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SURVIVE

| 2025 – 90′  – Horror, Adventure, Fantasy, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Matt Alexander.
Directed by: Frédéric Jardin.
Starring: Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Arben Bajraktaraj, Olivier Ho Hio Hen, Simon Rérolle.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Samuel Goldwyn Films release. |

Since its formation, the Earth has experienced five mass extinctions. The sixth is just beginning… when Julia, Tom and their two kids celebrate their son’s 13th birthday on a boat in the middle of the ocean. In the midst of the festivities, a brutal storm rises, nearly capsizing the boat. The family awakens to find itself on a ravaged desert landscape. It seems the Earth has undergone an inconceivable reversal of its magnetic poles, literally draining water from the oceans. Danger lurks everywhere in this post-apocalyptic world, where crazed humans and hungry creatures from the abyss forage for human flesh, and a family must fight for its survival. Because when the poles reverse again, it will be too late.

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WINGED MIGRATION

| 2003 – 98′ –  Documentary, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Jacques Perrin.
Directed by: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats.
Academy Awards 2003 Nomination for Best Documentary.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

 

This documentary presents an epic portrait of winter bird migration. Filmed on all seven continents over four years, the footage is brought together into one portrait of a journey that’s uniformly arduous for all kinds of different birds. Rather than concentrating on statistics and facts, the film near-wordlessly portrays the sheer physical effort demanded of the birds on their disparate routes. Along the way, we see the many dangers they face, from man-made waste to a group of hungry crab.

 

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OCEANS

| 2010 – 104′ – Documentary, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Jacques Perrin, Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzaud, John Colee, François Sarano, Laurent Debas, Stéphane Durand.
Directed by: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud.
Starring: Jacques Perrin, Lancelot Perrin, Pierce Brosnan (Narrator), Matthias Brandt (Narrator), Manolo Garcia (Narrator).
Winner Best Documentary, César Awards 2011.
In English.
A Walt Disney release. |

Most of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; using the latest technology, filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud set out to explore the underwater world. Diving deep into the waters that ultimately sustain all life on Earth, Perrin and Cluzaud capture spectacular footage of the amazing beauty and harsh reality of life beneath the waves.

 

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MARCH OF THE PENGUINS

| 2005 – 85′ – Documentary, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Luc Jacquet, Michel Fessler.
Directed by: Luc Jacquet.
Starring (Voice): Morgan Freeman.
Official Selections: Sundance International Film Festival 2005. 4 César Awards Nominations 2006, including Best First Feature (Winner Best Sound). Winner Academy Award for Best Documentary 2006.
In English.
A DisneyNature release. |

 

At the end of each Antarctic summer, the emperor penguins of the South Pole journey to their traditional breeding grounds in a fascinating mating ritual that is captured in this documentary by intrepid filmmaker Luc Jacquet. The journey across frozen tundra proves to be the simplest part of the ritual, as after the egg is hatched, the female must delicately transfer it to the male and make her way back to the distant sea to nourish herself and bring back food to her newborn chick.

 

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TOMORROW

| 2017 – 118′ – Documentary, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion.
Directed by: Cyril Dion.
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion, Jeremy Rifkin, Vandana Shiva.
Winner César Award for Best Documentary Feature 2016.
Official Competition COLCOA 2016 (Winner Documentary Award).
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

This entertaining and eye-opening winner of the 2016 Best Documentary César offers some provocative solutions to the hard challenges facing much of humanity. In 2012, extinction experts Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly published a paper warning of a coming planetary “sixth extinction” beginning as soon as two generations from now. When environmental activist Cyril Dion shared the article with actress Mélanie Laurent, they decided to team up for a personal journey across ten countries to see what, if anything, could be done. They sought out those pioneers who challenge the old narratives and buck conventional wisdom in agriculture, energy, the economy, democracy, and education. Laurent and Dion quickly understood that they weren’t making another pessimistic, moralizing eco-doc, but an inspiring futuristic vision, because those who are offering the most effective solutions today are actually reinventing the world of tomorrow. With humor, stunning imagery, and a musical assist from Swedish songstress Fredrika Stahl, Tomorrow is an emphatic declaration of hope.

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NOW PLAYING IN US THEATRES, COMING SOON ON DIGITAL.

