Jérémie Elkaïm

Seventeenth century. Set in a small village, nestled between the sea and the mountain, the father of Alan, a young fifteen-year-old boy, has sold himself for two years to indentured service. Alan is forced to take the place of his father and struggles to support his family.

Fleeting encounters, conversations about identity and experiencing life and love in the most authentic way. Six contemporary stories of men exploring love, lust and modern dating. These award winning French shorts bring raw and diverse stories with beautiful aesthetics, eclectic music and astonishing cinematography. The 6 short films are: Bootyful (2019); Naughty Spot [Gare aux coquins] (2021); Herculanum (2016); Masculine (2018); Woeful Flesh [Les nuits d'Edouard] (2018); Falling [Tomber] (2018).

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Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.

A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.

Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.

Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion.

A biographical short about French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.

Aldo, a young male nurse, is Lucie’s boyfriend, who is a student. When he loses his job, he desperately needs to find money so that he can keep paying for his fiancée’s studies. Persuaded by two blind friends of Lucie, he ends up becoming a sexbuddie for handicapped people, both men and women. Keeping this a secret from his fiancée, Aldo embarks on a new life that will totally transform him.

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains…

Simple is 26 but he has the intellectual abilities of a three year old. Simple is handicapped. Since the death of his father, he lives with his mother and his younger brother Kléber. But when their mother dies in a car accident, the brothers are left to their own devices. Kléber is going to take his big brother under his wing, but for the two young brothers life is not a chimera.

A man named François, adopted as a child, sets out to find his biological mother. Posing as a waiter at a family gathering, he infiltrates her home, hoping to uncover the truth. His clumsy nature leads to a series of comedic mishaps, disrupting the event and causing chaos. As he stumbles through misunderstandings and awkward encounters, his quest for identity becomes increasingly complicated.

From the moment they meet - and against their will - Helene and Joachim begin a lovers' dance they are powerless to stop.

After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont, USA, arrives overnight to see her. But how to welcome her when Jewell tells her so long about her life, her work and her loves? From one letter to another, she has invented a career that works, a life with Paul, and even a girl, Ruby. But as an Italian proverb says, lies have short legs.

Romain, a handsome young man in his thirties, only thinks about his work and never reveals his emotions. He can't manage to "flirt" with girls. His older brother Luc, who has become a screenwriter, is homosexual and never stops putting his brother down. However, the two brothers get along better than they seem to. Their father has a neurodegenerative disease and must be placed in a specialized institution. This ordeal will allow Romain to better understand himself as a man.

After “Omelette” and “Les yeux brouillés” shot with a Super 8 camera, Remi starts a newspaper filmed with two HD cameras. One day he meets Dino, a young Marseille artist who falls in love with him. Shortly after their meeting, Dino announces to Rémi that he wants a child.

Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found someone. Constance is convinced she will get the job because of her experience and extensive qualifications. But when Audrey, a younger and prettier woman, is hired instead, it proves too much for Constance to take.

Tom (8) and Benjamin (11) travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father, whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who seems never to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted. But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

Hugo, Stan and Bérénice grew up together then grew apart. They were inseparable. Fifteen years later, they meet again as adults. But life has been tough on them. Will they reignite the crazy sparks of their childhood ?

Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.

The first homosexual love story themed movie to receive approval for theatrical release in China. The film follows the initial meeting of, and the subsequent secret relationship between Zhao Jie and Rohmer. They decide to travel to Tibet together. During their travels they are involved in an incident which leads to the death of a child. Although they are not responsible, they feel a lot of guilt. They quarrel about it and end up going separate ways. Later Zhao Jie learns that Rohmer has been in an accident on a glacier and, torn with remorse for not having helped him enough after the earlier incident, Zhao Jie goes to find him.

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical.

