Zinedine Soualem

Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.

Após uma experiência de quase morte, o principal chef da França se lança em uma busca pelo sabor que confundiu sua vida desde que foi derrotado por uma tigela de macarrão de um chef japonês quando jovem.

95-96, year of high school. Only 17 years old, Zahia Ziouni becomes aware that her dream of becoming a conductor and her ambition to make symphonic music accessible to all and in all territories, will go through the creation of an orchestra unique in its diversitý and composition. Helped by her twin sister Fettouma, a cellist, and while she was about to conduct her very first concert, she created the Divertimento orchestra. The latter still exists and, at 44 years old, Zahia is now a conductor recognized worldwide.

Vincent is 13 years old and has a boundless admiration for his father. His father is unemployed and is mainly involved in football, pretending to become a professional trainer soon, and does not take care of his family. Vincent's mother manages everything, until one day, at the end of her tether, she attempts suicide.

Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all the invitations made to him. Until the day when he decides to accept to be made "Honorary Citizen" of Sidi Mimoun, the small town where he was born.But should he again meet with the inhabitants of this city, who year after year became the heroes of his various novels?

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...

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.

Elise, uma jovem e promissora bailarina clássica, se machuca em uma apresentação após flagrar a traição do namorado. Apesar dos especialistas dizerem que ela não conseguirá mais dançar, Elise vai lutar para se recuperar, buscando novos rumos no mundo da dança contemporânea.

Rémi e Mélanie têm em torno de 30 anos e, apesar de morarem em prédios um ao lado do outro, não se conhecem. Ambos estão solteiros e enfrentam problemas pessoais: ele, devido à demissão de praticamente todos de seu antigo trabalho enquanto foi promovido para outro setor, ela sem conseguir superar o término de um longo relacionamento, cujo fim já tem um ano. Cada um à sua maneira, os dois buscam meios de lidar com o momento depressivo através das redes sociais: ele pelo Facebook, ela através do Tinder.

Todos na vila de Yassine no Marrocos contribuíram para enviá-lo para estudar arquitetura em Paris. Ele teria um futuro brilhante, mas é inesperadamente reprovado em suas provas e perde seu visto estudantil. Para não desapontar sua família, decide se casar com seu melhor amigo Fred para obter documentos de imigração. Mas um inspetor desconfiado está disposto a descobrir seu casamento falso.

Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.

Max and Minou are having a relationship crisis: she's crying, he's getting annoyed. Their car has been vandalised but this is not why she's crying. While looking for a car repairer on a small industrial estate, they come across some people who are even more troubled than they are. The world seems about to erupt.

Sonia e Melanie, duas adolescentes francesas, junto a suas respectivas famílias têm suas vidas arruinadas à medida que são tomados como alvo e sofrem lavagem cerebral de terroristas jihadistas, que atuam como recrutadores nas redes sociais.

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!

Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian hates teamwork and sticks the intern with what seems a classic tabloid story about the suicide of a man who had himself torn to shreds by a lion at the zoo. But thanks to the intern’s dogged determination, signs emerge that the story Fabian was working on and the gory zoo story are actually interlinked. Is it pure coincidence? And if it isn’t, how can Fabian fight a nebulous enemy?

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.

Xavier tem agora 40 anos. Assim como Wendy, Isabelle e Martine. Aos 40 anos você deve levar uma vida mais estável do que com 20 anos, mas não é o que acontece com Xavier. Ele progrediu em alguns aspectos, tornou-se escritor... mas no dia-a-dia sua vida está longe de estar estabilizada. Pior ainda é quando sua ex-mulher Wendy, mãe de seus 2 filhos, muda-se para Nova York com as crianças. Xavier não consegue ficar longe delas, então decide que se mudará também. Não demora muito para que os problemas comecem.

Max 6 anos. Ela vive com seu pai Toni, um pouco de punk com um coração grande. Para o Natal, Max decide oferecer-lhe Rose, conheci uma garota alegria na rua e ele tomou um gosto para. Apesar da situação complicada, Toni será difícil recusar o "dom" de sua filha e ter que conviver com Rose.

Colin (Romain Duris) é um homem rico e despreocupado, que nunca precisou trabalhar. Tímido, ele nunca teve muito sucesso com as mulheres, até ser apresentado a Chloé (Audrey Tautou) durante uma festa. Apesar de um primeiro encontro desastroso, os dois se apaixonam e se casam. O casal está sempre cercado pelos amigos Nicolas (Omar Sy), um cozinheiro talentoso, oChick (Gad Elmaleh), um intelectual pobre e fascinado pelo filósofo Jean Sol-Partre, e a extrovertida Alise (Aïssa Maïga). Tudo caminha bem, até o dia em que Chloé é diagnosticada com uma doença rara: ela tem uma flor de lótus crescendo dentro do seu pulmão. O caríssimo tratamento exige o uso de diversos medicamentos e a aplicação de centenas de flores, levando Colin à falência, e a amizade do grupo à crise.

