Director, Social Services
While in high school class, a French teenager of Moroccan origin loses his parents in a car accident. A few days later, social services learn that he was adopted and that his natural parents are his aunt and uncle who live in a small village in the Sahara... He decided to join them.
Une représentante des sociétés de crédit
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
La juge aux affaires familiales
Bilal tem 17 anos e vem do Iraque. Deixou a sua terra, pouco depois de a namorada ter emigrado para Inglaterra, com o objetivo de a voltar a ver. Mas ao chegar a França, no porto de Calais, depara-se com muitos emigrantes ilegais que também tentam chegar a Londres.
É então que Bilal decide aprender a nadar para atravessar o canal da Mancha. Na piscina municipal, o rapaz conhece Simon, um instrutor de natação e o seu cúmplice nesta perigosa viagem.
La femme de chambre
A jovem e interesseira Irène (Audrey Tautou) está hospedada em um luxuoso hotel com seu amante rico, quando conhece o tímido garçom Jean (Elmaleh), surge uma atração entre os dois. Mas Irène confunde Jean com um ricaço e acha que pode unir o útil ao agradável. A partir daí começa uma sessão de encrencas e confusões, envolvendo identidades trocadas, e o esforço de Jean para manter sua farsa. Será que ele irá conseguir manter seu segredo, e se virar para sustentar os gostos caros da sua amada?
Réceptionniste hôtel Saint-André
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d’état is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Sally
Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and drugs are very much the reality, Djamel Ouahab saw many people around him dying, which led him to this project that took seven years to complete. The director plays a drug dealer who takes care of his family, protects his mother, and tries to shield his little brother from the drugs around him. He also has to help an addicted friend to quit his habit. Just when we think that he might be successful, reality hits him in the face. The message is that you can't escape drugs with drug money. Cour interdite chronicles the drug dealer's descent into hell. It is a realistic film with poetic dimensions. Ouahab tries to show the world of drug addicts but also the human side of the dealer.
Françoise
Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.
Hélène
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.
Blanche is a maniac for the housekeeping. Colette, after having a sleepless night very eventfull, is coming to visit her.
