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David is a teenager like any other. His world is filled with loud music, imaginary encounters with centre-folds, and heroic fights on make-believe battlefields.

With his mother away, and his father nowhere to be found, David is forced to stay on his uncle's farm, where life lacks the excitement he craves. But the monotony of country living is about to be broken as his uncle and a collection of his friends get together for an afternoon of excessive eating and drinking, to which David is invited. Later that evening, David goes to meet a friend in the woods. Here, the effects of his drink-fuelled initiation and of the frustration he feels generally find a brutal and horrifying outlet that will change his life forever...

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A group of young actors including several local unknowns - Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczyk, Patrick Lepczynski, and Sabine Haudepin , among others - make up the cluster of friends adrift beneath the twilight of their school years.

There's drama, violence, and pot-induced laughs - group holidays, indiscriminate sex, advances from teachers twenty-five years their seniors, attempted moves to Paris, and few prospects of passing the bac, the final set of exams French students take before embarking into the world to... do what?

The Other Side of the Bed is a raucous and sexy comedy. The film tells the story of two couples, along with a collection of their friends and co-workers, whose switching back and forth between lovers leads to lies and heartache. But if love is only a game... why not cheat?

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Set in a small town, in the middle of the vast and empty landscape of Patagonia Glue humorously follows the coming out, coming of age confusion and chaos of 16 year old Lucas and his friends.

A time bomb of hormones and sexual tension, boredom and family alienation, Lucas spends his summer holiday hanging out with his athletic best friend, Nacho. Getting high together, they get off with each other to porn until a mousey, bespectacled classmate, Andrea, encourages them to get drunk and allow her to join in.

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Andie MacDowell stars alongside Adrien Brody in this compelling story of one woman's determination and courage amid conflict in Eastern Europe.

Harrison (David Strathairn) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo journalist who has been reconsidering his career photographing the world's horrors and atrocities to spend more time with his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) and their two children. However, after accepting one final dangerous assignment in war-torn Yugoslavia, Harrison is reported dead. Sarah, convinced Harrison is still alive and driven by an intense passion, plunges into a land ravaged by war to risk her own life in a relentless search to find him. Aided by her husband's photographer colleagues Kyle (Adrien Brody), Yeager and Stevenson, the group trace the elusive path of Harrison, witnessing the unthinkable and finding the unbelievable.

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Russia 88 is a gang of Moscow skinheads their slogan - "Russia for Russians." The gang and their charismatic leader - Blade - spend their days drinking, smoking and indiscriminately attacking immigrants who they believe are taking "Russian" jobs and tainting the Russian bloodline.

Blade's family life is strained - his father wants him to make something out of his life and his sister treats his fascist beliefs with ill concealed amusement. But Blade is a pure believer he dismisses overtures from the well financed fascist organisations that want to manipulate him for their own needs and when he discovers his sister is dating a foreigner it puts his beliefs to the ultimate test.

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Simona (Serenda Grandi) is married to Marco who neglects her. Growing dissatisfied. she provokes her husband by readily accepting the many sexual advances of friends and strangers.

Then, to satisfy her increasingly depraved and perverse desires, she seeks night-time partners leading to ever riskier and sometimes violent encounters. On one such night, Marco catches Simona in the act, and the couple separate. Marco is immediately consoled by his beautiful young neighbour but soon Simona and Marco find that they cannot live without each other. Then one night Simona is attacked by a masked man. But is he a stranger...

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Midwinter envelopes a bleak and deserted costal -resort in sheets of freezing rain. Mathieu (Jeremie Elkaim) young, shy and introverted, returns to the place where he fell in love.

Eighteen months previously, a family summer holiday catapulted him headfirst into a passionate teenage romance with the sensual, confident Cedric (Stephane Rideau). it all seems a lifetime away. That chance meeting brought about a year of pleasure and passion mixed with the torture and torment of first love. The pain and passion still burning within Mathieu can only embrace the future by reconciling with the past.

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A modern retelling of the famous Greek legend where the god Zeus assumes human form to seduce a mortal woman by impersonating her husband. 'Helas Pour Moi' is a characteristically fascinating and profound work from director Jean-Luc Godard.

At a Swiss lakeside resort, a book publisher (Bernard Verley) investigates a mysterious tale about a god-like being who supposedly entered the body of a man, Simon (Gerard Depardieu) to experience physical love with his wife, Rachel (Laurence Masliah). Did this actually happen or is Rachel just covering up her infidelity to her husband? Exploring through a simple parable the meaning of human existence in a godless universe, the film is audacious in both its style and in its broaching of subjects essential to humanity.

