Roschdy Zem

Gabrielle has just joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find her place among an experienced team of special correspondents. In the heat of the action, she will learn the language and the code of these reporters, who are always passionate, often funny, and sometimes scarred by life and their profession. And then there’s Vincent, the program’s editor-in-chief, who she can’t help challenging...

In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, far ahead of her time. Clément gets caught in a spiral of violence and decides to initiate Marie-Rose in the art of dueling. The two must work together to save face. How far will they go to defend their honor?

Sabri Lahlali, the assistant principal of a local high school, is ready to do anything to ensure that his son, who is about to take his high school diploma, has the ideal academic record. But he doesn't know how far his enterprise will take him.

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishness by his entourage. Only Moussa defends him, who has great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers a head injury. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without a filter and tells his relatives the truth. He ends up falling out with everyone except Ryad.

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishness by his entourage. Only Moussa defends him, who has great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers a head injury. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without a filter and tells his relatives the truth. He ends up falling out with everyone except Ryad.

Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who is reproached for his selfishness by his entourage. Only Moussa defends him, who has great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers a head injury. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without a filter and tells his relatives the truth. He ends up falling out with everyone except Ryad.

Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the love he has for his family.

The story centres on Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman who has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The two of them dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship…

라셸(비르지니 에피라)은 우연히 만난 알리와 사랑에 빠진다. 아이를 원하지만 이뤄지지 않고, 라셸은 그의 딸 레일라에게 깊은 유대를 느낀다. 아이의 엄마, 주변의 출산과 죽음은 라셀에게 조급함을 안겨준다.

October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.

60년대 파리. 유명 인사들을 상대로 고급 매춘조직을 운영하는 마담 클로드. 우아한 이미지로 포장된 그녀의 제국은 상류층뿐 아니라 지하 세계까지 뻗어있다. 영원히 번성할 것 같았던 제국은 그러나 한 여성의 등장으로 흔들리기 시작한다.

16살의 리즈는 가장 친한 친구를 살해한 혐의로 기소된다. 그의 부모들은 딸의 무죄를 믿으며 그의 곁을 지킨다. 그러나 법정에서 그의 비밀스러운 생활이 밝혀지기 시작하고 그의 범죄 혐의는 점점 짙어진다. 리즈는 과연 누구인가? 우리는 우리가 사랑하는 사람들을 정말로 잘 알고 있는 것일까?

프랑스 북부 공업도시 루베. 여느 날과 다름없이 사건사고로 가득한 연말의 밤, 다우드 경감과 의욕넘치는 신참 루이는 방화사건에서 강도사건까지 범죄현장을 처리하느라 여념이 없다. 한 노부인의 살인사건을 수사하던 두 사람은 다른 사건의 목격자로 이미 면식이 있는 노부인의 이웃 클로드와 마리를 용의자로 지목하고, 두 사람을 떼어놓은 채 각기 다른 방식의 취조를 시작한다.

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

오랜 친구 사이인 커플들이 오랜만에 모여 서로 휴대전화 메시지를 공개하는 놀이를 하다 예상치 못한 방향으로 사건이 흘러가는 이야기.

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.

Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.

사막에 사는 어린 코브라 아자르. 사악한 뱀 피리꾼에게 첫사랑 에바가 납치되자, 그녀를 구출하려 전갈 친구와 함께 사하라 사막을 가로지르는 위험한 대장정에 오른다.

19세기 말 벨 에포크 시대. 퇴물 취급을 받던 광대 ‘푸티트’(제임스 티에레)는 새로운 무대를 구상하던 중 식인종을 연기하는 흑인 광대 ‘쇼콜라’(오마 사이)를 만나 콤비를 이룰 것을 제안한다. 모두에게 실패할 것이라 무시당한 그들의 첫 무대는 큰 성공을 이루고, 두 사람은 최고의 권위인 프랑스 파리 누보 서커스단에 스카우트되어 전성기를 누린다. 더 큰 무대와 완벽한 연기를 꿈꾸는 ‘푸티트’와 달리 파리의 화려한 생활과 명성에 취해 방황하는 ‘쇼콜라’. 두 콤비의 쇼가 유명해질수록 이들의 우정은 점점 위태로워지는데… 꿈과 예술의 도시 파리를 사로잡은 두 광대의 환상적인 실화! 그들의 황금빛 무대로 지금 당신을 초대합니다!

