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- Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.
- Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to find the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.
- When another child goes missing, washed-up solicitor John Piggott unwittingly provides a catalyst for Detective Chief Superindent Maurice Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
- The Home Office bring in senior Manchester detective Peter Hunter to conduct a secret review of the Ripper investigation to date.
- The story of General Smyslovsky and his pro-Axis, anti-Communist First Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned in the USSR.
- At 25 years old, Jean-Christophe Markovic is at the top of his career as a professional basketball player. Though courted by the most prestigious teams in Europe, Jean-Christophe surprisingly decides to join his former club which has recently been promoted to the highest level. His ultimate goal? The French national team.
- A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry.
- "Gentle into the Night" is the story of two lost souls: Martha, an American lady who has lived in Italy for many years without ever learning the language; and Renato, twenty five years younger than Martha, who for all his life has been working odd jobs and has no place to call home. Martha's home is a house in Tuscany she has inherited from her grandfather. There she lived and brought up her children after an early divorce. Martha, who at times suffers from a sudden loss of memory, and her obsession with the large country home, has become a nuisance to her children. They have send their mother to a care center, and are trying to sell the house. We meet Renato when he has just taken on a job for a small detective agency that specializes in divorce cases. He is observing two lovers traveling together through Northern Italy when he meets Martha who has run away from the care center...
- Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the polls, leader of the most powerful right wing party he is trying to find a mainstay.
- Irene came out unscathed of an accident, where her husband was killed. She was pregnant and decided she would keep the baby, but it was hard to overcome the tragedy. She gave up her career as a stage actress, and her child, Emile, was put in care of a nurse called Helene. Now Irene seems to be able to raise her boy, and she meets him in La Rochelle, where she makes a new acquaintance: Yann, a sailor. It is love at first sight.
- Les Tetes Brulees play Bikutsi music, an ancient rhythm from the rain- forest region of western Cameroon. Bikutsi is the music of the Beti tribe, traditionally played on a "balafon" and danced by the women of the clan in a jerky, hypnotic fashion. But Les Tetes Brulees do not play traditional music. Even though their sound is based on the Bikutsi rhythm with swirling balafon style guitars and rough-edged vocals, the music is electric. Bikutsi Rock, carefully nurtured at the Chacal Bar, the band's headquarters in Yaounde, is unique to Les Tetes Brulees. By 1987, Les Tetes Brulees were stars in the Cameroon. Their first appearance on National TV created an absolute uproar. Used to seeing clean cut Makossa stars, the public went wild. By the summer of '87, the band was on tour in France, where the film director Claire Denis, who had just had a hit with her first film "Chocolat", asked the band if she could film them on tour for a full length feature. Media attention and public appreciation were enormous. The band returned in the summer of 1988 for their first European tour when Claire Denis made her film.
- In a posh family in the 16th district of Paris, a young teenager begins to speak Arabic overnight, the day before, she had seen on a tree overlooking the family garden, an escaped from the asylum Arab man.
- Gabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge.
- Alex lost his job and home. He meets the lesbian Caroline who gives him a new start.
- A secret agent, Sam, officially a dental technician in the suburbs of Rouen, meets Guy, a friendly nigaud, star of a TV shopping show.
- Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.
- A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
- No other sport in the world requires that you tape your racket to your hand - but for wheelchair tennis. Mark Eccleston is an athlete who has overcome tremendous adversity - this frank, fearless and often funny film tells his triumph of the human spirit. He became one of the world's leading wheelchair tennis players and held the World No 1 spot for fourteen months. He went on to win a silver medal in the Athens Paralympics in 2004 . Mark could never have achieved this level of success without the great will power he shows daily - and a philosophy which is as useful to the able bodied as to the disabled.
- Two girls and three boys want to travel from the Ruhr area to Siberia with a well-rehearsed trolley and join forces with a grumpy train driver.
- A cold odyssey over more than 8,000 km through contrasting territories, from the mountains of Mongolia to Lake Baikal, from the taiga to the Siberian tundra: this is the challenge that Nicolas Vanier set himself. The adventure will last 18 months, 18 months during which Nicolas and his team face one of the most hostile regions of the globe before reaching the Arctic ice. An exceptional journey, where only traditional modes of transport are used to overcome the constraints, each time different, of the regions crossed.
- As every year at the Cannes Film Festival, Daniel Danite, filmmaker, is looking for a way to save the cinema, art in perpetual danger, according to him.
- Peu lui importent les hommes et la gloire, Catherine est une athlète qui court pour son plaisir. Elle y met toute sa fougue, tout son coeur, et ne fait d'entorses à sa passion que pour Olivier, le reporter sportif avec qui elle partage sa vie. Un jour cette passion tourne à l'aveuglement lorsque "l'injustice" d'une blessure, à quelques semaines d'une importante compétition, fait accepter à Catherine ce qu'elle a toujours refusé : un médicament qui cache la douleur et lui permet de continuer à courir. Le mot "dopage" est oublié lorsque le succès arrive : Catherine est championne de France du 800 mètres. Elle file vers le Championnat d'Europe et les Jeux Olympiques. L'engrenage, Catherine ne peut l'éviter. Elle oublie les risques de sanctions et les risques physiques. Elle accepte des médicaments qui la transforment mais la déforment. Elle repousse les mises en garde d'Olivier et fonce vers sa destruction. Elle court, toujours plus vite, toujours plus fort, toujours plus loin... Mais c'est peut-être la mort qui va la rattraper...
- A young teacher, Pierre, arrives in Africa in the middle of the small French community. Pierre lets himself be won over by the physical and moral torpor that reigns in this micro-society.
- Hidden under a rock or still in his shed, Jean-Michel Bertrand tries to disappear. He invites us behind the scenes of a solitary shoot, up in the mountains. Only patience and discretion will allow magic to happen.