Known for Directing
Filmography
22 films


The Unknown
2026 · 2h 20m
country: France
Photographer David Zimmerman rarely leaves home until friends bring him to a wild party. He becomes fixated on a mysterious woman and follows her. By dawn, his life transforms - he awakens in her body.


Stages of Love
2024 · 1h 24m
country: France
For years, Henri and Nora have shared everything: they love each other, and she directs the plays he performs in. When Henri lands his first film role, the production of their new show is threatened, and their relationship explodes. They start wondering: is it possible to love each other without belonging to one another?


Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · 2h 31m
country: France
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.


One Fine Morning
2022 · 1h 52m
country: France
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.


Bergman Island
2021 · 1h 53m
country: France
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.


The Other
2020 · 1h 17m
country: France
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.


Things to Come
2016 · 1h 42m
country: Germany
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.


Taj Mahal
2015 · 1h 29m
country: Belgium
One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor. Within minutes, she realises that a terrorist attack is underway. Her only connection to the outside world is her cell phone, which allows her to maintain contact with her father, who is desperately trying to reach her from the other side of a city that has been plunged into chaos. Louise must spend a long night alone in the face of danger. She will never be the same again.


Eden
2014 · 2h 11m
country: France
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.


Going Away
2013 · 1h 36m
country: France
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.


Ricky
2009 · 1h 30m
country: France
When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born: Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.


Summer Hours
2008 · 1h 43m
country: France
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.


One Day You'll Understand
2008 · 1h 30m
country: France
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.


All Is Forgiven
2007 · 1h 45m
country: France
A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart.


School for All
2006 · 1h 37m
country: France
Jahwad is thirty years old and going nowhere fast. He flunked out of school, and slipped into petty crime. Now, he has the police on his tail. So Jahwad is no longer going nowhere, he is getting out of town as fast as he can. He hitches a ride with a schoolteacher, who is desperate at being posted to one of the toughest high schools in the Paris suburbs. The man is so frantic, he rams his car into a tree. For Jahwad, the opportunity is too good to miss, but the high school dropout hardly looks the part.


Barrage
2006 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
Sabine, a 30-year-old woman, has recently moved to an isolated house near to a river with a dam. She is accompanied by her son Thomas, aged 15. As she tries to settle into her new home, Sabine experiences a series of strange phenomena. She cannot bear to see her son grow up and leave her, and she will do anything to keep him with her...


Marock
2005
country: France
Casablanca, the year of the baccalaureate. The carefree life of Morocco's golden youth and all its excesses: car races, friendships, music, alcohol, but also first loves and the anxiety of transitioning to adulthood... Marock presents a side of Morocco that is often unknown, seen through the eyes of Rita, 17, who is determined to live life on her own terms.


Grand ciel
2003
country: Unknown
A handsome 17-year-old who is actually only 14, Lionel is an adopted child living in a rural area. While his father sees him as deficient, even retarded, his mother surrounds him with immense, symbiotic, and protective love. Initially fascinated by the boy's charm, Claire, a young engineer from the neighboring construction site, helps him pursue a budding passion. But by not respecting the limits she has set for him, Lionel finds himself caught in a trap that closes in on him.


Le soleil au-dessus des nuages
2001 · 1h 36m
country: France
Jean, a little embittered and insupportable office worker, is fired for his heinous behavior. Fifty, single and revanchist, he has no friends and finds himself face to face with no future. He then meets Antoine, a young magician adept at meditation. Intrigued by this strange character who responds to his aggressiveness with a resolutely optimistic vision of life, Jean decides to accompany him to La Baule. On the way, despite some unforeseen and surprising encounters, the duo will get to know each other.
Émilie est partie
Émilie est partie
2001
country: France
Julien and Lea have just moved into a new apartment together. They should be happy except that Julien didn’t tell Emilie, the woman he used to live with, he was going to leave her. Urged by Lea, Julien accepts to speak with Emilie but when he arrives at her place, she has already packed her stuff and has mysteriously vanished… Julien goes looking for her.


The Blind
2000 · 6m
country: France
A young homeless musician decides to live in the flat of an old deaf and blind woman, without her knowledge.