Antonio Decoud ist ein konservativer Familienvater, der in Animal vom Schicksal in eine erschütternde unerwartete Situation gedrängt wird und so gezwungen ist, sein ganzes Leben auf dem Kopf zu stellen, seine Prioritäten zu ändern und die Dinge, an die er immer geglaubt hat, infrage zu stellen. Nun darf er nur einem Instinkt folgen: Dem animalischen Instinkt.

Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in their new home, while Javier packs up in Argentina and prepares to start his new life in the States. While he is on the way to the airport, he receives a call from María telling him that she is confused and has been seeing someone else.

Die zwei französischen Soldatinnen Aurore und Marine haben in Afghanistan gedient. Nun ist ihr Einsatz zu Ende. Doch bevor es wieder zurück nach Frankreich geht, werden sie zusammen mit ihrer Truppe zur „Dekompression“ in ein Fünf-Sterne-Hotel auf Zypern geschickt. Umgeben von Touristen sollen sie durch diverse Aktivitäten und Gesprächsrunden lernen, ihre Kriegserlebnisse zu verarbeiten. (Text: arte)

In Carhaix, einer kleinen Stadt im Herzen der Bretagne, leben die Freundinnen Mat-hilde, Firmine und Louise. Während Mathilde und Firmine als Hebamme und Krankenschwester arbeiten, ist Louise die stolze Besitzerin einer Bowling-Halle, in der sich die drei oft am Feierabend treffen. Bald bekommt das Bowling-Trio Zuwachs von Catherine, einer Personalmanagerin, die aus Paris geschickt wurde, um die Rentabilität des Krankenhauses zu prüfen. Schnell lebt sich die Großstädterin Catherine in der französischen Provinz ein und lernt die Herzlichkeit und Ehrlichkeit der Menschen zu schätzen. Doch schon bald ahnt sie, dass sie im Zuge der Umstrukturierung ausgerechnet die Geburtenstation schließen muss. Dagegen protestiert kurz darauf die ganze Stadt - allen voran die Freundinnen Mathilde, Firmine und Louise. Und auch Catherine erkennt, dass es hier um weit wichtigere Werte geht als um reine Erträge. Gemeinsam geben sie alles, um die Geburtenstation zu retten!

Lina, eine junge Frau aus Beirut, kommt zum Studieren nach Paris. Sie wohnt bei Tante und Onkel, doch als dieser versucht, sie zum Sex mit ihm zu zwingen, flieht sie aus der Wohnung. Fortan muss sie sich alleine durchschlagen. Zum Glück findet sie schnell eine neue Bleibe, aber auch in Liebesdingen gleicht ihr Leben einer Berg- und Talfahrt.

May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!

An ICE Agent struggling with the moral dilemmas of border security and an undocumented woman fighting to escape a ruthless cartel cross paths and work together to save the life of an innocent girl.

Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

In ihrem Dokumentarfilm begleiten die Filmemacherinnen Mona Achache und Patricia Tourancheau einen Polizeichef und die Mutter eines Mordopfers bei ihren unermüdlichen Bemühungen, einen Serienmörder im Paris der 1990er-Jahre zu finden und zu verfolgen. Das ungewöhnliche Duo ist gemeinsam entschlossen, den Täter seiner gerechten Strafe zuzuführen...

In early 2013, it was announced that choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, known as the man behind the ballet of Black Swan, would take over as director of the Paris Opera Ballet. Reset finds Millepied on the eve of his first gala with the Opera, designing and refining his inaugural choreography for the esteemed institution. As a film, Reset possesses of the same artistic assuredness as its subject as he blocks out the preliminary steps for his choreography. It explores various concepts of space simultaneously: the digital space, the space of the opera house (each scene opens with a declaration of which studio it’s in) and the space of the stage, the distance from stage right to stage left. It’s a portrait of a watershed moment for one of the ballet's oldest institutions and one of its brightest new stars, both on the cusp of great transition.

Als Parvani Farshtchi die Nachricht vom Tod ihres Mannes erhält, ist sie schockiert. Sadegh Farshtchi war der Inhaber einer erfolgreichen Teppichfirma in Teheran und hätte eigentlich auf seiner jährlichen Kur in Korea sein sollen. Gestorben ist Sadegh allerdings in dem französischen Städtchen Brive-la-Gaillarde an einem Herzinfarkt. Um das Geheimnis um seinen Aufenthalt dort zu lüften und um seine Leiche in den Iran zu überführen, reisen Parvani und ihr ältester Sohn Morteza nach Frankreich. Dort angekommen, stehen den beiden aber nicht nur Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten im Weg, sondern auch ein Embargo, nach dem Sadeghs Leichnam Frankreich nicht verlassen darf.

Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from her older sister. She will not be able to come to join them for the holidays, pretexting once more an overload of work - Latifa attacks Hakim and pushes him to fetch Leïla. Nedjma will come with him, they will take the opportunity to discover Paris. Upon their arrival in the hair salon, they learn that Leila has actually never worked. It is the journey of a father who begins in Paris one night until dawn.

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.

After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receives an unexpected offer: to travel through France selling toothbrushes that will "revolutionize oral-dental hygiene." He takes advantage of the job to catch up with people from his childhood, to meet the first big love of his life, along with his daughter, and to make amazing discoveries and, in so doing, rediscover himself.

40-year-old foreman Vital is chosen by Alix (25) as a guinea pig in the anonymous study she is carrying out in her father's factory. The boss's daughter soon finds herself falling under the spell of this reserved, enigmatic worker as he begins to open up to her, revealing his dreams of another life.

Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal Error ! Terrified at the idea of not being up to par, his wife Colette begs Alexandre, their neighbor to help. Communication guru, Alexander accepts the challenge and gives a makeover to the couple in twenty-four hours. Apartment, decoration, lifestyle, dinner menu, uniforms, culture... Everything !

Max, a witty and brave 12-year-old, feels like he has two families instead of one. In and after school, he spends all his time with his two best friends Tom and Vivian, who are always there to make life easier for each other. Together, they are The Fantastic Three. His real family on the other hand, is messy, with a depressed single mother and a brother in jail.

Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence…