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Browse 43 movies from Talweg Production
Jan 2024
Jan 2014
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Oct 2017
Charlotte, Elona, and Raphaëlle explore inner worlds through oneiric states. Raphaëlle, struggling with maladaptive daydreaming, escapes into highly immersive fantasies, torn between joy and suffering. This refuge keeps her from facing reality, including her homosexuality. Over time, she learns to break free from it, embrace her identity, and write. Through discussions with specialists and a writing workshop, the three young women share their perspectives on dreams and existence in an intimate and existential journey.
Apr 2025
Sixty years after the signing of the Élysée Treaty, which opened an unprecedented era of cooperation between the two countries, how is the Franco-German tandem doing? An enlightening assessment, at a time when the war in Ukraine is shaking the world order.
Jun 2023
May 2026
Mar 2025
Aging parents of disabled adults, they worry about their child's life after their disappearance. A moving insight into the daily life of a family home in the Vendée region, which offers them the prospect of a peaceful future.
Aug 2022
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
Aug 2017
"Stolen Childhood - Chronicle of Denial" - built on the testimonies of victims, magistrates, psychiatrists, and archives showing the decisive role of television in this matter, the film tells 50 years of society's responses to pedophilia.
Jan 2019
Jan 2022
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
May 2019
It was the world's largest, most beautiful and fastest cruise ship. Built in Saint Nazaire in 1932, the "Normandie" was the pride of France. But it took only a few hours, amidst the chaos of World War Two, for this dream of grandeur to lie broken in New York harbour.
Sep 2021
Dec 2017
Leonard is serving a life sentence in a Florida prison for the murders of Patricia and Chris. Agnes—the victims’ mother and grandmother—decided to contact him in the hope it would help her heal from this tragedy and give it meaning. As the law didn’t allow her to meet Leonard, she wrote to him instead. Their exchange led them to join in a mutual fight to promote restorative justice—an alternative stance on justice based on prevention and victim/offender dialog. Their struggle echoes those of others families, bringing us to examine what restorative justice means and the hopes it sparks.
Dec 2016
Feb 2025