Aïssa Maïga

Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.

Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant.

Nacida para la danza, Neneh es una niña negra de 12 años que sueña con ingresar en la Escuela de Ballet de Opera de París. A pesar de su entusiasmo, tendrá que redoblar sus esfuerzos para ser aceptada por la directora de la escuela, Marianne Bellage, la garante de las tradiciones y portadora de un secreto que la vincula con la pequeña bailarina.

Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In 18th-century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love.

In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).

12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.

12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.

An overview of 21st-century feminism through the lens of pop culture.

Con 18 años, Dorine fue la única superviviente de un accidente aéreo en el que quedó parapléjica. Esta tragedia le dio la fuerza interior para superar cualquier obstáculo que la vida le depare.

French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up on the reality of black actors in the French movie industry.

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.

Un chico de la República de Malaui decide ayudar a las personas de su pueblo construyendo una turbina después de leer un libro en el que se explican los pasos para su creación. Película basada en el libro homónimo de William Kamkwamba y Bryan Mealer

Wardi, una niña palestina de 11 años, vive en el campo de refugiados en el que ha nacido. El día en el que su bisabuelo le da la llave de su antigua casa en Galilea, ella teme que él haya perdido toda esperanza de volver a su hogar.

Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.

Paul está casado con Sali. Todo sería perfecto si pudieran tener un hijo. Un día, Sali recibe la llamada que estaban esperando desde hace tanto tiempo: su expediente de adopción es aprobado. El niño es precioso, tiene 6 meses, se llama Benjamin, es rubio con ojos azules... y es blanco. Para la familia de Sali, de raza negra, esto supone un gran choque.

Mathias Lonisse, es el fundador de una empresa dedicada a las rupturas amorosas. Se encarga de romper una relación en el lugar de aquellos que por una u otra razón prefieren evitar esta tarea dolorosa y con frecuencia difícil.

1975. Cuando Seyolo Zantoko, un médico del Congo que ha conseguido, junto con su familia, huir de la tiranía, es contratado por el alcalde de un pequeño pueblo del norte de Francia, comienza una lucha por adaptarse a una nueva vida y ganarse la confianza de los prejuiciosos habitantes del pueblo.

The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.

Slacker Max se enamoró tanto de la madre soltera Alice en la universidad que desarrolló un sitio web destinado a ganarse su corazón. Años más tarde, después de que su empresa le haya hecho ganar millones de dólares, Max arriesga toda su fortuna realizando una serie de contorsiones sociales cada vez más complicada para acercarse a Alice, ahora una trabajadora de fábrica con motivaciones políticas.

Aya, Adjoua y Bintou son tres amigas del barrio de Yopougon, en Costa de Marfil. Son jóvenes, guapas y tienen ganas de hacer cosas: una prefiere bailar, otra salir con chicos, y otra estudiar para ser algo más que un ama de casa. Lo único que quieren es vivir sus vidas, y eso ya es mucho. (FILMAFFINITY)

Adaptación de la novela "La espuma de los días de Boris Vian". Cuenta la historia de una mujer con una enfermedad poco común causada por una flor que crece en sus pulmones. Cuando Colin, su chico, se entera de la enfermedad, comenzará a trabajar en París, mientras que su entorno comienza a fragmentarse y su vivienda está cada vez más deteriorada.

Un grupo de aventureros realiza una investigación para encontrar a una criatura en la selva... el Marsupilami. Adaptación libre del cómic de André Franquin.

Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.

On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, an actor discovers that he's got stomach cancer. He must now face his shattered life.

A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.

Clémentine y Sébastien son una pareja desbordada por el trabajo y los hijos. Además, la madre de Sébastien, tras descubrir que su marido le es infiel, decide mudarse con ellos.

Mat trabaja en la policía criminal. Personaje duro y solitario, atraído por los abismos y habitado por fantasmas, ha perdido la esperanza de que su vida pueda ser distinta. Sin embargo, un día cambia su destino: Frank, su amigo del alma, le propone un plan ambicioso y sencillo: malversar dinero sucio. (FILMAFFINITY)

An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son’s secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood.

A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.

Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.

Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the past year but he gets scared when it’s time to commit. So he gives himself 24 hours to decide whether or not to break up with the woman he loves, convinced she will leave him sooner or later. By his side, Samuel can count on Jorge and Mounir, his usual confidants.

Para tranquilizar a su ansiosa familia, Luis contrata a Emma, la hermana de un compañero de trabajo, para simular que tiene una relación amorosa. El plan es sencillo: el día de la boda, Emma lo dejará plantado, causándole un desgarrador sufrimiento. De este modo espera conseguir que tanto su madre como sus hermanas renuncien a la idea de casarlo.

