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“In re-viewing our Super 8 films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade after 1968. I wanted to incorporate these silent images into a story which combined the intimate with the social and with history, to convey the taste and colour of those years.” Annie Ernaux

A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.

When a former racer faces the prospect of his car repair shop and go-kart track being foreclosed, he comes up with a daring plan: to win the prize for the big race on the Bilster Berg. He has one month to turn his old Opel into a rocket from the old days, but his ex-wife suddenly enters his life with a request to take care of their son.

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Ten-year-old Lucy is well-behaved, honest, polite and always in a good mood. But one day there's a hiss and an explosion - and the ice cream machine in Lucy's family's gelateria is broken. What to do now? With no one willing to extend credit for the expensive repair, Lucy soon sees only one way out: she plans to rob a bank to save the family business from bankruptcy. She takes lessons from a disreputable classmate to learn how to steal, lie, cheat and blackmail. But nice Lucy doesn't turn into an evil gangster as easily as she thinks ...

Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anything to help him get his head out of the water.

Giulia Tonelli, principal dancer at the Zurich Opera House, returns from maternity leave. She has to fight to find her place and a new balance, between the competitive and extremely demanding world of an elite ballet company and her new family life.

February 1927. After the death of Marcel Pericourt, his daughter, Madeleine, must take over the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who in an unexpected and tragic move sets her on the path to ruin and downfall. Faced with the adversity of men, the corruption of her environment and the ambition of her entourage, Madeleine will have to do everything possible to survive and rebuild her life. This task is all the more difficult in a France that watches, powerless, the 'first colors of the fire' that will ravage Europe.

The story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma Sztáray. Far from the kitschy “Sissi” cliché, she portrays a woman who, for years without her husband, surrounded only by women, ventured on journeys throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.

Spring 1945, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador to Germany flees bombed-out Berlin after eight years of service in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a terrible mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and security of his country. He went through the war, but will he survive the peace?