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Browse 43 movies from Talweg Production
Jan 2014
Jan 2024
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
Apr 2025
Mar 2025
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
"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
Feb 2025
Jul 2019
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.
Jan 2017
Dec 2017
In the 1950s, it was in cinemas that the French people of France discovered the West Indies, these territories so distant and so little known. Most often, the images seen and comments heard reflect the clichés of the colonial mentality.
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
Frank Capra was one of Hollywood's most popular and respected directors in the 1930s and 1940s. His best-known films include "Isn't Life Beautiful?", "The Bottom Ten Thousand" and "Arsenic and Lace". His career from poor Sicilian immigrant to successful director stands for the American dream and brings him surprisingly close to his characters. But what in his depictions of America and its everyday heroes is reality, and where does the dream begin?
Dec 2020
For a very long time, the French government has chosen to ignore the Vichy regime, its collaboration with Nazi Germany and its crimes, in an attempt to erase the past and reconcile all French citizens. Although historians, writers and filmmakers have helped develop a certain awareness on this controversial subject, it has been mostly civil society that has led the fight against falsification and denial, in the name of truth and justice.
May 2016