Humbert Balsan Movies

An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

The story of a group of students' involvement with a group who oppose the French-Algerian war.

"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was...

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...

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

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

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his...

June 1944. Philippe de Chassagne, alias Marceau, a secret agent for the Free French, travels to Geneva. His departure for London having been...

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers...

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

La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the...

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1877, Isabelle left Europe for...

The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable...

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...

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian...

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

Six strong-willed women whose adventurous streak changed the face of film industry in early twentieth century Egypt – a time when the country...