lost things are better off staying lost.Read More »

Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert, Falling is a “charming, intelligent and low-key” human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their school days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group’s idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to balance personal needs with professional goals. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while loose cannon Nicole desperately seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.Read More »

A documentary about the people who visit a cemetery, and a testament to the saying, life is short, art is long. Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer.Read More »

When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of MontaltoDi Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally newworld, an ambient extremely divided politically. She starts developing her friendship with the”left side”, represented by Margherita, and the right, Daniela, side of her class. She will loseherself, without knowing who she really is. However, maybe Edward, the young Australianboy, who lives in the apartment across hers, can help her more that she thinks.Read More »

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.Read More »

Synopsis: Director Luc Moullet revisits sites in the southern French Alps where he set several films. At elevations of 2000-6000 feet, Moullet shows how the terrain interacted with the process of producing, directing and acting in these films.Read More »