Rachel Lang (Director)

White Turnips Make It Hard to Sleep

1. Find a reassuring explanation for a bout of sleeplessness: the eating of white turnips; 2. Observe the mechanisms of passion; 3. Escape inadequate ideas. It’s the story of a breakup.

Release Date2011-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count8

Bad Mothers

Sarah’s perfect life as a GP, wife and mother is shattered when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Then her best friend is found murdered and Sarah’s husband, Anton, is arrested. She finds unlikely sisterhood and support in a ragtag group of outsiders.

Release Date2019-02-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count12

Our Men

They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common : The Foreign Legion, their new family. Our Men tells these stories : stories of women who struggle to keep their love fire burning; stories of men who leave for battle; stories of loving couples on hostile ground.

Release Date2021-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

Baden Baden

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.

Release Date2016-05-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count35

Mata

Wounded while on a clandestine operation in Niger, French secret agent Mata loses track of her colleague Antoine, captured on the spot. Upon her return, she volunteers for a counter-espionage mission in the Alps, with the intuition that this new assignment might somehow be connected to her traumatic mission in Africa. Haunted by Antoine’s captivity and convinced that her managers are hiding information from her, Mata embarks on a race against time, outside any official framework... at the risk of losing everything.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

For You I Will Fight

19 years old and with nothing else to do, Ana joins the army and, through the enforced discipline and comradeship, begins to find her way in the world.

Release Date2010-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

When Comes the Night

Marie, 22, works in her parent’s hotel-restaurant, a place of hard-work where three generations mix but barely speak to each other. Suzanne, 42, shows up for the night. She ends up staying two nights, then three and finally settles for a moment. To Marie, she’s a simple customer. Yet Suzanne did not choose this hotel by accident.

Release Date2019-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Zino

Zinedine, not yet 16, had never thought about becoming an actor and playing the lead role in a feature. He was training at his boxing club in Aubervilliers, when Cynthia invites him to come to a casting. Helier chose him.

Release Date2013-12-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector