Every day in our country, terrorist movements and intelligence services give themselves over to a war without mercy in the name of adamant ideologies. And yet, terrorists and secret service agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to a life in the shadows, these strategists of manipulation adhere to the same methods. Alex and Brad are two of these people.
One is the head of the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), France’s intelligence service, while the other runs a terrorist network. They confront each other by using the most formidable weapons available: human beings.

Secrets of State tells of their secret war through the destinies of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a misfit delinquent who believes he’s found salvation in terrorism. Trained and indoctrinated for missions beyond their capabilities, both get caught in a spiral from which it seems there is no escape. Will they be sacrificed in the name of the “noble” causes?

With: Gérard Lanvin, Vahina Giocante, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Simon Abkarian, Rachida Brakni, Aurélien Wiik, Mehdi Nebbou, Nicolas Marie, Katia Lewkowicz, Catherine Hiegel, Saïd Amadis, Stéphanie Berthomet

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Celebrated filmmaker Agnès Varda (CLEO FROM 5 TO 7) turns the camera on herself for this autobiographical documentary. While roaming the beach, the beatific 80-year-old revisits her past–including memories of fellow Left Bank directors Jacques Demy (later her husband), Alain Resnais, and Chris Marker. Incorporating clips from Varda’s work, animation, and photographs, the film plays like a fond scrapbook of a life well lived.

With: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier, Andrée Vilar, Stéphane Vilar, Christophe Vilar, Rosalie Varda, Mathieu Demy.

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The story focuses on Lola aka “Lol” who is dealing with school, love, friendship and family issues. Her mother, played by Sophie Marceau, is having an affair with her ex-husband and is torn between her responsibilities as a mother and her irresponsible behavior as an adult. As for Lol, she breaks up with her boyfriend who told her he had sex with another girl over the summer and starts to fall for his best friend. In a world where I-pods, cell phones & MSN have taken so much importance, communication is often difficult between teens and their overwhelmed parents.

With: Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret, Jérémy Kapone, Marion Chabassol, Lou Lesage, Émile Bertherat, Félix Moati, Louis Sommer, Adèle Choubard, Françoise Fabian, Jocelyn Quivrin.

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A year in the life of a young middle school student in Paris in 1977. Eleven-year-old Stella lives outside Paris in a working-class neighborhood. Her parents run a bar and she attends a prestigious Parisian School, where she meets Gladys, the daughter of two intellectual Argentinean Jewish exiles.Through the songs of that era and the books that Stella discovers at her friend’s house, she slowly enters another dimension – real life.

With: Léora Barbara, Karole Rocher, Benjamin Biolay, Melissa Rodrigues, Laëtitia Guerard, Guillaume Depardieu, Johan Libéreau, Jeannick Gravelines, Thierry Neuvic, Valérie Stroh, Anne Benoît, Christophe Bourseiller.

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For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness.
This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land.

With: Paul Argaud, Germaine Challaye, Marcel Challaye, Nathalie Deleuze, Abel Jeanroy, Daniel Jeanroy, Gilberte Jeanroy.

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Absurdist duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern follow-up 2004’s Aaltra with this sparse black comedy in which the recently-fired female employees at a children’s clothing factory pool their funds to put a hit on their callous boss. Out of work and down on her luck, ex-con Louise (Yolande Moreau) proposes to her jobless sisters that they do something useful by ridding the world of the man who put them all in their current situation. But while security specialist Michel (Bouli Lanners) seems like the perfect candidate to carry out the hit, his ineptitude is so great that he attempts to sub-contract the job to a series of inexperienced – and highly inappropriate – assassins.

With: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yannick Jaulin, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Katerine, Mathieu Kassovitz, Francis Kuntz.

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A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy motorway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe (Isabelle Huppert), Michel (Olivier Gourmet) and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. They continue their daily routine despite the relentless stress of hundreds of noisy speeding cars. But suspicions about the motorway’s unknown long-term dangers cause family tension. Remaining in the disrupted household might not be so easy, but it’s still their home.

With: Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein.

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Antoine and Quentin are two 18-year-old identical twins, living in France with their father. When they learn of the death of their mother, they take to the road, intending to hitchhike to Spain to attend her funeral. On the way, the two brothers get to know one another better and soon discover that they are not so alike as they had thought…

With: Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier, Samir Harrag, Katrin Saß, Fernando Ramallo, Patrick Hauthier.

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Agathe Clery is a real working girl of the twenty-first century. Bright Marketing Director a line of cosmetics special “clear skins”, she is nevertheless much appreciated his colleagues who find her hard, haughty and know racist. The day she announced she is suffering from Addison’s disease, rare disease thatwill make black, Agathe refuses to believe such a curse. Yet one morning, she also found like that black people she hated it until then.

With: Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Dominique Lavanant.

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It is a bad day for the Mousse family. Rebellious and angry, seventeen-year-old Victor dabbles with drugs and petty theft. His sister, Christie, is getting married that afternoon, but her father has gambled away the money for the reception. Sonia, the long-suffering mother, is the glue that holds the family together, but even her patience is running thin. Struggling to get by in the suburbs of Paris, she sticks up for her troubled eldest son, reassures her soon-to-be-married daughter that everything will work out, and manages to wrangle her totally irresponsible husband.

With: Félicité Wouassi, Claude Rich, Elizabeth Oppong.

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