Jérémie Duvall

In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.

Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.

Achille, un apuesto adolescente parisino de familia acomodada, es víctima de un violento ataque. Después de ser enviado a la playa de vacaciones para volver a la normalidad, conoce a Brian, un joven enojado. Su enfrentamiento revelará su verdadera naturaleza, y su lucha dará lugar a un asesino ...

Fifteen-year-old Sébastien Lecoeur is headed to the country for the weekend with his father. In a hurry to arrive before nightfall, his father is driving much too fast. As the car hurtles through a sleeping village at full speed, they hit a figure by the side of the road. The shape crashes against the hood of the car. Sébastien screams, but his father turns off the headlights and accelerates - could he have not seen anything? What will happen between father and son in the weeks that follow? How will the burden of this terrible secret affect their relationship? Their hit-and-run may drive them down a road neither is prepared to handle....

Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, in love and would like nothing more than to be left alone. Unfortunately, be it parents, grandparents or even teachers, everyone seems to want to meddle and interfere in their affairs.

A young French boy deals with the effects of war. Conflicts arise as his trusted neighbor and advisor is taken away by the Germans and the boy loses respect for his father, who tries to appease the German soldiers lodging in the family home.

Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...

Jo Canavaro, una estrella del rugby, nieto e hijo de dos ídolos del mismo deporte, vive con su hijo Tom, de trece años, en un pueblo francés. Para su disgusto, Tom es muy malo jugando al rugby, pero eso para un Canavaro es algo inaceptable: la leyenda debe continuar.