7.3

Elle s'appelait Sarah

2010, France

• Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Mashkevich, Arben Bajraktaraj, Sarah Ber, Karina Hin, James Gerard, Charlotte Poutrel, Joseph Rezwin, Kate Moran, Paul Mercier, Alexandre Le Provost, Serpentine Teyssier, Simon Eine, Julie Fournier, Paige Jennifer Barr, Joanna Merlin, George Birt, Vinciane Millereau, Sylviane Fraval, Dan Herzberg, Nancy Tate, Frederick Guillaud, Maurice Lustyk
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Gilles Paquet-Brenner
• Available languages:
  • French French.

One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year old Sarah and her family are being arrested, she hides her younger brother in a closet. After realizing she will not be allowed to go home, Sarah does whatever she can to get back to her brother. In 2009, a journalist named Julia is on assignment to write a story on the deported Jews in 1942. When she moves into her father-in-law's childhood apartment, she realizes it once belonged to the Strazynski family, and their daughter Sarah.

  6.3

Villa Amalia

2009, France, Switzerland

• Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Xavier Beauvois, Maya Sansa, Clara Bindi, Viviana Aliberti, Michelle Marquais, Peter Arens, Ignazio Oliva, Jean-Pierre Gos, Jean-Michel Portal, Maurice Bernart, Jean Coulon, Massato, Florence d'Azémar, Arno Feffer, Jean-Christophe Folly, Sabri Lahmer, Amélie Orio, Hervé Walbecq, Claudine Acs, Sandra Aliberti, Anne Beaumond, Giovanni Caltabiano, Josette Dyevre, Irène Grandadam, Michèle Lorent, Clothilde Moynot, Catherine Pouzet, Amélie Sane
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Benoît Jacquot
• Available languages:
  • French French.

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, Ann makes a clean break, leaving him and everything else far behind her. Suddenly unsure of everything that seemed so certain, Ann knows only that she must change her life and become someone else to find herself. With her music and the friendship of Georges, who pops out of her distant past, she sets off on a journey that will take her to an island where the Villa Amalia stands.

  7.6

Babel

2005, France, USA, Mexico

• Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight, Harriet Walter, Trevor Martin, Matyelok Gibbs, Georges Bousquet, Claudine Acs, André Oumansky, Michael Maloney, Dermot Crowley, Wendy Nottingham, Henry Maratray, Linda Broughton, Jean Marc Hulot, Aline Mowat, Liliane Escoza, Lynsey Beauchamp, Michel Dubois, Shirley Dixon, Patrick Lebre, John O'Mohoney, Mary Mitchell, Edward Lyon, Robert Fyfe, Abdelaziz Merzoug, Omar El Mallouli, El Hassan Ait Bablal, Sfia Ait Benboullah
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • English English.

4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.