Abdelaziz Boupacha
Djamel's Uncle
Estamos en el extrarradio de París, en un barrio de Sarcelles llamado “La pequeña Jerusalén” por los muchos emigrantes judíos que allí viven. Laura tiene 18 años y se encuentra dividida entre su educación religiosa y sus estudios de filosofía, que le ofrecen otra visión del mundo y la apasionan. Mientras que su hermana Mathilde trata de reencauzar su vida de pareja, Laura se rinde en brazos de su primer amor...
Werner's Father
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.
Malik, who grew up in Paris suburbs, dreams to move to Canada. Someone will give him a chance. But, when you are an unlucky guy by nature, it is hard to keep its chance.
Le voisin
Père de Mouloud
Ser profesor en un barrio conflictivo de París puede entrañar ciertos riesgos, cosa que pronto experimentará Laurent, un profesor de Geografía e Historia que siempre estuvo en escuelas de provincia.
Mohcène
Un restaurante parisino cierra sus puertas tras permanecer varias décadas abiertas. Su última cena estará compuesta por amigos, familia, vecinos y clientes.
M. Baamri
Eleven-year-old Laïd lives in war-torn Lebanon. Chosen and trained by an extremist organisation, he has been forced to enter the adult world far too early. He has been transformed into a fanatical and programmed machine, whose life could be summed up in the words "kill without hesitation".Because of his intellect and his commitment to the holy war he is handpicked for a deadly assignment in Paris. But in order to get access to the target he has to learn how to merge in, to become an ordinary eleven-year-old. Karim becomes his role model. Karim is the same age as Laïd and grew up in one of the Paris suburbs. He is carefree and "hip" and becomes the perfect teacher in a world of skateboards, rap music and video games.Despite the cultural differences, despite the fact that one of them is an indoctrinated machine and the other one a perfectly ordinary carefree boy, a friendship begins to grow between the two.
Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an Algerian war veteran who tolerates living with the immigrants at the low-income housing project as long as the two factions are separated. Djemila's older brother carries bitter hatred for the French over their invasion of Algeria. Both young lovers fall victim to the intolerance of their families when their relatives discover that the two are engaged in a passionate love affair.
Salah
A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
