Marc Barbé

From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.

Dir. Olivier Dahan · With Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory

A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.

Dir. Yann Gozlan · With Pierre Niney, Ana Girardot, André Marcon

A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.

Dir. Florent-Emilio Siri · With Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini

With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test.

Dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani · With Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin

Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their fate.

Dir. Sylvain Desclous · With Rebecca Marder, Benjamin Lavernhe, Emmanuelle Bercot

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…

Dir. David Oelhoffen · With Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif

In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.

Dir. Édouard Deluc · With Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi

François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004...

Dir. Florent-Emilio Siri · With Gérard Lanvin, Pascale Arbillot, Franck Dubosc

A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.

Dir. Benoît Jacquot · With Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy