THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO

| 1956 – 78′ –  Documentary, Classic, Films & Art.
Written by: Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Starring: Pablo Picasso.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1955 (Special Jury Prize winner).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

In 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot joined forces with his friend Pablo Picasso to make an entirely new kind of documentary – one that captured the moment and the mystery of creativity. For the film, Picasso created 20 artworks, ranging from playful B&W sketches to widescreen color paintings. Using inks that bled through the paper, Picasso rapidly created fanciful drawings that Clouzot was able to film from the reverse side, capturing their creation in real time. When the artist decided to paint in oils, the filmmaker switched to color film and employed the magic of stop-motion animation. By contract, almost all of these paintings were destroyed when the film was completed. The Mystery of Picasso is exhilarating, mesmerizing, and unforgettable – one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made.

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THE ART OF NOTHING

| 2025 – 98′ – A Belgium/France Co-production – Comedy.
Written by: Stefan Liberski.
Directed by: Stefan Liberski.
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Camille Cottin, François Damiens, Gustave Kervern, Laurence Bibot, Lorella Cravotta, Marine Dandoy, Ambre Grouwels.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other’s side. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. 

OPENING IN THE US IN 2025.

NIKI

| 2025 – 98′ – Drama, Biopic, Period & History.
Written by: Céline Sallette, Samuel Doux.
Directed by: Céline Sallette.
Starring: Charlotte Le Bon, John Robinson (IV), Damien Bonnard, Judith Chemla, Alain Fromager, Virgile Bramly, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Nora Arnezeder.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Un Certain Regard).
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

Paris, 1952. Niki  has recently moved from the US with her husband and her 2-year old daughter. She is modeling and striving to be an actor. Despite this newfound distance from a family and country that were suffocating her, disturbing flashbacks of her childhood continue to invade her thoughts. From the hell she is about to discover, sculptor and painter Niki de Saint-Phalle will find in her art a weapon to free herself. 

TEHACHAPI

| 2024 – 92′ – DOCUMENTARY
Written by: JR
Directed by: JR
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In English.
A MasterClass release. |

Once again, incisive visual artist JR (Places) captures the world around him and reflects it back to us in a way that transforms lives, mirrors the humanity within us, and literally changes the way we see the world. This time, his joint subject/canvas is the Tehachapi maximum security prison in Southern California. The original idea was simply to photograph a group of inmates from the prison’s Level Four facility – housing its most violent criminals – create a monumental photo collage, and paste it on the ground of the prison courtyard, where it would remain for just a few days. Yet, in the process, so much more happens. Powerful bonds are formed, a sense of dignity is reclaimed, and an open-hearted dialogue begins… revealing the immense transformational power of art and the hope it can instill in everyone involved, from the inmates and their families, to the prison staff, to the viewers of the finished piece and this immensely moving film. It is a rare experience, and confirms the fact, loud and clear, that art is alive and well and truly does have the power to change lives and the world in a very visceral way.

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FRANCOFONIA

| 2016 – 87′ – DOCUMENTARY, HISTORY, WAR, DRAMA.
Written by: Alexander Sokourov.
Directed by: Alexander Sokourov.
Starring: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Jean-Claude Caër.
Official Selections Venice International Film Festival 2015, Toronto International Film Festival 2015.
In French, Russian, German with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged reenactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men – enemies then collaborators – share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. In its exploration of the Louvre Museum as a living example of civilization, Francofonia is a stunning and urgently relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history. Throughout his vast filmography – documentary, fiction and others somewhere in between – Alexander Sokurov has demonstrated that a museum is much more than a place to preserve art. Museums are the veritable DNA of a civilization, the living organ of the city where the heart of a nation beats. With Francofonia, he explores a historical chapter that we might know, but whose description does not take into account all the lines that run through it. Sokurov’s body of work includes his “Men of Power” tetralogy (Faust, The Sun [Emperor Hirohito], Taurus [Vladimir Lenin] and Moloch [Adolph Hitler]), Russian Ark (set entirely in St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum), Mother and Son and Father and Son.

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MOLIERE

| 2007 – 120′ – ROMANTIC COMEDY, HISTORY, BIOPIC.
Written by: Laurent Tirard, Grégoire Vigneron.
Directed by: Laurent Tirard.
Starring: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Alban Casterman, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette, Mélanie Dos Santos.
Four César Awards Nominations including Best Original Screenplay.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Classics Pictures release. |

In 17th-century France, playwright and actor Molière (Romain Duris) has his debts paid off by Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), freeing him from debtors’ prison. In return, Jourdain asks for acting lessons so he can win the heart of the beautiful widow Célimène (Ludivine Sagnier) by performing a short play for her. Presented to Jourdain’s family as the priest Tartuffe, Molière begins to fall in love with Monsieur Jourdain’s disregarded wife, Elmire (Laura Morante).

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DAAAAAALI!

| 2024 – 77′ – Comedy.
Written by: Quentin Dupieux.
Directed by: Quentin Dupieux.
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmaï, Didier Flamand, Romain Duris, Agnès Hurstel.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2023.
In French and Spanish with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

A young French journalist meets the iconic Salvador Dalí repeatedly for a documentary project that never came to be. A “real fake biopic” about the surrealist artist by Quentin Dupieux, the master of absurd comedy in France. 

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COMING SOON TO US THEATRES BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE

BONNARD, PIERRE & MARTHE

| 2024 – 122′ – Biopic, Drama, Romance.
Written by: Martin Provost.
Directed by: Martin Provost.
Starring: Cécile de France, Vincent Macaigne, Stacy Martin, Anouk Grimberg, André Marcon, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.
Official Selection: Cannes International Film Festival 2023.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe painted over five decades a portrait of Bonnard and his wife Marthe de Méligny who became the cornerstone of her husband’s life and work, appearing in more than a third of his paintings. A beautiful portrait of French artist Pierre Bonnard and his muse. A touching, visually fetching and educational look at the intertwining of art and stubborn romance.