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Browse 35 movies from Envie de tempête
Baptiste, Mathilde, Jørgen, Yulya and Jeanne, five teenagers armed with desire and words, fight their loneliness in a world abandoned by adults.
Sep 2017
Trapped in a forest, six men condemned to eternity, search for a way out.
Jan 2026
Ten notebooks depict an immersion in French neo-fascist circles during the 2010s.
Dec 2019
By going back into the cinema of the 1968 era and going forward with present-day interviews of young people who replay excerpts of films jumping out from the past, Our Defeats draw the portrait of our current relations with politics. Our Defeats, or do we keep enough forces to confront ourselves with the chaos of today?
Oct 2019
Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
Nov 2022
Withdrawn to the depths of the Pays de Caux, Claire, a disenchanted writer, will see her life turned upside down one stormy night by unexpected visitors. It will be time for her to break her isolation.
Sep 2025
Sarah and Mehri, two friends, set themselves a perilous challenge in high school. But not only are they very young women, they're also Iranians from families with completely opposing views.
Feb 2024
Tonight, as often during the week, Thomas goes to meet Thomas in their usual café. But Thomas is miles away, on the other side of the world, on the snowy plains of Greenland where his father lives.
Nov 2014
Alice is a young street girl, she is looking for a place where she can stay...
Nov 2012
Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.
Sep 2021
On a winter morning in Catania, Rachele return to the apartment she once shared with Paolo to gather her belongings. As she packs, ordinary objects bring back traces of their recently ended relationship. Their emotional value recalls the tradizion of the bridal trousseau, opening a reflection across generations on the meaning we give to objects, home, and relationships today.
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Thomas, a frustrated reporter who works for a local newspaper in North of France, is assigned to write a portrait of alternative musician and recent mayoral candidate Usé. After the interview, the two men happen upon the inanimate body of a man lying in a desolate alley. To their surprise, the man – Jojo – rises before them like a zombie. He appears to be fine, but has lost his memory. Some clues lead them to Jojo’s little sister Marilou. Through a series of unexpected events, the newfound friends forge bonds and embark upon a surreal journey.
Sep 2022
Fired from her job, dumped by her partner, and in poor health, 46-year-old adventurer Coline Morel, a Far North specialist, sees her life falling apart. But "The Incredible Snow Woman" will attempt one last comeback.
Nov 2025
Ulysses, a secluded artist who mysteriously retired a few years ago, meets Mona, a young art student full of life. The encounter will change them both.
Sep 2018
Mimi has always lived in Douarnenez (Brittany), near her friends and her widowed father. She is a simple young woman who takes life as it comes, even if sometimes life puts obstacles in her way. She works at the cinema Le Club. She was not supposed to, but tonight she has to welcome a young depressive director Gaspard Kermarec. He happens to come from the same town as her, and his film happens to be as depressing as himself.
Apr 2023
Thomas has followed Rebecca to Amiens, but shortly after his arrival, she leaves him. Alone in the city of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, with a journalist job at Le Courrier Picard which bores him to death, Thomas tries to get over his depression. Right at this time, he is offered the task of writing a profile piece on Usé, a major local figure, an atypical musician and former candidate at the municipal elections. While cross-crossing the city and exploring Usé's life, and while revelling in a drunken night together, the two men will learn to get to know each other.
Feb 2020
Lost in the middle of the countryside at the wheel of her old Kangoo, Siham is desperate to find that "bloody party". In the back seat, Marguerite and Arthur, aged 15 and 8 respectively, are determined to put her through hell. In this rolling crisis cell, tension builds to a crescendo. Elsewhere, in a gymnasium transformed into a meeting room, a mysterious gathering is taking place.
Nov 2023
The life of Michèle Firk — a trailblazing French journalist, film critic, aspiring director and communist activist involved in various liberation struggles in the second half of the 20th century — as told by narrator Alice Diop, modern day French director.
May 2026
A bittersweet comedy about how a fanciful and rebellious preteen ends up accepting her parents' divorce.
Mar 2020
Hairdressing salons, or beauty salons, have always been a place where most people feel comfortable to vent and talk about their personal problems. In this documentary by French filmmaker Léa Forest, eight young men, aged between twelve and eighteen, are interviewed in a small French salon, while getting their haircut. With the hair clipper sound as background noise, they talk about girls, first loves, the difficulties they face daily, defining episodes in their lives, as well as stereotypes they admit to embodying as male-identifying persons. It is a brief, yet pertinent, journey that tries to get to know the perspective of these young men, from different backgrounds and walks of life, on the world around them
Oct 2020