La Nuit M

A César award winning short documentary comparing animal and plant life.

A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out.

Short documentary film during one night at the moulin rouge with Juliette Gréco, Patachou, June Richmond, Carmen De Santa Cruz

The French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre pass. Daytime reality: tourism, capital invested to make the mountain profitable. At night: the fragile destiny of more than ten thousand men, women and children who, in four years, risked their lives to cross the border.

After leaving boxing, Stéphane is employed as a bodyguard for a politician. One night, Stéphane and his friend Pierre-Marie confront some belligerent billposters. Pierre-Marie is murdered. For Stéphane, the anger is so strong that he pursues the murderer, who dies accidentally. Accused of the crime, Stéphane seeks help from a journalist, who will help him get his side of the story heard.

Gérard de Nerval, hallucinated poet, framed through period illustrations.

Nocturnal dreamlike wandering, filmed in several cities of Southern Europe: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Starting from a visual motif, the film gradually develops a more metaphorical tone. The title is a tribute to the film by Clemens Klopfenstein.

Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of uninhibited stylistic imagination that ranges from Sirkian stylization (an elaborate play of mirrors and doubles) to brutal realism (a tour of the bordellos of Marseille suggests the contemporary photographs of Brassaï).

Two burglars enter a house where a young woman has illegally settled. In exchange for her silence, she asks them to play the role of her parents so that she can welcome her lover.

The dismay of North Africans living in France in the 1980s. For the girls, born for the most part in France and attending French schools, they experience the difficulty of understanding and adapting for their parents in the face of this new world, these new mores, relegated among themselves to housing projects, HLM breeding grounds of economic cannon fodder. Jamila has a French friend who bursts into her family with his culture. From this situation arises misunderstandings and unease, which widen the gap between parents and their daughter. A story where tenderness, heartbreak and suffering combine.

Mr. Slimami is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one evening. He's spotted by the assailant, but Slimami manages to slip away before being caught. The victim turned out to be a prominent businessman, and police are soon searching for the witness as well as the killers. Slimami does not want to step forward, both as a matter of personal safety and because he prefers to let the French police handle their own affairs. His son Alilou, a budding journalist, openly decries the failure of the witness to come forward as a black mark on the Muslim community in Paris, unaware that the man in question is his father.