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Sommet de la francophonie 2024

Du livre au film

15 films

The month of March is an opportunity to celebrate our beautiful language in the four corners of the globe through the links that Cinema and Literature have always nourished.

Sommet de la francophonie 2024
  • Experimental film, Drama, Biopic
  • 2023
  • France, Belgium
  • 1h33
by Mona Achache

I have an impossible dream: to raise my mother from the dead so she can tell me why she ended it all.

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2023
  • France
  • 1h45
by Valérie Donzelli

When Blanche Renard meets Greg Lamoureux, she believes she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow rapidly; they are caught up in a great passion. Ignoring her fears, Blanche abandons her family and her twin sister, Rose, with dreams of reinventing herself – and little by little finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man. A man whose true nature she is too ashamed, too afraid, to reveal. There are only two ways out. Either his victim will break, or she will free herself...

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2023
  • France
  • 1h59
by Pierre Jolivet

Brittany, France. Following the recent deaths of locals on Breton beaches, a reporter comes to investigate the mystery surrounding algae that may be a cause of these tragic events. As evidence is being covered up and threats to her research mount up, she realizes that some politicians with close ties to prominent local corporations are working to stop her from uncovering the shocking truth.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h58
by Vanessa Filho

Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff. A very smart and manipulative man, the fifty-year-old renowned writer seduces the young girl. The adolescent becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political establishment. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually starts to realize how destructive and anormal the situation is, until she finally sees Gabriel Matzneff for the predator he really is. Vanessa now has a long journey to free herself from his influence and heal from her suffering…

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h30
by Frédéric Sojcher

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, reunites with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. In an extraordinary masterclass, where the intimate rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie teaches Vincent and his students that the art of screenwriting is the art of living passionately.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h37
by Baya Kasmi

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble starts when his new novel meets with success, because Youssef can't help but draw inspiration from his own environment, for better or worse. Now he has to do everything in his power to prevent his book from falling into the hands of his family...

  • Comedy, Literary adaptation
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h39
by Murielle Magellan

When Eloise wakes up, she has no memories of her past. Her friends, her job, her family, her life: she truly is a mystery to herself. Patching a few pieces together, Eloise manages to find her flat and her job. However, with no recollection of who she was, she finds herself navigating someone else life. As the days go, Eloise discovers who she was and is not fond of it. Eloise realizes her amnesia is an opportunity. It is time for a fresh start!

  • Literary adaptation, Comedy-drama, Biopic, Young audience
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h26
by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre

Once upon a time, there was a little boy drawn in black ink. This little boy went off to win the hearts of millions of readers. From the school yard to the beach, from Paris to the countryside, join Little Nicholas with his family and friends for exciting new adventures.

  • Literary adaptation, Comedy, Young audience
  • 2022
  • Ivory Coast, France
  • 26min
by Alexandre Coste

Marguerite Abouet, Louise and Baptiste Grosfilley Based on the original comic book published by Gallimard Jeunesse “Akissi” by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin, inspired by the graphic world of Clément Oubrerie,

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 2h30
by Xavier Giannoli

Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th-century France. He has great expectations and wants to forge a destiny. He leaves the family printing business in his native province to try his luck in Paris, on the arm of his protector. Soon left to his own devices in the fabulous city, the young man will discover the backstage of a world dedicated to the law of profit and pretense. A human comedy where everything is bought and sold, literature as well as the press, politics as well as feelings, reputations as well as souls. He will love, he will suffer, and survive his illusions.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h45
by Marc Dugain

Felix Grandet tyrannically rules the humble provincial house where he lives with his wife and daughter Eugenie who lead a precarious and joyless existence alongside him. The sudden visit of Grandet’s nephew, an idle and bankrupt Parisian dandy, awakens the tender soul of Eugenie who instantly falls in love with him. But Grandet is more than ever ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of money. Even his own daughter…

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h25
by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas

Labidi is a struggling young writer who, after a small hit with a short story, is trying to publish his first novel. While he lives in a small room with his roommate and best friend Aleksei, delivering food on his bike to survive, he meets Elisa, a student. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, he doesn’t always make the right choices. Labidi will soon be confronted to the realities of everyday life, at the expense of his writing.

  • Comedy-drama, Thriller
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h27
by Laurent Cantet

I am sharp and wise. I know poetry and politics. I raised from a social underworld to an exposed position as a provocative Parisian author. I published a novel but I also write in 140 signs on social media. And when I do, I hit my target. That's why they all me want out!

  • Drama
  • 2020
  • France, Tunisia
  • 1h40
  • last chance
by Kaouther Ben Hania

Sam Ali, a sensitive and impulsive young Syrian, flees his country for Lebanon to escape the war. In order to get to Europe and live with the love of his life, he agrees to have his back tattooed by the world's most sultry contemporary artist. But as he transforms his body into a prestigious work of art, Sam discovers that his decision has come at the cost of his freedom.

  • Literary adaptation
  • 2016
  • France
  • 2h11
by Eric Barbier

From his difficult childhood in Poland, his adolescence beneath the sun of Nice, to his adventures as a pilot in Africa during the Second World War, Romain Gary lived an extraordinary life. But Gary owed his fury for a thousand different lives, to become a great man and a famous writer, to his mother Nina. It was the crazy love of this endearing and eccentric mother that will make him one of the major novelists of the twentieth century with a life full of twists and turns, passions, and mysteries. But this boundless maternal love will also be his burden throughout his life.

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