Tara Römer

Life Is a Long Quiet River

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.

Taxi

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

A Monkey's Tale

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…

Rai

Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.

Scénarios sur la drogue

Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve

24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence

Le choix d'une mère

A woman encounters problems with a child she has taken in after devoting her entire life to humanitarian missions.

Elle et lui au 14ème étage

Sophie Blondy directs this romantic drama hailing from France. Babeth is a struggling actor and part-time assistant teacher unhappily involved with downbeat artist Remi. Meanwhile, Arthur longs for the comely Babeth. He picks up his numerous girlfriends while discussing sex, love, and the meaning of life.

Les Ritals

This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother.