Patrice Tépasso

The Bonfire of Destiny

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.

La Vénus électrique

A painter in 1928 Paris, unable to work since his wife’s death, unknowingly participates in fake spiritualist shows staged by a carnival worker. As he regains his inspiration, she falls in love with the man she is deceiving.

Summertime

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

Being Maria

A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.

SOL

Sol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.

Vultures

Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern and daughter, cover the murder of a young girl for their magazine. Through their investigation, they discover disturbing similarities with the murder of another woman.

No One Will Know

All begins in a rundown bar outside of Paris where a regular man realizes he has a winning lottery ticket only to be shot in a crime that needs to be quickly covered up.

Our Father, the Devil

An African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest, whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.

Crime dans le Larzac

Adieu la chair!

A rugby stadium in southwestern France. Each and every Sunday, bodies collide. Along the sidelines, Louis and his juniors comrades are fascinated by the feats of the senior team.

Par soucis pédagogique

Beatrice, in her fifties, is a physical education teacher at a high school. Disappointed by the lack of boys in the dance class she teaches, she tries to convince one of her students, Krimo, whom she has recognized as having potential, to join. But Krimo is not easily persuaded, and when Béatrice, tired of hearing his constant "go f*ck your mother" comments, suggests in the middle of class that he go "f*ck his father" for a change, things escalate...

Waterfountain

On this particular day, Armand Münster, the boss of a caddy factory on the edge of bankruptcy, is drowning in a sea of problems.