Valentin Hadjadj

IF I TELL YOU uncovers a family’s pressing secret while the 12-year-old son finds his voice and the courage to stand up for what is right.

A hunting trip in the mountains. Anthony wants to impress Mathilde. He shoots. A few months later, a court reconstruction brings him face to face with Chiara. Two stories collide.

1894 - A man walks into the mountains, bag on his back. When he reaches the pass, two customs officers are waiting for him. Barely visible in the snow, the border separates them.

After the disaster, the border must be retraced. Men dressed in white survey the mountains to do it.

Bellisha is a good Jewish boy. He is a 27-year-old curly-haired, weak and nonchalant young man who struggles to become an adult. He still lives with his mother, Giselle, in a poor neighborhood. After the closing of the last synagogue, it is the turn of the last kosher grocery store to close its doors. That's it, they are the last Jewish family in the area. But much to Giselle's dismay, Bellisha doesn't particularly want to leave. He feels comfortable and positive, despite the tensions in the community and his mother's rapidly deteriorating health.

A poetic and bittersweet codetta. Themes such as the craving for human contact and the impossibility to come together are central to this miniature piece.

Sexual subcultures and the outsiders of society welcome us in the Boulogne forest west of Paris, where anyone can live out their inner fantasies.

In the Alps, two men are walking in the snow, on the nothern side of the mountains. They are migrants.

Brest, a march evening in a cafe. Sailors evoke the latest news of their friends, Estelle spends the evening with her sister, Thomas, the server is working as usual. But when his colleague Samir receives a message on his phone, the atmosphere begins to change.

During a dance audition, Roxanne falls prey to a sudden malaise and gets into her memories and trauma exhibited by a being who symbolizes her conscience.