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Chômage affectif (2011)

Actors: Xavier Bonastre (actor), Jean-Claude Tisserand (actor), Sara Colton (actress), Solange Hunsinger (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Grascoeur (actor), Bérengère Krief (actress), Xavier Hervo (actor), Olivier Valverde (actor), Eric Veiga (actor), David Freymond (actor), Raphaël Katz (actor), Medhi Beddouche (actor), Catherine Villeminot (director), Catherine Villeminot (editor), Julien Katz (writer),

Genres: Romance, Short,

Et maintenant on va où? (2011)

Actors: Tarak Ben Ammar (producer), Karin Dor (actress), Anne-Dominique Toussaint (producer), Romain Le Grand (producer), Véronique Lange (editor), Nadine Labaki (producer), Nadine Labaki (writer), Nadine Labaki (actress), Nadine Labaki (director), Thomas Bidegain (writer), Frederick Stafford (actor), Yannick Charles (miscellaneous crew), Abla Khoury (producer), Sam Nessim (writer), Khaled Mouzannar (composer),

Plot: Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of slights and misunderstandings. The women of the village conspire to avert sectarian strife though a series of harebrained plans, none of which succeeds in slowing down the escalating spiral of violence. When tragedy strikes, the women find themselves driven to make a deeply personal sacrifice for the sake of peace.

Keywords: christian, christianity, hijab, imam, islam, lebanon, middle-east, muslim, priest, punctuation-in-title
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

[first lines]::Amale: [narrating] The story I tell is for all who want to hear. A tale of those who fast, a tale of those who pray, a tale of a lonely town, mines scattered all around. Caught up in a war, split to its very core. To clans with broken hearts under a burning sun. Their hands stained with blood in the name of a cross or a crescent. From this lonely place, which has chosen peace, whose history is spun of barbed wire and guns.

Amale: It's definitely blood.::Rita: Is it a sign? God is speaking to us.::Aïda: Yes. He's trying to tell us you're dumb. It's chicken blood, stupid.

Rita: [about visitors] They look like they've been in a famine. Look at that anorexic one. And the other, flat as a board. Our smallest pair of boobs could feed half of the Ukraine!

Tatiana: [seeing cemetery] Even dead they're divided.

Priest: Did we get away with it?::Imam: Down here maybe. But up there, I'm not so sure. [pointing heavenward]

[last lines]::Amale: [narrating] My story is now ending for all those who were listening, of a town where peace was found while fighting continued all around. Of men who slept so deep and woke to find new peace. Of women still in black, who fought with flowers and prayers instead of guns and flares, and protect their children. Destiny then drove them to find a new way.::Pallbearers: [suddenly remembering that the cemetery is segregated] Where do we go now?

Takla: Fate is a great provider.

V Rossie idet sneg (2010)

Actors: Aleksandr Adabashyan (actor), Vladimir Naumov (producer), Natalya Belokhvostikova (actress), Tamara Belous (actress), Natalya Naumova (director),

Plot: Eastern European journalist visits Russia for the fist time.By chance he picks up a phone call at his fellow journalist Moscow office and this call sharply and irrevocably changes his life.He travels to a strange and ghostly provincial Russian town which seems to be real but couldn't be found on any road map.He meets there his dreams and fantasies,his love and his final day.By taking the identity of his friend he enters the ultimate adventure of living somebody Else's live and experiencing somebody Else's fate.But a price for that is his own life.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Les mains libres (2010)

Actors: Dominique Frot (actress), Carlo Brandt (actor), Noémie Lvovsky (actress), François Négret (actor), Jocelyne Desverchère (actress), Romain Goupil (actor), Brigitte Sy (director), Brigitte Sy (writer), Brigitte Sy (actress), Pascal Ternisien (actor), Mathieu Bompoint (producer), Bénédicte Darblay (miscellaneous crew), Ronit Elkabetz (actress), Mireille Roussel (actress), Abdelhafid Metalsi (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Bienvenue aux Dames (2009)

Actors: Roger Léger (actor), Marianne Farley (actress), André Dubois (producer), Anick Lemay (actress), Mario Sévigny (composer), Jean Bourbonnais (director), Rémi-Pierre Paquin (actor), Peter MacLeod (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés (2005)

