The director Jean-François Richet made a very politically committed first feature, Etat des lieux,in 1995, which talks of working class existence and that he produced for 150,000 francs. He continued down the political, social realist path with Ma 6-t va crack-er (1997), in which he also performed, alongside non-professional actors.

Directors : Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Richard McGuire, Lorenzo Mattotti
(France, Belgique)
Artistic director : Etienne Robial
Animation/ 2008  - 1h25mn
 www.PeursDuNoir-lefilm.com
Rotterdam International  Festival 2008

Six short films produced by a collective of young filmmakers under the French designer Etienne Robial’s artistic leadership.

Directed by Rémi Bezançon
Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman, Déborah François, Marc-André Grondin
Dramatic comedy/ 2008 - 114mn
César 2009: Most Promising Actor/ Most promising Actress / Best editing

Marie-Jeanne and Robert Duval have three children: Albert, Raphael and Fleur. This portrait of a family consists of five particular days during a twelve-year period.The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, or five decisive days in the life of a family made up of five people, five days more important than the last, after which nothing will ever be the same the following day.

After studies in science, Rémi Bezançon turns to cinema through writing. Graduated from L’Ecole du Louvre and ESRA (school of cinema), he writes short films scenarios. Disappointed by some their adaptations, he decides to go on directing with Love Is in The Air with Marion Cotillard and Vincent Elbaz .

Directed by Stéphane Kazandjian
Cast : Alexandra Lamy, Stéphane Rousseau, Bérénice Béjo, Pierre François Martin-Laval, Clotilde Courau, Stéphane Debac, Mélanie Bernier, Valérie Karsenti, Kad Merad
(France, Canada)
Romantic Comedy / 2008  - 92mn

Dates & Time : Sunday 21 June 1.45 PM - Friday 26 June 8 PM - Sunday 28 June 12 AM

It's the story of Eric, who loves Anne, but who gets together again with Marie, his ex, and who starts dreaming of a second chance. It's the story of Elsa who, after promising herself from now on to only get involved with her Ideal Man, encounters Jerome and starts thinking he's that special person. It's the story of Vincent and Marianne, who have nothing in common and yet everything to get along just fine. It's the story of dreams, encounters, break-ups, and reconciliations. In short, a wonderful love story that you only find in the movies.

Stéphane Kazandijan directed En solitaire (2000), Sexy Boys in 2001, and is working now with Eric Bergeron on a project of animation film A Monster in Paris, with the voices of Vanessa Paradis and Mathieu Chedid.

Directed by Magaly Richard-Serrano
Cast : Richard Anconina, Maria De Medeiros, Louise Szpindel, Stéphanie Sokolinski, Bruno Putzulu
Drama/ 2007 - 1h 30mn

Dates & Time : Saturday 20 June 1.45 PM - Monday 29 June 8 PM

Joseph manages a French Boxing Club where he trains his daughter and niece. Boxing is everything for this threesome. Their tempo of life is ordered to this rhythm… A rhythm that Theresa, Joseph’s wife, ends up detesting. The evening of the French Championships, the defeat of one of the two girls throws the survival of the club into peril and shatters the family’s equilibrium. Between Angie and Sandra, raised as if sisters, the bond is tested and a dangerous rivalry begins to fester, both inside the ring and out.

Former French boxing champion, Magaly Richard-Serrano joined the la Fémis script Workshop in 2000 and directed his first feature film Dans les cordes

Directed by  Martin Provost
Cast : Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Nico Rogner, Adélaïde Leroux
Drama/ 2008 - 2h 05mn 
website : www.seraphine-lefilm.com
César award 2009  for: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress for Yolande Moreau, Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best Costumes, Best Art Direction

Dates & Time : Sunday 21 June 6 PM - Saturday 27 June 2.15 PM

Based on the life of Séraphine de Senlis, an unknown turn of the century naïve painter, Séraphine tells the story of a poor and mentally ill housekeeper inhabited by an incredible talent. Séraphine, played by Yolande Moreau (Amélie, The Last Mistress), works for German art collector Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), who accidentally discovers one of her paintings in a local art salon. Fascinated by her talent, Uhde wants to show her work but WWI forces him to flee the country. In 1927, Udhe finds his protégée destitute but still painting. As the Great Depression forces him to delay his plans for her a second time, this new disappointment precipitates Séraphine’s descent into madness. The film shows the complexity and limitations of their relationship but also the pain and violence of her visceral need to paint.

Writer-director Martin Provost started his career as an actor, onscreen in films by Tonie Marshall or Claude Zidi and onstage for six years at the Comédie Française. He wrote and directed his first feature Tortilla and Cinema in 1996, a Franco-Spanish co-production with Castilian star Carmen Maura. Following his critically acclaimed Song from within, Provost’s third feature Séraphine brought him worldwide recognition as well as national accolades, including seven César awards, including Best Picture of the year and Best Original screenplay. He is also the author of two short films J’ai peur du noir (1990) and Cocon (1992), various plays and a novel, Aime-moi vite (1993).

