THE MARCHING BAND

| 2026 – 103′ – Drama, Comedy, Family 14+, Music & Dance, TAFFF Awards Winner.
Written by: Emmanuel Courcol, Irène Muscari.
Directed by: Emmanuel Courcol.
Starring: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anne Loiret, Martine Courcol-Rozès, Yvon Martin, Isabelle Zanotti.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2024, San Sebastian International Film Festival (Winner Audience Award). 7 César Award Nominations including Best Film.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (Winner Audience Award).
In French with English subtitles.
A Greenwich Entertainment release. |

Thibaut, an internationally renowned orchestra conductor, is diagnosed with leukemia and desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant. His search for a donor leads him to discover, at 37, that he was, in fact, adopted… and actually has a biological brother somewhere in France. Their lives may be worlds apart — Thibaut was raised in a posh Parisian suburb and has a seemingly charmed life, while Jimmy lives in a small working-class town, slings hash in a cafeteria and plays trombone in the local marching band. But blood runs thicker than water and it turns out that, each in his own way, they share a profound connection to music. Actors Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin bring them to life with all of their longings, resentments and complexes intact, in Emmanuel Courcol‘s heartfelt ode to the power of music and brotherly love.

MY FATHER’S GLORY

| 1990 (Re-released in 2023) – 105′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Films & Literature, Classic, Period & History, Family 14+, Biopic.
Written by: Yves Robert, Louis Nucéra, Jérôme Tonnerre.
Based on the Book by: Marcel Pagnol.
Directed by: Yves Robert .
Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Joris Molinas, Victorien Delamare, Pierre Maguelon, Paul crochet.
4 César Awards Nominations 1991.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

Based on the bestselling memoirs of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (the acclaimed author of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), My Father’s Glory and its sequel My Mother’s Castle recount the nostalgic memories of Pagnol’s youth growing up in Provence at the turn of the twentieth century. During one idyllic summer, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) discovers friendship and wonder amid the rocky peaks surrounding his family’s countryside home while learning new respect for his gentle and caring schoolmaster father Joseph (Philippe Caubère). Upon his return to Marseilles, Marcel longs to escape back to his beloved hills and is granted his wish when his adoring mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). devises a plan that allows them to visit the cottage more frequently.

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MY MOTHER’S CASTLE

| 1990 (Re-released in 2023) – 108′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Films & Literature, Period & History, Classic, Family 14+, Biopic.
Written by: Yves Robert, Jérôme Tonnerre.
Based on the Book by: Marcel Pagnol.
Directed by: Yves Robert .
Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Joris Molinas, Victorien Delamare, Pierre Maguelon, Paul crochet, Jean Carmet.
3 César Awards Nominations 1991.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

Based on the bestselling memoirs of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (the acclaimed author of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), My Father’s Glory and its sequel My Mother’s Castle recount the nostalgic memories of Pagnol’s youth growing up in Provence at the turn of the twentieth century. During one idyllic summer, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) discovers friendship and wonder amid the rocky peaks surrounding his family’s countryside home while learning new respect for his gentle and caring schoolmaster father Joseph (Philippe Caubère). Upon his return to Marseilles, Marcel longs to escape back to his beloved hills and is granted his wish when his adoring mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). devises a plan that allows them to visit the cottage more frequently.

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LITTLE GEMS

| 2017 – 108′ – Documentary, Family 14+.
Written by: Xavier de Lauzanne.
Directed by: Xavier de Lauzanne.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017 (Winner Best Documentary Award).
In French with English subtitles.
A France Channel release. |

This uplifting documentary celebrates the humanitarian work of a humble French couple that dedicated their retirement years to bettering the lives of Cambodia’s garbage-dump children. Christian and Marie-France des Pallières are an unlikely pair of heroes. In the 1990s, they came upon an apocalyptic scene of ragged children trawling through a heaving landscape of junk, filth, and toxic waste trying to scavenge anything of value. These latter day ragpickers, some as young as four, exist on the edge of Cambodian society, with no access to education, medicine, or even decent food. Many of them were sold by their parents, abused, raped.  The couple settled in Cambodia, determined to make a difference in the lives of these “gems.”. Christian, a jovial man of aristocratic heritage, was soon spending his days at the dump, building shelters, and, most importantly, a school. Over the next two decades their foundation, PSE (For a Child’s Smile), would result in salvaging thousands from a bleak future.

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THE BIG HIT

| 2021 – 106′ – DRAMA, COMEDY, FILMS & ART, FAMILY+14.
Written by: Emmanuel Courcol, Thierry de Carbonnières.
Directed by: Emmanuel Courcol.
Starring: Kad Merad, David Ayala, Lamine Cissokho, Sofian Khammes, Pierre Lottin, Wabinlé Nabié, Alexandre Medvedev, Saïd Benchnafa, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2020.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021.
In French with English subtitles.
A French Channel release. |

Multitalented screen star Kad Merad gives a powerful performance in The Big Hit, leading a dazzling cast in this jubilant comedy about a down-and-out actor who lands a gig running a prison theater workshop and decides to mount a full-fledged production of Waiting for Godot with his ragtag troupe of inmates.  Based on a true story, this deeply touching film beautifully illustrates Beckett’s take on the human condition — a particularly apt one for both the perpetually-waiting prisoners and their director — with passion, humor, hijinks and a liberal dash of poetry.

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| 1946 (Digitally Restored in 2013) – 96′ – Drama, Romance, Adventure, Fantasy, Classic, Film & Literature, Family 14+.
Written by: Jean Cocteau, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
Based on the Book by: Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve.
Directed by: Jean Cocteau.
Starring: Josette Day, Jean Marais, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco, Jean Cocteau.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1946.Official Selection COLCOA 2014.
In French with English subtitles or in English.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

For modern audiences, the shimmering black and white of Jean Cocteau’s masterwork might obscure its visual opulence, much the same way as the animal features of the Beast obscure his inner humanity. Look beyond that, because this stylish, adult rendition of the famous 18th century fairytale is one of the highlights of French postwar cinema. Unlike the break to neorealism that marked the postwar films of Italy, France tended to continue in the styles established in the Vichy years. But like all Cocteau films, this is foremost a personal exploration, a poetic total immersion into allegory and symbolism. Nevertheless, the surreal yet realistic sets, Jean Marais’s convincing prosthetic make-up – which took five hours to apply – the Vermeer-like framing by legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan, all of these were remarkable achievements given the limited means at Cocteau’s disposal. Don’t miss this fully restored big-screen presentation of the film Empire magazine ranks 26th among the 100 Best Films of World Cinema.

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