Summer Hours
2008 | 99 min | Drama
Three siblings have to get along with each other after they inherit an impressive art collection.
Jérémie Renier
ActorJérémie Renier is a Belgian actor known for his versatile performances in arthouse and mainstream films. He gained recognition for his work in films like "La Promesse," directed by the Dardenne brothers, "Lorna's Silence," and "The Unknown Girl." Renier has won several awards for his acting, including the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His career continues to flourish with a wide range of roles in both French and international cinema.
Films
Slalom
2021 | 92 min | Drama
Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.
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2023 | 79 min | Drama
Karo (28) is newly separated and struggling with the non-existent relationship with her father. When her mother Michaela (50) wants to go on vacation with her to the island of Rügen, Karo suspects another failed male story behind it. What starts as a spontaneous trip quickly turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who couldn't be more different: Michaela wants distraction, Karo wants peace. When they arrive at the hotel, they meet the newly divorced Jochen (60) and his teenage daughter ...
In This Very Moment
2003 | 94 min | Drama
On her way to go shopping in nearby Poland, Sylvia abandons her two rebellious stepchildren, Lea (8) and Konstantin (7), on a country road. Upon her return, Sylvia cannot bring herself to tell her husband, the children's father, the truth about her absence. The children meet a Polish man who supplies restaurants with toiletries and promises to take them home. Meanwhile, the unsuspecting father sets off with the stepmother to search for the supposedly kidnapped children. IN THIS VERY MOMENT (original ...
Blue Summer Symphony
2017 | 29 min | Shorts
The open-air swimming pool, a sociotope and microcosm of society: different people, half naked in a confined space, share an afternoon, a moment with each other and as quickly as it has come, so quickly it has gone again. That's the poetry inherent in the banality of everyday life. For her third year project, Sinje Köhler observes the figures in the outdoor pool and also sheds light on the architecture of this special landscape.
Talea
2013 | 75 min | Drama
It's summer holidays, and the planned Italian holiday with Jasmin's foster family is just around the corner. Everyone is looking forward to the trip - except Jasmin. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, who is available to Jasmin for the first time after a long prison term. For weeks Jasmin has been seeking Eva's closeness, she does not give up, even if she is rejected by her. After a fight with her foster family, Jasmin runs away and persuades Eva to spend a short holiday in the countryside with ...
Aria le film
2017 | 60 min | Documentary
Using the example of her own artificially inseminated pregnancy, Emilie Jouvet presents the difficulties faced by queer people who wish to have children in France. This movie proposes a diversity of stories and reflections on motherhood, parenthood, the desire or not to have a child through a series of portraits shot on smartphones. Millions of people, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, share the desire to have a child. But the path to pregnancy for queer people is often fraught with legal ...
Minus One
2016 | 16 min | Shorts
Summer in Athens, and Elsa’s family isn’t the only one renting their apartment to tourists. At their "spare apartment" there’s little space for the young lady’s dreams.
The Discarded Father
2008 | 82 min | Documentary
Douglas Wolfsperger explores a social phenomenon that rarely appears in public discourse: men, who after a separation from their wives, are "disposed of" not only as partners but also as fathers and who - often in vain - struggle to maintain a relationship with their children. In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film ...
A Dog You Are
2021 | 12 min | Shorts
Set against the backdrop of a village swimming pool that becomes a focal point of daily peculiarities, Benjamin Laabmayr's first film delves into the unique blend of the mundane with the extraordinary. Through his lens, the everyday activities of the pool's visitors transform into a series of whimsical vignettes, weaving a narrative rich in humor and surreal observation. Laabmayr's work is a study in contrasts, blending documentary-style realism with elements of staged absurdity, challenging viewers ...
Sweat
2014 | 30 min | Queer
Sweat tells of the last days of the friendship of two girls. Marion and Elisa live in a village that offers them nothing. They roam the neighborhood, go to the disco, watch videos, swim in the pond and fight. In search of emotion and boundaries, they dive into an aggressive world, where they give free rein to anger against the ordinary and learn about the new, unexpectedly erupting forces within themselves as a result. In the beautifully photographed vacuum of a village cosmos, director Iris Blauensteiner ...
Pampa
2017 | 18 min | Comedy
Lucie, a spirited young woman, ends up in the middle of nowhere. Wandering about in the sweltering midsummer sun, Lucie tries to make her way back home. When she stumbles upon a bus stop, the waiting game begins. The strange people she meets there – the man who lives on potato chips, the bickering hippies, the mysterious billboard man – are they real or are they creatures of her tortured mind? PAMPA by young German talent Martje Schreier, is a short comedy set in the sandy plains of Brandenburg, ...