PRESS
“Directed by Martin Provost, the movie stars Yolande Moreau, an actress for whom there is no American equivalent. (…) Like many serious clowns Ms. Moreau invests the tragedy and humor of the human condition with a spiritual luminosity.” (The New York Times)

Directed by  Pierre Schoeller
Cast :Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith Chemla, Aure Atika, Patrick Descamps
Drama/ 2008 - 1h 53mn
Cannes 2008 Official selection Un certain regard

Dates & Time : Wednesday 24 June 8 PM - Sunday 28 June 2 PM

Paris, today. A child and his young mother sleep in the streets. Nina doesn't have a job, or any ties. Enzo is five years old. Their wandering takes them to the Chateau of Versailles.In the woods, very near the chateau, Damien lives in makeshift lodgings, withdrawn and hidden away from the world. Nina spends a night with him. In the early morning, Nina leaves her child and disappears. When Damien wakes up, he discovers Enzo all alone.During the days, the seasons, the man and child get to know each other, learn how to deal with each other, grow attached to one another. Their bond will be stronger than their destitution.One day, however, they must leave their improvised home in the woods.

After studying cinema at the Ecole Louis Lumière Pierre Schoeller mainly concentrated on scriot writing for television and cinema. Menawhile, in 1992, he directed the short film Deux amis, Prélude, then continued directing in 2003 with his first feature film, Zéro défaut, a  musical based on the world of workers. In 2008, he directed Guillaume Depardieu, Aure Attika andt Judith Chemla in Versailles, a film on precariousness set in the surroundings of the famous French castle Versailles.

Directed by Philippe Claudel
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill, Frédéric Pierrot
Drama/ 2008 - 1h 55mn
César 2009 Best First film

Dates & Time : Saturday 20 June 4.20 PM - Tuesday 23 June 8 PM

For fifteen years, Juliette has had no contact with her family, who rejected her. After this long and brutal separation, Juliette reunites with her younger sister Léa, who takes her in, and so she begins sharing life with Luc, Léa's husband, their two young daughters, and Luc's father.

Writer, teacher and director, Philippe Claudel directed his first film Il ya longtemps que je t’aime and won the César for the best First Film in 2009. His novel Les Ames grises was adapted to the screen in 2005 by  Yves Angelo.

Directed by Maïwenn
Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu, Mélanie Doutey, Marina Foïs, Estelle Lefébure, Maïwenn , Linh Dan Pham, Charlotte Rampling, Muriel Robin, Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Nicolas Briançon
Comedy/ 2009 - 1h 45mn

Dates & Time : Sunday 21 June 3.45 PM - Sunday 28 June 6.20 PM

A female filmmaker wishes to make a documentary about actresses of all kinds: popular stars, the unknown, intellectual, comic, and forgotten... Filming each and everything, with or without the actresses' permission, the filmmaker gets caught up in her own game and allows herself to be consumed by these women as fragile as they are manipulative.

Coming form a family of  artistes, Maïwenn le Besco entered the world of cinema at the tender age of  5. When she was 15 , she met the director Luc Besson and made the film  Léon (1994) and Le cinquième élément (1997) with him. She directed her first short film I'm an actrice in whihc her daughter played the leading role.  Maïwenn also scripted the film Le pois chiche (2002). Later she was seen with Claude Lelouch in Les parisiens (2004) and Le courage d'aimer (2005).

Directed by  Philippe Ramos
Cast :Jean-François Stévenin, Virgil Leclaire, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Philippe Katerine, Pierre Pellet, Carlo Brandt, Denis Lavant, Dominique Blanc, Lou Castel, Jacques Bonnaffé
 Adventure/ 2008 - 1h 40mn

Locarno International Festival Critic’s Prize 2007, Rotterdam International Festival 2008

Dates & Time : Saturday 27 June 12 AM - Tuesday 30 June 8 PM

1840. Who could imagine this young boy reading the Bible in a hunting hut, lost in the middle of the wood, would become, one day, captain of a whaling ship? Nobody. Nevertheless, Ahab grows and seizes the oceans. He becomes a frightening captain, and meets a dazzling white whale… Moby Dick.

An admirer of Bresson, Ford, Hawks and several contemporary action film directors (such as Richard Donner), Philippe Ramos directed his first short film, Vers le silence in 1995. His first feature, Noah’s Ark starring Philippe Garziano and Emmanuelle Cornet, was released in France in 2000.
Captain Achab is his second feature film.

Directed by Anne Le Ny
Cast : Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Yeelem Jappain, Anne Le Ny, Grégoire Oestermann
Romantic drama/ 2007 - 1h 34mn 

Dates & Time : Saturday 27 June 7.10 PM - Wednesday 1 July 8 PM

Bertrand and Lorraine are those who stay… They are those who pace the corridors and ask themselves forbidden questions, get picked up at the newspaper seller’s kiosk, talk too much in the cafeteria, and smoke on the sly on the roof of this hospital where their partners are receiving care. Because, to cope with the guilt of being well and truly alive, Bertrand and Lorraine have decided to help each other live, laugh, and continue to love.

Both actress and script writer, Anne Le Ny (Try to remember, Lili) decides to turn to film-making and Those who remain is her first long feature