Stéphane Rideau

Um jovem acorda do coma sem se lembrar da noite em que toda a família foi assassinada. Para tentar descobrir o que aconteceu, ele vai contar com a ajuda de uma psicóloga.

It all begins in the early 60s, in a slum just outside Paris inhabited by Algerian immigrants. Malika is 5, and her mum has just bought her a brand-new pair of sandals. They're so white that the little girl can't keep her eyes off them, and doesn't see the reversing truck. Then begin years of hospital, operations, suffering and struggle. Years far from her family, during which the little Muslim girl, in the hands of Catholic nurses and nuns, discovers music and singing at mass. From that point on, fighting the racism of French society as well as the enduring prejudices of her own community, Malika follows her dream and moves mountains to become the woman everyone will one day call "the diva of the ghetto".

Agnès have Nadine dangled a few days of hiking together in the Pyrenees. She takes her in fact to pick up hallucinogenic mushrooms on behalf of her boyfriend dealer but Nadine does not know.

In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?

In her new school, 15-year-old Chloé soon becomes a close friend of charismatic free spirit Luna. She also falls in love with Luna's ex-boyfriend Félix, a bad boy with a poisonous charm who's also a porn addict.

Final do inverno, uma nevasca cai na Cordilheira dos Andes. Os corpos de várias mulheres decapitadas são encontrados perto de um posto de fronteira isolado no sopé da montanha. Um homem, David, desaparecido há dias, é procurado em vão pela Polícia Rural.

Torn by the farewell letter of his boyfriend, Samuel tries to change his ideas in nature. The forest will bring him a strange and sensual consolation…

Marlène é mãe da menina Elli de oito anos. Sempre presente em festas e cercada por muita bebida, a mulher oscila entre deixar a criança desamparada em casa e levá-la para esses eventos. Certa noite, ela coloca a filha sozinha num táxi para ir embora, deixando-a à mercê dos perigos da cidade.

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.

Vital é funcionário de uma fábrica têxtil e tem 40 anos de idade. Ele se apaixona pela filha do chefe quando ela o escolhe para um estudo ergonômico, mas esse relacionamento atrai a raiva e a desaprovação de todos.

After spending 10 years in Paris becoming a talented chef, young Laura Fanton decides to return to her hometown in the mountainous Cevennes area of France to turn her family home and property into an hotel. She was raised by her grandfather after the death of her parents. Many bad rumors about her family circulated in the small village so her grandfather took her away at a young age. Upon her return she discovers the rumors still circulating and she gets the feeling she is not wanted there but can't get anyone to tell her why. Shortly after her return, the brutal murders of two of her closest friends occur, and she herself is terrorized. It's obvious someone wants her out of the way. As she investigates, she discovers some frightening truths.

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

Vassili, um prostituto envelhecido com impulsos criminosos, encontra um jovem desmaiado no Bosque de Bolonha, em Paris, e leva-o para sua casa. Os dois homens, que se tornam cúmplices e amantes, prostituem-se juntos e ganham o hábito de roubar os seus clientes. Mas, a pouco a pouco, o nó começa a apertar e após ameaças de retaliação, o casal vê-se obrigado a deixar Paris à pressa. A fuga começa...

O espírito de uma mãe perturbada desmorona quando seus filhos adultos lutam pela independência. Sentindo-se abandonada, ela pensa em tomar medidas drásticas.

Eric, a lonely young college student, meets Romain, a student who has been dispelled. Far from the family farm, Eric discovers the new wave musical movement with the help of Romain, and decides to edit a video clip for a song by Romain.

David buys a pack of cigarettes, smokes one, takes the metro and gives the rest of the pack to François, whom he meets on the platform, before walking away without further explanation.

After more than 40 years of absence, Socrates spends some days in Corsica, accompanied by his son Antoine, to see his cousins. But Antoine discovers his father's secret before his birthday party.

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.

The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.

Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia.

This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.

Serge é um camionista que faz a travessia da Europa a África e vai regularmente a Tânger onde se encontra a sua amante Sarah e o seu amigo Said. Pela primeira vez, Serge vai ceder à tentação do tráfico de droga enquanto Said vive com uma ideia fixa – passar clandestinamente para a Europa e descobrir o mundo.

Lokarri, which means in the tongue of the Basque peoples "the bond," is a story about what ties people to the land of their birth. Imanol is a 20-year-old jai alai player who is sick of the provincial town in which he has grown up, somewhere in France's Basque country. While he dreams of winning a lucrative contract with a professional jai alai team in the United States, he parties around town slowly wrecking his health and his reputation as a reliable player. When Imanol's life seems at its darkest moment, he meets two people who will change his outlook on the world. One of these is Ximista, a legendary jai alai player who went to play in the United States only to return a broken man. The other is Viviane, a Parisian sociology student who falls in love with Imanol and helps him to see the importance of his Basque heritage.

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.

The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying…

Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.

Uma família francesa convencional vive em aparente harmonia, até que um dia o pai leva um rato de estimação para casa. Um por um, ao entrarem em contato com o animal, cada membro da família se deteriora e suas perversões sexuais e psicológicas são expostas.

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 sunny winter morning... Two brothers on a countryside path, go intown, as usual... That day, the younger brother has a meeting with his criminal friends. Stéphane, his older brother, isn’t aware of it. Fate will reunite them one last time... but too late. Stéphane, bearer of a terrible secret, is in for a life of suffering...

Sophie and Gina were not supposed to meet one day. For Sophie, who is a young philosophy teacher, has always had an easy life while Gina has been in dire straits since she lost her mother at an early age. But destiny has decided to draw them close to each other in spite of everything. All it takes to achieve this unexpected encounter is Sophie's decision to call on Antoine, her favorite student. Now Antoine lives next door to Gina.

Um registro dos anos 1960, em Villeneuve, sudoeste da França, durante a guerra da independência da Argélia. Entre dúvidas sobre a adolescência, a sexualidade e a política, um grupo de amigos vai ingressando, cada qual à sua maneira, no mundo dos adultos. Henri, um jovem argelino, é enviado à cidade para completar seus estudos e acaba trazendo aos colegas a dura realidade da guerra. François e Serge são desafiados pela agressividade de Henri, enquanto a bela Maïté se sente atraída por ele.

Lucie a police officer is fond of her new neighbors a young couple. Soon she discovers that Yann, the father has a heavy criminal record. Lucie's moral conflict between her professionalism and her desire to help this family.