Costume Design
Viajando en el norte de Benin en busca de su ex, Cécile cruza el camino de una madre africana joven angustiada con un bebé en sus brazos. Cecile adoptará este niño africano que llamará Lancelot, y que crecerá en Francia. Con el tiempo, preocupada por el extraño comportamiento de Lancelot, decide ir con él a su país de origen en un intento de penetrar en el secreto que rodea su abandono.
Costume Design
Tras un matrimonio de conveniencia con un drogadicto, Lorna, una joven albanesa, está a punto de conseguir la nacionalidad belga. El plan es de su novio Fabio e incluye también provocarle una sobredosis al joven belga para que Lorna quede viuda y pueda casarse con un ruso que también quiere obtener la nacionalidad belga. Lorna no está de acuerdo con Fabio, ella prefiere solucionar el problema pidiendo el divorcio. Lorna y su novio están ahorrando para realizar su sueño: abrir un bar.
Costume Design
Bruno tiene veinte años. Sonia, dieciocho. Son una pareja que sobrevive en los suburbios de Lieja, gracias a que ella cobra un subsidio mientras que él y su banda se dedican al robo. Cuando Sonia da a luz a su hijo Jimmy, entonces empieza a preguntarse si Bruno será capaz de comportarse como un buen padre o seguirá viviendo como siempre de sus trapicheos.
Costume Design
Olivier es un carpintero belga dedicado a enseñar su oficio a adolescentes conflictivos. Un buen día aparece en su clase Francis, un chico recién salido del reformatorio donde ha cumplido cinco años de condena por homicidio. Entre los dos surgirá una relación marcada por el respeto, la distancia y, sobre todo, por un terrible secreto que comparten sin saberlo.
Costume Design
The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying…
Costume Design
Rosetta, una joven de 17 años que vive con su madre en una caravana, busca desesperadamente un trabajo digno.
Costume Design
La vida de Igor, un adolescente belga, es plácida. Carece de toda ética y trabaja ayudando a su padre, Roger, un déspota que utiliza a inmigrantes ilegales para sus negocios de construcción. Cuando un inspector se presenta de improviso en la obra, uno de los empleados sufre un terrible accidente y, antes de morir, arranca a Igor la promesa de que protegerá a su esposa e hijo.
Costume Design
An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son’s young American tutor.
Costume Design
Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline's wager.
Costume Design
Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a close platonic relationship. When it comes to physical love, Juliette is wise beyond her years. She will only sleep with men older than herself and has no intention of committing herself to a long-term relationship.
Costume Design
Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rate. Each woman is marked by life, yet they go on as best they can, never closing their eyes to the world around them, or to the men who impatiently await them. Faubourg Saint Martin opens as a love story and ends like a song as shots ring out and punctuate the chorus.
