Virginie Surdej

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.

At the age of 64, Helena announces her intention to pursue sexual experiences with other men much to the shock of her husband of 40 years. A powerful exploration of late-life desire and emancipation.

The end of an eight-year upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.

Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when she’s in Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a girl who has just moved to the same small town with her alcoholic mother and her 8 year-old brother. In Ragna, Ester sees what she has been looking for her whole life. Unaware that Ragna sees the exact same thing in Ester, and especially Ester’s father. The attraction of opposites makes them best friends. Together they dream about getting away from their boring life on the island, but soon they realize that it’s only their own self that they want to escape from.

During his thirty-year career, Walter Hus, a Belgian composer and pianist, has taken a thousand musical faces. While he wanted to compose a new work, a crisis blocked his creation. During an exchange with his therapist, he comes to an existential question: "Who am I musically? » Through the portrait of this composer, as abundant as it is fascinating, the film aims to give access to his creative process and thus to the endurance and beauty of creation.

A realistic drama set in the cultural center in Casablanca’s Sidi Moumen neighborhood, a poor suburb that became infamous in 2003 due to a terrorist attack perpetrated by locals.

갈 곳 없는 만삭의 여인 사미아는 일자리와 잘 곳을 구하기 위해 거리를 헤매지만 카사블랑카에 그녀를 받아 줄 곳은 없다. 여덟 살짜리 딸 와르다를 키우며 빵집을 운영하는 무뚝뚝한 여인 아블라 역시 다른 상점들처럼 사미아를 거부하지만, 자신의 집 앞에서 밤을 보내는 사미아를 발견하고 결국 그를 집에 들인다. 사미아는 아블라를 위해 새로운 메뉴를 개발하고, 아블라의 빵집은 인기를 얻는다. 한편, 집에서 우연히 흥겨운 노래가 담긴 카세트테이프를 발견한 사미아는 그 음악을 아블라에게도 들려주려고 하지만 아블라는 화를 내며 음악을 멈추라고 말한다. 이미 세상을 떠난 남편이 좋아했던 노래였던 것. 그러나 사미아는 노래를 계속 틀고, 아블라는 서서히 노래에 몸을 맡기며 춤을 춘다.

과테말라는 내전을 촉발시킨 자들의 전범 재판으로 시끄럽다. 인류학자인 에르네스토는 실종된 사람들의 신원을 확인하는 일로 생계를 꾸려가고 있다. 어느 날 그는 행방불명된 아버지를 찾을 단서를 발견한다.

이 이야기는 1989년 아프가니스탄 카불에서 시작된다. 1979년부터 시작되었던 소련과 아프가니스탄 전쟁의 막바지, 아프가니스탄에서 소련이 철수하던 시기가 배경이다. 카불의 한 극장 앞에서 암표를 팔며, 버려진 자동차에 살던 15세 소년 쿠다트는 경찰에 잡혀 고아원으로 가게 된다. 그곳에서 쿠다트는 친구들을 만나 우정을 나누고, 동급생 소녀와 사랑에 빠진다. 물론 고아원에도 서열과 괴롭힘이 있고 패거리들끼리의 반목이 있으며 소련군이 버리고 떠난 탄약들을 모으던 친구는 탄약 폭발로 사망하는 등 소소한 사건사고가 끊이지 않는다. 그럼에도 평화롭던 고아원의 일상은, 소련이 떠난 자리에 등장한 무자헤딘의 공격으로 완전히 무너진다.

트랜스니스트라는 옛 소련의 유산으로 만들어진 자치공화국이다. UN의 기준에선 몰도바의 일부이지만 러시아, 몰도바, 트랜스니스트라 3자가 공동위원회를 구성해 독자적 정부를 만들었다. 이런 정치적 배경과 트랜스니스트라라는 제목만 놓고 국제정치 문제를 다룬 영화처럼 보이지만 전혀 그렇지 않다. 트랜스니스트라는 이런 환경에 살고 있는 10대의 아름다운 모습을 그린 서정적 다큐멘터리다. 영화는 우선 소녀 타냐와 그녀를 좋아하는 소년들의 아름다운 한 때에 초점을 맞춘다.

The Amazon flows lazily through the goldmine-gashed landscape of northern Peru. Using real eyewitness accounts, directors Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jiménez tell the story of a young woman who winds up in the clutches of forced prostitution when her initially hopeful attempt to escape the constrictions of her village goes wrong. Step by step, she is robbed of her moral and physical integrity. The film reconstitutes a space of dignity and returns voice and identity to a fate formally made nameless. With its powerful imagery, the girl’s traumatic odyssey embodies the destruction of life in a capitalist world in connection with horrific natural devastation.

카사블랑카, 그 어느 도시보다 활기차고 매력적인 이 도시는 사실 위험천만한 곳이다. 이 영화는 카사블랑카를 배경으로 진실한 삶을 추구하는 네 명의 인물을 따라간다. 록스타가 꿈인 하킴, 사회가 규정한 여성으로 살기를 거부하는 살리마, 늘 카사블랑카에 사는 것을 꿈꾸는 유대인 조, 성에 눈을 뜨면서 전통과 현대적 가치 사이에서 방황하는 이네스. 한편, 약 30년 전으로 거슬러 올라가면 아틀라스 산맥에 자리한 어느 작은 마을에 열정적인 교사가 있다. 그는 사회로부터 침묵을 강요 받고, 그로 인해 부서진 꿈들은 메아리 속에 녹아 들어 세상에 울려 퍼진다. 영화 속 주인공들은 모두 세상에 환멸을 느끼지만, 그들이 느낀 감정은 언젠가 이 도시를 다시금 살아나게 할 마음속의 불꽃이나 다름없다.

세 명의 자녀와 함께 살고 있는 야잔은 다마스쿠스의 아파트가 포위되면서 집 밖으로 한 발짝도 나갈 수 없게 된다. 가족과 이웃을 전쟁으로부터 지키기 위해, 그녀는 자신의 집을 안전한 피난처로 만든다. 하지만 언제 폭격으로 건물이 무너질지 모르고, 마당은 무자비한 저격수의 사격권 안이다. 게다가 거리에는 물건을 훔칠 기회만 엿보는 도둑들로 득실댄다. 자신들의 피난처 안에서 어떻게든 가족들의 생활의 균형을 유지하려는 이유는 생사가 달린 일이기 때문이다.

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

Over centuries, lay songs have had a central place in Norwegian culture. This film is about a small community, high up in the mountains near Hardangervidda, where this musical tradition is understood and continued to this day.

Clotilde and Aude are 18. They have always been best friends, growing up together in the same small village in the South of France. Despite their differences, they have a strong and exclusive friendship. With their contrasts they attract each other, and they seem to be enough for one another. But Clotilde, looking for something else, decides to leave to study in Paris the following year, after the baccalaureate. She takes Aude along with her in this departure far from their roots. Refusing to admit that their paths are separating little by little, Clotilde and Aude persuade themselves that their friendship can survive anything.

In a classroom in Telemark, five little girls carry on Norwegian cultural heritage in their spare time. In the film, the five happy and bright girls convey song and life joy, language and tradition knowledge together with Agnes Buen Garnås.

Irritated by Catholicism, Linda, an American-based, Blonde Caucasian, falls in love with Qater-based Ali Al-Saigel, adopts the Islamic faith, and gets married. She follows her new faith to the letter, and subsequently gives birth to seven children (four daughters and three sons), brings them up according to true Islamic dictum's, and reflects on her 20-year married life, her children, as well as her reaction when her husband indicates that he wants to re-marry.