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Just as Lola (Mya Bollaers) learns that she can finally transition, she receives unexpected news, and must return home to face her estranged father, Philippe (Benoît Magimel) for the first time in 2 years.

Driven together by the common goal to fulfil her mother's last wishes, together they reluctantly embark on a journey to the North Sea. Forced to spend time together, Philippe begins to accept his daughter for the first time. 'Lola and the Sea' is a tender exploration of family relationships and identity, featuring music from Culture Club, Antony and the Johnsons and 4 Non Blondes.

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In this sparkling and elegant romantic comedy, the free-spirited and giddily impulsive Anais (Anais Demoustier) careers from one lover to the next while trying to find some direction in her life.

Following a brief dalliance with an older man (Denis Podalydes), she finds herself captivated instead by his beautiful long-time partner Emilie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a successful and beguilingly charismatic writer, and an affair begins which may just offer the contentment Anais has been searching for. Featuring stunning Paris and Brittany locations, and a lead performance of immense charm by Anais Demoustier, the debut film by writer-director Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet is playful, passionate, and thoroughly enchanting.

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When the out of control Betty (Marie Trintignant) meets the recently widowed Laure (Stephane Audran) in a bar, they seem to have an instant bond.

But when Laure decides to take her in and Betty begins to reveal a sad and sometimes horrific life story of betrayal and self destruction, something snaps. What follows is one of the most intriguing cat and mouse battles ever witnessed.

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Idealistic teacher Daniel Lefebvre (Philippe Torreton) fights personal and professional battles in this uncompromising drama from acclaimed French Director Bertrand Tavernier.

Teaching at a school in an impoverished former mining community, Daniel is constantly faced with complex and emotional decisions as he seeks to inspire and educate the children in his power, against the odds. Despite the endless frustrations of bureaucratic social services, and dealing with abusive parents and troubled children, Daniel holds onto his integrity, in this hard hitting but essentially life affirming drama.

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A Soft Place
Two women conspire in a laundromat after finding themselves in a sticky situation.
A bedroom tryst brought them together, but hubby's stained duvet threatens to tear them apart!

Private Life

Ruth Ackroyd leaves the monotony of her work at her father's textile mill on a Friday evening and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There, she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems...

Dani and Alice
Dani and Alice are coming to the end of a tumultuous relationship. As they prepare to leave their favourite girl bar, the ramifications of Alice's actions earlier in the night are brought up in a heated conversation, with tragic end results.

Below the Belt
Seventeen year old girls Jill and Oona explore their sexuality in between bouts of boxing and playfignting. Yet when Oona invites Jill back to her house, the sparring spills over into something mush more intense.

Fem
Portraying femininity from ancient mythology and popular cinematic culture, Fern subverts images of empowered women to experimental and lyrical effect, with a butch narration from Peggy Shaw of 'Split Britches'.

Wicked Desire
The Crabb family in Texas are thrown a curve-ball when they discover that daughter Jessica is moonlighting under a secret identity at school. Through the eyes of younger sister Bee. we witness the attempts of the family to make Jessies 'normal'.

Congratulations Daisy Graham
Daisy Graham is having a hard day. Everyone in town insists she prepare for the big ceremony tomorrow. But Daisy has more important things to think about-Like the box of bullet sie needs to track down.

Late
Maggie has missed a date with a girl she really liked and will not return her best friend's phone calls. By looking around her apartment and listening to her phone messages, we learn why.

Happy Birthday
A hilarious role-reversal tale of two couples, two birthdays and a sex toy! Abigail wants a dildo. Hannah wants a baby. Jack and Madeleine are happy with things just the way they are.

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It is May 1968 and the youth of France are in revolt.

Catherine, Yves and Herve are in the throes of a passionate three-way relationship, but when student uprising turn Paris into a revolutionary warzone, they flee to the countryside and set up a commune free from morals, taboos and sexual boundaries. However, the years of free love are short-lived, as their ambitions and pursuit of personal fulfillment leads to choices that will tear them apart. When Catherine's generation gives birth to another, equally revolutionary wave of excitable young adults it becomes apparent that they embody a very different world. Between the end of Communism and the beginning of gay liberation, cracks being to appear in the militant heritage that moulded the generation before them. Through their differences, relationships are severed, cultivated and reconciled against the backdrop of series of political and historical events that changed the world forever.