La Maison De Faïence

Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transition from the opening to the closing of a door is perfect or the reader's voice correctly modulated? Nicolas Philibert has accepted the challenge to portray that which cannot be seen. Shouldering his camera, he spent half a year wandering the endless corridors of Radio France’s ‘round house’ on the banks of the Seine where he filmed people who dedicate themselves utterly and meticulously to their work.

For you too, when you were little, the last days of summer had a half-bitter, half-sweet taste? The sun is beating down and at the same time the stress of going back to school is starting to rumble? It's the last week of summer. After breaking his arm, Antonio tries everything to take his brother, Octave, to the funfair. His father and mother prevent him from doing so, too busy preparing his father's work dinner, organized at the end of the week. But while helping his mother, Antonio finds old objects belonging to his father that could help him...

Based on the novel "L'avenir est un crime du passé" an autobiographical novel of Arab cameraman Rahal Amin Touati, and "The house of certain Death" written by Albert Cosseri.

A humorous animation film about a fellow who builds his house in the best suburb he can afford. He has a picture bride, a picture window and a garden as pretty as a picture, but he wanted something special and, like Jack and the Beanstalk, he finally got it! What he got is a moral for all.

Loïc spends the night at the home of Andréa, an attractive fashion designer ten years his senior, whom he met on an app. But during the course of the evening, he discovers a strange half-human creature that the designer is breeding in his workshop, in search of the perfect body. The young boy feels trapped.

After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective from Paris be able to help?

Using home movies of his family and of street views, the director traces his childhood in South America, his origins as a Polish Jew, and his relationship with his mother in a film version of a personal journal.

A claymation about an unsuspecting man whose fondness for baby pork is tantalised when he passes a restaurant that specialises in pig dishes. He is charmed and impressed by the service and ambience of the restaurant as he places his order with the waiter. The gruesome truth of the restaurant is soon revealed to the man when his dish arrives.

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away by her. Under the pretense of haven forgotten his hat, he comes back while Mrs. Berre receives guests that evening and takes his revenge.

"I had not only to pose before Chrismas crib like most children; I also posed before cottages, dolls houses, music box houses, lamp houses, cake houses, money-box houses and China-houses." In the same house a mother wonders if she will eventually have a place of her own ; a daughter sticks to her little world ; a father is satisfied with building sand castles. But will they dare to leave?

Slowly, the steel jaws devour the old tower. An ancient owner rushes into the rubble, chasing children unwary. Then began a strange journey into the heart of this 'house' which shelters so many memories...

The stick man Fantoche is looking for a home, but there doesn't seem to be any room anywhere, not even in Hell.

When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.

Jeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. Jeanne gradually begins to feel a strong attraction toward the new guest.

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.