Ma Mère

This is a story of her mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris. The story of an immigrant mother. It also is the story of three generations of women: her mother's, Zehira; her daughters'; her granddaughters'.

Jean-Charles has an unusual relationship with his mother. He can't break free of her influence even when writing his master's thesis, made up of interviews with the several hundred men who have slept with her. Jean-Charles can identify -- he's one of them. But the incestuous bond between mom-and-son is jeopardized when Jean-Charles meets Cassandra, and Mom shifts her attentions to a hot young stud in retaliation.

In Le nez de ma mère Harilay Rabenjamina moves away from what usually characterizes his work and tells a personal story. He recounts an event that destabilized him : his sister had her nose redone.

A woman creates collages with the words she identifies in the voices of her mother that she hears in her head. She struggles to make sense of them.

John and his mother Catherine saw their lives tumble because Peter, the father, chose to humiliate his wife in front of his children and neighbors to punish her for a hostile rumor.

Short film by SCRIBE (writer of The Smell of Us) and his twin brother, with Lukas Ionesco on the first role.

The words of my mother tells the daily life of a woman who loses her words. At her side, her three children, each in their own way, watch over her, punctuate and reorganize her daily life. To move her out of her house, which she has lived in for 40 years, would be to break her down. It carries within it the strata of a history, of a territory. The house, the barn, the stream, the trees are still landmarks, in a space which, every day, closes in a little more.

Paulette, Jean-Christophe's mother, talks too much; after ten years of struggle Jean-Christophe notices that Paulette talks less, but one night he sees his mother's dentures in a tooth glass. Kind friends explain to him that Paulette has passed from the oral stage to the sadistic oral stage. The mother shows her teeth, I love you, I crunch you, it's sure death...

A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.

A young woman goes with her mother for a routine medical check-up, but this appointment will provide way too much information for her to handle - Some things should remain private, right?

Fabien has been a manager for years. Overnight, this 40 year old man is unemployed. His wife Daniela pushes him to recover an apartment he had made available to his mother, Marie-Louise. But the woman is not at all ready to leave the apartment, especially not since she now has a new boyfriend, André.

For over 40 years, Maguy has been manufacturing goat cheese in the respect of nature and animals, on an isolated plateau in the Gorges du Verdon. Retiring Soon, she must give her flock. She decides to sponsor Anne-Sophie, a young farmer wishing to establish herself. Over the seasons, the transmission process turns out to be a painful renunciation for one and a difficult learning for the other. Can we still transmit the taste for freedom?

A film by Joseph Morder

In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edit out Akerman’s questions but ultimately decided to keep them in to preserve the candor of the mother-daughter rapport.

My Mother’s Tongue explores the delicate relationship between a mother and son who don’t speak the same language, until something unlocks when she suddenly falls very ill. The emotional journey unfolds through a series of vignettes that draw the viewer deeper into the inner world of a son seeking understanding and to be understood.

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while helping to run a family carpentry business. Through inventive and playful techniques, Giguère brings the stories alive, applying creative approaches to family photographs, archival footage and staged reenactments. He mixes his mother's stories with his own memories and those of his siblings, some of whom hear for the first time what their mother had to say about them. Through these intertwining stories, the film presents not only a testament of a mother's complicated love for her many children, but also offers an intimate look at 1950s working class Quebec. - Aisha Jamal (Hot Docs Film Festival)

The Hellfest is 75000 festival-goers of 50 nationalities gathered during 3 days in Clisson, a medieval city of the Pays de Loire. Metal, punk, hardcore, small group for connoisseurs and mega world stars, they are all gathered at Hellfest. Thomas VDB, the inevitable troublemaker of music on France 4 embarks on the adventure of Hellfest. He will meet artists and festival-goers, while parsemant his course of fundamental questions, which he has the secret.