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False Hopes

Fri, 14 Aug 2020

Ace photographer Thomas McKenzie's been seeking the perfect girl his entire life - yet when two women simultaneously capture his interest, he learns he may not have been seeking the kind of love which truly makes us whole.

Mark Twain and Me

Fri, 22 Nov 1991

During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.

Hitchcock Confidential

Mon, 24 Jun 2019

Alfred Hitchcock is known as a giant of movie making, a facetious master of suspense, obsessed with blond heroines in peril, with the reputation of being tyrannical towards his actors. But who knows the real Hitchcock? During his last public appearance, "Hitch" paid tribute to the wife, mother, co-writer, editor and partner of a lifetime that was Alma Reville Hitchcock. The two Hitchcock were inseparable, engineering the unquestionable masterpieces together. Their genuine collaboration never stopped from the day they met until the end of their lives. It's in light of this fusional relationship that this film will revisit and shed fresh light on the legend.

Victor Hugo, un siècle en révolutions

Mon, 01 Jan 2018

The King: Stephen King's America

Mon, 09 Sep 2019

Ghost nation? Violent home? Traumatised country? What does the horror of one of the most famous writers of our time hide? What does his fictional America expose? To what extent does cinema feed itself off his unique vision and expression of fear? In other words: what kind of America is Stephen King telling us about?

SIMON! The Joy of Conducting

Fri, 16 May 2025

“As I child, I always had music in my head. I thought everybody did,” the legendary conductor Sir Simon Rattle recalls. His charming and humorous reflections on the unifying magic of conducting are complemented by interviews with well-known contemporaries and accompanied by thrilling concert footage. His music is a joy to all those who listen to it!