19세기 말 벨 에포크 시대. 퇴물 취급을 받던 광대 ‘푸티트’(제임스 티에레)는 새로운 무대를 구상하던 중 식인종을 연기하는 흑인 광대 ‘쇼콜라’(오마 사이)를 만나 콤비를 이룰 것을 제안한다. 모두에게 실패할 것이라 무시당한 그들의 첫 무대는 큰 성공을 이루고, 두 사람은 최고의 권위인 프랑스 파리 누보 서커스단에 스카우트되어 전성기를 누린다. 더 큰 무대와 완벽한 연기를 꿈꾸는 ‘푸티트’와 달리 파리의 화려한 생활과 명성에 취해 방황하는 ‘쇼콜라’. 두 콤비의 쇼가 유명해질수록 이들의 우정은 점점 위태로워지는데… 꿈과 예술의 도시 파리를 사로잡은 두 광대의 환상적인 실화! 그들의 황금빛 무대로 지금 당신을 초대합니다!

Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.

A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.

Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.

Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.

Marithé works in a training center for adults. Her mission: to help other people to change direction in their work and to find their vocation. Carole, who lives and works in the shadow cast by her husband, Sam, an energetic and talented Michelin-starred chef, arrives in the center one day. It's not so much a change in job that Carole seems to need, as a change in husband. Marithé does everything she can to help Carole set out down a new path. But what are the real motives behind this devotion? After all, Marithé doesn't seem to be impervious to Sam's charms, or to his cooking.

파리 공항 인근 호텔, 미국인 엔지니어 게리와 객실 청소부 오드리는 우연히 스친다. 별안간 존재론적인 질문에 부딪힌 게리는 모든 일을 멈추고, 오드리는 정체된 삶으로부터 벗어나 새가 되어 활강하는 신비한 경험을 하게 된다. (2015년 제16회 전주국제영화제)

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret.

모로코로 신혼여행을 온 돌런 부부. 끝이 보이지 않는 광활한 사막을 횡단하며 둘만의 시간을 보내던 중 자신들을 쫓아오던 한대의 차량과 속도경쟁을 벌이게 된다. 과열된 레이싱은 도로에 고장 나 서있던 차량과 부딪치는 사고로 이어지고 차량은 모두 전복되고 만다. 모든 것은 계획되었다! 통신이 두절된 채 물, 연장, 식량… 아무것도 없는 사막 한 가운데 살아남은 그들에게 남은 것은 겨우 움직이는 한 대의 자동차뿐. 수리 후 마을로 돌아갈 계획을 세우지만 서로의 의견은 번번이 어긋나고 만다. 설상가상으로 살아남은 6명의 조난자들은 자신의 신분을 철저히 숨긴 채 서로에 대한 의심만을 키워 나가고... 그러던 중 남겨진 그들의 음모와 배신이 하나 둘 씩 밝혀지면서 사고 역시 우연이 아니라는 것이 드러나기 시작하는데…

Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a young narc officer.

모처럼만의 가족 여행 중, 가족이 갑자기 사라지고 혼자 남겨진 윌(헨리 카빌). 도움을 청하기 위해 찾아간 경찰과 의문의 남자에게 오히려 쫓기게 된 윌은 납치당한 줄 알았던 아버지 마틴(브루스 윌리스)이 나타나 위기를 넘긴다. 지금껏 CIA요원임을 숨겼다는 충격적인 고백과 가족의 실종은 자신 때문이라는 의문의 말을 남긴 마틴. 충격에 빠진 윌은 가족을 찾기 위해 동분서주한다. 하지만 아버지의 옛 동료 캐락(시고니 위버)과 가족을 납치한 의문의 조직, 경찰들에게마저 쫓기게 되고, 점점 최악의 상황으로 치닫는다. 위기의 순간, 윌은 난생 처음 잡는 총이 낯설지 않고, 목숨을 건 격투에서도 밀리지 않는 등 자신도 몰랐던 자기 안의 능력을 발견한다. 이제 아무도 믿을 수 없게 된 윌은 자신의 본능을 믿고 스스로 가족을 구하기로 결심하는데...