Actors: Monique Mercure (actress), Roger Frappier (producer), Michel Arcand (editor), Alexis Martin (actor), Germain Houde (actor), Michel Forget (actor), Patrice Robitaille (actor), André Lacoste (actor), Monique Miller (actress), Pierre Collin (actor), Luc Vandal (producer), Isabelle Blais (actress), Gisèle Trépanier (actress), Robin Aubert (director), Robin Aubert (writer),

Plot: Flavien Juste is the reporter of a tabloid that explores UFOs and other supernatural events that is near to bankruptcy. His chief and friend assigns him to investigate the disappearance of villagers in Despas and Flavien heads to the small town with his friend and photographer Armand. Flavien sees the ghost of a bride on the road and when they arrive in the hotel, Armand vanishes. Flavien seeks out his friend but the locals do not help him.

Keywords: cowboy-sex-position, dream-sequence, female-nudity, hotel, missing-person, mysterious-woman, sex, sex-with-ghost, small-town, surrealism
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery,

Les états-Unis d'Albert (2005)

Actors: Roy Dupuis (actor), Andréa Ferréol (actress), David Kodsi (producer), Alex Descas (actor), Gaston Lepage (actor), Céline Bonnier (actress), François Aubry (miscellaneous crew), Émilie Dequenne (actress), Marc Labrèche (actor), André Forcier (writer), André Forcier (director), Frédéric Desager (actor), Mark Krasnoff (actor), Annie Dufresne (actress), Geneviève Brouillette (actress),

Plot: Albert Renaud, a young Quebec actor with aspirations to become the next Rudolph Valentino, sets off by train for Hollywood with a letter of recommendation from his drama teacher who is Mary Pickford's aunt. Along the way he meets a succession of bizarre characters ... a militant feminist Mormon who believes in polyandry (Émilie Dequenne), a womanizing golfer who plays in the Californian desert with ambergris-scented golf balls(Roy Dupuis), and a man called Noah who is trying to break a record by perching on a boat on top of a pole.

Keywords: cinema, desert, dream, golf, train, travel
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,

Mariage interdit (2002)

Actors: Patrick Aubrée (miscellaneous crew), Marianne Borgo (actress), Florin Piersic Jr. (actor), Eugen Cristea (actor), Bogdan Voda (actor), Fabrice Deville (actor), Veronica Gheorghe (actress), Gabriela Ricsan (costume designer), Léa Bosco (actress), Étienne Perruchon (composer), Dominique Mazzoleni (editor), Dan Tudor (actor), Ion Marinescu (producer), Mircea Caraman (actor), Dimitrii Bogomaz (actor),

Genres: Drama, Thriller,

La baie de l'archange (2001)

Actors: Jean-François Stévenin (actor), Vincent Grass (actor), Philippe Lefebvre (actor), Roland Vincent (composer), Salah Teskouk (actor), Patricia Malvoisin (actress), Zakariya Gouram (actor), Catherine Surma (miscellaneous crew), David Delrieux (director), David Delrieux (writer), David Delrieux (writer), Marie Dominique Danjou (editor), Catherine d'Halluin (costume designer), Julie Bataille (actress), Maïté (actress),

Genres: ,

Dieu seul me voit (1998)

Actors: Pascal Caucheteux (producer), Bruno Podalydès (writer), Michel Vuillermoz (actor), Philippe Uchan (actor), David Gabison (actor), Jeanne Balibar (actress), Bruno Podalydès (actor), Mathieu Amalric (actor), Daniel Ceccaldi (actor), Jean-Noël Brouté (actor), Maurice Baquet (actor), Denis Podalydès (actor), Philippe Duclos (actor), Bruno Podalydès (director), Denis Podalydès (writer),

Plot: Albert (Denis Podalydès), a somewhat slightly aging sound engineer is kind of entrapped in three romantic liaisons. In the province he meets a nurse, back in Paris a young policewoman and at last an attractive director who had just finished a documentary. All three women seem to succumb to Albert's charm. But this is a little bit too much for him. So his permanent absent-mindedness is greatly enhanced...

Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, celibacy, paris-france, politics, versailles
Genres: Comedy, Romance,