MUTANTES by Virginie Despentes

We are delighted to announce we have just acquired the world sales rights of Virginie Despentes’ documentary feature MUTANTES (PUNK PORN FEMINISM), which took several years to be completed. Please note the documentary is not recommended for audience under 16 and includes images that may be offending or disturbing to some viewers. Upcoming international festivals, MUTANTES will be screened at: -...

MURDER OF A HATMAKER by Catherine Bernstein

Original title: Assassinat d’une modiste Produced by Arte France, IO Production France – 2005 – 87 min. Synopsis Between her date of birth, on the 2nd of July 1901, and her deportation to Auschwitz, on the 18th of July 1943, in a wagon train leaving from Drancy, Odette Bernstein’s life left few traces, except those found in the administrative archives. This young and independent...

KASSEL, 1930S: A GERMAN TRILOGY by Catherine Bernstein

Includes three films: Oma / The Sour Grapes / The Absentees Original titles: Oma / Les raisins verts / Les absentes Produced by IO Production France – 1996/1998/1999 – 58/56/87 min. A riveting and sometimes frightening investigation about Nazism experienced by a 1933 German class questioned sixty years later… OMA Oma is the German word for ‘GrandMa’. Catherine Bernstein’s wish...

JEAN-CLAUDE BRISSEAU: THE ANGEL AND THE WOMAN by Olivier L. Brunet

Original title: L’ange et la femme : le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau Produced by Blaq Out France – 2008 – 52 min. An extraordinary cineaste, and an avid fan of Hitchcock and Buñuel, Jean-Claude Brisseau makes films that walk a cinematic tightrope and divert from the norm with utter control. A fascinating portrait of one of the most controversial French filmmaker with interviews...

MITCHELL LEISEN, THE ESTHETE by Olivier L. Brunet

Original title: Mitchell Leise, l’esthète Produced by Blaq Out France – 2008 – 26 min. An exclusive documentary about the most refined (and most hated by Billy Wilder!) of Hollywood directors in the 1930s as depicted by critic NT Binh (Positif magazine), Hollywood specialist Pierre Berthomieu and writer and director Mark Rappaport. Mitchell leisen was born on October 6, 1898 in...