Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2014
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- DirectorNils TavernierStarsJacques GamblinAlexandra LamyFabien HéraudJulien dreams of adventure. But when you live in a wheelchair, such dreams are difficult to fulfill. To do so, Julien challenges his father to compete with him in the "Ironman" triathlon in Nice. A whole family comes together and reconnects in an attempt to see this incredible exploit through.
- DirectorSébastien BetbederStarsVincent MacaigneMaud WylerBastien BouillonArman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in park. When he literally bumps into Amélie.
- DirectorMarion VernouxStarsFanny ArdantLaurent LafittePatrick ChesnaisCaroline has retired and realizes that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood's senior club - Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge.
- DirectorMarc FitoussiStarsIsabelle HuppertJean-Pierre DarroussinMichael NyqvistBrigitte and Xavier let routine and weariness set in after their children leave their cattle farm. When Brigitte is wooed by a young man, she takes a trip to Paris to see him, but things do not go according to plan.
- DirectorPhilippe KotlarskiAnne WeilStarsSokoJérémie LippmannVladimir FriedmanIn 1979, Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on tour in Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. They are cousins and pretend engaged. The day as tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening, they part company and the group meet clandestinely refuseniks, Jews harassed by the Soviet regime for trying to leave the country. They discover an unknown world, brutal and absurd. Jerome's real motivation for this trip is Carole, but Carole is truly driven by the commitment and willingness to take risks.
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsTahar RahimLéa SeydouxOlivier GourmetGary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
- DirectorDavid MoreauStarsVirginie EfiraPierre NineyCharles BerlingAlice works for "Rebelle" magazine, where she needs to let her hair down to get a promotion. When Balthazar returns a lost USB to Alice, the appearance of dating someone half her age helps her. Does it get real?
- DirectorJérôme BonnellStarsEmmanuelle DevosGabriel ByrneGilles PrivatA French actress meets a foreigner who awakens something deep within her.
- DirectorRégis RoinsardStarsRomain DurisFéodor AtkineDéborah François1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsEmmanuelle SeignerMathieu AmalricAn actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsJuliette BinocheJessica ErreroRobert LeroyWinter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
- DirectorIsabelle CzajkaStarsEmmanuelle DevosJulie FerrierNatacha RégnierJuliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night. Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
- DirectorChristian DuguayStarsGuillaume CanetMarina HandsDaniel AuteuilA horse with amazing courage and a big heart.
- DirectorFabien ConstantStarsCarine RoitfeldDonatella VersaceTom FordA documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld as she moves to New York to launch her own magazine.
- DirectorGuillaume GallienneStarsGuillaume GallienneAndré MarconFrançoise FabianA young man named Guillaume finds out that own personality is not such a simple thing.
- DirectorArnaud des PallièresStarsMads MikkelsenMélusine MayanceDelphine ChuillotIn the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
- DirectorKatell QuillévéréStarsSara ForestierFrançois DamiensAdèle HaenelThe story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
- DirectorMartin ProvostStarsEmmanuelle DevosSandrine KiberlainOlivier GourmetViolette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.
- DirectorPhilippe GodeauStarsFrançois CluzetBouli LannersCorinne MasieroIn November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
- DirectorNicolas VanierStarsFélix BossuetTchéky KaryoMargaux ChatelierA six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.
- DirectorEric RochantStarsJean DujardinCécile de FranceTim RothAn FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
- DirectorDavid PerraultStarsDenis MénochetJean-Pierre MartinsConstance DolléFreshly returned home from a stint in the French Foreign Legion, Victor finds work as a reluctantly villainous masked wrestler.
- DirectorLaurent TuelStarsClovis CornillacBouli LannersAry AbittanFrançois Nouel loves the famous "Tour de France". He decides to take part in the competition.
- DirectorChristophe OffensteinStarsFrançois CluzetSamy SeghirVirginie EfiraIt tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendée Globe (a round-the-world non-stop single-handed yacht race). After several days of racing, Yann, who is in the lead, has to stop to repair a damaged rudder. This will disrupt his round-the-world journey...
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFanny ArdantJean-Louis TrintignantJean-Pierre KalfonAfter he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri SerreDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
- DirectorPhilippe Le GuayStarsFabrice LuchiniLambert WilsonMaya SansaTwo actors. One play. Can the differences between the two egocentric men be put aside for the sake of friendship and theatre?
- DirectorDavid CharhonStarsOmar SyLaurent LafitteSabrina OuazaniTwo mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsThierry LhermitteRaphaël PersonnazNiels ArestrupA young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.
- DirectorAgnès JaouiStarsAgathe BonitzerAgnès JaouiArthur DupontLaura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others? Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father's funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro. And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don't worry, in the end, they'll all live happily ever after.
- DirectorJean-Marc RudnickiStarsMarilou BerryNathalie BayeAndré DussollierIn a desperate attempt to reconnect with her estranged son who is a passionate WWE fan, Rose grabs his attention by joining a rigorous training program to learn to wrestle like a legitimate WWE Diva. She convinces her bored fellow cashiers at the local supermarket to join her challenging new adventure and together they become the "Queens of the Ring".
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiLouis GarrelFilippo TimiA family is forced to sell their Italian home.
- DirectorSylvain ChometStarsGuillaume GouixAnne Le NyBernadette LafontPaul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.
- DirectorNick QuinnStarsPierre ArditiJean-Pierre MarielleJulie FerrierGaspard, famous television presenter, is starting the decline of his career. Along with dealing with his aging, must lodge Hubert, his elderly and rebellious father. Hubert hates all attendants hired for him until Zana enters their lives.
- DirectorNicole GarciaStarsPierre RochefortLouise BourgoinDominique SandaBaptiste is a solitary type. A teacher in southern France, he never stays more than three weeks in the same job. One Friday, he finds himself in charge of Mathias, one of his pupils, who hasn't been picked up after school. Mathias takes the boy to his mother, Sandra. She's a beautiful woman who has led a bit of a wild life and who now works on a beach near Montpellier. Within a day, the trio have formed a bond, like the beginnings of a family for these three people who don't have one. But the magic doesn't last. Sandra owes money and if she doesn't pay up something dire could happen. She must hit the road, flee once again. To help Sandra, Baptiste must take a look back at the origins of his own life, at the most painful and secret parts of himself.
- DirectorMohamed HamidiStarsTewfik JallabJamel DebbouzeFatsah BouyahmedFarid is studying to become a lawyer in France when a family emergency forces him to travel to his father's native Algeria for the first time of his life.
- DirectorNicolas MercierStarsPio MarmaïJérémie ElkaïmEddy MitchellCaught between an overbearing, manic-depressive brother and a father suffering from a neurodegenerative disease that is as funny as it is worrying, Romain no longer accepts to perform the role he has always played: the guy who does what's expected of him without complaining. Now approaching thirty, it is high time that he finally deals with his crazy father, his cynical brother, and his own tendencies to repress his emotions and his feelings, in order to fully assume his normality.
- DirectorStéphan ArchinardFrançois Prévôt-LeygonieStarsGérard LanvinJean-Hugues AngladeWladimir YordanoffAn old friendship between three men is shaken when one starts dating the 20-year-old daughter of another.
- DirectorAlexandre CharlotFranck MagnierStarsFranck DuboscMarina FoïsCharles CrombezThe daily adventures of a boy named Boule and his spaniel Bill.
- DirectorMichel OcelotStarsRomann BerruxAwa Sene SarrSabine PakoraOnce again, Kirikou's noble Grandfather tell us more of his grandson's untold adventures.