A collection of the best gay stories France has to offer. From tales of teenage sexual awakening, to searing studies of complex adult relationships, these six films are both quintessentially French and undeniably Universal. Includes: Apollo [Apollon] (2016); Body of Angels [Le corps des anges] (2016); Electric July [Juillet électrique] (2014); Herculanum (2016); In Return [En retour] (2013); Ruptures (or André and Gabriel) [Ruptures (ou André et Gabriel)] (2016).

On a Sunny day, a young man, reading on a bench is interrupted by a young and handsome woman. He is shy when she seems to be enterprising. She takes the man his book and go. The young man starts to chase after her and will maybe find love.

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.

A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his producer's hard-core vision. Estranged from his son over the family business, they begin reconnecting as the son embraces political activism, while the director seeks personal renewal.

Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.

When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends and family.

In this musical take on everyday life, Adele is devastated after a painful breakup. Her distant cousin, Rachel, finds her a job and suggests that Adele sleep with other men to get over her heartbreak. The search begins, but Adele can’t escape the visage of her former lover….

Juliette is fourteen years old, she adores her father. He prefers Anna, his eldest daughter, whom he feels may be slipping away from him. Out of love, out of jealousy, Juliette agrees to play detective.

Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?

Friends since high school, 20-year-olds Seb, Frank and Manu are navigating their college years with humor and a longing for romance. Through a series of ridiculous accidents, each young man learns to look for love in unexpected places.

Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to.

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Miss Jacobonot, a schoolteacher, has a crush on Jimmy, a student in her class. Jimmy loves to tell stories. But his teachers kick him out of school and sent him to an institute for unsuitable children.

17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives him into a loneliness to which rockmusic not only brings tranquillity and comfort but flings him into the adventure of discovering himself.

A collection of gay short films. The 9 short films are: An Early Frost [Gelée précoce] (1999); Casualty (1999); Coming Out [Papa, faut que j'te parle...] (2000); Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Final Exams [Les résultats du bac] (2001); In and Out [L'un dans l'autre] (1999); Odd Sock (2000); Sloth [Likegyldighet] (2000); The Virgins [Les puceaux] (1997).

Philosophy teacher in the provincial city of Saint-Etienne, Gregoire is a discreet man of integrity. He strives to instill the fundamentals of wisdom in his lethargic high-school students. Circumstances lead him to Paris where he encounters a new student in the shape of Patrick, a star TV presenter. Patrick's career is on a high, but he's not happy. He wants to learn, he wants to change, he wants Gregoire to be his life-coach.

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined.

Seven brief scenes, each with a couple, explore the surprises and the changes of heart that can occur during sexual encounters. Only one of the seven couples has been in bed together before; several are strangers or new acquaintances. A prostitute and her john, an older woman and a youth who follows her home, two women friends, a gay man with a straight man, a man with distinctive ideas about soap and water, a woman who wants the light left on, and a Spanish-speaking woman with a French-speaking man make for an array of possibilities and unanticipated consequences. The 7 bed scenes are titled: The Black Hole [Le trou noir]; Mr. Clean [Monsieur Propre]; Madame; Heads or Tails [Tête bêche]; The Ideal Man [L'homme idéal]; Love in the Dark [L'amour dans le noir]; and The Virgins [Les puceaux].

Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.

A variation on a couple, that gets caught off-guard at a private moment.

After eating Bavavia's pink pickles, a guy has a hard time digesting his food. He recomposes them. Become a scientific case, his life escapes him.

Vincent is seventeen years old. He frequents a group of musicians older than him, who are preparing a show. Vincent wants to seduce them and tells a lot of stories in order to get noticed. One day, one of those stories irritates the group and they discover that Vincent owes them all money...

It's summer. Pierre goes out with Juliette, for fakes. For Juliette to see Stéphane in secret. Since the police are looking for Stéphane. Every day, while the two young lovers find themselves in a cabin lost in the middle of the forest, Pierre stays outside, alone in the middle of the trees. He is waiting. He is playing the game. Pierre knows how to keep a secret.

A young woman welcomes friends for some tea.