Alain Azerot

Kotikatu

The Third Wave

Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.

Black Earth Rising

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

Kaverille ei jätetä

Poliisin poika

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.

Fevers

Benjamin is at war: with life, with adults, with himself. From his earliest childhood onwards, the 13-year old has been shunted from one care home to another. When his mother has to go to prison, he is sent to his father, whom he has never known. The man turns out to be a dead loss, a warehouseman who's given up on life, a man in his mid-40s who still lives with his Moroccan parents in a high-rise block in the banlieue. Benjamin's turbulence and violence soon prove too much for his new family.

Edwige Feuillère en scène

On stage, the actress talks about her life in the 20th-century French theatre, the great authors she played and the famous stage directors of the time who directed her.

Cargo

The story of the international refugee crisis, depicting a world where greed, violence and exploitation compete with hopes and dreams amid a constant fight for survival.

Ceux qui dansent sur la tête

Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing. The friendship comes under pressure during a dance audition in Paris, where one clearly is superior to the other. A unique film with the passion for dance as a binder for an unusual friendship and countryside as surprisingly natural playing field. Set up by choreographer Mourad Merzouki, the founder of a hip-hop circus school, director of a dance academy and widely loved ambassador for the French streetdance.

Toiletzone

Théo, West Indian, is hired as cleaner in the toilets of a shopping mall. With his colleagues, I-Free and Mrs Saint-Rose, a difficult mission awaits him: regild the image of this establishment invaded by a rather unusual clientele.

Pur week-end

Former school friends get together one weekend a year, this year in the mountains.

Détour

A young girl's tricycle gets lost as a French family leaves home for their summer holiday. After becoming accidentally separated from the family, the tricycle is propelled on an unbelievable journey of seemingly unplanned events through the stunning French countryside.

Carmen - Opéra National de Paris

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame…” With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest.

Pekko ja muukalainen

A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she tries to get Pekko as her husband, whose heart still beats for Pipsa. Beauty salon owner Kaisa Kuovi's and her policeman Reino's baby goes missing.

La Grande Peinture