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Browse 26 movies from Tamara Films
Oedipus arrives in Thebes and finds a devastated city, where the young men are devoured by a monstrous beast, the Sphinx. He decides to deliver the inhabitants of this plague installed on the roof of a building.
Jan 2021
For a year and a half, the filmmaker documented the construction of a future residential facility for young autistic adults. At the same time, she spent time with her daughter Pénélope, a future resident there. Questions of architecture intersect with the realities of autism.
Jul 2026
May 2024
In today's Larzac, the life of Oedipus, king of Thebes, before, during and after the tragic episodes of his life. In the dressing rooms of a theater, the Greek chorus and its leader are preparing to go on stage. A film performed by actors with disabilities.
Feb 2018
Samuel is a wild-looking twelve-year-old orphan who has been placed with a nanny, Marie, for several weeks. Marie, who is struggling between her feelings and her need for money, is married to Clément with whom she has two sons, Alexis and Dimitri. Very quickly Samuel will have to get to know this new family and their possible secrets.
Oct 2022
After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.
Apr 1948
After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.
Dec 2018
Every Sunday, at mass time, a man in a bow tie prepares twenty-four madeleines. These pastries used to put him off: who wants to bite into a cake bearing his mother's name? But now that Madeleine has died, Stéphane-Jacques feels like spending a little time with her at tea time.
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Noel and his mother Michelle form a strange couple. They cannot live without one another but as soon as they get together the atmosphere becomes highly charged. Through long conversations and moments of silence, the exploration of a mother-son relationship in its most tragical as well as its most comical details.
Dec 2021
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.
Jun 2022
For the past 17 years, Marie Losier has captured the dynamic and provocative essence of Peaches, the trailblazing feminist queer icon. This intimate portrait offers a deep dive into the life of an inspiring, taboo-shattering artist. Discover Peaches’ electrifying concerts, her close bond with her sister and how her boundless energy, fearless exploration on and off stage has transformed every phase of her life into a captivating work of art.
Mar 2025
At the police academy, young recruits start their training willing to serve the population. As trainees and instructors wish to remain anonymous, their faces have been digitally edited. This substitution reveals a hidden truth, a truth about the institution.
Nov 2025
The story of a young woman who will never fit in but whom the cinema, because it is able to appreciate her extraordinary existence, helps her to find her own special place in the world.
When a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in New York goes viral after the actor himself makes a surprise appearance, French "Chalamologist" Antoinette Love decides to launch her own contest in France. Between meetings with experts, unexpected twists and turns, and the quest for the ultimate encounter with Chalamet, her adventure becomes a funny and touching portrait of the actor's life.
Jan 2025
Sep 2023
Connie Converse was a trailblazing singer-songwritter who bared her soul through thought-provoking music only to discover that 1950's America was unprepared for such candor from a woman. Discouraged, Connie packed her VW Bug and disappeared forever, leaving behind a body of work in a carefully indexed filing cabinet, hoping the world might someday be ready.
Nov 2020
Claire Doyon met Isabelle Caroline at the 'plan autism' in Paris in 2017. They immediately became friends. In this film, Claire Doyon stages Isabelle in a rose garden and questions her about her autism, her relationship to pain, her hypersensoriality, her love of roses. Claire is looking for answers to try to better understand her daughter, Isabelle lends herself to the game and confides.
Jul 2022
HEART OF THE SEAL documents the relationship between an Inuit family and a French ethnologist couple in the icy wilderness of Greenland over several decades. Using archive material intertwined poetically with the sobering present, the filmmaker creates a work about cultural practices and social identity amid external pressures. B.E.
Dec 2025
Mar 2022