Humbert Balsan Movies

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to...

Just before taking an irrevocable and tragic step, Caroline talks to Claire, her lycée friend. Later, Claire gathers five other school...

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and...

Lunettes and Myope: two ways of resisting the world. Identical and opposites, face to face or, more often, back to back, in a small room in a...

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

In a suburb of Paris, a group of teenagers enjoys the last days of summer vacation. They meet in cafes, restaurants or disco, talking about first...

A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a...

The story is inspired by the biblical myth of Lazarus. The main character is called Lazarus who was a follower of Jesus, brother of Martha and Mary...

A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other...

A quiet French peasant has spent three years as a corporal on the front lines in World War I, and one day he cannot take it anymore and goes AWOL,...

Her mother had advised her to marry to acquire respectability and material comfort, the obedient little girl married a successful Catholic writer a...

An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Julien Gracq. Four soldiers await a possible German attack on a fortified house in the forest of the...

A documentary that sheds light on Rose al-Yusuf's life as told by a group of those who lived with her and had close ties with her or through the eyes...

A young girl is deprived of her baby: her descent into hell begins. Still in high-school, Agnès leaves her alcoholic father, finds a...

A documentary which depicts the life of Bassem Samra and his friends and family. The film discusses issues concerning love and the veil.

Mimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and...

A documentary about the singing movement in Egypt, and on the role of the song in the social and political conflict, as it shows the lives of Umm...