Catherine Paillé

Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an army of researchers has invaded the sites of interest. While camps are set up and dismantled as rumours of new leads spread, Moussa and his companions are banking on the Ikazan vein.

Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.

An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.

Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his teenaged children decided to live with him since the divorce of the parents. But when his daughter Mailys gets pregnant, Dom understands that he will have to choose between the sea and his family.

Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.

A drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.

Mathieu, fifteen years old, student in an agricultural high school, is an apprentice on a work-study program at Paul's farm, a small dairy farm on the Haut Doubs plateaus. In addition to learning working methods, Mathieu must integrate into family life, make his mark, find his place. Around the gestures of work, links are woven with Paul. He learns from his contact what cannot be learned in a classroom. Because it is also an absent father that Paul replaces...