Annick
Elsa, 23, has always been very close to her older brother Franck, an astronaut who mysteriously disappeared 3 years earlier during a space mission. Elsa cannot grieve and her life is on hold. One day, she is contacted from space by an unknown life form who claims to be able to bring her brother back to Earth. But there is a price to pay…
Rosemay, 16, lives in a foster home and only joins her biological family for the vacations. One day, her father is not there to welcome her as planned. Moreover, he does not reappear and seems to have evaporated. Her questions are met with lies, and Rosemay can only rely on her intuition.
Irène
Natacha (25), a young single parent who works as a fast-food waitress, struggles to raise her 8-year-old son Enzo. Torn between a strong desire for independence and the comfort that her mother Irène unfailingly wants to provide for them, Natacha feels trapped. Her encounter with Walid, who is waiting to save enough money to pay for his crossing to England will open new horizons for her.
Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.
Cathie
여름 방학을 맞은 살로메는 할머니를 비롯한 가족들과 시골 마을에서 즐거운 시간을 보내고 있는 중이다. 민간 신앙에 관심이 많은 할머니, 오랜 갈등을 숨기고 있는 가족들과 함께 지내는 동안 살로메는 많은 것을 보고 듣고 생각한다. 포르투갈 교외의 아름다운 풍경과 루아 미셸의 연기가 선명한 인상을 남기는 작품. 2022년 칸영화제 비평가주간 상영. 감독의 장편 데뷔작.
Brigitte
Maria a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical guardian. There she discovers a fascinating place where freedom, creativity and daring reign.
La journaliste
소설가 마르셀 벨메르와 출판사 사장인 그의 아내 잔느의 저택에 가사도우미로 고용된 미스터리한 소녀 글로리아는 대체 어떤 사람일까? 마르셀의 베스트셀러 「멈출 수 없는」은 어떤 비밀을 감추고 있는 걸까? 안그래도 자신의 거짓말에 시달리는 마르셀에게 이젠 지옥같은 악몽이 기다리고 있을 뿐이다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)
Marjorie
Beatrice, recently widowed by a far right sympathetic policeman, lives with her son & mother. She doesn’t like migrant and foreigners. When she meets Mokhtar, an Iranian entered illegally in France, her world crumbles. This is the beginning of a passionate love story leading Beatrice to defy her racist entourage and the law so that he can cross the Channel.
Dr Alievitch
(S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she transitions from boy to girl. But in this tiny rural town, where everyone knows everyone else, it’s an impossible challenge. Juju will have to move in with her mother while her parents break up. Juju becomes Emma, and sings in a rock band at her new high school. With everyone seeing her as a girl, she’ starts to blossom. But as her popularity grows, social networking sit’s rekindle the nightmare she thought she’d left behind...
Mother
Capucine, her sick mother and Eugénie hit the road to try to escape the radioactive cloud that is heading straight for their little town.
L'infirmière principale
It is the farm on which Thomas was born. It is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is about to do the same thing, and his father, with whom nothing has ever been possible. He finds there everything from which he had fled twelve years earlier. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his passionate mother.
La psychiatre
In an attempt to move on from the death of Paul, the love of her life, Korine leaves Paris to undertake a project in Mongolia. But after meeting the shaman, Oyun, her trip takes a different direction. Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. She agrees to initiate herself in the practice of Shamanism, leading her to discover an ancient and forgotten culture, but most importantly herself.
Isabelle
A hen house that causes a diplomatic incident, a child falling from the sky, a capitalist Christmas father, a plucky plumber with a Flemish accent and a killer bear: The best of the Belgian comedy. Five multi-award-winning shorts in the world.
Bérénice, the mother
It's All Saints' Day. Bérénice criss-crosses the city. Flowers must be found for the grave. Her son Sacha has other projects. Too bad. Flowers must be found for the grave.
Odile Bijou
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
Catherine
In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want to find a job... and quickly. But we're in Brussels, so nothing goes quite as planned.
La conseillère Pole Emploi
“Santa Claus is a capitalist. He brings toys to children of the wealthy and sweaters to those of the poor”. Nikos, aged five.
The mother
Alex is fifteen years old. Back from boarding school for the weekend, he reconnects with his little country village and his family, a family which seems to care more for its dogs than for Alex. This of course annoys him. He's better off without them. He's better off down at the cross-country motorbike track with Kader and the turning bikes. But he's obliged to take his grandmother's dog with him and it disappears into the forest.
La juge
Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.
Tata
Julie's Mother
Pavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in search of his idol, the enigmatic painter Arnaud. Desperately lonely and adrift, Pavel tries to adhere to the host of characters he meets along the way.
Catherine
Sex shop boss
After the sudden death of one of them a group of friends grieves trough sexual encounters.
Catherine
Tom, a Flemish comedian and cartoon voice actor, spontaneously fills in for a dubbing actor friend. He finds himself on a French porn movie shoot. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom is supposed to play the plumber.
The ex girlfriend
Laurent has to undergo a colonoscopy. Nothing is more worrying than a doctor who tries to reassuring you. However, it is next to nothing: Just a camera which goes in your colon.
Friend
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Head of convalescent home
A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.
Sophie Tinlot
Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of the Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.
