Thomas Van Pottelberge

Pierre does his best to successfully complete the chaotic construction site for which he is responsible. Bodies are exhausted by untenable deadlines. However, the work must continue, unabated. And without accidents.

In the working class suburbs of Casablanca. Hassan and Issam, father and son, try to survive from day to day, doing small deals for the local underworld. One night, a man they were supposed to kidnap dies accidentally in their car. Hassan and Issam find themselves with a corpse to dispose of. Then begins a long night through the underworld of the city.

Merowe Dam in North Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to erect a mysterious construction made of mud. Despite a disturbing wound in his lower back that seems to be eating away at his skin, he continues his labor day after day. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his mud creation starts slowly to take a life of its own.

Odile, a textile worker, and her colleagues are told to evaluate newly-arrived young Tunisian women over a span of four days. Although there is no good solution, Odile will try to make the right choice.

Antoine, an international wine negotiator in his fifties, receives an unusual phone call from Moscow. No voice, just a breath. Shaken, he leaves everything behind, his job, his partner, to go immediately to Russia to look for the woman he loved passionately and who has mysteriously disappeared for four years.

Somewhere in the north-east of France, Eric, a penniless man who lives in his car, rejects his son Esteban, 10 years old, autistic and living under the care of his uncle. Because of another carelessness of his father, Esteban is kidnapped by two gangsters. Eric, devastated, is determined to do what's necessary in order to raise the ransom. He plunges into the city's ghetto in hopes of saving his son.

Пожилая женщина находится взаперти. Квартира становится подмостками для её домашних перфомансов, а окна — порталами в чужую жизнь.

Пожилая женщина находится взаперти. Квартира становится подмостками для её домашних перфомансов, а окна — порталами в чужую жизнь.

Жоэль и Камель, давно не живущие вместе, наконец официально разводятся, хоть оба и продолжают работать у Эмманюэль Жоли, новоиспеченного мэра Монфермея, ничем не примечательного городка близ Парижа. Команда мэра пытается воплотить в жизнь все ее фантастические обещания, данные избирателям во время предвыборной кампании. Согласно им, местных жителей ждут сказочные перемены, а именно: дневной сон для всех, сады на крышах, гармонизация дыхания людей, международная языковая школа и тому подобное. Но коварные враги решительно саботируют все эти прекрасные начинания, так как Париж планирует распространить свое влияние на эту территорию. Мадам мэр постепенно скатывается в депрессию.

In the Northern seas, a fisherman is going to discover the wonderful origin of fish.

Three generations of a single family live together under a common roof in an uncoordinated choreography. The mother, acting as an orchestra conductor, tries without success to gather everyone around the same table for dinner.