Marie Desplechin

Séraphine

Paris, Montmartre, 1883. Seraphine, 12 years old, leaves a monotoneous life with Jeanne, the grumpy seamstress who raised her. She is obsessed with finding out who her parents were. Flanked with Mistigri, a street child whom she takes under her wing, Séraphine retraces the secret of her origins and finds it in the battles led by the people of Montmartre.

Séraphine

Paris, Montmartre, 1883. Seraphine, 12 years old, leaves a monotoneous life with Jeanne, the grumpy seamstress who raised her. She is obsessed with finding out who her parents were. Flanked with Mistigri, a street child whom she takes under her wing, Séraphine retraces the secret of her origins and finds it in the battles led by the people of Montmartre.

5 Hectares

What causes a man who has everything to jeopardize his comfort, career and relationship? A passion, as burning as it is fresh, for five acres of land in the Limoges region. But land has to be earned, especially when one comes from the city. And so Franck embarks on a quest for his own Holy Grail. He needs a tractor.

The Crossing

In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark on a heroic journey that will take them from childhood to adolescence, in search of refuge, peace and the hope of finding their family.

The Crossing

In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their parents and, facing the path of exile alone, embark on a heroic journey that will take them from childhood to adolescence, in search of refuge, peace and the hope of finding their family.

Miss Impossible

They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for their first show. Everyone seems to know what she should do and how she should act. And it’s not like 13-year-old Aurore has any fundamental problem with changing herself either. Who would want to be like this: unhappy, ugly and emotionally withdrawn? But the others don’t seem all that much happier to her either. She definitely doesn’t ever want to be as old, rundown and lonely as her mother. And so she prefers to stay the way she is, to observe and make her biting comments on whatever comes her way.

Without Me

Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.

Armenia

This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.

Conte de Quartier

Seven characters, who are not connected with each other, live a restless day in the district in renovation of a busting city. Each one pursues a distinct aim and nobody pays attention to the others. A rag doll passes from the hands of one character to the other's. And their ways criss-cross until they finally meet and unite.

Schéhérazade

Having discovered the infidelity of his wife, the sultan falls into mental disorder. Only Scheherazade, with the help of her sister, will calm his destructive madness.

Verte

Aged eleven, Verte is still showing no talent for witchcraft. She just wants to be normal and get married. Her mother, Ursula, is dismayed. It's so important for a witch to pass on the craft to her daughter! So one day a week, Ursula leaves Verte with her grandmother, Anastabotte, and the results stretch well beyond Ursula’s expectations! Thanks to Soufi, her best friend, Verte even manages to find her father, Gérard. Everything could be simple now, but Verte feels lonely. Fortunately, a girl has just moved into the next building. It's Pome...

Verte

Aged eleven, Verte is still showing no talent for witchcraft. She just wants to be normal and get married. Her mother, Ursula, is dismayed. It's so important for a witch to pass on the craft to her daughter! So one day a week, Ursula leaves Verte with her grandmother, Anastabotte, and the results stretch well beyond Ursula’s expectations! Thanks to Soufi, her best friend, Verte even manages to find her father, Gérard. Everything could be simple now, but Verte feels lonely. Fortunately, a girl has just moved into the next building. It's Pome...

Parallel Worlds

Krystof, an architect whose main priority is his job, has been living for several years with Tereza, who has a somewhat different outlook on life. Their love story reveals the distinctness and contradictory nature of each person's subjective worlds and shows how the line between dream and reality differs in each and every one of us.