Pierre-Loup Rajot – MRQE

L’arbre et la forêt

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles’ funeral, Frédérick’s surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick’s reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.

Quand je serai star

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay, live-in son, Marc, wishes to live a more low-key life. While Marc travels frequently from Paris to Marrakesh to visit his lover, Dionys, Diane begins a casual relationship with the only somewhat dashing Roland.

Drôle de Félix

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After losing his job, a homosexual (Sami Bouajila) travels through France in order to visit the father he never knew.

Voyous voyelles

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.

La Nouvelle Ève

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though

Corps ouverts, Les

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences with a guy in a men’s room and with a young woman who grabs him while she’s dancing in the street.

La Revanche de Lucy

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he’s also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.

Frères Gravet, Les

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother’s funeral.

Cheb

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.

La Nuit Bengali

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.