Director, Social Services
While in high school class, a French teenager of Moroccan origin loses his parents in a car accident. A few days later, social services learn that he was adopted and that his natural parents are his aunt and uncle who live in a small village in the Sahara... He decided to join them.
Une représentante des sociétés de crédit
La historia se concentra en los institutos de crédito y la publicidad engañosa. Vincent Lindon interpreta a Stéphane, un experimentado abogado que ha perdido la ilusión pero que, junto a la joven e idealista Claire (Marie Gillain), luchará por los derechos de una mujer que ha caído en la trampa de los préstamos fáciles.
La juge aux affaires familiales
Bilal, un joven de 17 años procedente del Kurdistán iraní, ha cruzado Oriente Próximo y Europa para reunirse con su novia recién emigrada a Inglaterra. Pero su viaje se ve bruscamente interrumpido cuando en Francia le impiden cruzar el Canal de la Mancha. El joven decide entonces atravesarlo a nado (32 kilómetros). Para ello, empieza a entrenarse en una piscina municipal, donde conoce a Simon, un profesor de natación en pleno proceso de divorcio. Simon está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea para recuperar a su mujer y lo arriesga todo ofreciendo protección a Bilal...
La femme de chambre
Jean es un tímido camarero de un gran hotel que se hace pasar por multimillonario ante Irène, una bella cazafortunas. Ella le rechaza en cuanto descubre quién es en realidad, pero Jean, enamorado de ella, se lanza en su búsqueda hasta encontrarla en la Costa Azul.
Réceptionniste hôtel Saint-André
Claire es una joven de 19 años. Cuando regresa a casa después de vacaciones, sus padres le dicen que Loïc, su hermano gemelo, se ha ido de casa tras una fuerte discusión con su padre. Como Loïc no se pone en contacto con ella, Lili termina por creer que algo malo ha sucedido, y decide ir en su busca...
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d’état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Sally
Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and drugs are very much the reality, Djamel Ouahab saw many people around him dying, which led him to this project that took seven years to complete. The director plays a drug dealer who takes care of his family, protects his mother, and tries to shield his little brother from the drugs around him. He also has to help an addicted friend to quit his habit. Just when we think that he might be successful, reality hits him in the face. The message is that you can't escape drugs with drug money. Cour interdite chronicles the drug dealer's descent into hell. It is a realistic film with poetic dimensions. Ouahab tries to show the world of drug addicts but also the human side of the dealer.
Françoise
Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.
Hélène
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.
Blanche is a maniac for the housekeeping. Colette, after having a sleepless night very eventfull, is coming to visit her.