Arieh Worthalter

Jeff, 17, is secretly in love with Alyosha. They both admire the mysterious Blake, an old friend of the girl’s father, who invites them to spend a few days at his hunting lodge in the heart of Canada’s far north. There, in the wilderness, the two teenagers come face to face with a world of childish adults, ready to burst into flames. After Genèse, Philippe Lesage continues his romantic evocation of teenage torments and emotions by confronting them with the cruel and vain world of adults, played by Arieh Worthalter in a new role worthy of him after his César award for Le Procès Goldman.Read More »

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Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.Read More »

PLOT: When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.Read More »

In her first fiction feature Twelve Thousand [+], screening in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival, French director Nadège Trebal points her lens on two complex and irreverent characters who will stop at nothing to defend their freedom. Starring the director herself, alongside an intense Arieh Worthalter, the characters of Twelve Thousand seem to float above a world that’s intent on taming them.

After losing his black-market job in a breaker’s yard and believing that his partner Maroussia could never love him like before, Frank ups and leaves in a bid to earn the same amount that Maroussia makes in a year: twelve thousand euros. No more, no less; the bare minimum required.Read More »

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Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realizes her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was born a boy.Read More »