Anne Berest (Writing)

Mixing

Chanel’s first fashion show in Dakar in 2023 was historic – not least because of the historically significant venue of the Palace of Justice, a colonial edifice from former "French West Africa". Karine Silla's film about this event focusses on questions of identity, transmission and exchange, and how art and beauty can bring people together.

Release Date:2023-11-22

Character:Herself - writer

Fragments of a Life Loved

For over thirty years, between Paris and Rome, Chloé Barreau has been filming her love life. While in a relationship, she would already build its memory by filming, taking pictures, writing about it… but what do her exes remember? What is their side of the story? This film traces a woman's life, based exclusively on the interviews of people who loved her. Intimate testimonies and private items reveal the universal paths of the feeling of love.

Release Date:2023-09-13

Vote Count:3

Other People's Children

Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?

Release Date:2022-09-21

Character:Jeanne

Vote Count:211

Valiant Hearts

In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings from private collections that would be hidden there as well.

Release Date:2022-05-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:17

Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, la femme au cerveau érotique

By her intelligence and her avant-gardism, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia influenced the revolution of the modern art operated by her husband, the painter Francis Picabia, and their friends (Apollinaire, Duchamp...). The fascinating portrait, in the first person, of an inspirer who has long remained in the shadows.

Release Date:2022-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Just Love!

Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.

Release Date:2013-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Vie privée

A psychiatrist mounts her own investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

DNA

DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.

Release Date:2020-12-10

Character:Anne

Vote Count:160

Mythomaniac

Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.

Release Date:2019-09-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:21

Paris etc.

Five women and Paris. Five ways of being, crying, screaming and laughing, missing the bus, grinding teeth, enjoying, not enjoying, drinking too much, growing up, resisting, making a child or not, do not wanting to go home... Five ways to love. Five everyday heroines across Paris, from the start of the school year to the Christmas holidays.

Release Date:2017-11-27

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:6