밤의 세계를 무대로 경찰을 둘러싼 전대미문 최악의 부당거래. 조직들이 운영하는 불법 유흥업소를 단속하지만 때로 정보를 위해 불법 행태를 눈감아줬던 바이스 경감은 이로 인해 경찰 내부 조사를 받게 된다. 경찰서 내에서 코너에 몰리게 된 바이스 경감은 지역 최고의 조직 보스에게 위험한 거래를 제안 받고, 돌이킬 수 없는 선택을 하게 된다.

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. Despite a lack of forensic or DNA evidence, her Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad is found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in a French prison. Shocked by the case, and convinced of his innocence, journalist Pierre-Emmanuel Vaugrenard moves to Nice to investigate, and uncover the truth...

사랑스런 아내와 행복한 가정을 이루고 있던 사무엘. 어느날 이유도 없이 만삭인 아내가 납치된다. 그 순간 의문의 남자로부터 걸려온 전화, 사무엘이 일하고 있는 병원의 현재 의식 불명 상태인 환자 위고를 빼내면 아내를 살려주겠다고 한다. 하지만 그에게 주어진 시간은 단, 세 시간뿐이다. 위기에 빠진 킬러 위고, 살아남기 위해선 ‘놈’이 필요하다! 함정에 빠져 정신을 잃은 채 응급실로 이송된 킬러 위고. 또다시 살해당할 위기에 처하지만 사무엘 때문에 목숨을 건진다. 하지만 사무엘 또한 납치된 아내를 살리기 위해 그를 노린다. 더 이상 선택의 여지가 없는 위고, 그를 노리는 사무엘을 이용해 자신을 죽이려는 자들을 먼저 찾아야 하는데…

프랑스군의 세티프 양민 학살 사건 및 알제리 독립운동을 다룬 올해 칸영화제 최고의 화제작. 1920년대 식민치하의 알제리. 사이드, 메사우드, 압델카데르 삼형제는 아버지가 농지 소유권을 강탈당하는 것을 본다. 20여 년이 지난 1945년 5월 8일, 가족들이 정착한 세티프에서 대량학살이 발생한다. (2010년 제15회 부산국제영화제)

보석 코디네이터 ‘라셀’은 회사 홈페이지 제작을 위해 웹 전문가 ‘뱅상’과 사무실에서 야근을 한다. 순간 서로에서 끌리는데, 사실 둘 다 가정이 있다. 이 일 이후로 라셀은 남편 프랭크에서 얘기해서 뱅상 부부를 초대한다. 프랭크는 뱅상의 아내 테리를 물리치료 해 주다 그만 키스를 하는데, 프랭크는 아내에게 이 사실을 솔직히 얘기한다. 이후 네 사람은 다시 만나 합의하에 상대를 바꾸어 잠자리를 갖는다. 전혀 다른 성격의 남자와 여자를 품에 안은 그들은 새로운 삶을 얻은 것처럼 적극적으로 사랑한다. 새로운 사랑과 기존 부부간의 사랑, 두 가지 사랑에 모두 충실한 네 사람은 행복한 시간을 보낸다. 그러나 만남이 계속되면서 갈등이 생기고 처음 만날 때와는 달리 부부간의 신뢰가 무너짐을 느끼게 된다. 위기 의식을 느낀 그들은 모처럼 시간을 내서 함께 휴가를 떠난다. 이제 네 사람은 모든 허울을 벗어 버리고 본능에 충실히 오직 사랑에만 최선을 다한다. 네 사람의 사랑은 과연 영원할 수 있을까?

A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all will be swept by the shock wave.

After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks

Four friends - an oyster-farmer, an accountant's assistant, a restaurateur and a blue-collar worker - decide to take on a multi-national agro-chemical company with a turnover of EUR9bn and which has been polluting their region on a large scale. Having been awarded a paltry amount of compensation, they decide to seek true justice. They have however just 30 days to uncover vital new evidence.

