Corinne Valancogne

Thirty-year-old Thomas has to face facts and accept to forget about his dreams of becoming a film director. But this weekend, his short film is selected in a small, country festival. His last festival before letting it all go. He hopes, for once, to win the prize.He will return from the event with much more.

Parents with empty nest syndrome find a clever way to make their kids stay interested: winning the lottery.

Dalia, a french ex-reality TV starlet, is at her lowest point. Depressed and overweight, she tries to reconnect with her estranged mother, who still refuses to talk to her because of her seedy tabloid fodder past. Deeply hurt, Dalia accepts to be part of a new TV show booked by Coco, her agent, on the one condition that she loses weight. But as Coco strives to make her the IT-girl she once was, Dalia's repressed Algerian origins resurface in nightmares and hallucinations.

Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.

At 33 years old, and after numerous failed attempt to make it as a musician, Chris still lives with his mother. One day he crosses paths with a young missionary in need of a guitarist for his new religious band, he recruits Chris and disguises him as Father Christophe.

In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother CLAUDIE (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her 16 year-old handsome neighbor. Scared by so much love, Lyesse rejects Lili. Devastated, she decides to take his heart out to understand why he doesn't love her...

Two best friends work in a coffee shop, the Caffè Cozy. Mawena is the manager, and she's under a lot of pressure from her superiors to achieve results. Alex is a student and has a happy-go-lucky attitude, oblivious to the workings of the company. But today, Alex arrives late and Mawena is a little stressed out.