Costume Design
Traveling in North Benin, Cécile crosses the path of a young African mother deposited him, distraught, a baby in arms ... Cecile will adopt this child will grow African and Lancelot in France. The year of its seven years, she left with him to the country of its origin and attempts to pierce the secrecy surrounding its abandonment.
Costume Design
Com o propósito de se tornar sócia de uma lanchonete com o namorado belga, a jovem albanesa Lorna vira cúmplice de um plano diabólico encabeçado pelo mafioso Fabio. Fabio orquestra um casamento arranjado entre a moça e um de seus capangas, Claudy, pois assim Lorna poderá obter sua cidadania belga. Passado algum tempo ela terá de se casar novamente, agora com um mafioso russo disposto a pagar muito dinheiro para também conquistar sua cidadania. Mas para que esse segundo casamento seja possível, Fabio tem um plano de assassinar Claudy. E Lorna deverá manter-se em silêncio sobre esse crime.
Costume Design
Na Bélgica atual, Bruno é um jovem perdido, de 20 anos, que vive de pequenos furtos e mora em um quarto alugado. Sua namorada Sonia, de 18 anos, acaba de sair do hospital com um filho seu nos braços. Eles são completamente inconsequentes e não têm nenhuma perspectiva de vida. O filme mostra como os dois lidam com essa nova situação.
Costume Design
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Costume Design
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…
Costume Design
A jovem e impulsiva Rosetta (Emile Dequenne) vive num trailer, com sua mãe (Anne Yernaux), alcoólatra e agressiva. Sua vontade de mudar de vida é tanta que todos os dias ela luta muito por um emprego. Seu maior problema nem sempre é achá-lo, e sim manter-se nele. Ela sai à procura de trabalho como alguém que está indo para a guerra e, nesta sua luta cotidiana para sair da pobreza e levar uma vida “normal”, vale tudo.
Costume Design
Roger trabalha com a máfia de imigração ilegal na Bélgica. Coloca imigrantes no país e os explora nos aluguéis. A mulher de Amidou está chegando da África com o filhinho. Mas ao reencontrá-los, o africano sofre um acidente e pede ao menino Igor, filho de Roger, que prometa que cuidará deles. Entre a promessa, mentiras e inexperiência, Igor se move como pode por caminho diverso do pai.
Costume Design
An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son’s young American tutor.
Costume Design
Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline's wager.
Costume Design
Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a close platonic relationship. When it comes to physical love, Juliette is wise beyond her years. She will only sleep with men older than herself and has no intention of committing herself to a long-term relationship.
Costume Design
Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rate. Each woman is marked by life, yet they go on as best they can, never closing their eyes to the world around them, or to the men who impatiently await them. Faubourg Saint Martin opens as a love story and ends like a song as shots ring out and punctuate the chorus.
