Cast: Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Carre and Beatrice Dalle.

Synopsis:

"Women of all ages, ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds meet in the waiting room of a busy family planning clinic in Paris. They’ve come in search of information, advice, birth control, abortion, or just someone to talk to as they figure out what their sexual activity means for themselves, their partners, and their families. There are the teenagers who can’t talk to their parents about sex, the girl whose boyfriend wants proof that she’s a virgin, the woman who’s afraid her husband will find out about her affair, and the sex worker who always uses contraception with her clients but never with the man she loves. And then there are the counselors who listen to them and consult with one another in between cigarettes on the balcony. Featuring a stellar cast of veteran French actresses,. . .'God's Offices' is about the very business of life itself."

~ Seattle Film Festival

Screenplay by Francois Ozon

Cast: Alexandra Lamy, Sergi Lopez, Arthur Peyret, Melusine Mayance

Synopsis:

"Gallic director François Ozon's idiosyncratic 'Ricky' represents an attempt to weld together two polar opposite and seemingly incompatible genres: kitchen-sink realist drama and high-concept Spielbergian fantasy. Loosely inspired by a Rose Tremain short story, the tale opens on a council estate just east of Paris (in the Seine-et-Marne), where single mom Katie ekes out a low-key and fairly miserable existence. She earns her keep as a factory worker, while glumly attempting to raise her seven-year-old daughter Lisa on the side. Circumstances shift dramatically when Katie falls into an affair with a Spanish colleague, Paco, but no one can guess just how dramatically. Together they conceive a son whom they name Ricky, and when the infant is born, he sports odd markings on his back; this gives Paco uneasy feelings and prompts him to leave the house. In time, the baby sprouts angelic wings, turning him into both a freak and a curiosity. This naturally leads to an endless series of complications, such as Katie's concern about how to dress Ricky and keep him from flying away. More disturbingly, it draws hordes of gawkers and paparazzi, who suffocate the family with intrusive attention and seem permanently unwilling to relent."

Screenplay by Michel Marc Bouchard (Based on his play)

Cast: Marie-Thérèse Fortin, François Arnaud, Marie Brassard, François Létourneau, Véronique Beaudet

Synopsis:

Gisèle Cloutier, a 52-year-old social worker, is confronted by her husband’s shocking deathbed revelation: he had a secret, long-term affair with another woman. Soon after, Yannick Ménard, a 20-year-old incurable kleptomaniac, is one of Gisèle’s former youth-center clients. In despair after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Yannick secretly falls in love with Gisèle. When he learns that she has become a widow, Yannick goes to extraordinary lengths to woo her. In the middle of a sweltering heat wave, Gisèle eventually succumbs to Yannick’s charms, finding herself both fascinated and confused by their age difference. Their budding relationship becomes trickier when a series of impromptu visitors start showing up, including Gisèle’s boss who walks in on some steamy seduction. In time, Gisèle’s two adult children and sister are soon to follow. This sets the stage for all kinds of fun and friction as well as a few more surprises.

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Thierry Godard, Selim Akgül

Synopsis:

Bilal, a young 17 year old Kurdish boy, has travelled through the Middle East and Europe on his way to join his girlfriend, freshly immigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt end when he is stopped on the French side of the Channel. Having decided to swim across the Channel to further delay and the immigration authorities, Bilal begins going to the local swimming pool to train. There he meets Simon, a swimming instructor in the midst of a divorce. But Simon doesn’t want the divorce to go through. In an interesting effort both to impress his wife and ultimately win back her heart, Simon decides to risk everything by taking the very determined teenage youth under his wing.

What the Critics Said:

"An emotionally affecting drama that reinforces Philippe Lioret’s reputation for classic Euro filmmaking at its smoothest. A superb director of actors." Jay Weissberg, Variety “A sophisticated mix of crude realism and understated emotion infused with visual poetry.” Caroline Brothers, The New York Times