AUTUMN AND THE BLACK JAGUAR

| 2024 – 100′ – Drama, Adventure, Nature & Environment, All Audiences.
Written by: Gilles de Maistre, Prune de Maistre.
Directed by: Gilles de Maistre.
Starring: Lumi Pollack, Emily Bett Rickards, Wayne Charles Baker, Paul Green, Kelly Hope Taylor, Lucrezia Pini, Airam Camacho.
In English.
A Blue Fox Entertainment release. |

 

Growing up in the Amazon rainforest gave Autumn the rarest of friendships – a lost jaguar cub she names Hope. When a tragic event forces Autumn to leave Hope for the unknowns of New York City, she dreams for years of going back to the rainforest and her friend. At 14 and having grown accustomed to city life, Autumn discovers her childhood village is under threat from animal traffickers and decides she must return to the Amazon to her beloved jaguar. Anja (Emily Bett Rickards) – Autumn’s endearingly clumsy biology teacher – unsuccessfully tries to dissuade her from this reckless plan. Joined by Anja, Autumn embarks on a journey to reunite with Hope and save her from those who seek to destroy the rainforest and its wildlife. From the director of the Wolf and the Lion.

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MIA AND THE WHITE LION

| 2019 – 97′ – Drama, Adventure, Nature & Environment, All Audiences.
Written by: Prune de Maistre, William Davies, Jean-Paul Husson.
Based on the Book by: Prune de Maistre.
Directed by: Gilles de Maistre.
Starring: Daniah De Villiers, Mélanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood, Brandon Auret, Ryan McLennan, Tessa Jubber, Lionel Newton, Lillian Dube.
In English and in French with English subtitles.
A Leda Films Entertainment Group release. |

 

Young Mia’s life gets turned upside down when her family decides to leave London to manage a lion farm in South Africa. When a beautiful white lion named Charlie is born, the 10-year-old finds happiness once again as she develops a special bond with the growing cub. When Mia uncovers a secret that puts Charlie in danger, she sets out on an incredible journey across the wild plains to find a sanctuary for her beloved friend. 

 

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THE WOLF AND THE LION

| 2022 – 99′ – Drama, Adventure, Nature & Environment, All Audiences.
Written by: Prune de Maistre, William Davies, Jean-Paul Husson.
Directed by: Gilles de Maistre.
Starring: Molly Kunz, Graham Greene (II), Charlie Carrick, Derek Jones, Rhys Slack, Evan Buliung, Rebecca Croll, Victor Cornfoot.
In English.
A Blue Fox Entertainment release. |

 

After her grandfather’s death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home — a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.

 

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THE SWARM

| 2020 – 101′ – Drama, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Jérôme Genevray, Franck Victor.
Directed by: Just Philippot.
Starring: Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes, Marie Narbonne, Raphaël Romand, Victor Bonnel, Vincent Deniard, Stephan Castang, Guillaume Bursztyn.
Official Selection Critics Week Cannes 2020. 2021 Cesar Award Nomination (First Feature Film).
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura (15) and Gaston (7) and raises locusts as a high-protein crop. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high. But everything changes when she discovers the locusts have a taste for blood.

 

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THE ODYSSEY

| 2018 – 123′ – Biopic, Drama, Adventure.
Written by: Jérôme Salle, Laurent Turner.
Directed by: Jérôme Salle.
Based on the Biography by: Albert Falco.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Lucas, Benjamin Lavernhe, Vincent Heneine, Thibault de Montalembert, Roger Van Hool.
Official Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2016.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017.
In French with English subtitles.
A Samuel Goldwyn Films release. |


During WWII Naval Commander Jacques Cousteau helped to develop a device that would enable divers to remain underwater for much longer than previously possible. His aqua-lung became a passport to a spectacular undersea world of wonder.  This polished, big-budget biopic dives headlong into that extraordinary world, and charts the adventurous life of its most revered discoverer, a man the French consider a national treasure. Filming documentaries from his nomadic research vessel the Calypso, Cousteau enchanted an entire generation with the mysteries beneath the waves. With his iconic woolen red beanie, Cousteau, convincingly embodied by a slimmed down Lambert Wilson, quickly became a television icon. But a look behind that iconic mask reveals a more complex man whom many saw as deeply flawed. Cousteau scuttled his personal life with a secret second family, and cynically tethered his brand to Big Oil in a narcissistic grab for international fame. Pierre Niney smolders as Philippe Cousteau, who hopes to win his father over to the cause of environmental activism.

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