Salim Kechiouche

Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is also her life. One night, Amine, in a panic, seeks help at her house: Kimmy has fallen badly when she slipped and she has killed herself. Thinking that the police will not believe this version because of his judicial past, Amine borrows Constance's car to take the corpse and make it disappear. In the days that follow, this shared secret brings Constance and Amine closer. But one morning, an anonymous letter accompanied by photos demands a ransom: someone in the building has seen everything, the blackmail begins.

Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...

Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...

Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...

After losing her home and all that she's known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul.

Comedian and educator, Karim is only approached for caricature roles. In studies, the issue of discrimination is addressed by children. In the evening, at a screening of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, Karim is disturbed by the entry into the cinema hall of an Arab man and decked out with big bags...

Comedian and educator, Karim is only approached for caricature roles. In studies, the issue of discrimination is addressed by children. In the evening, at a screening of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, Karim is disturbed by the entry into the cinema hall of an Arab man and decked out with big bags...

1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team of five outlaws, who are promised freedom if the mission succeeds.

After seven years abroad in Italy, Tarek returns home to Tunisia, he meets Khaled, who is everything he isn't: successful, handsome, and helpful..

Salim comes to grieve beside his mother’s dead body. But very quickly, between religious customs he doesn’t understand and the constant comings and goings of people he doesn’t know, the young man feels uncomfortable in the small family apartment.

É o fim das férias de verão para Amin (Shaïn Boumedine). O jovem fotógrafo passa noites aconchegantes com Charlotte (Alexia Chardard), a ex-namorada de sua prima Casanova. Ela fala com ele sobre literatura, ele a fotografa. Ninguém sabe que eles se vêem, especialmente Ophélie (Ophélie Bau), sua amiga de infância, que em vez disso confia seus problemas a Amin.

Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.

Samia, um jovem sem documentos chega clandestinamente à França depois da revolução tunisina. Assombrada pela ideia de ser pega por um irmão islâmico, ela encontra refúgio com Imed, um conhecido da sua aldeia e depois com Christine, para a qual ela trabalha. Entre ela e estes novos conhecidos, o desejo misturado com medo exacerba tensões e transtornos em sua jornada pela liberdade.

A family comedy about arranged marriage

Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.

NOIR chronicles the lives of four people living in a neighborhood plagues by poverty and violence, aspiring to freedom and happiness. Kadhafi, a 26 year old aspiring rapper and ex-member of a street gang, just out of prison, wants to steer clear of troubles. Fleur, a 17 year old Haitian mother in an abusive and passionate relationship with her daughter's father, dreams of leaving the ghetto and becoming a nurse. Suzie, a 20 year old stripper who falls for a gang member. Dickens, 16 year old Haitian wants to be part of the street gang controlled by his older brother.

Mohamed e seus amigos têm seus trinta a...

Aos 15 anos, Adèle nem sequer questiona este facto: uma rapariga namora com rapazes. A vida dela vai dar uma volta quando conhece Emma, uma rapariga jovem e de cabelo azul, que lhe vai permitir descobrir o desejo e afirmar-se como mulher, e como adulta. Adèle cresce, procura-se a si mesma, perde-se e eventualmente reencontra-se...

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"

Maya, de origem marroquina que vive em Paris há 20 anos. É a garota da moda. Em ascensão, ela está prestes a obter seu primeiro CDI estilista na casa de moda que ela trabalha. Mas em uma abordagem policial de rotina, descobrem que sua autorização de residência expirou, e terá que retornar em menos de 24 horas para o Marrocos. Voltar a este país e esta família que ela queria esquecer. Choque de culturas, choque de preconceitos, Maya vai fazer de tudo para voltar. Realmente tudo. Quando o futuro na moderna Paris torna-se a sonho de um imigrante sem documentos.

A vida de uma família Médio Oriente dos imigrantes na Europa. O pai carrega o pesado fardo de banimento. Para resgatar sua cultura, as suas tradições, é obrigatória, para que ele se mantém fiel ao seu passado, suas origens, para si mesmo. Sua filha é agora um adulto. Ele se preocupa e deseja que ela iria se casar em breve. A jovem deixa a casa da família, todas as manhãs, mas muda suas roupas em um bar antes de ir para o trabalho, seu cabelo para baixo. Ela confunde o jovem patrão da empresa que emprega-la. Ele se apaixonou e está pronto para fazer qualquer coisa para se casar com ela. Mas o jovem mantém a sua liberdade de escolha, assim como sua mãe havia feito com seu pai. Ela não vai ter tempo para introduzir o único homem para ela seus pais. Um amigo de seu pai pega-los. Em um café.

