Fadila Belkebla
Nascimento : 1973-12-12, Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
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.
La professeure principale
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?
Membre entourage Pierre Billard
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.
Mère de Nina
La tante de Nassim
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
Samia
Fatima é gerente de um banho turco frequentado todos os dias por dezenas de mulheres que compartilham esperanças e medos com suas amigas. Elas passeiam nuas, fumam e falam sobre sexo, política e religião. Porém, todas estão cientes da realidade turbulenta lá fora.
Houria, Nadia's mother
"Para você, eu poderia escalar o Everest!" Samy teria feito melhor se tivesse ficado calado aquele dia... Especialmente por que Nadia não acredita muito em palavras. Por amor a ela, Samy deixa projetos de vida de lado e vai subir os 8.848 metros que fazem do Everest o telhado do mundo.
Sarah
Samir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. When the contract fails, his business partner and closest friend plans to save their company by sending Samir to represent Algeria at the Winter Olympics! Already broke, and expecting his second child, Samir trains to become the first Algerian cross-country skiing male athlete to participate in the winter games. Samir, the eldest son of an Algerian emigrant must first go back to his father's homeland in order to achieve this goal.
Mariam' Stepmother
The year is 2004. France has passed a law banning religious symbols in public schools. Mariam, born in France to Arab parents, recently began to wear the hijab after performing the hajj with her grandmother. At the start of the academic year, she pretends the new law does not exist, as she does not want to acknowledge it and so be forced to make a decision. To complicate matters, Karim, a popular young Arab boy in school, starts paying attention to her and she develops a powerful crush on him. While her fellow veiled classmates argue with teachers about their desire to keep wearing the hijab, and her parents argue about her wearing hers, Mariam dreams of Karim, despite her best friend Sophia’s warning that he is not serious. Things come to a head when the deadline for removing the hijab or facing expulsion falls the same week Mariam sees Karim with another girl.
Theater workshop speaker
Mourad, 20 anos, vive entre cursos de teatro, saídas com amigos e namorada. Naquele dia, ele resolve ir a um curso de escrita em Paris, atrás de inspiração. Mas a empreitada vai se revelar mais complicada que o previsto.
Yasmin
Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, décide avec Max, son ami de toujours, de passer à l’action...
Mouna, la voisine libanaise
Em Bouzolles, todos conhecem a família Tuche. Adeptos da filosofia de que “o homem não foi feito para trabalhar”, Jeff, Cathy e seus três filhos vivem felizes com pouco dinheiro, se sustentando com um seguro-desemprego. Quando descobrem que ganharam 100 milhões de euros na loteria, porém, essa realidade muda radicalmente. Os Tuche tornam-se riquíssimos e decidem, logicamente, se mudar para Mônaco, onde Cathy sempre sonhou morar. A família precisará mudar seus hábitos para se integrar a uma nova pátria e cultura, mas não às custas de sua essência.
Elisabetta
Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in the Galilee of two thousand years ago. Grown up in love and respect for the little ones, Mary, after leaving her home, soon sees the distortions of the patriarchal world surrounding her, starting with her husband's family. Here he reads the oldest brother of Joseph, Mordecai. The sunny and determined attitude of the girl, protective of children, arouses the indignation of the head of the family and those who are convinced of the need to give them punishment, discipline and submission.
Jamila
Um aspirante a jornalista investiga o assassinato de uma mulher que, um dia, ele amou. Após o suicídio do suspeito principal, ele descobre a verdade terrível por trás do crime.
Fatiha
Le bibliothécaire
Telma, twelve years old, is passionate about literature. She assiduously prepares a competition for budding writers. But her mother has other ambitions for her. Telma and her mother clash...
Première fille Sexbar
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work by bicycle. Their meeting at a traffic light will change their lives.
Nora
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.
Farida
In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.