Stéphane Rideau – MRQE

Meteors

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

France’s rural wasteland. Mika and Dan have big dreams but little luck. Cornered after another blunder by Dan, they end up working for Tony, their best friend, who’s now the king of construction. Mika and Dan need to find a way out of here, a way out of trouble simply a way out.

Vivre, mourir, renaître

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

Emma loves Sammy, who loves Cyril, who loves her back. What could have been a love story at the end of the last century is blown apart by the arrival of AIDS. Expecting the worst, each character’s destiny takes an unexpected turn.

Gens d’à côté, Les

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lucie a police officer is fond of her new neighbors a young couple. Soon she discovers that Yann, the father has a heavy criminal record. Lucie’s moral conflict between her professionalism and her desire to help this family.

Vétos, Les

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

In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. “Don’t worry, I’ve found the next generation” Except that … The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?

Gueule d’ange

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

8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother’s demons in order to get her back.

Notre paradis

Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, menaces of retaliation leave the couple with no choice but to escape from Paris. The runaway begins…

Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930’s. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo; though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.

Le Cadeau d’Elena

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After more than 40 years of absence, Socrates spends some days in Corsica, accompanied by his son Antoine, to see his cousins. But Antoine discovers his father’s secret before his birthday party.

Ballo a tre passi

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham…

Le Ventre de Juliette

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

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.