Le père soulard
The sophomore feature from French Burkinabé actor Cédric Ido centres on a mysterious planetary event that upsets both the gravity and the fragile equilibrium of a Parisian suburb, which is ruled by a cosmically-connected crew of young “entrepreneurs.”
The story of an unlikely friendship which leads an unemployed and xenophobic German to teach a young African immigrant how to ice skate.
L'homme mort
They are those whose margin is territory, those who go without being seen. They are illegal and speak a thousand languages. Simon arrives to Paris and follows in their footsteps. Discovering the depth of the city to find the one he is looking for.
Uncle Baheta
이제 막 의사자격증을 손에 쥔 아프리카 콩고 출신 ‘세욜로’는 프랑스 시민권을 얻기 위해 프랑스 북부의 시골 마을 ‘말리 고몽’의 의사가 되기로 결심한다. 말리 고몽은 파리에서 300km나 떨어진 곳으로, 주민 전체가 흑인을 평생 본 적 없는 깡촌. 말리 고몽 시장은 흑인인 세욜로가 절대 마을 주민들에게 환영 받지 못할 거라고 만류하지만, 그는 한술 더 떠 아프리카의 가족들까지 모두 프랑스로 불러들이며 핑크빛 미래를 꿈꾼다. 프랑스 하면 파리!? 세욜로의 가족은 에펠탑과 샹제리제를 상상하며 한껏 들떠 말리 고몽에 도착했는데… 오~마이 갓! 여기는 고향 콩고 보다 더 낙후된 마을. 세욜로 가족은 크게 실망하고, 설상가상 살면서 흑인을 처음 본 마을 사람들은 그들을 마치 벌레 보듯 경계하기만 하는데…
M'Bindo
To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternative Discount" outlet by salvaging products that would otherwise have been wasted.
Carl is about to spend his first day with the police. To facilitate his entry into the trade, the divisional commissioner assigned him with Alain, a man with a strong character.
Le fétiche
The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress. Like Princes et princesses and Les Contes de la nuit, it is an anthology film comprising several episodic stories, each of them describing Kirikou's interactions with a different animals. It is however unique among Michel Ocelot's films, not only in that it is co-directed by Bénédicte Galup (who has previously worked with him as an animator) but also for each of the stories being written by a different person (in all other cases, Ocelot has been the sole writer and director of his films).
The film follows three stories that take place in the slums of a city in French Equatorial Africa. At nightfall, people seem to regain a vitality which explodes in the bars to the rhythm of the latest hits from the music charts. The first part tells the story of Petit-Jean, a young graduate, who is unemployed and roams the city in search of work. From humiliations to frustrations, the destiny of this young ordinary African changes dramatically. The second part follows a young girl who transforms herself into an angel of death in order to free herself from a traumatic past. The final section is of an encounter between a woman and a man who seem ordinary at first, but a past which the woman had thought had forever disappeared, resurfaces in this man.
Prosper
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protée — a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty — and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
