Pierre Banderet

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families...

In Estaque, a northern suburb of Marseilles, stuck between oil refinery smokestacks and the Mediterranean sea, a handful of die-hards has taken...

A regular performer of the great works of the French repertoire, Jean Liermier takes pride of place in the most popular of them. With the help of the...

How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they...

Her parents and a former lover try to help a woman out of an apparently unjustified catatonic condition.

After having perpetrated a serious crime, Muriel, François and René, childhood friends born in the working-class streets of Marseille, go their...

Three men and a woman from a city in the south of France made a pact as teenagers to never forget that they were children of the poor.

A group of children from the same neighborhood meet a few years later. When the day comes, they meet again and take stock of their lives.

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments...

Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this...

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring,...

A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become.

Sylvie and Marie-Christine, two young girls abducted by force by pimps in order to make them participate in perverse shows, testify against their...

A collection of gay short films. The 6 short films are: VGL-Hung! (2007); Dear Parents, [Mes chers parents,] (2005); Into the Night (2002); Groucho...

A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.

In a hypermarket, a young overweight cashier named "La Goula" is the target of her colleagues' mockery.

From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois,...

Jeannette is a single mother living in a working-class community in Marseilles; she tries to support herself and her two kids on her salary as a...

The story of Georges Mandel, an anti-Nazi French parliamentarian who refused to abdicate to the Vichy regime.

Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband...

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from...

A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker...

The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who...