N°403 - Film & Picture meeting request & highlights - Berlin EFM 2019


Dear friends,

I am writing to set up a meeting with you during the European Film Market of Berlin and to present our new titles. 

Film & Picture will be there from Monday afternoon to Wednesday morning. Please suggest the meeting time that suits you best among my availabilities :

Monday 11th Feb. : anytime starting from 2:30 pm

Tuesday 12th Feb. : anytime except 11:00 am

Wednesday 13th Feb. : anytime starting until 11:30 am

We can meet at the Series Lounge.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon !

Warm regards.

Marie-Laure Hébrard

+33 6 31 18 64 10

Boys (JONAS) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe CHARRIER

Cast : Félix MARITAUD
(BPM - Beats Per Minute)
Ilian BERGALA
Marie DENARNAUD
Aure ATIKA

Best TV Movie, Best Director and Best Original Soundtrack at La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2018 / Selected by the FEST (Belgrade International Film Festival) 2019

Two moments of Jonas’s life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1997, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life. His life was turned upside-down when he was 15 and met Nathan, a charismatic friend who was both intriguing and daring. Now an adult, this memory still haunts Jonas and he’s unable to shake free of it. He walks through the town of his past, trying to put his life in order like the blocks in Tetris that he frantically played on his Game Boy as a teen.

1,1 million viewers / 4,9 % market share

Dévoilées (DéVOILéES) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Noémie KOCHER
Jacob BERGER

Cast : Marthe KELLER
Julie GAYET
Lola CRETON
Pierre BANDERET
Bruno TODESCHINI

Best Emerging Actress (Adami Prize) at La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2018

Geneva 2018. On a train, Isabelle spots a young woman entirely clad in Islamic attire. Her heart skips a beat: it’s Anaïs, her granddaughter!

Without saying a word to Anaïs, Isabelle calls Léa, Anaïs’ mother, who lives in Montreal. Léa immediately flies to Switzerland. She wants to understand why her daughter has converted to Islam.

But Isabelle believes that if Anaïs secretly became a Muslim, there must be a reason. A reason Isabelle and Léa need to discover. As Isabelle and Léa realize how fanatic Anaïs has grown, Leéa also finds out that Isabelle, her mother, was involved in a terrible attack on a Swissair flight, in 1970, which killed 47 people flying from Zurich to Tel Aviv. Among the victims, was Léa’s own father!

What if both stories were connected?

The Age of the Stateless (LE TEMPS DES EGARES) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Virginie SAUVEUR

Cast : Claudia TAGBO
Hadja TRAORÉ
Amer ALWAN
Alice BELAÏDI
BIYOUNA

Best TV Movie, Best Scenario & Best Original Score Awards at Luchon Festival 2018 Public Prize at FIPA 2018 Best TV Movie Award at COLCOA Festival 2018

Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously fleeces her clients, selling them fictions she creates to convince the authorities. But a series of encounters will work away at her cynicism...

522 000 viewers / 2,4% market share

My Mum, Cancer and Me (MA MèRE, LE CRABE ET MOI) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Yann SAMUELL

Cast : Émilie DEQUENNE
Lorette NYSSEN
Jérôme ROBART
Myveck PACKA
Melchior LEBEAU

Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2018 / Selected by Luchon Festival 2019

14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer.

Her careless teenager's life, a round of school and squabbling with her mother, is suddenly weighed down by a battle she is determined to win, overcoming the disease and all its ordeals: the treatment, the physical debilitation, the hair loss, the pity...

With humour, insolence and vitality, mother and daughter become closer. To help Cathy get better, Tania will do anything, even help out the PE teacher, whom she hates but who has taken a shine to her mother. But Cathy is feeling mutilated. Can she accept to love and be loved again? And how will Tania, now aware of her own femininity, deal with the clumsy amorous advances of a male classmate?

Without A Trace (VIVRE SANS EUX) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Jacques MAILLOT

Cast : Bernard LE COQ
Esther GARREL (Call Me By Your Name)
Grégory MONTEL
Cécile FISERA

Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2018

Based on a true story.

Martin is 60. Adèle is 25. He is unhealthy, grumpy and shy. She is cheeky, brazen and provocative. He is looking for his son, she is looking for her father. The two missing persons were living together as a couple, and when Martin and Adèle call at their old address, the new occupant tells them they have moved abroad.   