It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and the others didn't only want to create their own television channel, they above all wanted to make a revolution. Thus Télé Gaucho was born, as anarchic and provocative as the main channels were conformist and reactionary. Five years of mayhem, brutal pirate TV demonstrations, drunken parties, and thwarted love.. And that was my idyllic interlude.

French territory is threatened by a terrorist organization just before the presidential election. If the government doesn't answer its demands, programmed bombs will explode gradually on the national railway network. Despite the operation deployed by the anti-terrorist unit, the Home Office has no other choice but to call Franck Barrot, police superintendent well-known for his controversial methods, to neutralize the armed group. His investigation will lead him to the very top level of the terrorist organization: the government itself.

Confundido com um islâmico perigoso, Saadi - um cara normal, que acontece de ser um imigrante árabe ilegal - estabelece no dia mais perigoso de sua vida.

O filme conta a história de Franck, um assaltante de bancos que foge da prisão para perseguir o seu antigo companheiro de cela, um serial killer que o incrimina pelos seus crimes hediondos. Agora considerado injustamente o inimigo público nº 1 e também perseguido por uma inspetora particularmente tenaz, Franck entra num jogo perigoso de gato e rato onde já não se distingue a presa do caçador.

France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workmates without a job. She decides to go to Paris to look for work. There she finds a cleaning job at the home of a rich man, Steve, whose world is radically different from her own. As their paths keep crossing, she discovers that her employer played a part in closing the factory in Dunkirk...

Com o advento da União Europeia, dois agentes da alfândega têm seu postos suprimidos. Francófono zeloso, Ruben é obrigado a inaugurar a primeira brigada móvel franco-belga ao lado de Mathias, seu eterno inimigo.

Baya é uma jovem ativista de esquerda que dorme com seus adversários políticos para convertê-los aos seus ideais, tudo vai bem até que ela se apaixona por um deles.

A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.

Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.

An uprising threatens the president's celebratory dinner.

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.

Cedric alias "The Quick" was abandoned at birth by his mother and grew up somehow in the homes of the DDASS. One day his teacher Bernard tells him he has a brother, Matthew, alias "Little M", of whom he knows nothing. Unlike Cedric, Mathieu was raised by a wealthy family in an upscale suburb. The meeting between the two brothers promises to be chaotic. Yet, however big their differences, Cedric and Mathieu have one thing in common: they have not known their mother. The two brothers therefore decide to find her. This is the beginning of a long and perilous journey of initiation in which they will get to know each other ...

Uma maré de azar é pouco para esse prestigiado astro de hollywood. O roteiro mostra a vida de Jean-Claude Van Damme, sua trajetória nos EUA, do sucesso ao fracasso, desde a batalha judicial pela custódia de sua filha, problemas com a polícia, envolvimento com drogas, alcool até os impostos devidos ao governo. Agora, ele esta deixando os EUA para se renovar, voltar para o seu país, em busca de um pouco de tranquilidade e paz, que os Estados Unidos já não lhe oferecem mais. Mas do que nunca, esta será a sua maior luta de todos os tempos.

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emotion reflects what is around me, not everyone is able to recognise it -- that is the risk I take. I think that this is good enough reason to make a film that will make visible small yet revealing things in differeent ways. I believe in tropisms and that is what interests me in this film." -- Marie Vermillard [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]

Dançarino em Paris, Pierre é obrigado a parar de dançar depois de ser diagnosticado com uma doença cardíaca grave. Mesmo com problemas no trabalho, sua irmã Élise vai morar com ele para poder cuidar de Pierre. Juntos, eles refletem sobre o passado e a essência do amor.

Philippe Abrams é diretor de uma agência dos correios em Salon-de-Provence no sul da França. Ele é casado com Julie, cuja natureza depressiva torna a vida dele impossível. Para agradá-la, Philippe monta uma fraude para obter uma transferência para a Côte d´Azur (a Riviera Francesa), mas é desmascarado e acaba sendo transferido para Bergues, uma pequena cidade no norte do país. Para os Abrams, sulistas cheios de preconceitos, o Norte é um horror, uma região gelada e povoada por pessoas que falam um dialeto incompreensível, o "cheutimi". Sem opção, Philippe embarca sozinho e descobre que Bergues não é tão ruim assim.

