Dear Friends, 

I am writing to set up a meeting with you during MIA 2019 in Roma and to present our new titles hereunder (feel free to request screening links).  

Film & Picture will be attending the market from Thursday Oct 17^th to Saturday Oct 19^th morning.

Please suggest the time that suits you best.

Warm regards,

Marie-Laure Hébrard 

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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, …)

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

DIRECTOR(S) : Christian FAURE

Cast : Zabou BREITMAN
Yvon BACK
Maxence DANET-FAUVEL
Felix LEFEBVRE
Lula COTTON-FRAPIER

Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.

She becomes conscious of the threat this passion for a dangerous and manipulative young man represents for her family and her marriage. She will soon be ready to take all risks to protect her house, her husband and her son from the threat she introduced in their lives.

DIRECTOR(S) : Vincent LANNOO

Cast : Olivia RUIZ
Ibrahim KOMA
Hubert DELATTRE
Grégoire LEPRINCE-RINGUET
Vincent AGUESSE

Justine, 40, is struggling to reconcile her family life and her job as a police officer in the serious-crimes squad. Then she’s accused of stealing money during a raid that goes wrong.

Already having to deal with violence and misery every day in her job, now she’s being investigated by internal affairs, which is putting more pressure on her. Justine is facing a downward spiral, which is threatening her family and forcing her to make a choice: is it really possible to be a police officer, mother and wife, all at the same time?

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. Accompanied 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

DIRECTOR(S) : Bruno GARCIA

Cast : Alix POISSON
Bruno SOLO
Macha MÉRIL

Best Actress Award at 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.

4,3 million viewers / 18,9% market share

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 troubled 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

DIRECTOR(S) : Nader T. HOMAYOUN

Cast : Alice TAGLIONI
Hélène VINCENT
Bernard VERLEY
Nasser MEMARZIA
Stanley WEBER

To celebrate Octave and Alix's golden wedding anniversary, friends and family are all invited to their large mansion for the weekend.

But Alix has Alzheimer's and doesn’t even remember that she’s married. Worse, she shows up with her lover Farhad, a handsome Iranian who has the same condition.

They canoodle like teenagers before the entire offended family. The shunned husband Octave decides to fight to get his wife back.

DIRECTOR(S) : Christophe CHARRIER

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

La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival 2018 : Best TV movie, Best Director, Best Music 14th Seoul International Drama Awards 2019 : Best Director Selected by Chéries-Chéris LGBT Film Festival Paris 2019 Selected by Everybody’s Perfect Geneva International Queer Film Festival 2018 Selected by the FEST (Belgrade International Film Festival) 2019 Selected by Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam Film Festival 2019 Selected by Sydney Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019 Selected by Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2019 Selected by Torino Lovers Film Festival 2019 Selected by Athens Outview Film Festival 2019 Selected by Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2019 Selected by the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival Selected by Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival Selected by the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival 2019 – Prague Pride Screening Selected by Banff World Media 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

DIRECTOR(S) : Emmanuel BOURDIEU

Cast : Nicolas DUVAUCHELLE
Marina PALII
Julia FAURE
Albert CARPENTIER
Dominique REYMOND

Roxana is a young Romanian nanny looking after 8-year-old Georges, the son of David and Elizabeth.
David is a financier at the European Bank of Strasbourg. Working on a project for a motorway across Romania, David asks Roxana for some help.

This job offer, far superior to anything she expected, sounds like a dream to her. But she doesn’t suspect the implacable machine that David has set in motion or the nightmare it will become.

DIRECTOR(S) : Renaud BERTRAND

Cast : Luna CARPIAUX
Marilyn LIMA
Jules HOUPLAIN
Mahia ZROUKI
Armelle DEUTSCH

In her new school, 15-year-old Chloé soon becomes a close friend of charismatic free spirit Luna. She also falls in love with Luna’s ex-boyfriend Félix, a bad boy with a poisonous charm who’s also a porn addict.

A love triangle is created, with Luna at the centre pulling the strings. Educated by her new friend, Chloé explores her sexuality with Félix… at her own peril.

DIRECTOR(S) : Édouard DELUC

Cast : Philippe REBBOT
Pablo PAULY
Elodie BOUCHEZ
Laure CALAMY
Jean-Luc BIDEAU

Jean is the captain of a tourist boat on the Seine, a job that’s incompatible with his drunkenness. Divorced and unable to make ends meet, when he’s suspended from his job he fears he might lose custody of his children. 

Then he meets Victor, a young musician living from day to day, who soon becomes his improbable companion in misfortune.

DIRECTOR(S) : Hélène ANGEL

Cast : Bernard LE COQ
Christiane MILLET
Talid ARISS
Maël ROUIN BERRANDOU
Alexia CHARDARD (Mektoub My Love)

Ali, 15, and Selim, 11, are spending their summer holidays in Dordogne with their grandparents, André and Françoise.

It’s a unique and unrepeatable moment for the different generations. For Ali, it’s time to leave childhood behind and experience his first summer love. For Françoise, now reaching the end of her life, this summer will be the last moments of happiness shared with her loved ones: a last dance.

DIRECTOR(S) : Xavier DURRINGER

Cast : Richard ANCONINA
Isabelle RENAULD
Andrea FERREOL
Jean-Claude DAUPHIN
Judith MAGRE

Benoît Delage is a university professor loved by everyone. But his whole life is thrown off course when his son starts dabbling in crime, and it’s revealed that Benoît himself went to prison years ago for killing a policeman.