The pair investigate this troubling disappearance, which has been ignored by the police, and find out, at the risk of their own lives, that their relatives were in fact murdered. Together, they unravel the complicated relationship between Gabriel and Aurélien, get their own lives back on track and learn to live without them.   

From Cradle to Grave (UNE MèRE SOUS INFLUENCE) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Adeline DARRAUX

Cast : Caroline ANGLADE
Julie DE BONA
Arnaud BINARD
Sophie BROUSTAL
André MARCON

Juliette is attending the baptism of Lucas, the son of her best friend Claire. But the young mother, weakened by her childbirth, shows disturbing signs of depression.

The day after the ceremony, Juliette receives a desperate phone call from Claire: Jérôme, her husband, and their baby have been murdered... and she has just confessed to the crime. Has she gone crazy? Juliette drops everything to go to her friend, whom she can’t believe has become a criminal...

Children of the Lie (UN MENSONGE OUBLIE) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Eric DURET

Cast : Sara MARTINS
Théo FRILET
Antoine DULERY
Florence PERNEL
Philippe LAUDENBACH

A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered.

He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of the region. Won over by Felix’s resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes the course of the investigation, stirring up the past and unveiling the forgotten “Children of the Creuse” affair.

Imposture (IMPOSTURE) - 100'

DIRECTOR(S) : Julien DESPAUX

Cast : Laura SMET
Alexia BARLIER
Pierre PERRIER
Bastien BOUILLON
Jacques SPIESSIER

Alice Minville is a nurse in Canada. She is travelling in the far north when her mother, Suzanne, dies in a car accident. When Alice learns of her death four days later, her corpse has already been sent to France, on the instructions of Suzanne's husband. But Suzanne’s husband, Alice's father, died 22 years earlier in a fire!

Alice hurries back to France to find out who this man is who’s stolen her father's identity. Accompied by her boyfriend, she soon finds out that her father is actually still alive, and that another woman, Lili, is passing herself off as his daughter.

Before she can get to the bottom of why her mother lied to her and who this "Lili" is, Alice is accused of identity theft. A strange trap is closing around her and she will have to uncover her hidden past despite multiple dangers.

3,3 million viewers / 11,9% market share

The Unexpected Child (L'ENFANT QUE JE N'ATTENDAIS PAS) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Bruno GARCIA

Cast : Alix POISSON
Bruno SOLO
Macha MÉRIL

Selected by Luchon Festival 2019

Married and with a 7-year-old daughter, Johanna is happy, until the night she unexpectedly gives birth. In shock, she abandons the child. The baby is later found alive but she is now accused of attempted infanticide. Johanna doesn't understand, adamant that she hadn’t been pregnant.

In disgrace, she’s forced to explain her actions in court as well as to her family and friends. She also needs to forge a maternal bond with the unexpected baby. With the help of her lawyer and a charity, she decides to fight back on behalf of all the women who have experienced this phenomenon: pregnancy denial.

They Swapped My Baby (ILS ONT éCHANGé MON ENFANT) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Agnès OBADIA

Cast : Julie de BONA
Agustin GALIANA
Sonia ROLLAND
Stéphan GUÉRIN-TILLIÉ
Charline BALU EMANE

Based on a true story.


Single mother Sophie Serrano finds out that her eldest daughter, Manon, was swapped with another at the hospital, nine years ago.

While she struggles to protect Manon from this shattering news, she soon finds her biological child, Mathilde. Now she faces a dilemma. Should she fight to keep Mathilde or totally devote herself to Manon, who has been deeply trouble by the revelation?

« They Swapped My Baby » is a tragedy but also a beautiful love story between Sophie and Manon, who discover that their relationship goes beyond the ties of blood.

5,16 million viewers / 21,3% market share

The Brave Judge (LA RéVOLTE DES INNOCENTS) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Philippe NIANG

Cast : Théo FRILET
Émilie de PRESSAC
Bruno DEBRANDT
Julie FERRIER

France, 1911. Louise Perreau is struggling financially to raise her 10-year-old son Gaston. The prospect of a new job in Paris brings her the hope of a better life. She has to enrol her son at Les Vermiraux, where children are supposed to get a good education.

