| 2020 – 99′ – Drama  –
Written and directed by Yanina Benguigui.
Starring Isabelle Adjani, Rachida Brakni, Maïwenn, Hafsia Herzi.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release|

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For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria.
Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatizing events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.

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| 2021 – 101′ – Drama  –
Written and directed by Olivier Peyron.
Starring Karine Viard, Stéphane Bak, Yuri Narita.
In French with English subtitles.
North American Premiere Cinemania Film Festival 2021
A Distrib Films US release|

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March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster.
Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its scope. Among them, Alexandra, a French executive newly arrived from Hong Kong to work in a bank, has to face this nuclear crisis. Torn apart between following the company’s instructions and going back to her husband and children who are still in Hong Kong, she will find herself defending honor and given word, despite the pervading terror and chaos.

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| 2016 – 120′ – Drama  –
Written by Emmanuelle Bercot.
Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, Marcia Romano.
Starring Sara Forestier, Rod Paradot, Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival. Winner 2 Cesar Awards: Best Promising Actor (Rod Paradot), Best Supporting Actor (Benoît Magimel)
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Abandoned by his mother (Sara Forestier) at the age of 6, Malony (Rod Paradot) is constantly in and out of juvenile court. An adoptive family grows around this young delinquent: Florence (Catherine Deneuve), a children’s magistrate nearing retirement, and Yann (Benoît Magimel), a caseworker and himself the survivor of a very difficult childhood. Together they follow the boy’s journey and try unfailingly to save him. Then Malony is sent to a stricter educational center, where he meets Tess (Diane Rouxel), a very special young girl who will show him that there are reasons for hope.

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| 2013 – 114′ – Drama / Thriller –
Written by Costa Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Karim Boukercha.
Directed by Costa Gavras.
Starring Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Régnier, Céline Sallette.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

From legendary Academy Award®-winning writer/director Costa-Gavras (Missing, Z) comes Capital, a fast-paced, darkly comic, suspenseful drama set in the high stakes world of global finance.When the CEO of France’s Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh, Midnight in Paris) is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil’s brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne, Vikings, In Treatment), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda for destruction. Capital is a pointed commentary on how the Darwinian world of contemporary capitalism plays itself out across the global financial stage. Based on the book Le Capital by Stéphane Osmont, the film is directed by Costa-Gavras and written by Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg and Karim Boukercha. The film also stars Natacha Regnier and Celine Sallette.

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| 2015 – 116′ – Drama –
Written by André Téchiné, Cédric Anger, Jean-Charles Leroux.
Directed by André Téchiné.
Starring Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve, Adèle Haenel, Jean Corso, Judith Chemla.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival 2015, Cannes International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Acclaimed director André Téchiné brings a gripping real-life thriller to the screen. 1976. When her marriage falls apart, Agnes Le Roux (Adèle Haenel) moves back to the South of France from Africa to live with her mother, Renee (Catherine Deneuve), owner of the Palais de La Mediterranee casino in Nice. There, Agnes falls in love with Maurice Agnelet (Guillaume Canet), a lawyer and Renee’s business advisor, who is ten years her senior. Maurice continues to have relationships with other women. Agnes is madly in love with him. As a shareholder in the Palais de la Mediterannee casino, Agnes decides to sell what should have been her inheritance to go it alone. A fixed card game threatens the casino’s financial stability. Someone is trying to intimidate her mother. Behind the scenes hangs the shadow of the mafia and Fratoni, the owner of a rival casino, who wants to take over the Palais de la Mediterranee. Agnelet, who has fallen from grace with Renee, introduces Agnes to Fratoni. Fratoni offers her 3 million francs to vote against her mother in the shareholder’s meeting. Agnes accepts the offer. Renee loses control of the casino. Agnes finds it hard to cope with her betrayal. Maurice also distances himself from her. In November 1977, after a failed suicide attempt, Agnes disappears. Her body is never found. Thirty years on, Maurice Agnelet remains the prime suspect in a murder case with no body and no proof of his guilt. Convinced of his involvement, Renee is prepared to fight to the bitter end to see him put behind bars…

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| 2015 – 97′ – A French Mauritanian co-production – Drama –
Written by Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall.
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
Starring Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino, Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York International Film Festival. Academy Awards Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the inhabitants suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. Women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family seem to be spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

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| 2014 – 108′ – Drama –
Written by Pierre Salvadori.
Directed by Pierre Salvadori, David Léotard.
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Gustave Kervern, Féodor Atkine, Pio Marmai, Michèle Moretti.
Official Selection COLCOA French Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Antoine is a musician. Now into his forties, he abruptly decides to give up his career. After several days of doing nothing, he gets a job as a concierge. Mathilde lives in the old building in the east of Paris where Antoine finds work. This dynamic and generous retiree spends her time involved in charity work and overseeing the building’s management.
One evening, she discovers a worrying crack in the wall of her lounge. Little by little her anxiety increases and turns into panic. She begins to wonder whether the building is going to collapse. Antoine slowly becomes friends with this woman who he fears will sink into madness. Between slip ups and worries, the pair form an awkward duo, both supportive and a little peculiar, which will perhaps help them get through this bad patch.

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| 2015 – 106′ – Drama –
Written by Benoît Jacquot, Julien Boivent.
Directed by Benoît Jacquot.
Starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

In a French provincial town, Marc encounters Sylvie one night, when he misses his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, immediately at ease, on the same wavelength, speaking about everything except themselves. When Marc gets the first train to Paris the following day, he asks Sylvie to come and meet him there a few days later. They know nothing about each other. Sylvie turns up for their rendezvous, but Marc unfortunately doesn’t make it. He tries to find Sylvie, and in the process, encounters another woman, Sophie, unaware that she is Sylvie’s sister.

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| 2016 – 108′ – Drama, Action, Thriller –
Written by Eric Barbier, Trần-Minh Nam, Marie Eynar.
Directed by Eric Barbier.
Starring Yvan Attal, Bérénice Bejo, Jean-François Stévenin, Antoine Basler, Jacques Spiesser, Annie Cordy.
International Premiere COLCOA French Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Simon Carrerra has just been released from prison and is now on parole. His old pal Albert entices him to renew his career in crime with a big- time heist of a celebrated diamond in Antwerp. This involves a mafia- style boss and a complicated robbery in a luxury hotel in Antwerp during the auction of the diamond. The “Florentine” is an historic jewel owned by Marie Neuville and her daughter Julia, two diamond experts. Marie Neuville’s sudden death puts Julia in charge of the sale. Because she’s young and inexperienced, she’ll encounter some flack. But, she’s determined. In Antwerp, Simon, posing as a friend of her mother’s and an expert in security, meets Julia. Slowly but surely, the two become closer… perhaps too close… He manages to get a double to the key, essential for the robbery. Simon has no choice but to betray Julia. The heist is a success. However, Scylla unexpectedly enacts a hidden part of his plan. He gets rid of his accomplices and makes it look like the diamond has disappeared in the ocean during what seems to be vengeance murder. But Simon and Albert escape the massacre in extremis. Discovering that Julia is being accused of complicity and that the death of her mother was linked to Scylla’s gang, Simon decides to take action: He’ll help Julia get the diamond back and avenge her mother’s death…

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| 2016 – 108′ – Drama –
Written by Benoît Jacquot, Hélène Zimmer.
Directed by Benoît Jacquot.
Starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Lacoste.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release.|

Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel’s version to Octave Mirbeau’s original 1900 novel, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stiflement, Célestine’s humiliating submission to Madame’s onerous terms of employment, Joseph’s virulent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freud ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to look past the characters’ outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that lie behind.

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