Benjamin Chartier

Belleville. A working-class Parisian neighborhood. Nadia teaches french to Chinese prostitutes in an association. Committed to her work, she gets close to one of her students, Mei, who is saving money to make his son travel to France.

At 16, Gabriel takes over the camera of his deceased older brother and films his daily life with his little sister who is growing up, his mother who is sinking into madness and a boy from his neighborhood. An unexpected encounter will lead Gabriel to film a first love.

Musical notes make colors in Henri's head. Social interactions are the great enigma of his life and the tension of a piano's chords are the center of his world. Today, Henri has reached a decision: he is going to go to the music academy try his luck. But he must face Julia, the competition favorite. She is his only friend and his greatest rival.

Tom, 20 and his friend Max, have opposing views on how to best approach a girl. At the gym, they come across Lucie. And so the match begins…

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.

The twenties somewhere in France. Summertime. Lisa, sixteen, avoid the bourgeois family boredom. At the bottom of a remote lake, she reveals herself.

Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.

"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]

Camille, a little nine-year-old girl, is bored in the hamlet where she lives with her grandmother. She meets Louis, a vagabond, who she chooses for her father. Together, they set off on adventure.