Olivier Père

One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist.

With his new film "France" now in theaters, we look back at Bruno Dumont's early films "La vie de Jésus," "Flandres," "L'humanité," "Hadewijch," and "Twentynine Palms," all available online. What does it mean to film the sacred? What are his influences? Why is the question of evil central to his cinema?

51 films to date, a unique body of work whose common thread is the search for love: this is the cinema of Claude Lelouch. As a Jewish child hunted during the war, the filmmaker offers his very personal vision of betrayal, scoundrels, good people, travel, parent-child relationships, and the ghosts of his deceased friends whom he will always love.

In a handful of powerful films, actress-turned-filmmaker Nicole Garcia has created a highly romantic world. Both men and women reveal themselves in stories of betrayal, buried secrets, money, and all-consuming emotions. Fortunately, Garcia's fictional universe is as murky as danger and as captivating as the quest for love.

How has French actress Marion Cotillard embodied characters from all walks of life with such passion and strength? Through an intense practice of her craft, driven by a secret desire to understand the human soul.

Xavier Beauvois' documentary-style filming techniques, her collaboration with François Truffaut, Xavier Dolan's masterful tone... Nathalie Baye looks back on her roles in "Le petit lieutenant," "La chambre verte," and "Juste la fin du monde" as they are broadcast on ARTE. A conversation hosted by Olivier Père (Managing Director of ARTE France Cinéma).

Winner of multiple Oscars for Gravity and Roma, also known for Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón prefers to talk about other people's films rather than his own. However, he reveals some secrets about the making of Children of Men (2006) and Gravity (2013). Eclectic, he can discuss the great American filmmakers as well as the films of Swiss director Alain Tanner and Japanese masters.

A meeting with Gaspar Noé at the Locarno Film Festival, where his latest film, Vortex, was screened. His first feature film for general audiences tells the story of an elderly couple who must live out their days under the shadow of Alzheimer's disease. It's an opportunity to look back on the unique career of an experimental and provocative director!

For several decades, filmmaker Catherine Corsini has been filming different worlds, yet all of them are permeated by the same desire for her characters to truly come into their own. With a vitality that is ready for anything, including cheating before finally giving up, the heroes of Corsini's films take every risk, and Corsini understands them.

Filmmaker Lucile Hadzilalilovic, winner of the Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale for “The Tower of Ice”, delves into her world of hauntingly beautiful tales. From “Innocence” to her latest film, she crafts stories rich in mystery, where powerful women and enigmatic youth evoke the legacy of Argento-style genre cinema.

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

A documentary about the New Romanian Cinema. "Cinemaguerilla" brings together over 30 interviews with directors, producers, actors, film historians and critics about what unites and what separates the New Wave of Romanian films.

In a handful of deliberately and gently dark films, screenwriter and director Pascal Bonitzer has built a body of work that is both fierce and gentle. His characters practice ironic antipathy and take quiet steps to make themselves known, but they also display great and disarming frankness and a desire that is completely free of the need for others.

Emmanuel Mouret has crafted a unique cinematic voice, blending comedy, drama and emotion. His films follow strong-willed characters navigating love and heartache with tenderness. Through precise, sensory writing, Mouret explores the delicate balance between burlesque and genuine human vulnerability.

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.

A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.

In a festive and fairytale atmosphere, animals from around the world are brought together through five poetic and humorous adventures to celebrate Christmas and wintertime. They will learn about the importance of helping each other, being generous and rediscovering the beauty of nature.

In a prehistory for operettas that is seemingly doomed never to evolve, a conflicted father and daughter disrupt the Stone Age routine. After a tragic-comedy round-trip to the future, they accidentally bring back an Ikea “bent key”, which will at last trigger Evolution, for better or for worse… Writing, religion, politics… who will be capable of putting an end to these disasters?

Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his sister Jeanne. They meet again in the family house in the Alps, between mountains, lake and forests. Jeanne tries to reconnect her brother with the past, but David, who suffers from amnesia after the accident, does not seem to be interested in reconciling with the man he used to be.

October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.

A chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897.

Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.

A boy, a girl. They live in the same building. They share a passion for music. But when they meet in the elevator, Théo doesn’t see that Élise is blind. It’s hate at first sight. Love takes its time. Will that early misunderstanding bring them together or drive them apart?