France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a...
Story of Women
Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.
Emma Zunz
Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer...
Villa Mauresque
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe...
The Abyss
Ousmane Sow
An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels...
Ville étrangère
In a house half devastated by a cataclysm, men and women take inventory of the sonic rubble of their memory during a musical ceremony.
Énumérations
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Convinced only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne leaves her childhood home to plead with Charles, heir to the...
Joan the Maid I: The Battles
The portrait of an extraordinary French dancer-choreographer: Jean Babilée (1923-2014) is filmed at home, in the streets of Paris, at the...
Babilée '91
A two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet. It features a mixture of archival...
Film sur Georges Perec
This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Renée Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the...
Woman of the Wolf
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a...
No Fear, No Die
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in...
I Want to Go Home
Pascal is a runaway teen who wants a new identity, a new family, a new life, but cannot really escape who he is. He's living his teens between his...
Faux frère
Mércedès, an actress from Paris attempts to break off a difficult relationship with the jealous and possessive stalker Johnny. She...
A Flame in My Heart
Jeanne has succeeded in lifting the siege of Orléans and Charles has been crowned King of France. However, she is injured in an attempt to...
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
In the middle of the most famous red light (prostitution) area in Paris, there is an apartment building on the Rue Saint Denis whose young adult...
Cœurs croisés
One of the last productions for Diagonale, before De sueur et de sang, the feature film with which Vecchiali would close the cycle of the French...
Fugue en sol mineur
The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book...
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