파리 조직범죄 퇴치반 경찰인 마렉은 그의 파트너이자 가장 친한 친구가 임무 수행 중 마약 밀매 조직에 의해 살해 당하자 이성을 잃게 된다. 이로 인해 마약범죄 단속 본부로 발령이 나고 동료의 죽음을 복수하기 위해 범죄자로 위장하고 마약 밀매 조직에 들어가게 되는데... (THE MOVIE)

최고의 변호사 베르트랑은 남편살해혐의로 재판 중인 갑부 노부인을 변호하러 모나코에 오고, 의뢰인이 붙여준 보디가드 크리스토프로 인해 24시간 안전하게 보호받는다. 그러나 베르트랑은 금발의 백치미녀 오드리에게 마음을 빼앗기고 그녀는 그의 지위와 명성을 알고 더욱 그를 성적 매력으로 옭아 맨다. 마침내 그는 보디가드에게 도움을 요청하지만 이제 오드리는 크리스토프도 유혹하기에 이르는데…

When a man & woman discover their spouses are having an affair with each other, they secretly plot to break them up and win them back

어머니의 만류에도 불구하고 프랑스를 위해 군대에 지원한 알제리 청년 사이드. 한 전투에서 자신의 목숨을 구해준 '마르티네즈' 하사의 당번병이 된다. 오직 진급이 목표인 '압델카데르' 하사, 동생 결혼식을 위해 죽은 병사들의 호주머니를 뒤지는 불 같은 성격의 '야시르' 그리고 아름다운 프랑스 여인과 사랑에 빠진 '메사우드' 등 토착민 출신 병사들은 고된 훈련을 참아내며 계속되는 전투에서 승리를 거둔다. 하지만 식사와 진급, 편지검열 등 토착민 병사에 대한 불평등이 계속되고 '압델카데르'가 또다시 진급에서 밀려나자 프랑스 군인과 토착민 병사들 사이의 불신은 더욱 깊어진다. 결국 '사이드’를 비롯한 그의 동료들은 소기의 성과를 거둬 자신들의 정당한 권리를 찾고 그리운 고향으로 금의환향 하기 위해 독일군 점령하에 놓인 알자스 마을에 침투, 독일군과의 힘겨운 전투를 시작하게 되는데...

Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with an odd group of friends.

경찰학교 졸업 후 막 파리로 배치를 받은 신참경찰 앙트완은 새로운 생활에 대한 기대로 부풀어있다. 한편 알코올 중독으로 휴직했다가 복직한 캐롤린 역시 다시는 술을 마시지 않겠다는 의지를 다진다. 캐롤린의 부하로 일하게 된 앙트완은 어느 날 은행 강도 사건을 맡는다.

Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante juge d'application des peines, qui veut ainsi leur donner une dernière chance. Entre le portable vissé à l'oreille de l'un, le pit-bull de l'autre ou encore les prières musulmanes du troisième, ces adolescents vont bouleverser la vie paisible du petit village.

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

프랑스에서 악명 높은 갱들을 소탕하기 위해 경찰당국이 혈안이 되자 정의에 불타는 레오와 권력에 굶주린 클랑은 연락책과 연줄을 이용하여 범인들의 행방을 알고자 한다. 이 과정에서 레오는 실리앵이라는 범죄자 연락책 때문에 뜻하지 않게 다른 범죄에 연루되고, 실리앵은 그 대가로 갱단의 소굴을 알려준다. 하지만 레오가 연루됐던 범죄는 클랑과 절친했던 연락책이 죽는 사건이 되었고, 이를 클랑이 눈치 채면서 둘은 적대적인 관계로 발전한다. 갱단 소탕 과정에서 이 둘은 함께 투입되는데, 클랑의 서투른 실수로 레오의 동료 에디가 죽고, 그런 동료의 죽음에 대해 클랑을 원망하게 된 레오는 이를 상부에 보고해서 클랑을 해직시키려고 한다.하지만 클랑은 실리앵 일을 상부에 보고하자 오히려 레오가 감옥에 가게 되고, 다른 사건을 지시하던 중 클랑은 레오의 아내까지 살해하게 된다. 레오의 인생은 순식간에 내리막길로 치닫고, 클랑은 국장이 되면서 부패한 경찰의 내부를 보여주는데...

