Gigola (2010)

George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle's nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odete, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.

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Director: Laure Charpentier
Writer: Laure Charpentier (novel)
Starring: Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer and Eduardo Noriega

Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: 25 November 2010

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The Page Turner (2006)

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes his page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.

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Original Title:La tourneuse de pages
Director: Denis Dercourt
Writers: Denis Dercourt (scenario and dialogue), Jacques Sotty (collaboration)
Starring: Catherine Frot, Déborah François and Pascal Greggory
Country: France
Language: French

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The Final Girl (2010)

After getting a job as a burlesque performer, a girl moves into an apartment where the last girl who lived there disappeared. The new girl tries to figure out what happened to the last girl as a similar fate may await her.

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Director: Todd Verow
Starring: Wendy Delorme, Véronique Lindenberg and Judy Minx
Country: USA
Language: French

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Villa Amalia (2009)

Villa Amalia is the story of Ann, a musician, whose life is turned upside down by a kiss. When she sees Thomas kissing another woman, she sets off on a journey that will take her to an island where the Villa Amalia stands.

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Director: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Xavier Beauvois
Country: France
Language: French | Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2009

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Girls Can't Swim (2000)

Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
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Original Title: Les filles ne savent pas nager
Director: Anne-Sophie Birot
Writers: Anne-Sophie Birot, Christophe Honoré
Starring: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx and Pascale Bussières
Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2000

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A Woman's Love (2001)

A lonely wife secretly starts an affair with a female dance teacher, at the distress of her husband. Jeanne attends the birthday party of a friend of her husbands. There she meets a dancer named Marie and there is instant chemistry between them. Jeanne falls for Marie and they embark on an extramarital affair.

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Original Title: Combats de femme - Un amour de femme
Director: Sylvie Verheyde
Writer: Sylvie Verheyde (story)
Stars: Hélène Fillières, Raffaëla Anderson and Anthony
Country: France
Language: French

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My Mother (2004)

"Ma mère" Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.

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Original Title: Ma mere
Director: Christophe Honoré
Writers: Georges Bataille (novel), Christophe Honoré
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Emma de Caunes
Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2004

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The Exterminating Angels (2006)

A filmmaker (van den Driessche) holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure. It has been heralded as a film that caused almost instant public scandal do to its suave, salacious and sexual charged material.

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Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Starring: Frédéric van den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil and Lise Bellynck

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A l aventure (2009)

Fed up with her present lifestyle, and more particularly sexually unsatisfied by her boyfriend Fred, Sandrine decides to find a new way in life. Intrigued by her friend Sophie, who tells her about her sexual experimentations, she will find, through various encounters, new pleasures and new experiences, whether physical or spiritual.

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Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau (screenplay)
Stars: Carole Brana, Arnaud Binard and Nadia Chibani
Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2009

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Le sable (2006)

Summer 2002 - Paris Plage. Like a moving desert that causes mirages or like the legend that says love can be found where the sky touches the sand, by some simple coincidence a miracle occurs: the sand brings Elisa, a strange, fresh, mysterious beauty.

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Director: Mario Feroce
Writer: Mario Feroce
Starring: Mahaut Rabath, Elisa Menez and Chantal DesRoches

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The New World (2008)

Lucie and Marion, a young lesbian couple in Paris, decide to have a kid. First, they go through a harrowing pro­cess.

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Director: Étienne Dhaene
Writers: Catherine Touzet, Ludovic Pion-Dumas
Stars: Natalia Dontcheva, Vanessa Larré and Grégory Fitoussi

Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: 21 May 2008
Original Title: Le nouveau monde

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Looking for Cheyenne (2005)

Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind.

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Original Title: Oublier Cheyenne
Director: Valérie Minetto
Writers: Valérie Minetto, Cécile Vargaftig
Stars: Mila Dekker, Aurélia Petit and Malik Zidi
Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2006

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Water Lilies (2007)

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance.

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Original Title: Naissance des pieuvres
Director: Céline Sciamma
Writer: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère and Adele Haenel

Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: 15 August 2007

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You Will Be Mine (2009)

Emma lives on her own in her parents huge flat in Lyon. Her father is dead, and her mother has vanished some time ago without giving any more news. She offers her only friend Marie to rent a bedroom in the flat, so that this one could pursue her studies of piano at the prestigious local music academy. From the day Mary moves in, we can see the development of a difficult lesbian relationship between the two girls.

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Original Title: Je te mangerais
Director: Sophie Laloy
Writers: Sophie Laloy
Stars: Judith Davis, Marc Chapiteau and Fabienne Babe
Country: France
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2009

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Clara's Summer (2002)

Zoé turns to Clara for moral support and then, in a moment of confusion, professes her love for her. Clara, in the midst of recognizing her own sexuality, rejects Zoé's romantic advance but soon regrets the spurn, and begins to become attracted to the beautiful and out Sonia.

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Original Title: Clara cet été là
Director: Patrick Grandperret
Writer: Nathalie Stragier
Stars: Selma Brook, Soko and Salomé Stévenin
Country: France
Language: French

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