Jérémie Renier

La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on society’s lowest rungs developed in their earlier documentary work to this absorbing drama about a teenager (Jérémie Renier) gradually coming to understand the implications of his father’s making a living through the exploitation of undocumented workers. Filmed in the Dardennes’ industrial hometown of Seraing, Belgium, La promesse is a brilliantly economical and observant tale of a boy’s troubled moral awakening.

Two fellow priests and friends, Julian and Nicolas, join together on a project to complete construction of a hospital in the slums of Buenos Aires.

SAINT LAURENT tells a story of the brilliant designer, his indulgent life and the price paid to be at the top of the world of fashion.

Under the guidance of a strict ex champion, a promising 15 year old girl trains as a professional skiing star. Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressures?

Ten years after the end of apartheid, a sense of unease and dread still permeates a South African community at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains, where an unsolved massacre from years before continues to haunt the villagers. In this fraught milieu, a powerful British landowner, Angus bullies his beautiful and bewildered wife Olive and exploits the neediness of his day laborers, including Samuel, who is raising a young son after the death of his French missionary wife. Estelle fights to maintain her spirited sense of self, while carrying for the mentally incapacitated Mattis and sleeping with brutish Angus for money. However, it's in the harshly beautiful killing fields of the South African Great Escarpment that a final reckoning threatens to arrive for all.

Angsty 11-year-old Cyril refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. Although he spends his days desperately searching for him, the patience and compassion of a stranger who agrees to care for him offers the boy a chance to move on.

Family traditions are challenged by new attitudes in this restrained, exquisite film from Olivier Assayas: a filmmaker whose cinema covers a diverse range of genres and milieus, collectively transforming modern anxieties into engrossing drama. With the late Edith Scob, and a blonde-haired Binoche!

5 days into the heart of the French anti-terrorism services during the hunt for suspects after the 13/11/2015 attacks in Paris. From writer/director Cédric Jimenez (Bac Nord), the all-star thriller NOVEMBER is an edge-of-your seat deep-dive into one of the most incredible manhunts in European history.

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his friend Mani are sent to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

A trophy housewife steps in to manage her husband’s umbrella factory, when he is kidnapped by striking employees, whose union leader is her ex-beau.

Like Passages, this luminous drama from Ira Sachs dives into a web of interlocking relationships unsettled by the sudden tides of life. Led by the queen of angst Isabelle Huppert, Frankie muses on love and art, the small comforts that bring a levity to the weight of mortality.