Nicole and her son Serge live in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, where their love for each other thrives against all odds. But as Christmas approaches, Nicole has her checkbook and credit card confiscated, turning their relationship and their lives upside down.
A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate. One night she flees from the plantation, hoping to escape violence and seek freedom in a remote part of the island, where a community of fugitives is said to live. As the plantation owner hires the merciless slave hunter Madame La Victoire and her sons to pursue Mati, Massamba realises the brutal consequences awaiting his daughter if she’s captured. He has no choice but to break his chains and set off on a desperate search for her. As a relentless hunt ensues in the island’s unforgiving jungle, the father and daughter forever break away from the colonial order.
Sylvie lives with her two children whom she’s raising on her own. One evening, there’s an accident, and her youngest son is removed from her care. Sylvie must subsequently fight to get her son back and to keep herself afloat.
One night, three young men shoot the owners of a hunting lodge. The man who hired them claims he only asked them to do one thing: scare the people who were resisting him. How do you come to kill when you're barely twenty and there's no war going on?
The thirty-two emerging talents of French cinema running for the César for Best Female Revelation and the César for Best Male Revelation are brought together in a short film directed by Senegalese photographer Malick Bodian.
Through a short film bringing together those who will embody the cinema of tomorrow, Yolande Zauberman captures the joy, the beauty and the plurality of this vibrant youth, eager to play, to dance, to live, while our daily lives are harshly jostled.
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
L'épreuve du feu
In a working-class town, Anthony and Dylan, two inseparable 14-year-old teenagers decide to go on a walk for a retro house party in a nightclub called the Komplex. While one wants to join Océane, a young girl with whom he is in love, the other wants to escape from Joe, his brother's dealer, from whom he stole money and part of his stock.
Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.
What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Ten-year-old Solwei and Louis, her eighteen-year-old brother, have a car accident and find themselves in the middle of the night in a small, unfamiliar town. Here they meet with Alma, a mystical woman, whose contact details had been given to them. A truly strange night then begins.
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.
Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.
Biopic about French cult hip-hop duet Supreme NTM. A story of Paris suburbs, protests, police brutality that shaped the music of JoeyStarr and Kool Shen.
The story of Emma Sandrelli, a doctor who is close to her patients and caring mother, whose life is about to explode when she learns that her husband has had an affair with a young woman for several months. Then begins for her a real descent into hell that will lead her very, very far... Adaptation of the British series "Doctor Foster."
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