La Vie En Vert

François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towards her memories and beyond. Attentive, affectionate and sometimes cruel, Vecchiali's camera invents its own expressive language.

After returning from a long African exile, a sixty-year-old woman leaves her unfaithful husband and starts anew with her five-year-old granddaughter.

Daily life of two students.

Juliette has fought to keep her family's oyster business, called La Claire, afloat. She is ready to fight even harder, now that her heritage is threatened. On her Breton island, Juliette has to face developers who want to occupy her production site at any price to build a thalassotherapy center. Despite their tempting offers, Juliette refuses to sell and inevitably attracts the enmity of the industrialists who only think in terms of profitability and easy money. The conflict becomes more and more radical, each side sticks to its position and the confrontation risks going beyond the legal framework.

Martine is a young woman of aristocratic origin who does not know the man to whom she is promised. She decides to set up a coup with a schoolteacher friend. She is responsible for flirting with the fiancé under the identity of Martine. The man is totally disappointing. Then Martine learns that he has used the same trick.

While divorcing, Sarah takes her two sons to Ikea to choose their new bedroom...

Street scenes from Cairo.

Reconstruction of Bernadette Soubirous's life (1844-1879), a 14-year-old girl that catholics believe had eighteen visions of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in a grotto near Lourdes, France. The place became a peregrination centre since then.

Victim of a shipwreck, a British man is stranded on a deserted island where he manages to survive through ingenuity.