Samuel Aïchoun

Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.

The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.

Annie carries a weight which is as heavy as a secret. This winter, even the dune in which she confides doesn’t contain it anymore. On the sand’s surface, the reeds grew and began to sing. The worst for Annie would be that her daughter Natacha suffered from this chant.

Emma and Paul just moved into an old suburban mansion when Paul is forced to leave on a working trip. Isolated and clueless, Emma discovers a Praying Mantis and develops a strange bond with the insect. Until Paul comes home again.

80년대 초 프랑스 지방의 작은 마을에 사는 한 형제의 운명에 대한 이야기다. 형제는 뉴 웨이브 음악에 흠뻑 빠져 조이 디비전, 이기 팝, 스로빙 그리슬 곡의 리듬에 맞춰 시골에서의 무료한 일상을 견디며 살고있다. 카리스마 넘치는 형 제롬은 라디오 해적 방송의 진행자이고, 무엇보다 그에게는 마리안느라는 매력적인 여자친구가 있다. 사운드 믹싱에 천부적인 재능이 있지만 소심하고 내성적인 동생 필립은 형의 여자친구를 몰래 사랑한다. 어느 날 필립에게 징집 영장이 날아들고 형제의 삶에도 큰 변화가 찾아온다.

80년대 초 프랑스 지방의 작은 마을에 사는 한 형제의 운명에 대한 이야기다. 형제는 뉴 웨이브 음악에 흠뻑 빠져 조이 디비전, 이기 팝, 스로빙 그리슬 곡의 리듬에 맞춰 시골에서의 무료한 일상을 견디며 살고있다. 카리스마 넘치는 형 제롬은 라디오 해적 방송의 진행자이고, 무엇보다 그에게는 마리안느라는 매력적인 여자친구가 있다. 사운드 믹싱에 천부적인 재능이 있지만 소심하고 내성적인 동생 필립은 형의 여자친구를 몰래 사랑한다. 어느 날 필립에게 징집 영장이 날아들고 형제의 삶에도 큰 변화가 찾아온다.

Jack 19, Lisa 17, and Mathis 10, become suddenly orphans. Each of them reacts in his own way to the family catastrophe.

Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s inconceivable yet inescapable death, Silvia embarks on a love story, her first in many years.

정신분석가 셀마는 파리를 떠나 고향 튀니지로 돌아와 소박한 상담실을 개원한다. 하지만 첫 날부터 웃지 못할 난관들이 속출하면서 여전사 셀마의 고독한 분투기가 시작된다.

보도 사진가 카미유 르파주는 내전을 보도하기 위해 중앙아프리카공화국으로 간다. 그곳에서 그녀는 자신의 운명을 영원히 바꾸게 될 만한 사건을 목격한다.

Jeanne raises her 9-year-old daughter, Mylène, on her own and dreams about their next trip to the sea.

Nina, a 16-year-old girl, dreams of adventure. Meanwhile, she spends the summer between her village in the south of France and the theme park where she works. Just before meeting Morad, a teenage boy from an Algerian family living in the nearby council houses, Nina sees a meteorite falling from the sky which it seems only she can see... like an omen.

소년원에서 갓 출소한 17세의 자크. 하지만 마르세유의 거친 거리에서 새 출발 따위는 사치일 뿐이다. 거리에서 만난 또래의 창녀와 서로 의지해 살아가지만 이내 닥쳐온 시련. 딜레마에 빠진 자크는 어떤 길을 선택할 것인가.

In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.

Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child. She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille. As she tries to talk to him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.

North of France. Hervé's factory is relocated. He is the only worker to resign himself to it because he pursues another destiny: to become a fisherman and to transmit this passion to his son. Suburbs of Tunis. The factory is relocated. Foued, unemployed, thinks there is a way to cure his mother, and especially to seduce the girl he loves. The trajectories of Hervé and Foued are similar and answer to each other.

Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.

Ludovic, a weekend biker, has planned an afternoon with Axelle in a wooden shed. Despite her attraction to him, the young and bold Axelle is determined not to get caught in Ludovic’s well oiled game of seduction…

Two brothers decide to revive what still unites them, one last time.

Yuko is not always sure how to listen to her body and her desires. A friendship emerges from this stationary drifting.

Mr. Beranger works at Paradesign, a furniture department store where the employees live day and night in the decorations. Himself lives in a show cottage in pasteboard and excels in the promotion of his dachshund footrest. His life seems settled well, until the day when he is promoted to the mysterious thirteenth floor of the store.