Julie Roué

In young Kaleb's world, there is his undocumented mother Betty, his surrogate big brother Mehdi, and especially Jean-Luc, the lonely tailor who has taken a liking to this little boy. In the crowd of anonymous people in Paris, they should never have crossed paths. But fate has brought them together to form an improvised family, bound by the mission to build a future for Kaleb.

Once upon a time, Niki lived in a weird fairy tale where women who were plump, fleshy, sensual...well you know, fat...were forbidden to wear clothes, condemned to live naked and ashamed of their bodies. But tonight Niki doesn't care if she's fat; she's going to dance no matter what.

Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anything to help him get his head out of the water.

Tony and Marie are passionate about Bangers, a trashy variant of the stock car. Following a tragedy, their couple falls appart. Tony hung up the races as Marie vent her anger onto the speedway in violent crashes. When problemes resurface, they have no choice but to resolve their dispute where their community has always solved them : on the speedway.

Daphne isn’t sure about introducing her boyfriend Karim, to her parents. One day he surprises her by hiding in the boot of her car when she goes to visit her family.

Anissa Kaki is a 30-year-old Parisian theatre-maker, and Algerian Takia's granddaughter. In a piece based on her childhood memories, she evokes her grandmother's world. Whilst imitating how Takia prepared her mahjouba, she talks about the latter's smell and flavour – lent to it by grandmother's hands – which changed when they started to lose their strength.

Even though they don’t know each other very much, Inès (14) and Abdel (15) decide to have their first time together. The big day arrives and Inès is called to help out a neighbor to babysit her two kids Moussa (3) and Balla (5). Inès is determined to go through with their plan and asks Abdel to join her at her neighbor’s apartment. But the two children and their friends don’t stop to interrupt them in their pursuit. And so, they are forced to get to know each other in a different way.

An old couple. The evening routine. It’s been years since he last looked at her.