Nathalie
맥심과 멜라니는 서툴지만 격정적으로 서로를 탐닉하던 중 임신사실을 알게 된다. 이를 불운으로만 여겼던 맥심은 곧 아버지가 될 결심을 한다. 그렇게 둘은 15살의 나이로 부모가 될 준비를 한다.
Martine
Marie lives alone with her 16 year old son. She struggles to get by with this teenager who gets deeper and deeper in violence and juvenile delinquency. Speaking sentimentally, things are not going better: the relationship with her lover has come to an end. It may seems depressing, but Marie doesn’t give up, even if love seems to be an inaccessible dream. But love, there is. We can feel the affection of this mother for her troublesome child, thanks to Mathilde Seigner, who gives an astonishing performance. A subtle directing, a strong and captivating story, in short: a must see.
Gladys Valée
마약 중독에 빠진 엄마 때문에 6살부터 보호시설에 살게 된 말로니(로드 파라도). 이미 어릴 적 아빠는 세상을 떠났고 엄마는 마약에, 새로운 남자친구들에 빠져있다. 결국 제대로 된 교육도 받지 못한 채, 무관심과 외로움 속에 그의 텅 빈 마음은 절도, 폭행 등 온갖 악행으로 채우게 된다. 말로니는 온 가족이 함께 크리스마스를 보내고 싶다는 엄마의 소원을 들어주기 위해 보호시설에 있는 동생을 사람들 몰래 데리고 나온다. 하지만 무면허로 훔친 차를 운전하던 말로니는 차 사고를 낸다. 도를 넘어서는 그의 행동에 어려서부터 말로니를 담당해 온 소년법원의 플로렌스 판사(까뜨린느 드뇌브)는 극단의 조치를 취하게 되는데… 세상으로부터 버려진 소년 말로니, 그는 과연 두 번째 기회를 잡을 수 있을까?
Béa
Five friends have encounters with black bears in a national park.
Catherine
Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman 48 years old who can no longer have children. To make sure everything goes well and keep an eye on her future child, Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home and stay by her side throughout the pregnancy. Although they first appear to come from completely different worlds, the two women end up adopting each other: Melody finds in Emily the mother she never had, and Emily sees in Melody the daughter she always wanted to have. Evidently, the bonds that emerge during this double maternity create all sorts of doubts and questions.
Patsi
Juliette
복직을 앞둔 산드라에게 한 통의 전화가 걸려온다. 회사 동료들이 그녀와 일하는 대신 보너스를 선택했다는 것. 하지만 투표가 공정하지 않았다는 제보 덕분에 월요일 아침 재투표가 결정되고 일자리를 되찾고 싶은 산드라는 주말 동안 16명의 동료를 찾아가 설득하기로 한다. 보너스를 포기하고 자신을 선택해 달라는 말이 어려운 산드라와 각자의 사정이 있는 동료들, 마음을 바꿔 그녀를 지지해주는 동료도 나타나지만 그렇지 않은 쪽의 반발도 거세지는데… 그녀의 인생에서 가장 긴 두 번의 낮과 한 번의 밤이 흐른다.
Adèle's Mother
여느 소녀들과 다를 바 없는 평범한 고등학생 아델은 빈칸들로 점철된 미래의 답을 찾고 있는 문학소녀이다. 피에르 드 마리보의 소설 을 이해하고자 노력하고 있는 아델 앞에 어느 날 파란 머리의 대학생 엠마가 나타난다. 단지 횡단보도에서 우연히 스치며 지나친 인연이지만 그날 이후 아델과 엠마는 서로를 기억하게 된다. 누가 먼저랄 것도 없이 아델과 엠마는 서로에게 이끌리고, 미술을 전공한 엠마는 본능적으로 자신의 캔버스 안으로 아델을 초대한다. 아델은 자신과 전혀 다른 삶을 살아온 엠마로 인해 이전에는 몰랐던 뜨거운 감정을 느끼게 되는데...
Brigitte
Celine and Brigitte are tired of organizing tupperware parties.
Isabelle
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…
Catherine
Jean-Paul is different. His father is his mother. He deeply loves dogs. But he prefers beer. When the moon is bright, Jean-Paul lit up too Tomorrow he won't remember anything.
Jan's friend
Pascale leads a lonely life with her adult sons François and Thierry at a rural estate subsidized by her ex-husband's alimony payments. When Pascale falls for neighbor Jan , she makes plans to move in with him. But Pascale's twin sons -- loafers who treat her like a servant and refuse to accept the responsibilities of adulthood -- won't let her go. The family remains locked in a stalemate until someone makes a startling move.
Writer
The efforts of a Belgian director who has to stick posters of his film everywhere and harass crowds to get people to come and see his film. When it turns out to be a flop, he is jobless and his partner leaves him. An ironic account of rising director Joachim La Fosse’s directing debut.
Anne
The efforts of a Belgian director who has to stick posters of his film everywhere and harass crowds to get people to come and see his film. When it turns out to be a flop, he is jobless and his partner leaves him. An ironic account of rising director Joachim La Fosse’s directing debut.
Pascale
Pascale leaves Jan to start a new life with Didier. Unwillingly, Jan accepts to get a babysitter for their seven year old son, Thomas. She leaves him at his family home where she now has to live with her new partner. But when Pascale comes to love with Didier, Jan is still there and refuses to leave the house and separate herself from her child. Very quickly, conflict explodes and in less than a day, the destiny of each character is turned upside down.