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- The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
- A psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartments with a woman in Paris. When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient.
- A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
- Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.
- Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him.
- The search for a missing woman gives an Athenian lawyer, Manos - who is suffocating in his marriage to Kynthia - the opportunity to travel to Epirus. Leaving his familiar surroundings, he gradually enters another world, unknown and mysterious. His journey resembles the descent to Hades, and his visit to the supposed entrance to the underworld is revelatory. In Epirus he discovers that Evanthia, the woman he is searching for and whose disappearance twenty years ago provoked a major inheritance issue, has, in the meantime, married a Greek refugee from Albania, Fanis. Circumstances oblige Fanis to return to Albania, but Evanthia goes in his stead. Manos discovers Fanis hiding in an isolated hut and learns that Evanthia has been in Albania for quite some time. He decides to cross the border, finds Evanthia and brings her back. This is a film about loss and searching, both external and internal. An introspective meditation on life inspired by the social disorder of the Balkans in the mid '90s.
- Miscellaneous images of African life.
- While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.
- In 1966, four years after the independence of Algeria. Ahmed Lallem directed "Elles", a documentary that gave the floor to first and final year high school girls in Algiers. Thirty years later, the director has found some of them: Souad, Farida, Hassina or Badra, beautiful, touching, intelligent women, who tell us about their lives, their choices, and remember their adolescence. Adolescence where high school constituted a freedom from the traditional family environment, a privilege for a girl to whom the State did not guarantee the right to education in the face of the law of patriarchy: when a pupil was withdrawn from school to be married, the state let things happen. Not content with having obtained the baccalaureate, Souad and Hassina, they faced their father to be able to continue their studies. First clashes... Thirty years later, these are mature and emancipated women who speak to us: "The Algerian woman moans, sometimes threatens, but rarely speaks. Despite everything, we want to talk because we have to". They talk. Those who left, those who stayed. They evoke those thirty years: hope, stubbornness, life, renunciations, Islamic fundamentalism and the family code. And their eyes and their smiles say a lot when they talk about the little nephews who come home from school telling their mothers, their aunts, that they must wear the hijab, stay at home and not drive the car. automobile. A tragic change for these women, for whom knowledge and the education of thought were and remain at the heart of life. Through their different paths, this film explores the complexity of the lives of Algerian women, their disappointments but also their combativeness, through, as a backdrop, the last thirty years of Algerian history.
- The crossed portrait of Liliane's two successive husbands, Ali and Victor, each of opposite, and often antagonistic, faiths.
- From her first productions made in the Gaumont workshop on Rue des Alouettes to her first feature films at Solax, in Fort-Lee, we follow the amazing life of Alice Guy, who according to her own words, "helped cinema to come into the world".
- Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real.
- An encounter between the texts of Antonin Artaud and the films of Raymonde Carasco on the Tarahumaras tribe in Mexico.
- Pasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
- A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
- 100 years after Robert Louis Stevenson's travel diary "Journey in a canoe on the northern rivers", a filmed floating diary on the same itinerary from Anvers to Pontoise.
- The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he is sure never to leave Guiana. Using the cooking of this dish as starting point, the film explores the multicultural reality that composes this French overseas region. American Indians, Europeans, Slave descendants, Laotians, Chinese, Brazilian, Surinamese, tell us how they are bringing new flavours to the Guianese stew of identities.
- Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (Doll). Upon her mother's death, she and her homosexual brother Flavio open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another boyfriend of hers, Settimio. While visiting him in jail, she meets sadistic Furio and they begin a relationship.
- Sassy waitress Sylvette, macho guy Sandro, shy bourgeoisie Sophie, and American actress Susan do not know one another and have little in common--except for having the same father: a scammer named Julius.
- The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
- Their wish to become comic book heroes forces three kids to take on the heroes' mortal enemies.
- A 30 year old orphan finds his life's official version hard to swallow. His parents couldn't possibly have abandoned him in a trash can as a baby. No, they were victims of a mafia plot and today, if they're still alive, they need his help.
- A boy who is cruel to animals is transformed into a cat.
- Blazing Dragons is the story of the epic adventures of knights and dragons-from the point-of-view of the dragons. Blazing Dragons tells us what really happened in the age of chivalry; how gallant, generous dragons took on the brutal, greedy humans knights to rescue damsels in distress, save the peasants from oppression and generally make the world a much more entertaining place to be in.
- Based upon documentation of forced confessions made during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia, this film reconstructs the relationship of a young woman, Hout Bophana, and Ly Sitha before they were tortured in executed in 1977.
- Covers the story of U.N. Kenyan peacekeepers in Bosnia.
- Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
- King Vano rides bravely off into battle, but only after ensuring his passionate Queen is safely locked in her chastity belt.
- Intergalactic aliens are invading Earth. It is the job of the top-secret, specially-trained Bureau Of Alien Detectors to find and destroy them. However, there are those in authority who have hidden agendas concerning the aliens...
- Malik, who grew up in Paris suburbs, dreams to move to Canada. Someone will give him a chance. But, when you are an unlucky guy by nature, it is hard to keep its chance.
- A night in Paris Leah kills a man to defend himself. Who now can help? The two newspaper vendors, witnesses of the crime, who seem to take a stand for her but act in a curious way? His lover, an American painter? His friend Julien? Or Commissioner Moskowitz, his former lover, who knows how to eliminate the clues but then does not hesitate to resort to blackmail?
- A compilation film presenting the most entertaining, inspirational and humorous commercials (some by very well-known directors) made around the world in 1995, including the year's Bronze, Silver, Gold and Grand Prix award-winners.
- The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.