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli. But, more than her name, everything about Louise seems to have changed. Ordo decides to meet Estelle again, after all these years, to know what it's all about...

A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father.

Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa is charming and careless, living the bohemian life. His encounters are numerous, mostly with feminine characters, until he gets attached to an old and eccentric orchestra conductor who becomes a kind of father figure.

After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless

Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.

This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of the island's overzealous governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.

In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.

Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.

Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just the right time. But as soon as Sami previously appeared, he vanishes back into the blackness of night, leaving the recovered Nina with no one to thank for saving her life. Determined to let her guardian angel know just how thankful she truly is, Nina discovers that Sami was once a promising long-distance runner whose dreams of Olympic stardom had been dashed, and who now scrapes by as a transvestite prostitute. Realizing that they've both hit rock bottom, Nina and Sami make a pledge to support one another to the point where they can both get clean and pursue their dreams before it's too late.

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

A young policeman of Moroccan origin investigates the murder of an informer. His investigations soon lead him to question his own past.

Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le mener des côtes de Caroline du Sud au quartier de Harlem où vit la communauté africaine, Little Senegal. Alloune, animé par l'idée de réunir sa famille par delà les siècles et les frontières, remonte jusqu'à une lointaine cousine, Ida, qui ignore tout de son passé. Le vieil homme croise également les chemins de son neveu Hassan, chauffeur de taxi clandestin, de sa fiancée Biram, d'Eileen, enceinte et fugueuse, et de Karim, qui cherche à faire un mariage blanc pour obtenir la carte verte. Tous les quatre comprennent mal la quête d'Alloune.

Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems in their relationship. This is a story about trust and a comedy about the actions between men and women.

Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of a charitable medical team. Agatha has decided to come to France to rekindle their romance, but when she arrives in the city of Roubaix, she discovers he didn't take their relationship nearly as seriously as she did. With nowhere to go, Agatha is befriended by Mehdi, a cab driver who helps her find a place to stay. Mehdi is attracted to Agatha, and she returns his interest, but as it turns out Mehdi is already seeing someone -- Cecile, who is having an affair with Mehdi while involved with his close friend Marc. Hoping to move away from Roubaix with Agatha and start a new life, Mehdi gets a job as a bill collector, while Marc impulsively walks off his job and an angry Cecile gives him his walking papers.

A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....

Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series of memorable adventures, couples fall into place but not quite in the right order. Alice blossoms elsewhere, Paul marries Eve and Vincent weds Marie. The 70s are in full swing. Thanks to the pill, women's lives change radically, sexology is in, feminists's voices can be heard loud and clear but unrestricted and free access to abortion has yet to be attained. Against the backtop of a decade marked by sexual liberation, these three girls and two boys will cross each other's paths, love one another, split up and reunite.

A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his insurer was swindling him - he does not have any insurance... That's when a crazy idea grows in his mind - he will need all his friends and their different talents to make it work...

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changing experience that he won't remember fully until he returns to Egypt.

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changing experience that he won't remember fully until he returns to Egypt.

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an encounter with homeless Remi (Roschdy Zem), they have a magnetic attraction, but she is already attached to illiterate shoplifter and pickpocket punk Yaya (Gerald Thomassin). Although allied with Yaya in petty crimes, Louise lives with her widowed father (Lou Castel), a devoted writer of fiction. After a Metro bum (Bruce Myers) tells her of his desire to see his young son, she plucks the kid, Gaby (Antoine de Merle), right out of school, making him the newest rookie recruited into their subway gang. Shoplifting in a department store, the young toughs escape the store's security guards by hiding in the ballet rehearsal rooms of the nearby opera. But does Louise really belong with the subway toughs, or is she just pretending? When she's arrested, Louise is forced to reexamine her lifestyle.

