Lyes Salem

It's the year of the baccalaureate for Magyd, a little Arab from rue Raphaël, northern districts of Toulouse. A formality for the French, a seismic event for the “native”. Just think, the first Arab ferry in the city. The end of a tunnel, the climax of a long standoff with fate, under the incessant loving pressure of the all-powerful mother and the jeering quelibets of the gang. Because it is not good to pass for an “intellectual” after school, in the periphery of “living together”; Magyd and his inseparable friends, Samir the activist and Momo the chat artist, experience it on a daily basis.

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.

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls into the hands of his family.

Sebastien is a former rugby player. Between the ages of 12 and 16, everyone sees him as a child full of joie de vivre. A characteristic of his native South-West. This joie de vivre is only a smokescreen to protect the balance of his family. Four years that Sébastien is raped. Four years that he suffers and cries out in silence because his predator is none other than one of his parents' relatives, loved by all. Thirty years later, Sébastien has not been able to speak, and his demons are destroying him.

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?

Neige, divorciada e mãe de três crianças, visita regularmente Emir, seu avô argelino, que vive agora em um asilo para idosos. Ela adora e admira seu papel de alicerce da família, e como o homem que a criou e sobretudo a protegeu da atmosfera tóxica que marcava seu relacionamento com os pais. As relações entre os muitos parentes se complicam quando Emir morre, desencadeando uma tempestade familiar e uma profunda crise de identidade em Neige.

Paris, 1993. Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets and is strongly attracted to Julien, a dashing young man, she realizes for the first time the heavy rules of her patriarchal family and how they affect her intimacy. As Islamism takes over her country of origin and her family crumbles, Selma discovers the power of her own desire. She must resist and fight. Through the strength of her people, she starts walking down the path of what it means to become a free woman.

A Argélia, em 1994, uma Guerra Civil que já dura anos continua trazendo morte e sofrimento à população local. Os policiais S. e Lotfi, dois amigos de infância, viajam pelo deserto em busca de Abou Leila, um perigoso terrorista em fuga. Na imensidão do Saara, a busca parece absurda, mas à medida em que entram cada vez mais fundo no deserto, eles precisam enfrentar não apenas a violência da guerra, mas também seus próprios traumas.

Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigue as follows: "In February 1905, in Moscow, a group of terrorists, belonging to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, organized a bomb attack against the Grand Duke Serge, Tsar's uncle ”. The rapper and slammer Abd Al Malik offers with this "musical tragedy" a contemporary staging of "The Just", a complete creation, faithful to the text of Camus, but reinventing a scenic and musical language resolutely inscribed in our time.

Three women, three generations, two secrets. In the early 1970s, a bomb exploded on board the Swissair flight 330 to Tel Aviv. Isabelle's husband also died. The young, very pregnant widow feared that her lover, the Palestinian activist Djibril, might be entangled in it ... Now, 47 years later, Isabelle finds out that her granddaughter Anaïs has converted to Islam. But why does the young student keep her new faith secret from the family? Anaïs's mother, Léa, immediately rings the alarm.

No sul da Tunísia, dois irmãos fãs de futebol se deparam com um burro perdido no meio do deserto, na fronteira com a Argélia. Estranhamente, o animal está usando fones de ouvido. Mal imaginam eles que o simpático quadrúpede está levando uma carga muito peculiar. Prêmio do Público no renomado Festival Internacional de Curtas de Clermont-Ferrand e no Festival Internacional de Curtas de São Paulo, em 2019. Pré-finalista ao Oscar 2020 de Melhor Curta de Ficção.

A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.

No início dos anos quarenta, o pequeno boxeador Steve Landry (Mathieu Kassovitz) perdeu mais ataques do que ele ganhou. Mas antes de pendurar as luvas para o bem, ele aceita uma oferta do que muitos se despedaçam: sendo o parceiro sparring do campeão emergente Tarek M'Bareck. Uma última chance de deslizar sua esposa e seus filhos.

Isabelle Adjani é Carole Matthieu - uma médica cirurgiã empregada em um call center, que tornou-se emocionalmente envolvida no sofrimento de seus colegas de trabalho.

Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!

Hired by a woman who thinks her husband cheated on her, a fumbling crook has to kidnap and punish the mistress in question. With one of his friends, he sets up a scheme to pocket the money easily. But the day of the confrontation, things take an unexpected turn.

Amine, a young Algerian, rents a camcorder and films souvenirs on his way to Eldorado.

The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's will he unwittingly, but irresistibly, gets caught in the tangled web of murder and small town politics in this off-beat mystery.

Baseado no livro “La Tête en Friche”, de Marie-Sabine Roger. Quando criança, Germain (Gérard Depardieu) foi chamado de burro na escola por todos e em casa, com sua mãe solteira, não era diferente. A dificuldade de ler se perpetuou numa espécie de bloqueio intelectual. Já adulto, sua vida se resumia a viver de bicos, ainda ser alvo de brincadeira dos amigos e, principalmente, conviver com o eterno desamor da mãe. Contudo, quando Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus) faz com que as páginas de um livro se abram novamente para ele, este reencontro com o universo das letras amplia seu horizonte e o único limite - agora - será somente a sua vontade.

Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.

Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.

Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.

Malik raises his little brother and works as a doorman.

O governo israelense envia uma missão secreta de retaliação para matar onze pessoas ao redor do mundo depois que terroristas palestinos assassinam onze atletas israelenses nas Olimpíadas de Munique em 1972.

Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has no trouble matching up to the men. She works on renovating an old dilapidated house, high up and lonely in the mountains of the Ardèche, in the hope that her teenage son Xavier, who was not brought up by her, will move in. The walls she is restoring are like her life, which she wants to build up bit by bit. Because it's clear that she has just lived through some difficult years - in her own defensive words, she says to her son: 'I was unstable.' She is still easily upset and can become angry and aggressive.

Ninguém consegue controlar o 13º Distrito. A polícia tenta aprender como fazer isto. Dois jovens heróis, nascidos quando aquilo se tornou uma terra de ninguém e lutando contra um governo repressor, têm 24 horas para entrar e salvar o que se tornou um local violento e fora de controle.

O que aconteceria se, num futuro próximo, mulheres estéreis pudessem dar a luz a si mesmas através de seus próprios embriões? E se este futuro próximo fosse hoje? Para deixar um passado sofrido e um terrível senso de culpa para trás, uma jovem estéril vai ao extremo para conseguir ter sua filha, incentivada por seu marido obstetra. O rápido crescimento da criança é anormal e ela se torna uma cópia perfeita de sua mãe, substituindo-a gradualmente no comando da família. Uma espiral diabólica inspirada no tema da clonagem. Uma história nunca vista de uma mulher que dá a luz a si própria mas sem nunca saber disto.

Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.

Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.

Driss, an Algerian emigrant who has settled down in France, is back to Algiers for his month's holiday. What joy it is to hug his relatives and friends, to get to know Nedjma, his cousin Amrane's promised wife and to rediscover the white beauty of his childhood town ! But, a dramatic news suddenly interferes. A fourteen-year-old girl has just been killed for refusing to wear the "hidjab". A spontaneous demonstration is organized, to which the women of the house decide to go. With one exception though : that of Nedjma banned from going by her future husband.

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

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