Living Large

Living Large 2024

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It is the beginning of the school year. At 13 years old, Ben discovers the effects of puberty on his classmates who have changed a lot. Especially Claire, who is now really pretty. Ben would like her to notice him, but he is hung up by his weight and even the school nurse worries about him. Despite his passion for cooking, Ben decides to go on a long and difficult diet. To face the bullying from Max and his gang, Ben can count on the support of his crazy family and his friends Claire, Eric and Sonia. Together, they start a band for the Christmas show, at the end of a year that will have made them all grow up, gain confidence in themselves, in life and in love.

2024

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love 2022

8.00

Victim of a terrible plot, Captain Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. During five years, the Dreyfus spouses exchanged hundreds of letters. They became a weapon of survival for Alfred. This film is the story of the correspondence of a man and a woman who unwittingly became the unsung heroes of the case that bears their name.

2022

Ashen Sun

Ashen Sun 2024

1

Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she's forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who's slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don't get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.

2024

IVG

IVG 2021

1

2021

S’il vous plaît madame, répondez-moi !

S’il vous plaît madame, répondez-moi ! 2021

1

Between the wars, more than eight hundred young Polish women came to Indre-et-Loire to work as farm maids. Their story has come down to us thanks to the letters exchanged by their social worker, Julie Duval. Louis Clergeau, an artisan photographer, whose pictures are scattered throughout this film, gave them a face and a body. This film bears witness to this little-known part of French immigration and tells the bitter fate of these immigrants in the Touraine countryside, whose story still shakes us today.

2021

Trona Pinnacles

Trona Pinnacles 2021

4.00

Gabrielle, a 19 years old, finds herself stuck near Death Valley between two parents who no longer speak to each other. The three of them, feeling trapped, try to escape the tension, in a huge scenery that feels unchangeable. The situation seems impossible, until an unexpected event comes to unravel everything...

2021

Ardenza

Ardenza 2022

1

With fine watercolour strokes, Daniela de Felice paints the portrait of a young woman in love and with a true passion for politics. The film takes us back to the Italy of the 1990s, between Berlusconi’s rise to power and the final reverberations of the 20th century. Ardenza is unexpected and moving, with riveting sensitivity and sensuality.

2022

Benjamin Rabier, the Man who Made Animals Laugh

Benjamin Rabier, the Man who Made Animals Laugh 2013

1

Everybody knows Laughing cow but nobody knows who is the artist behind this famous trademark. Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La Vache qui rit (The laughing Cow) and Gédéon le canard (Gideon the duck) he is also one of the pioneers of animated films .

2013

Lulu the Pill-man

Lulu the Pill-man 2021

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My real name is Lucien Neuwirth, but people use to call me Lulu the Pill-man since I legalized the contraceptive pill.

2021

1905

1905 2021

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The journey of the cartoonist Jossot, from Gustave to Abdul Karim, has not finished questioning us about the debates that animate our contemporary society.

2021

A votée !

A votée ! 2021

1

It is often said of me: what a sacred temperament this Hubertine Auclert! It's true, I'm a key figure in activism for equal civil rights between men and women.

2021

Under Your Fingers

Under Your Fingers 2015

1

The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself into her grandmother memories. She discovers the Indochina of Hoa, her romantic encounter with Jacques (a French colon), the birth of Linh (Emilie's mother) and her tragic departure to France in 1956. She relives with Linh the arrival into the camp of Sainte-Livrade, the exploitation of the Indochinese women by the market gardeners of Lot-et-Garonne. Between memories, dance, anger and traditional rituals, Emilie learns to accept this heritage.

2015