Isabelle Manquillet

Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tangier, disrupt his business and the whole neighbourhood. Until the day Ramses has an actual vision.

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

In the old city of Taranto, an industrial center of the Apulia region, Maria tries to help her junkie brother Donato, who is threatened with death for an unpaid debt. She only has one option: to steal. As much as possible, as soon as possible.

As winter sets in and P.A. sees the world shifting around him, he starts to observe strange phenomena in the environment. The changes are imperceptible at first, but gradually his whole world seems to be on the brink.

Pierre Hoffman se incorpora a una prestigiosa escuela como profesor sustituto y pronto nota, entre algunos de sus alumnos, una hostilidad injustificada y una chispa de violencia en sus ojos. ¿Se debe a la tragedia indescriptible que acaban de vivir? ¿Es porque parecen ser niños extraordinariamente dotados? ¿Es porque han perdido toda esperanza en el futuro? De la curiosidad a la obsesión, Pierre intentará desvelar su secreto.

Tras despertarse y encontrarse completamente solo en un apartamento donde la noche anterior se celebraba una fiesta multitudinaria, Sam se ve obligado inmediatamente a enfrentarse a una realidad aterradora: los muertos vivientes han invadido las calles de París.

Retrato de una familia protagonizado por la propia directora, su tía y su madre, en el que de forma muy sutil y contenida nos vamos acercando a los conflictos que rodean a estas mujeres y que tuvieron su detonante en el intento de suicidio de Antonia, la tía, una cantante de ópera caída en depresión.

Afganistán, 2014. El Capitán Bonassieu está al mando de una patrulla a la que han asignado una misión de vigilancia en el valle de Wakhan. El lugar se revela como una zona difícil de controlar, y la tensión no tarda en subir. Pero lo más extraño es que, de pronto, los soldados empiezan a desaparecer.

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.

A man whose life has smiled, decides to leave everything. He abandoned his house, his car and offered astonished passers-by his possessions and his freedom of action. By freeing himself from all constraints, he hopes to become a philosopher.

Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will take an entirely different turn.

On Christmas Eve, a West suburb of Paris. Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia (25 years old) decide to take a stroll down the big park overhanging the city of their youth, musing on pop music, their work, sex and their disappointed ambitions.