Olivier Père Movies

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his...

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a...

Chaos ensues shortly after a young man in a remote village in northern Senegal refuses to accept his role as the new village chief.

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their...

An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom in his country, the other against...

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...

A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

1970s. From her high mountain village, 15-year-old Jeanne dreams of leaving her childhood orphanage and discovering the world. Fleeing to the city of...

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...

A man ascends a barren summit. It is Judas, come to collect Jesus and carry him down the mountain on his back, joking and panting as he does so....

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He...

Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and...

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

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the...

A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman...

Nora, an actor, and her sister Agnes, are grieving the loss of their mother when their father Gustav reappears in their lives after a long absence....