His excellent reputation is now on the line, threatened with the destructive power of rumour.

DIRECTOR(S) : 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?

1,4 million viewers / 6,5% market share

DIRECTOR(S) : Jules THÉNIER
Maxime POTHERAT

Cast : Mehdi MESKAR
Eric PUCHEU
Denis D’ARCANGELO
Nanou HARRY
Claudine CHARREYRE
Franck FARGIER


Best Web Series at La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2017 Best LGBT Series at UK Web Fest 2017 Best Web Series, Scenario and Actor for Mehdi Meskar at Festival Francophone de la Websérie 2017 Best Drama at Hollyweb Festival 2018 Best Series at Rome Web Awards 2018 Best Series at Stareable Web Fest 2018 Selected by the Rio WebFest 2017 as the Best Diversity Series and Best Actor for Mehdi Meskar Selected by the Seriencamp Festival 2017 Selected by the Roma Web Fest 2017 Selected by Luchon Festival 2019 Selected by the Swiss Web Festival 2017 Selected by the DubWebFest 2017 Selected by the Soflowebfest 2017 Selected by the Toulouse French Speaking Web Series Festival 2017 Public Prize at Face à Face LGBT Film Festival of Saint-Etienne 2018 (season 2)

Hicham runs away from his home and comes to Lyon, looking for Thibaut, a young man who tried to kiss him a few years before.

Thibaut is an activist at the local LGBT Center. Hicham discovers his world, apprehensive but enthusiast. However, as Hicham begins a journey to find his own identity, he comes to understand that Thibaut himself isn't exactly who he appears…

DIRECTOR(S) : OCÉAN

Cast : OCÉAN

Selected by San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival 2019

Océane Rose Marie is a popular figure in the LGBT community, an actress and director renowned for her cynical humour. Up to 30,000 people saw her one-woman show over a 4-year period.

Now she has decided to become Océan, a man.

For 10 episodes she will document her transgender transition, exploring new forms of sexual identity little known to the general public.

DIRECTOR(S) : ESTEBAN

Cast : ESTEBAN
Constance ROUSSEAU
Julie BUDET (aka YELLE)
Bambina LIBERATORE
Youcef HADJI

In the near future, scientists have invented a test to measure the love you feel. This throws society into upheaval: couples are torn apart, the divorce rate increases and a new profession is created, that of anti-love adviser, whose job it is to warn the population about this dangerous emotion.

Thirty-someting Hector, haggard and single, is one of these anti-love counsellors. Convinced that love is a poison which paralyses society, he has fought romanticism his whole life. Until, against his will, he has to form a couple with Diane, a fierce pro-love activist.

DIRECTOR(S) : Florent CASSIANI-INGONI

Throughout the eyes of very singular characters, this documentary takes you on a wonderful journey in the heart of a legendary civilization that owns the world longevity record in good health.

The archipelago of Okinawa, located in the Pacific Ocean at the very south of Japan sees its population with almost no diseases.

What are the secrets of Okinawa’s inhabitants ? How can we live longer, happy and in good health ?

DIRECTOR(S) : Jean-Marc DESCAMPS


Cast : Thomas RUYANT

Thomas Ruyant, the French skipper of the boat Souffle du Nord, sails away from the starting line of the Vendée Globe race, an around the world solo yacht race. He is cheered on by a crowd of supporters waving paper hummingbirds, like the symbol on the yacht’s sail. It is the logo of Frederique Bedos’ NGO, Le Projet Imagine, which has created a web series to promote the essential work carried out by anonymous heroes of everyday life, like her parents who have adopted over twenty children.

The film tells the story of the race, a modern day odyssey that has no stopovers in ports or support for the skipper. As numerous difficulties occur the solo sailor must be the hero of his race and the giant hummingbird on his sail becomes his guide.

The Hummingbird Race is a metaphor for the obstacles we must overcome to realise our dreams. Frederique’s dream is to inspire each of us to help our community. Thomas’ dream is to complete the round the world race in the name of life’s anonymous heroes and to not disappoint the hundreds of people who support the Souffle du Nord and who are enthusiastically following the adventure.

DIRECTOR(S) : Philippe CARRESE

Some places remain engraved in the collective memory as the scenes of the most notorious crimes of the 20^th century.

In France, no one has forgotten the Auriol massacre, the Dominici case, the Nice heist or Ranucci’s controversial death sentence. Decades later, what has happened to these places which trigger all these memories? In the year 2017, a photographer is working on a book about the major crimes of the previous century. Armed with his camera and his curiosity, this 21^st century witness sets out to discover what has become of these crime scenes.

DIRECTOR(S) : Francesco LAZZOTI
Gérard GOLDMAN
Paul BEGIN
David SCHOUMANN

Cast : Catherine DENEUVE
Isabelle HUPPERT
Carole BOUQUET
Mathilda MAY
Angela MOLINA

3 of the greatest European directors seen through the eyes of their favourite actresses.

What matters here is less the critical or analytical angle of the director’s films or life than a sensitive and intimate approach, mixed with admiration, emotions, doubts and shared moments. During each episode, we follow “those two” with an insider’s perspective, letting each actress tell the story of “her” director, in her own way.

With the help of photo archives, movie excerpts, interviews and previously unheard anecdotes, each episode is the portrait of a master of cinema, told by one of his iconic actresses. Through the testimonies of their entourage and heirs, this series makes these filmmakers eternally contemporary.

Episodes : Claude CHABROL, Luis BUNUEL, Robert ENRICO