But the institution is in fact a horrible place where the young boarders are abused and exploited. A revolt breaks out, staff are violently attacked and the site is wrecked. A young judge starts a legal action against the ringleaders, but also against the two local bigwigs in charge of the institution.

2,6 million viewers / 11,2% market share

A Labour of Love (10 JOURS POUR S'AIMER) - 90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe DOUCHAND

Cast : Guillaume CRAMOISAN
Claire BOROTRA
Evelyne DANDRY

Charles, a 35 years-old business executive, is sentenced to 10 days of community service : he has to help a regional non-profit organization, settled right in the middle of nowhere, to rebuild an abandonned bakery.

What requires real handyman skills ! It was created by Françoise, who works with her daughter Alice (35, divorced, vineyard farmer) and her grand-daughter Charlotte (13). Charles falls deeply in love with Alice. But how can his love become reality taking into account the fact that he is a pure urban guy, and an allergic to wine one ! While he’s about to make a decision, he is being offered the job of his dreams in Hong-Kong...

Aurore (AURORE) - 3x52'

DIRECTOR(S) : Laetitia MASSON

Cast : Elodie BOUCHEZ
Lolita CHAMMAH
Aurore CLÉMENT
Hélène FILLIÈRES
Anna MOUGLALIS
Ambre HASAJ
Mélody GUALTEROS
Ernest CEREIJO

Selected for the Top Ten TV section at the Film Festival Cologne 2017 Selected by Séries Mania 2017 Selected by Französische Filmwoche Berlin 2017 Selected by Banff World Media Festival 2018 Best Director Prize 2018 awarded by the ACS (French Association of Series Critics)

Two child at a crime scene. One is guilty; the other, a witness. 20 years later, one is trying to forget, while the second one will never be able to. When their paths cross again, it all resurfaces. Who will be the victim this time round? Who will be the culprit? Can one ever escape the past?

I Love You 2 (J'AI 2 AMOURS) - 3x52'

DIRECTOR(S) : Clément MICHEL


Cast : François VINCENTELLI
Julia FAURE
Olivier BARTHÉLÉMY


Selected by La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2017, CoLCoA French Film Festival 2018 & Luchon Festival 2018

At the age of 35, Hector happens to meet his childhood love Louise, and falls in love with her all over again. But there's a big problem. He's gay and has been in a loving relationship with a man for several years. His life is turned upside down. He soon realises that he doesn't want to have to choose between his two loves, Louise and Jérémie. How long can he keep the secret of his double life, the cause of both suffering and joy?

The Coroner (ALEXANDRA EHLE) - 9x90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Nicolas GUICHETEAU

Cast : Julie DEPARDIEU
Bernard YERLÈS
Xavier GUELFI
Sara MARTINS
Andréa FERRÉOL

Alexandra Ehle is a coroner at the Bordeaux forensic institute. Fanciful and free- thinking, she devotes herself completely to what she considers her mission: restoring to the dead their dignity and human appearence, and giving them justice. So she conducts her own investigations, despite the warnings of police commander Antoine Doisneau. Instead of collaborating with him, she takes a cheeky pleasure in staying one step ahead.
During this latest inquiry, body parts have been found in different locations in the region. From the first observations, Alexandra is convinced that all the parts belong to one and the same victim. But the puzzle still needs to be solved to discover who she was and what led her to this tragic end.

4,2 million viewers / 17,7% market share

Murder in... (MEURTRE à...) - 27x90'

DIRECTOR(S) : Claude-Michel ROME
Stéphane KAPPES
Bruno GARCIA
Stanislas GRAZIANI
Edwin BAILY


Cast : Florence PERNEL
Vincent WINTERHALTER
Catherine JACOB
Laëtitia MILOT
Helena NOGUERRA
Stéphane FREISS
Sonia ROLLAND
Jerôme ROBART
Flore BONAVENTURA
Julie DE BONA

A region, a legend, a murder.
In each episode, the murder is linked to a well-known legend related to a famous location in France.
(Murder in Lozère, Aveyron, Aigues Mortes, Martigues, Avignon, Collioure, Batz, The Somme, The Cevennes, Aix Island, Sarlat, Bastia, Tours, Maussane, Lille, Lorraine, …)