Elsa Houben

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.

Arthur, 15, has a crush on Ouassima, who does not even look at him ... While he has never been upset, she goes out with Matt, the handsome kid from college. To get closer to her, Arthur gathers a group of single losers and offers to give them lessons in fishing, at 10 euros per lesson. In the changing rooms of the swimming pool, a long intimate and collective learning begins on "girls and love: instructions for use".

Following the separation of her parents, Tania, 14 years old, arrives in a French middle school. Having grown up in Finland, she experiences this event as a real uprooting. Especially since she played a very special sport there, "hobby horsing", in a very close-knit team.

Cadence runs away during an unwanted road trip with her mother. Looking through her binoculars leads her to an unexpected meeting with two refugees.

Luna es ingresada en un hospital con moratones. Los padres declaran que se trata de un angioedema hereditario, pero el médico que atiende a la niña se niega a realizarle las pruebas.

Mathilde, de nueve años, aprovecha al máximo el último día de vacaciones en la playa con su banda de amigos. Su padre va a malinterpretar uno de sus juegos.

Un hombre intenta que su esposa se enamore de él nuevamente, luego de despertarse en una realidad alternativa donde ella nunca lo conoció.

Everything goes for the best in Fanny's life without stories ... until she discovers that her beloved son, Arthur, nine, is the scapegoat of three boys at his school. Fanny will not leave her son alone in front of these little executioners: she will give these dirty kids the change of their room. Thunderstorms and playground traps, now it will be "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!"

After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels ready to set foot in the zoo owned by his parents, where he is reunited with the monkeys and tigers he grew up with... But with a father who is an out-of-control womanizer, a brother who is far too sensible, and a sister who is far too beautiful, he unknowingly sets himself up to experience the last days of his childhood.

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself. One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North. Begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling world of motherly love, only to find out that sometimes the true opponent is yourself.

¿Qué pasaría si Dios existiese...y viviese en Bruselas? Dios en la tierra es un cobarde, con patéticos códigos morales y odioso con su familia. Su hija, Ea, se aburre en casa y no puede soportar estar encerrada en ese pequeño apartamento en la ordinaria Bruselas, hasta que un día decide rebelarse contra su padre, entra en su ordenador y le dice a todo el mundo el día en el que morirá, con lo que hace que de repente todos se pongan a pensar que hacer con los días, meses, o años que les quedan por vivir.

En un pequeña localidad francesa, un niño de 12 años es arrollado por un coche cuando iba en bicicleta. El conductor, un vecino sin escrúpulos, se da a la fuga y abandona al muchacho en la cuneta...

In “The Girl,” art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting, and German-Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime converge with the technological advances of cinema to create a powerful work that both unsettles and inspires.