Fernandez, narcotics squad
Driss y Manuel son dos amigos de la infancia que acaban tomando caminos distintos: Manuel va por el camino de la delincuencia, mientras que Driss se convierte en policía. Cuando uno de los tratos de Manuel sale mal, los dos hombres se reencuentran y descubren que se necesitan el uno al otro para sobrevivir en sus mundos.
Jean
La historia sigue a Tony, quien está ingresada en un centro de rehabilitación después de una grave caída esquiando. Dependiente del personal médico y los analgésicos, se toma el tiempo necesario para recordar una tumultuosa historia con Georgio. ¿Por qué se han querido? ¿quién es realmente el hombre al que amaba? ¿cómo fue capaz de someterse a una pasión tan sofocante como destructiva? Tony inicia ahora una difícil reconstrucción, un trabajo corporal que quizá le permita romper permanentemente con todo.
Rene
Argelia, 1954. En medio del duro invierno, Daru (Viggo Mortensen), un profesor francés, acepta de mala gana escoltar a Mohamed (Reda Kateb), un hombre acusado de asesinato, a través de las montañas Atlas para que se enfrente a juicio. Perseguidos por hombres que reclaman la ley de la sangre y por colonos revanchistas, los dos hombres se rebelan. Juntos lucharán para recuperar la libertad.
Daniel
A couple leaves their child at kindergarten one Friday morning. The child's grandmother will pick the child up in the evening and look after him during the weekend. The parents are going on a journey to another country.
Le pianiste
La joven extrovertida Baya Benmahmoud vive según el clásico lema: "Haz el amor y no la guerra". Con el fin de convertirlos en su causa, dormirá con sus enemigos políticos, lo que implica una gran cantidad de hombres conservadores. Por ahora ha logrado buenos resultados hasta que conoce a Arthur Martin, de unos cuarenta años. Baya se imagina que con un nombre común (hay más de 10.000 Arthur Martin en Francia), está destinado a ser un verdadero conservador y difícil por lo tanto de convertir. Sin embargo, los nombres son traicioneros y las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen. Baya y Arthur son tan diferentes como dos personas pueden serlo, pero cuando se enamoran, las cosas cambian.
Bomze
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
Johnny
A dramatic love story, set in 1968 in the Gévaudan region. Jacques, in his thirties, is driving at high speed on a steep road. He is drunk. At the same time, in a hospital, Lou, his wife, gives birth to their child, but the delivery goes badly. When the child appears, Lou is still sleeping. Jacques tries to forget their existence in the arms of a girl.
Lazare
The story is inspired by the biblical myth of Lazarus. The main character is called Lazarus who was a follower of Jesus, brother of Martha and Mary who was resurrected by Jesus.
Reymond
Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, where the young mother shows signs of increasing mental instability. Abandoning her family, Marthe goes to town to get drunk and ends up being raped. With Marthe in a psychiatric hospital, Reymond is left to take care of Lise alone whilst struggling to make a living selling second hand clothes in an open-air market. When Marthe leaves hospital, Reymond takes her and Lise to a holiday home in the country. But Martha’s illness is far from cured…
Guy's father was a hero during the French Resistance era but he never talks about it, or so little. When he dies,Guy, his brother and his sister have him incinerated, following a wish their dad had expressed when he was still alive. But Guy soon starts feeling uncomfortable about this move. Haven't they, by cremating the body of their father, make a hero disappear from man's memory? Haven't they used the same method as the Nazis to get rid of the remains of a hated enemy?
March 1945. The Japanese army launches a sudden and extremely brutal assault against the French garrisons in the Far East. Thousands of civilians and soldiers were executed. Hunted by the Japanese enemy, a column of legionnaires already weakened by alcohol and disease decides to enter the jungle to try to reach China and the allied bases.
