Virginie Surdej

Halim lleva mucho tiempo casado con Mina, con quien regenta una tienda tradicional de caftanes en la medina de Salé, una de las más antiguas de Marruecos. La pareja vive desde siempre con un secreto que Halim ha aprendido a ocultar, pero la enfermedad de Mina y la llegada a la tienda de un joven aprendiz amenazan con perturbar este equilibrio. Unidos por el amor, cada uno tratará de ayudar al otro a enfrentarse a sus miedos.

Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.

At the age of 64, Helena announces her intention to pursue sexual experiences with other men much to the shock of her husband of 40 years. A powerful exploration of late-life desire and emancipation.

El final de una larga renovación del legendario Hotel Chelsea se anhela pero también se teme por parte de los artistas que aún viven allí. La película nos permite acceder a sus apartamentos y entrelaza el pasado con el presente.

Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when she’s in Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a girl who has just moved to the same small town with her alcoholic mother and her 8 year-old brother. In Ragna, Ester sees what she has been looking for her whole life. Unaware that Ragna sees the exact same thing in Ester, and especially Ester’s father. The attraction of opposites makes them best friends. Together they dream about getting away from their boring life on the island, but soon they realize that it’s only their own self that they want to escape from.

During his thirty-year career, Walter Hus, a Belgian composer and pianist, has taken a thousand musical faces. While he wanted to compose a new work, a crisis blocked his creation. During an exchange with his therapist, he comes to an existential question: "Who am I musically? » Through the portrait of this composer, as abundant as it is fascinating, the film aims to give access to his creative process and thus to the endurance and beauty of creation.

Un drama realista ambientado en el centro cultural del barrio de Casablanca Sidi Moumen, un suburbio pobre que se hizo infame en 2003 debido a un ataque terrorista perpetrado por lugareños.

Abla regenta una humilde pastelería en su propia vivienda de Casablanca, donde vive sola con Warda, su hija de 8 años. Su rutina, dictada por el trabajo y las labores domésticas, se ve un día interrumpida cuando alguien llama a su puerta. Se trata de Samia, una joven embarazada que busca empleo y techo. A la pequeña le atrae la recién llegada desde el primer momento, pero la madre se opone inicialmente a acoger a la extraña en su casa. Poco a poco, sin embargo, la determinación de Abla va cediendo y la llegada de Samia les abre a las tres la posibilidad de una nueva vida.

Guatemala, 2013. El país está fascinado por el juicio de los oficiales militares que comenzaron la guerra civil. Los testimonios de las víctimas siguen llegando. Ernesto, un joven antropólogo de la Fundación Forense, identifica a las personas que han desaparecido. Un día, a través de la historia de una anciana, Ernesto cree que ha encontrado una pista que le permitirá encontrar a su padre, un guerrillero que desapareció durante la guerra.

A finales de la década de 1980, Qodrat, de 15 años, vive en las calles de Kabul y vende entradas de cine en el mercado negro. Es un gran fanático de Bollywood y se sueña despierto en algunas de sus escenas de películas favoritas. Un día, la policía lo lleva al orfanato soviético. Pero en Kabul la situación política está cambiando. Qodrat y todos los niños quieren defender su hogar.

An intimate and vital account of love and friendship within a group of youngsters. They live in a complex, contradictory, and isolated world – the self-proclaimed state of Transnistra, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. Tanya plans to move abroad, however future seems to offer frighteningly limited possibilities for her lovestruck friends.

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Oum Yazan, madre de tres hijos, atrapada dentro de su casa en una ciudad sitiada, convirtió su apartamento en un puerto seguro para su familia y vecinos, tratando de protegerlos de la guerra. Cuando las bombas amenazan con destruir el edificio, los francotiradores convierten los patios en zonas mortales, y los ladrones entran a reclamar sus terribles recompensas, mantener el equilibrio de la rutina dentro de las paredes se convierte en una cuestión de vida o muerte.

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

Clotilde and Aude are 18. They have always been best friends, growing up together in the same small village in the South of France. Despite their differences, they have a strong and exclusive friendship. With their contrasts they attract each other, and they seem to be enough for one another. But Clotilde, looking for something else, decides to leave to study in Paris the following year, after the baccalaureate. She takes Aude along with her in this departure far from their roots. Refusing to admit that their paths are separating little by little, Clotilde and Aude persuade themselves that their friendship can survive anything.

In a classroom in Telemark, five little girls carry on Norwegian cultural heritage in their spare time. In the film, the five happy and bright girls convey song and life joy, language and tradition knowledge together with Agnes Buen Garnås.

Irritated by Catholicism, Linda, an American-based, Blonde Caucasian, falls in love with Qater-based Ali Al-Saigel, adopts the Islamic faith, and gets married. She follows her new faith to the letter, and subsequently gives birth to seven children (four daughters and three sons), brings them up according to true Islamic dictum's, and reflects on her 20-year married life, her children, as well as her reaction when her husband indicates that he wants to re-marry.