Ariane Ascaride
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Once in a Lifetime tells the story of an unruly and antagonistic group of students assigned a project involving the Holocaust, forcing the multicultural class to confront an array of questions, prejudices and misconceptions as they figure out how to collaborate with one another. **César Award** nominee, Most Promising Actor.
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Français
Description
This French comedy-drama features Felix, an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. The film examines the familiar theme of a man's search for his identity. Felix is forced to confront the anger he feels toward his father for abandoning him, and the fear and shame he feels, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS General, eventually reaches Berlin. Under the orders of the Gestapo, French police and collaborators hound Manouchian and his Résistants until, to escape torture, one of their...
Publisher
NeoClassics Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
The timely story of Paloma a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father's old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, she begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renee Michel. She begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath the prickliest of exteriors.