Skate or Die (2008)

Actors: Jean-François Garreaud (actor), Elsa Pataky (actress), Nicky Marbot (actor), Teco Celio (actor), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Miguel Courtois (director), Gauthier Lamothe (actor), Philippe Bas (actor), Erick Deshors (actor), Rachida Brakni (actress), Danielle Dumanoir (miscellaneous crew), Laurence Couturier (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Desagnat (actor), Smadi Wolfman (actress), Affif Ben Badra (actor),

Plot: When they happen to witness the murder of a drug dealer in an underground car park, Jerome and Benjamin, teenagers from the suburbs, need all their wits - but more importantly their considerable skateboarding skills - to escape the perpetrators and report what they've seen to the authorities.

Keywords: paris-france
Genres: Action,

Va, vis et deviens (2005)

Actors: Armand Amar (composer), Marek Rozenbaum (actor), Giovanni Stabilini (producer), Marco Chimenz (producer), Ludo Troch (editor), Olivia Bruynoghe (miscellaneous crew), Marek Rozenbaum (producer), Roschdy Zem (actor), Genevieve Lemal (producer), Bill Clinton (actor), Yoram Globus (producer), Riccardo Tozzi (producer), Patrick Descamps (actor), Joshua Berman (miscellaneous crew), Denis Carot (producer),

Plot: In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews. In turn they are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy. Upon arrival this second mother dies. Schlomo is adopted by a good family but remains depressed until he secretly sends a letter to his real mother. From the beginning he experiences large and small racist difficulties. In his teens he and Sarah fall in love. Her father is an extreme racist. Schlomo tries to gain "real Jewishness" by winning a competition in Bible interpretation. No change of Sarah's father's attitude. Disappointed he goes to the police and reports himself as not being a Jew. But the police officer just gives him a scolding. "The newspapers are full of that stuff, the Falashas are no Jews. Now they begin to believe it themselves." His adoptive parents send him to France to study medicine. When he afterwards marries Sarah she loses her family and her status as a "white Jew". But he dares not tell her the truth until she becomes pregnant. She leaves him, but only because he had not trusted that she would love him as much anyway. His adoptive mother reconciles them. Sarah's first line when she returns: "Unbelievable what three mothers would do for you." But she makes a condition for returning: Schlomo must meet his real mother again. As a doctor he takes a job in the Ethiopian fugitive camp where she is still alive.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, adoption, airplane, airport, arab-israeli-conflict, archive-footage, army, assumed-identity, bare-feet
Genres: Drama,

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Narrateur: They had been forgotten on their mountaintops, near Gondar. Yet, since the dawn of time, the Ethiopian Jews, known as the "Falashas", dreamed of returning to their homeland, the Holy Land, Jerusalem. With Israeli and U.S. Aid, a vast program was undertaken from November to January 1985 to transport the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The Falashas were returned and finally recognized as descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The Israeli secret service carried out the operation on the sly, keeping it from the Mengitsu pro-Soviet regime who had prohibited their emigration. The Falashas walked from Ethiopia to Sudan, a Muslim country under Charia law. There, they had to hide their Jewish identity under pain of death In Sudan, planes awaited to take them to Israel. On the road, hundreds died of sickness, famine, exhaustion. Others were killed by bandits. In the 1980s, the Sudanese camps welcomed thousands of Africans from 26 countries who were prey to famine: Christians, Muslims, and clandestine Jews. The first secret airlift operation, known as "Operation Moses", saved 8,000 Ethiopian Jews. 4,000 died on the road between Ethiopia and Sudan, murdered, tortured or suffering from famine, thirst and exhaustion. Many children reached the Holy Land alone or as orphans.