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) é uma prestigiada escritora francesa; Pierre Laclos (Dominique Pinon) é um homem que, em viagem por uma estrada francesa, conhece a manicure histérica Huguette (Audrey Dana). Aos poucos, o filme revela suas relações e suas verdadeiras faces numa trama repleta de mistério e farsas.

Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) tem 43 anos, é editor da revista Elle e um apaixonado pela vida. Mas, subitamente, tem um derrame cerebral. Vinte dias depois, ele acorda. Ainda está lúcido, mas sofre de uma rara paralisia: o único movimento que lhe resta no corpo é o do olho esquerdo. Bauby se recusa a aceitar seu destino. Aprende a se comunicar piscando letras do alfabeto, e forma palavras, frases e até parágrafos. Cria um mundo próprio, contando com aquilo que não se paralisou: sua imaginação e sua memória.

Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one o’clock 8-year-old Vlad feels lovesick for the first time. The day is spent observing, looking, avoiding and meeting each other. One day, three different perspectives: the same evening twilight, the same loneliness. And there is always the stranger who crosses their path. How will Serge, Pietra and Vlad find each other?

Em 2004, plateias de todo o mundo lotaram os cinemas para conferir a violência e sofrimento de “A Paixão de Cristo”. Agora é a hora de voltar ainda mais no passado e descobrir como esta extraordinária história começou, em uma superprodução focada na emocionante saga de Maria e José - na qual eles enfrentam provações para o seu amor, para a sua esperança e principalmente para a sua fé. Acompanhe a profecia descoberta pelos Três Reis Magos nas estrelas, testemunhe a caçada do temível Rei Herodes ao Messias anunciado e siga a trajetória da mãe do Filho de Deus saindo de Nazaré rumo a Belém, onde nasce então a criança que mudaria o mundo para sempre. Você está convidado a vivenciar a mais eterna das histórias de uma forma como você nunca viu antes.

Um marido avaro resolve enfim ser generoso com a mulher e lhe dá de presente uma casa de campo. Mas ele não consegue deixar de ser econômico, e assim escolhe um corretor de segunda e operários incompetentes que transformarão sua surpresa em pesadelo.

A businessman gets depressed when his wife leaves him and he learns that his IQ is very low. A friend, a clown in hospitals, wants to cheer him up.

A lifelong fan of Charles Aznavour, a drifting 50-year-old man one day sets out to meet his idol.

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with another woman. Annoyed, Anne sets out to find potential lovers.

Cinco anos depois de passarem um ano juntos em Barcelona, os colegas de casa de Albergue Espanhol, de 2002, voltam a se reunir para um casamento russo. A vida acadêmica ficou para trás e eles agora têm quase 30 anos, com problemas de carreira e relacionamento, mas continuam jovens de espírito.

Charles Boulin decides to sell his small apartment on Avenue Foch to purchase a little hotel in the western suburbs of Paris. But the hotel happens to be a decaying house in Argenteuil. He wanted to surprise his wife and daughter, but it soon turns into a nightmare when they learn they have move into this shack, during the work, along with unscrupulous workers ...

A small crook manages to crash at a musician's apartment and turns his life upside down.

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to control his son's life orientation.

O filme acompanha a queda de uma cameraman jovem, Caty, depois que ela se envolve com um grupo de pequenos criminosos e seu enigmático líder, Jean. A turma vive como irmãos, até o dia em que Jean planeja um grande assalto a banco. Apesar dos outros membros da gangue se sentirem fora da sua liga, as dificuldades financeiras e o bom papo de Jean os convence. Agora Caty encontra-se em um mundo infernal de violência, traição e assassinato.

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.

Short movie

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...

Max has two obsessions: filming God and the girls. His first camera, he drowns him at the age of six while trying to film a friend's "dick". The second, he steals it from a Japanese tourist couple. For the third, he seduces the saleswoman who ends up agreeing to undress. Until one day, understanding that the blind are decidedly more gifted than the sighted, she decides to cheat on him ...

Xavier recebe antes de iniciar seu último ano na Faculdade de Economia uma proposta de trabalho no Ministério da Fazenda, mas precisa falar espanhol e não conhece nada da língua. Para aprender decide cursar o último ano em Barcelona, e vai morar com outros estudantes de várias nacionalidades no mesmo apartamento.

Cleópatra, rainha do Egito, acredita que pode construir um templo em tempo recorde e faz uma aposta com Júlio César. Seu arquiteto, no entanto, precisa da ajuda de Asterix e Obelix para lutar contra romanos que tentam impedir a construção.

