Pierre
When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. As the death tears through his family, controversy arises over Aissa’s funeral plans when the Army refuses to take responsibility. Ismael, his older, rebellious brother, tries to keep the family united as they fight to win justice for Aissa.
Romain
Bastien and Chloé spend the summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec. Despite the age gap, the two teenagers form a singular bond. Ready to overcome his worst fears to earn a place in Chloé's heart, the holiday becomes a turbulent pivotal moment for the young boy.
Leon
Jacqueline - a woman who is obsessed with control - adopts two children from a foreign country with her husband. To help with translation, the kids are accompanied by Gabriele, a twenty-year-old who is just starting to taste the sweetness of power.
Paul
With their flair for engaging storytelling and a renowned love and respect for literature and the arts, the French Boys have something for everyone. Featuring five captivating stories set among rolling hills, village squares and the rooftops of Paris - the birthplace of cinema has never looked this inviting.
The short films are: Beauty Boys (2020); Freed [Baltringue] (2019); So Long, Paris! (2020); Sunset Cemetery [Extérieur crépuscule] (2020); Vincent Before Noon [Vincent avant midi] (2019).
Lucas
Eleonore Berthier, 34 years old, keeps living as a teenager, collecting odd jobs and one night stands. Following a burnout, her mother and sister decide to take action to help her make a fresh start.
Paul
A bittersweet comedy about how a fanciful and rebellious preteen ends up accepting her parents' divorce.
Adam Jakubowitz
Anna e Adam, um jovem casal de Paris com origens judaicas polonesas, partem pela primeira vez rumo à Polônia. Eles foram convidados para comemorar os 75 anos da destruição da comunidade de nascimento do avô de Adam. Enquanto ele parece pouco animado com a viagem, Anna está ansiosa para descobrir o país, que também é a terra natal de sua avó. Finalmente, lá vão eles em busca de suas origens em uma jornada cheia de surpresas, durante a qual não encontrarão exatamente o que procuram.
Cédric
Rachel, uma modesta funcionária de escritório, conhece Philippe, um jovem brilhante nascido de uma família burguesa. A partir desta breve mas apaixonada conexão nasce uma pequena filha, Chantal. Philippe se recusa a se casar fora de sua classe social e Rachel tem que criar a filha sozinha. Para Rachel, Chantal é sua grande felicidade e por isso luta para que nunca falte nada a ela, e exige que Philippe lhe dê seu nome à filha. Essa batalha dura de mais de dez anos e acabará por mudar as vidas de todos.
Artiste
Paul
Um homem deixa tudo para trás para viajar sem rumo pela França, deixando-se guiar apenas pelas pessoas e paisagens que encontra: quatro dias e quatro noites vagando, durante o qual seu amante tenta localizá-lo via Grindr, um aplicativo de namoro para smartphones.
L'instituteur
Ao fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Gabrielle (Marion Cotillard) encontra-se velha demais para permanecer solteira e é obrigada a casar-se com um viúvo (Àlex Brendemühl) frequentador de prostíbulos. Infeliz e incapaz de engravidar, ela viaja em busca de cura em águas termais e se envolve romanticamente com um militar casado (Louis Garrel).
A movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks for ways out of his solitude and fear of failure. With each step forward, his imagination reveals itself to him, and mysterious characters lead him towards his desire to create and love.
Alexis
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
Franck
The movie focuses on Kristine, an art historian. Kristine's personal life take a dramatic twist when the whole family is gathering together and the secrets of the past are being revealed at her gracious mansion in the French countryside.
L'ami de Louis
O pobre ator de teatro Louis vive com sua namorada e sua filha de outra mulher; suas vidas são complicadas, mas eles são felizes. Quando sua namorada o trai e vai embora, ele sente que simplesmente não pode continuar e tenta acabar com tudo. Será que ele pode ser salvo por seu amor pelo teatro?
Antoine
Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...
Marcel
Spring 1944. «Some love stories seem self-evident. Perhaps they were unaware of its fatal outcome. In any case, it was inevitable.» Coming from a family of Resistance fighters, Henriette lives the inconceivable : she falls in love with Josef, a young German soldier. Marcel, her friend since childhood, secretly in love with her, discovers their romance and joins the maquis the day before the Liberation. When he will come back, he will not be alone anymore, and they will wear the armband of the FFI.
Arthur
There’s Evelyne who loves Albert, who loves Arthur, who loves the girl who plays the actress, who loves the man driving the convertible. There’s the night which only loves itself and death which only loves once. It would take more breath to kiss everyone and more time not to displease anyone.
The newspapers announce the left's defeat in the upcoming elections. A confused young mother gets up in the night to take care of her child. Leftist teens, completely puzzled, throw themselves headlong into every kind of extreme behavior. The child asks his grandfather for advice.
It’s a tough winter for young Julien: he meets up with his mother and she asks him to write a statement against his father for the divorce trial; he meets up with his friend Arthur and he tells him that his girl, Lolita, slept with Demian, another friend; he meets up with Demian, who confesses the betrayal; he meets up with his father, who warns him that if he testifies against him, Julien will be a dead man for him; he meets up with the beautiful Lolita and she makes it clear that, for her, being with him or with any of his friends or with all of them is the same thing; he meets up with his sister, who cries over their parents’ fighting, and asks Julian for help.
The swimming instructor
Marcelline (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), uma atriz quarentona e solteira, inicia os ensaios de uma nova montagem teatral, dirigida por Denis (Mathieu Amalric). Atormentada pela sombra de sua personagem, ela começa a reavaliar sua vida, especialmente com a chegada de Nathalie (Noémie Lvovsky), assistente do diretor. Ao se conhecerem, as duas descobrem o quanto são parecidas...
Marc and Camille live with their little daughter in an isolated house on the Estérel coast. The fish Marc catches in the morning are enough to keep his family fed. In the afternoon, he's a parking lot attendant. The family enjoys a peaceful existence on the fringes of society - until the day that a gendarme decides to put an end to this freedom.