Martha is 30 years old in 2031. She spent a happy childhood in a family not quite like the others since she was adopted by two men. Now, one of them is dead and the other is losing his memory

Claire es una joven de 19 años. Cuando regresa a casa después de vacaciones, sus padres le dicen que Loïc, su hermano gemelo, se ha ido de casa tras una fuerte discusión con su padre. Como Loïc no se pone en contacto con ella, Lili termina por creer que algo malo ha sucedido, y decide ir en su busca...

Melé canta en un bar, su marido Chaka está en el paro y la pareja está a punto de romper. El patio de la casa que comparten con otras familias se ha convertido en una sala de juicios: portavoces de la sociedad civil africana acusan al Banco Mundial y al Fondo Monetario Internacional de los males que afligen a África. Y mientras se suceden las declaraciones de acusadores, defensores y testigos, la vida en el patio continúa. Chaka no parece muy preocupado por este deseo insólito de África de luchar por sus derechos. (FILMAFFINITY)

En París, el amor está por todas partes: en sus bares y cafés, bajo la Torre Eiffel e incluso bajo tierra, en el metro. Algunos de los directores más prestigiosos del mundo fueron invitados a contar una historia ambientada en uno de los barrios de la ciudad. El resultado es un caleidoscopio de imágenes sobre la alegría de vivir, sobre extraños e inesperados encuentros y, especialmente, sobre el amor.

Georges es el típico burgués: presenta un programa literario en televisión y lleva una vida acomodada con su mujer y su hijo adolescente. Pero, empieza a recibir unos paquetes anónimos que contienen cintas de vídeo, grabadas desde la calle, y unos dibujos inquietantes cuyo significado es un misterio. No sabe quién los envía; sin embargo, las secuencias que aparecen en las cintas se hacen cada vez más personales, lo que sugiere que el remitente le conoce desde hace algún tiempo. Georges siente que una amenaza se cierne sobre él y su familia, pero, puesto que no hay evidencias de delito alguno, la policía se niega a ayudarlo.

Continuación de "Una casa de locos". Xavier ya es escritor, pero ni su vida profesional ni su vida sentimental marchan bien. Para salir adelante, se ve obligado a aceptar trabajos mediocres (telenovelas, series de televisión). Su caótica vida se complica aún más cuando tiene que cuidar al hijo de su ex-novia y a su abuelo materno. Además, corre el riesgo de perder su trabajo si no viaja a Londres y a San Petersburgo. Pero, paradójicamente, gracias a estos viajes conseguirá poner orden en su trabajo y en su vida amorosa.

A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.

Isabelle Blanc, a 30 years old biologist who works at the university, awakes in an hospital and doesn't remember why she is in the hospital.Little by little the doctor explains her that she had an accident driving by night under the rain and that accident provoked the death of a person.After her work Isabelle met her companion Vincent and then went alone by car: Vincent called her by cell phone, they spoke about their future and Vincent wanted that Isabelle listens to to a song; then came the crash.After going with Vincent to the place of the accident (where she saw a bouquet of flowers for the dead person) Isabelle reads in the newspaper the death notice of Marie Delhomme.

A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.

With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.

Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show. Governed by their overprotective boss, the girls' routine of glittery neon lights and lecherous customers is soon disrupted when an enigmatic stranger enters the scene. Now, drugs, sex and bickering all take a back seat as the girls unite to save this man haunted by a mysterious past and unforgiving demons. A fascinating glimpse into a world of back alleys and primal instincts, The Bathers transports us to a netherworld where the show always goes on.

Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.

A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.

Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging parish priest Father Andre. Sebastien becomes involved in an auto accident that sends him into a coma; after he remains unconscious for three months, Lise begins to panic, desperate for a remedy that medical science can't provide. When she is told of a field in a village in rural France where a miracle is said to have occurred some years before -- an apparition of the Virgin Mary arrived to provide food for a group of starving children -- Lise wants to travel to the site of the miracle to pray for her son. She also insists that Father Andre come along, but the priest is not eager to go, due to his age, his health, and his increasing cynicism about religion. Lise is persistent, however, and before long the two are on the road in search of a much-needed miracle.

Una serie de acontecimientos desencadenados por un evento nimio conecta las vidas de los protagonistas de esta película: una inmigrante rumana, un profesor de música, una actriz y su novio que es fotógrafo de guerra, así como el hermano de éste, que intenta por todos los medios no heredar la granja de su padre.

It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium.

After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.