Baya Belal

Odile, a textile worker, and her colleagues are told to evaluate newly-arrived young Tunisian women over a span of four days. Although there is no good solution, Odile will try to make the right choice.

Abdel has been working in a café in France for several years. His wife Zaina stayed on the other side of the Mediterranean. This evening, Abdel's young neighbors are celebrating: new software allowing them to call the homeland has become available. Between excitement and impatience, Abdel gets ready for his first Skype call.

Chahine is going to be a father for the first time. He then realizes that his history and that of his parents escapes him. He becomes determined to get some answers.

Yassine es un joven estudiante de Marruecos que viene a París con un visado de estudiante para estudiar arquitectura. Pero por un golpe de mala suerte, suspende los exámenes, pierde el visado y se queda sin papeles en Francia. Para solucionarlo y evitar la deportación, le pide a su mejor amigo, Fred, que se case con él.

Jérôme has killed Driss, of Moroccan ancestry, who used to be his best friend. Is it an accident, a drama caused by jealousy or a racist murder? The story of Jérôme's long drift is discovered as the police carry out its investigation.

Uno de los miembros de una banda de ladrones comete un grave error que les obliga a trabajar para una despiadada banda de narcotraficantes, poniendo en peligro el futuro del equipo, sus vidas y las de sus familias.

Four first short films by young filmmakers. An initiative by director Houda Benyamina, produced by her association "1000 visages" (1000 faces).

Sofiane lives in a high-rise block at the edges of Paris. A violent young man, he tries to be like his gang of friends. However, Sofiane is attracted to guys. Through his contradictions, he embodies the confusion of today's idle young people who have lost their bearings and live withdrawn into themselves.

30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.

Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen in love with the attractive young woman, Arnaud decides to pass himself off as an ordinary street guy named...Mohamed.

Un generoso médico lleva a Bélgica a un joven marroquí, a quien educa como si fuera su hijo. Cuando el joven se enamora y decide fundar una familia, su esposa se encuentra encerrada en un clima afectivo irrespirable que tendrá un desarrollo insidioso. Con la llegada de los hijos, la pareja se hace cada vez más dependiente del médico. El altruismo sin límites del doctor se convierte en poder.

Jafar es un pescador palestino de Gaza. Un día encuentra en sus redes un cerdo, seguramente caído de un carguero. Como buen musulmán, decide deshacerse rápidamente de un animal impuro, pero su situación económica le aconseja venderlo. La venta pondrá de manifiesto la indigencia de la población de Gaza, encerrada entre el bloqueo de Israel y los islamistas que controlan la zona.

Jeanne y Simon Marwan son dos mellizos cuya madre, que lleva mucho tiempo sin hablar, está a punto de morir. Pero, antes del fatal desenlace, les da dos cartas que deben ser entregadas a un padre al que creían muerto y a un hermano cuya existencia desconocían. Ambos emprenderán un viaje al Líbano para localizarlos y encontrar respuestas a su existencia. Basada en una obra de teatro de Wajdi Mouawad.

1972, le sud de la France, en pleine forêt, une famille aux maigres bagages découvre le nouveau camp où elle va vivre. Malgré le paternalisme affiché du chef de camps, les harkis ont la vie dure et aucune liberté réelle. Une vie de misère et de tutelle que Leila, la fille aînée des Benamar, refuse. Elle a l'âge de la révolte, celles du premier amour aussi. Pour elle, son père, marqué par la guerre et l'exil, habitué à plier, ne doit rien aux Français qui ne les ont pas protégés en Algérie...

In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.

Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.

Raï se trata de una pandilla de jóvenes en un suburbio parisino. Este es el entorno multicultural en el que Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson y los demás han crecido. No hay futuro en Garges-les-Gonesses. El desempleo es alto, las drogas y la violencia son parte de la vida cotidiana. La oportunidad de escapar parece inexistente.