Argélia, década de 1930. Younes tinha nove anos quando foi colocado aos cuidados de seu tio em Oran. Rebatizado como Jonas, ele cresce entre os jovens do Rio Salado, onde faz muitas amizades. Emilie também faz parte da gangue e todos estão apaixonados por ela. Uma grande história de amor se desenvolve entre Jonas e Emilie, que logo é abalada pelos conflitos que afligem o país.

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

Leila is Moroccan, Mathieu is French. They made the decision to get married. The marriage approaches and they only miss one more document: the certificate of Leila's celibacy which will be delivered to them only if the young woman marries a Muslim. No choice, Mathieu has to be converted to Islam.

Salim arrives in France, happy like a hummingbird at the idea of joining again with Sofia, a young French woman of Moroccan descent whom he married there according to the country tradition. But he quickly becomes disillusioned when she tells him she no longer wants to be his wife. Here in France she is free and nobody can force her. Between brothers and sisters who support Sofia, a disoriented Salim who wants to return to Morocco, and parents who would like him to build a new life in France, with or without Sofia, the situation is intractable. Marriage Blues, a bittersweet comedy, is thumbing its nose at the arranged marriage.

Malik tem muito o que resolver quando volta para a sua casa na Tunísia, depois de viver e estudar na França. Ele tem de enfrentar não só o luto pela morte do pai, como as lembranças da sua infância e a necessidade de confessar sua homossexualidade para a mãe. Mas todos os problemas de Malik parecem desaparecer quando ele se apaixona por Bilal, o garoto sonhador que mora na propriedade de sua mãe.

Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will take an entirely different turn.

BOYS BRIEFS 4 is a collection of six short films about gay male hustlers. While sex plays a key role in these films they aren't mere exploitation vehicles. Instead BOYS BRIEFS 4 reveals the true experiences of the hustler resulting in a series of slice-of-life vignettes that are surprisingly poignant and emotionally compelling. 6 Shorts: Into the Night (2002); Boy (2004); Gigolo (2005); Build (2004); Rock Bottom (2002); Gold (2005).

He is young, good-looking and of Arab descent and gets lost amongst the glamour of Paris international jet set.

Os irmãos Marc, Christophe e Olivier vivem com o pai, recém-viúvo, lidando cada um deles com suas frustações. Marc volta as dívidas com traficantes, planeja uma vingança e aguarda o irmão mais velho, Christophe, sair da cadeia para ajudá-lo. Olivier, o mais sensível dos três, lida com a questão da sua descoberta: a de que ama um jovem de origem africana, lutador de capoeira. Christophe volta regenerado e disposto a começar a trabalhar em uma fábrica, lutando contra o seu passado. Marc, arriscando-se cada vez mais, entra no perigoso submundo das drogas. E Olivier encontra em Hichman uma história de paixão.

Todos os anos o governo francês seleciona estudantes que tem um elevado potencial para ocuparem altas posições no governo. São enviados para aquelas que são conhecidas como as Grande Écoles onde eles são treinados para virem a serem os futuros líderes do país.

The turbulent life of Pasolini, filmmaker, writer. Of his many trials and political scandals in his troubled relationship with prostitutes in Rome through his relationship with Ninetto Davoli, the embodiment of life and gaiety form a striking contrast with the poet haunted by death.

Mathieu, 18, passa o verão na casa de verão de sua mãe. Na praia, ele conhece Cédric, um garoto de sua idade. Uma história de amor começa entre os dois rapazes.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

A fish that is caught, frozen and sold to a man travels from the Kabyle mountains to the coast. After coming to its senses, it finds its way back to the sea.

It’s the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Between Amin’s encounters with these women and his dreams of cinema, many choices open up to him.

Violaine, a twenty-year-old young woman, spends her time photographing people in secret. One morning, when leaving her home, she discovers her neighbor, half dead. This event is going to upset her and to incite her to come out of her solitude to discover who is this man that she has probably saved.