Schlomo adolescent: Should we give back land we consider our own. We were deprived of it in our wanderings and had no other to call our own. And now we finally have it back and we love it...::Papy: This tree provides shade. We planted it 50 years ago. But the tree over there; it was there before we got here. I think we should share the land, like the sun and the shade, so that others can know love too.::Schlomo adolescent: Even if we risk being pushed to the sea and dying?::Papy: Love dosen't come without risks. And it's difficult to decide how others should love

La Petite Fille aux Allumettes (2004)

Actors: Diane Dassigny (actress), Christian Schittenhelm (director), Christian Schittenhelm (producer), Christian Schittenhelm (writer), Christian Schittenhelm (composer), Germinal Tenas (actor), Anne-Marie Gancel (actress), Joanna Michel (actress), Lucrèce Sassella (actress), Fabrice Augé-Dedieu (actor), Sébastien Savin (actor), Albane Chateau (actress), Anne Boulier (costume designer), Fabrice Banderra (actor), Jérémy Petit (actor),

Genres: Musical,

Moi César, 10 ans 1/2, 1m39 (2003)

Actors: Carole Bouquet (actress), Luc Besson (producer), Guilaine Londez (actress), Catherine Hosmalin (actress), Jean Benguigui (actor), Anna Karina (actress), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Jean-Philippe Écoffey (actor), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (actor), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (actor), Jean-Paul Rouve (actor), Didier Bénureau (actor), Carole Bouquet (actress), Richard Berry (writer), Richard Berry (writer),

Plot: Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.

Keywords: baker, character-name-in-title, child's-point-of-view, eurostar, first-love, friendship, jealousy, london-england, lost-father, number-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance,
Taglines: Parents, autorité, amour, amis, rivalité, écolé, fugue, un p'tit peu gros

Parents à mi-temps: Chassés-croisés (1999)

Actors: Robin Renucci (actor), Raoul Billerey (actor), Charlotte de Turckheim (actress), Nadia Barentin (actress), François-Eric Gendron (actor), Marie-Christine Adam (actress), Caroline Huppert (director), Marie-France Santon (actress), Françoise Pinkwasser (actress), Sophie Artur (actress), Antoine du Merle (actor), Manoëlle Gaillard (actress), Léopoldine Serre (actress), Michel Feder (actor), Emmanuelle Bataille (actress),

Genres: ,

Sept ans et demi de réflexion (1995)

Actors: Clémentine Célarié (actress), Maurice Chevit (actor), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (actor), Eric Bitoun (producer), Zinedine Soualem (actor), Andrée Damant (actress), Chantal Banlier (actress), Stéphane Boucher (actor), Sylvie Flepp (director), Sylvie Flepp (writer), Sylvie Flepp (actress), Hervé Hiolle (actor), Geoffroy Thiebaut (actor), Jean Mallet (composer), Florence Aupetit (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Short,

Faut-il aimer Mathilde? (1993)

Actors: Rachid Bouchareb (producer), Sylvie Granotier (actress), Paul Crauchet (actor), Marc Duret (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Jacques Bonnaffé (actor), Maxime Leroux (actor), André Marcon (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Jenny Clève (actress), Jean Bréhat (producer), Edwin Baily (writer), Edwin Baily (director), Arno (composer), Dominique Galliéni (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Notre Juliette (1990)

Actors: Chantal Banlier (actress), Maurice Baquet (actor), Patrick Chesnais (actor), Nicolas Traube (producer), Jean-Michel Dupuis (actor), Pierre Grimblat (producer), Jean-Marie Sénia (composer), Jean-Pierre Bagot (actor), Sylvie Flepp (actress), Brigitte Chamarande (actress), Véronique Jannot (actress), Marie Kerhoas (miscellaneous crew), Dimitri Rougeul (actor), Jacques Salles (miscellaneous crew), Gaspard de Chavagnac (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Quelle famille! (1989)

Actors: Patrick Préjean (actor), Jacques Dynam (actor), Micheline Dax (actress), Christian Alers (actor), Evelyne Dassas (actress), Jean-Pierre Malignon (actor), Francis Joffo (writer), Francis Joffo (miscellaneous crew), Raphaële Moutier (actress), Michel Siripe (director),

Genres: ,

Mords pas, on t'aime! (1976)

Actors: Annette Poivre (actress), Catherine Allégret (actress), Tonie Marshall (actress), Micheline Presle (actress), Jean-Pierre Darras (actor), Bernard Fresson (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Pierre Jansen (composer), Yves Allégret (director), Yves Allégret (writer), François Boyer (writer), Jacques Gaillard (editor), Yves Ciampi (producer), Sarah Sterling (actress), Daniel Colas (actor),

Plot: Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old neighbor Rose. One day, Georges tells his son how Agnès, his mother, abandoned him at birth. Upset by such a revelation, Frédéric decides to be revenged...

Keywords: boy-nudity, child-sexuality, girl-nudity
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family,