La jeune fille aux allumettes

Poor girl sells matches with brief flickering flame reflecting her span of life & dreams.

Le dernier jour du jeûne

The Lure of the Deep

Weaving together the interconnected destinies of a shy actor and a young girl, this film provokes a meeting between two lonely human beings, uniting them through words.

The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger

La mort du jeune poète

Rome, November 1941. In a pneumology clinic, Ion Bucur, a young Romanian poet, is dying. His friend and compatriot, artist Eugen Dragutesco, faithfully sits at his bedside, drawing pictures of him, thirty pictures in tot

The Young Girl and the Clouds

The story of Cinderella is modernised. Cinderella dreams of clouds and ends up fleeing by plane with her Prince Charming. The image is animated simultaneously at various speeds (decor, moving elements, characters) in con

The Young Girl and Hell

Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a writer her mom allow us to move around in with them for the summer. The mom would love to get it on because of the writer

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort

Nicolas Le Riche and Marie-Agnès Gillot star in the legendary Roland Petit and Jean Cocteau's pioneering one-act ballet Le Jeune homme et la Mort. This 2005 production at the Opéra de Paris stays true to Petit’s original

The Girl and the Typhoons

French actress Marion Cotillard travelled to the Philippines to meet with children and young people on climate change and what they want big-polluting governments to do about it. One of the girls she met is Marinel, a su

Enterre ma vie de jeune fille

Letters to a Young Traveller

A father and son set out on a trip to the Balmoral Art Institute. The father seeks a job for himself, but also hopes to convince the Institute’s director to offer a residency to his son, an aspiring composer. Shortly aft

Le calvaire d'un jeune homme impeccable

Nine ou la jeune fille au masque

Nine is he fatherless daughter of singer Liane de Varenges. Her godfather is Fabius Marchal, a famous author. At party thrown by her mother, she is noticed by Georges de Mareuil who falls immediately in love. The banker

Grève à Jeune Afrique

After two months of a hard-fought strike, accompanied by a day-and-night occupation of the premises, Jeune Afrique's workers were the victims of a court order authorizing their CEO, Bechir Ben Yahmed, to have them remove

A Girl and a Million

The French language version of Sehnsucht 202 (1932).

A Young Girl in Her Nineties

In the geriatric care section of the Charles Foix d’Ivry hospital, Thierry Thieû Niang, a famous choreographer, is running a dance workshop for Alzheimer’s patients. Through dance, lives are told, memories recounted: re

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl

When a sexually promiscuous young woman finds herself pregnant and unmarried her three brothers vow to find the man responsible and punish him for what they consider the rape of their sister.

Fromont jeune et Risler aîné

Simone Chebe, the daughter of a humble clerk, is a beautiful woman. But she is also devoured by ambition. Frantz Risler falls in love with her but she rejects him in favor or Risler aîné, his elder brother, aged fifty. A

Petite jeune fille dans Paris

Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Pet