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Natural Enemy 2004 star_border 4.6
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.

Niki and Flo 2003 star_border 5.6
In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable.

On Borders 2002
In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine.

Yves Saint Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris 2002 star_border 7
A behind-the-scenes look inside Yves Saint Laurent’s legendary atelier during the creation of his final Spring line.

Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times 2002
YVES SAINT LAURENT: HIS LIFE AND TIMES is an intimate biography featuring extensive interviews with the reclusive designer.

Alone with War 2001 star_border 6.3
Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. I wanted to shoot the void it had left. Its ghostly presence. That wound...

The Adolescent 2001 star_border 6
Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

More Than Yesterday 1999 star_border 5
The last weekend of summer. Mother is preparing the jars for winter pickling, love-struck Françoise is practising karaoke in front of her little brother Julien. In the shed behind the house, Karim is doing some "undeclared" work, having given up on his acting dreams. In a few hours, the new canning factory, where Father works, will be inaugurated. No one is expecting Sonia, who decides to turn up that very morning.

High Pain Management 1999
Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.

Une Odeur de Géranium 1997
To make her meeting with her lover Bernard, Françoise needs Julien's help. Julien is 11, Françoise, 14. They're brother and sister.

A Bottle of Wishes 1994 star_border 3.5
4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

A Taxi for Aouzou 1994
In this wonderful hybrid of fiction and documentary, we become the close companions of Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab driver who explains his hopes and dreams, his challenges in a difficult and often violent society, and his optimism for the baby he and his wife are expecting. In this urban poem, we are treated to the color and movement of Ali Baba Nour's city. It is a generous postcard that one might send to a friend, telling of an unforgettable acquaintance and place.

Sunday or the Ghosts 1994
With few words and leaving it to the spectator to fill in blanks, this short subject contemplates one ordinary day in the life of a single woman and her child.

Denko 1993 star_border 5.7
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman before he dies, but try as his mother might, she cannot find someone to oblige. She finally gets an idea – an idea that completely stuns the village.