Arte France cinéma (Firm)

Love & friendship by Whit Stillman( visu )
11 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 1,471 libraries worldwide
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant débutante daughter, Frederica

al-Jannah al-ān = Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad( visu )
2 editions published between 2006 and 2011 in Arabic and held by 1,332 libraries worldwide
"In [Nablus] on the West Bank, Saïd and Khaled, who have volunteered to be suicide bombers, receive word it will be tomorrow, the cell's first operation in two years. They're shaven and shorn, in black suits to pose as settlers in Tel Aviv for a wedding. Something goes wrong at the crossing, they're separated, and the action is postponed, long enough for renewed questioning of what they're about to do. Suha, the well-educated and well-traveled daughter of a martyr, challenges the action. She likes Saïd and has her own ideas. 'Under the occupation, we're already dead, ' is Khaled's analysis. Fate and God's will seem to drive Saïd. We must be moral, argues Suha. Can minds change?"--Internet movie database, as viewed on May 19, 2008

Melancholia by Lars von Trier( visu )
2 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 1,263 libraries worldwide
"Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine's sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth threatening the very existence of humankind"--Container

Être et avoir = To be and to have by Nicolas Philibert( visu )
17 editions published between 2002 and 2014 in French and English and held by 1,131 libraries worldwide
George Lopez is a remarkbly devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. This film demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development. The children in an isolated village in the heart of Auvergne made their schoolteacher an international celebrity

Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako( visu )
7 editions published in 2015 in French and Tamashek and held by 1,077 libraries worldwide
"In the acclaimed new film by Abderrahmane Sissako (Bamako) the people of the Malian city, Timbuktu, struggle against an oppressive regime of terror inflicted upon them by invading Jihadists who prohibit every enjoyable indulgence of life. Meanwhile, Kidane lives a peaceful life in the nearby dunes, but when he has an altercation with a neighbour, the extremists take it upon themselves to deliver their brand of draconian justice. Passionate, humanist and enormously powerful, Timbuktu was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award and screened in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival." -- Container

Caché = Hidden by Michael Haneke( visu )
9 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in French and German and held by 1,011 libraries worldwide
Georges, de profesión periodista, empieza a recibir vídeos, rodados a escondidas en la calle en los que se le ve con su familia, acompañados por extraños e inquietantes dibujos difíciles de interpretar. No sabe quién se los manda. Poco a poco, el contenido de los vídeos se hace más personal. Georges empieza a pensar que se trata de alguien que le conoce desde hace mucho tiempo. Siente que tanto él como su familia están amenazados. Por desgracia, dicha amenaza no es explícita y la policía rehúsa tomar cartas en el asunto

The Pianist by Roman Polanski( visu )
24 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in French and held by 968 libraries worldwide
Erika is a loner. A middle aged piano teacher of some repute, she is unmarried, living with her mother in a small apartment in Vienna, her days an unending round of conservatory students, rehearsals, and dinner in front of the television. Her sex life consists of visits to sex shops and voyeurism. When she becomes involved with a student who has become infatuated with her, she tries to share her obsessions with him--with tragic results

The red turtle by Michael Dudok de Wit( visu )
9 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and No Linguistic Content and held by 899 libraries worldwide
Follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. He tries to escape the island but is prevented from doing so by a large red sea turtle. Soon he is joined by a young woman also lost at sea

Nuovomondo = Golden door by Emanuele Crialese( visu )
9 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 878 libraries worldwide
A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America

Fuocoammare = Fire at sea by Gianfranco Rosi( visu )
6 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in Italian and held by 798 libraries worldwide
Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last twenty years in search of freedom