Catherine Schwartz Movies

Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills....

Samy, a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather in Algeria. But he does...

When Camille's son was killed in a car accident, the devastating loss proved too much for emotionally fragile mother to bear. Now desperately...

Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is...

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

When Paul Blick, 54, a renowned photographer, returns from a long trip abroad, he learns that his daughter Marie had been interned in a psychiatric...

A French women lives her worst nightmare when she discovers that her daughter has been radicalised, and plans to leave for her "husband" in Syria.

This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the...

April 30, 1962. The Algerian War has been over for two months, but Charles de Gaulle negotiated with the FLN during the Évian Accords to...

In 1936, French workers discover the happiness of paid vacations. Mado and her best friend Gaby decide to take advantage of it by going on vacation...

An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.

The squeaking of a black felt pen echos to children around the world, who apply themselves to making their self-portraits. Like the method put into...

When Huguette, a 78-year-old former school principal, ends up homeless because she did not pay her rent, her neighbor Marion offers her a deal: a...

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author...

Émilie leaves Paris behind the wheel of a car she can't drive. She hitchhikes the wrong way round and tries to find drivers who will take her...

Corinne Maclou is a background actor who dreams of one day being more than an extra. Confident her breakthrough is right around the corner, she...

A sunny winter morning... Two brothers on a countryside path, go intown, as usual... That day, the younger brother has a meeting with his criminal...