Old buddies Eric, Jean and Karim have never really grown up. Spending their listless days and nights in the same Lyon suburb where they were raised, the men are always looking for distractions. So when Jean steals a television camera one afternoon, the trio decide to head into the city in the hopes of pawning it. But their funny idea of an adventure turns out to be a ticket into trouble.

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.

A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.

Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?

A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and makes a dramatic discovery.

Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.

Bruno, a bus driver, lives in a problem estate. One day, a group of young people stab him. Since this moment, Bruno spends his time in a meeting point of extreme right-wing people. His only goal is to find the youngs who did that to him, even if he looses everything.

Felix lives with Monique, an authoritarian woman. He decides his wife to exchange their Blois pavilion for what seems to be paradise: a villa in the south of the Drome. Unfortunately the house stands in the middle of a campsite.

Nicolas Lanson, a young stockbroker, lives a fast life of money and luxury until the day his high-risk initiatives cause the fall of the bank. He flees with a price on his head. On the run, Nicolas meets Charlotte, pregnant for a man who doesn't want her. Although Nicolas isn't her type, Charlotte seduces him once she discovers his identity. Little does Nicolas know, Charlotte is not leading them to see her brother, but an older lover who just happens to be a cop.

A man and a woman whose first names will never be known and who should never meet. He is an immigrant, worker of the vine, she is a fleeing bourgeois who thinks she has committed an irreparable mistake.

Short movie

Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.

Professor Choron recounts with his memories as a child of a barrier guard, the 2nd World War with its horrors and the trains he saw during those years leaving for Germany or coming from there, full of French or German soldiers, in conquest or in rout according to the period

Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity. Among other women of the home who are also pregnant the frequently asked question is whether they will keep their baby or not.

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.

24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence

To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...

A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives while becoming lost and contending with such obstacles as bad weather and aching bodies. Both of the female hikers are seeking love, though one of them is involved with their married guide and tries to push him into getting a divorce. The other, a former actress, simply wants the perfect mate. Neither of the two male hikers, one who is involved with an Australian and the other is in love with making money, qualify for her affections.

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.

Uma família burguesa - incluindo a dominadora e matriarca Madame Menard, a filha rebelde Betty, o filho sem ambições Henri e seu irmão bem-sucedido financeiramente, ainda que perpetuamente irritado, Philippe - se reúne em um restaurante para celebrar o aniversário de Yolande, a esposa tímida de Philippe. À medida que a noite avança, rivalidades amargas e décadas de ressentimentos lentamente se revelam.

Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati's and lives in a second rate hotel under the careful eye of Ahmed, the night watchman. One day, she meets Gérald, her brother's former boyfriend, who persuades her to move into his apartment. He soon takes control over Sandrine's life, organizing erotic rendezvous for her, taking her to her clients and waiting for her until she is through with her task.

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée, who often watches over other peoples' cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood.

An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.

Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the offices of a karate magazine, the consequences of which sends the playwright into a spiraling bout of depression.

Um dia na vida de três jovens delinquentes, um árabe, um judeu e um negro que moram num conjunto habitacional pobre de Paris, mostra a que ponto pode chegar a discriminação racial de policiais hostis.

Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".

The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical young woman of the X-generation, seems to have no ambition in her life; she lives for the moment and the moment is often self-destructive. Abused as a child, she affects toughness and bravado to disguise her inner fears. Mona, Daisy's seven-year old daughter, is the result of the sexual abuse Daisy suffered while she was a child. Mona was raised by her father, but after he went to prison and his girlfriend rejected her, Mona must return to her mother. The reunion is not joyful and the two must lower plenty of mutual barriers if they are to bond. When Mona's lover Sami is arrested for a shooting, Daisy and Mona go on the lam. To survive they become con-artists and petty thieves. Just as things start to improve, finds out that her new boss has been having her deliver kiddie-porn.

Martine tem 25 anos e acaba de se separar de François. Desesperada, persegue o ex-marido pela rua para obter uma última explicação mas, completamente alucinada, provoca um acidente que a conduz às urgências de um hospital psiquiátrico. Acometida por uma amnésia momentânea, decide ficar no hospital para se recompor. Durante esse tempo, desenvolve uma grande atividade: ocupar-se das vidas sentimentais dos outros. Cheia de energia e uma sufocante e desajeitada boa vontade, ela faz tudo o que pode para juntar pessoas que não exigem tanto…

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?

Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He decides that the human factor will be his catchword and introduces new methods, which he also applied to himself. But tensions slowly arise between members of the staff.

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.