프랑스의 작은 시골 마을. 홀어머니 밑에서 자란 마틴은 10살이 되던 해에 아버지 빅터를 처음으로 만난다. 그가 만난 아버지 빅터는 마틴 모자를 버리고 이미 다른 여자와 세 명의 아들을 낳아 가정을 꾸리고 있는 상태. 마틴에게는 갑자기 반갑지 않은 세명의 이복 형제들이 생겼다. 12년이 지난 후 마틴은 그의 고향을 떠나 파리로 간다. 운 좋게도 우연히 모델일을 제안 받은 그는 일을 위해 파리로 떠난 것이다. 그리고 그 곳에서 그의 이복형인 벤자민의 여자 친구 앨리스를 만나게 된다. 폐쇄적인 성격의 바이올리니스트인 앨리스에게 마틴은 본능적으로 이끌린다. 서로에게 강렬하게 매혹된 두 사람은 사랑에 빠지지만 그들이 함께 할 미래에는 앨리스가 극복해야 하는 마틴의 어두운 그림자가 놓여 있다. 마틴은 그의 과거와 가족들을 떠난 이유에 대해 앨리스에게 한마디도 말하지 않지만 그들은 서로의 과거에 대해 더 이상 묻지 않는다. 그러나 앨리스가 마틴에게 임신한 사실을 알리자 그는 과거의 기억을 떠올리며 갑자기 심각한 발작증세를 보인다. 앨리스는 마틴을 도울 수 있는 유일한 길인 그의 숨겨진 과거를 찾아 나서기로 한다.

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.

Rolando Colla made his directorial debut with this Swiss-French-Italian period drama about a Breton woman who disguises herself as a man to join a ship's crew during the 18th century. Rebellious 24-year-old Anne Bruneau is abandoned at the altar by her fiancé Yann. Unaware that Yann was drunk and fell down a well, Anne reacts to his absence by cutting her hair, dressing like a man, and signing on with a ship captained by a dwarf. When Yann learns what happened, he begins running south to Marseilles to rejoin her. Aboard the ship, Anne's disguise is discovered by the captain and the ship's doctor. With an Arab, she jumps ship, hiding with hookers in Marseilles while still maintaining her disguise.

Friends of a recently painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in Bruno, whom he meets on a train. Traveling parallel with the train is a station wagon with Jean-Baptiste's body, and this vehicle is driven by Thierry, husband of Catherine, who's on the train with their daughter. François plays a taped interview with Jean-Baptiste, revealing his sexual appeal to both men and women. Lucie is convinced that she was his main love. Also on board is his nephew, Jean-Marie and Jean-Marie's estranged wife Claire. After the funeral in "Europe's largest cemetery," the story continues in the mansion of Jean-Baptiste's brother Lucien.

A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in Oran. He travels to Paris for a cataract operation. Marinette, his sister, and Belka, his friend and a recent immigrant, want him to return to France permanently. Friction develops between the two friends as Georges is pressured to sell his factory. Friendship developed between Georges and his surgeon, who as a French Arab has severed ties with his culture and country of origin.

A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.

Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clotilde Courau), does the housework and sometimes goes to the job center but boredom is inescapable. One day, because he accepted to drive a truck for a friend to a warehouse, he's caught up in a vicious spiral that goes beyond him. It's all the more serious as shady men want to eliminate him an the police is on his back.

In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects. She is dreaming of Goa, India, where she thinks she will soon move with her friend Nora... She is dreaming about this, when Nora wakes her up with a catastrophic face... Nora, her best friend, who also works at the Emergency, and not at the night emergency room as her parents believe... Nora is sure she is pregnant. From Olivier, a rich son of a local family who had promised her marriage and a mansion.... In fact of promises, he is quick to back out, and only Carole's presence of mind allows them to get money from him, price of his cowardice. A little money moreover, that brings closer to Goa...

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.

A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict.

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers..

Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role model as a 18-year-old boy.

Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he tries suicide. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive. Benoit tumbles down into the drug scene. Then he goes to Italy and meets Claudia. Things seem to improve, but only for a short time...

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue.

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.