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Filmography
28 films


Les Secrets du Paquebot
2023 · FR


Mémé
2021 · 21m · FR
Grandma is starting to lose her eyesight and lives alone in her isolated house in Normandy. The arrival of a new little neighbor will turn her daily life upside down.


The Present
2020 · 24m · UK
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?


Give Up the Ghost
2019 · 15m · DE
Salam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband.


They Swapped My Baby
2018 · 1h 30m · FR
The true story of Sophie Serrano, a single mother whose ex protests paternity of the eldest. The DNA tests will reveal the unthinkable: Manon isn't theirs. Her biological child has been exchanged at birth to the maternity ward's error.


Sweet Smell of Spring
2016 · 1h 43m · FR
In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou, travels from his Saharan village to the big city of Tunis in search of a job. From television aerial installation to political intrigue, this fresh-faced young Candide will learn the ways of the world, fall in love with the ravishing Aicha, and become famous.


Road to Istanbul
2016 · 1h 40m · DZ
Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter.


Patchwork Family
2014 · 1h 32m · DE
Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.


10 jours en or
2012 · 1h 35m · FR
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives.


Anger
2012 · 1h 30m · MA
Omar, the miller's son, has been in love with Laila, the daughter of the local landowner, since childhood. In adulthood, Omar has become a promising journalist and writer. He still loves Laila, but she has promised herself to someone else to save her family from bankruptcy...


Holidays by the Sea
2011 · 1h 17m · FR
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.


Nuit Bleue
2010 · 1h 26m · FR
A young woman, Antonia, returns to her island of birth, Corsica, after one of her relatives has disappeared at sea. She is torn back and forth between her old love Ettore and the dumb Alexander. The quest for Antonia's place in the masculine environment of armed nationalism is an excuse for all kinds of peregrinations in the spectacular landscape of Cap Corse - a landscape that itself becomes a leading character.
Lies
Lies
2010 · 1h 35m
Véronique Richepois, a dynamic woman in her fifties, is a woman who would give God alms without confession. A model bank employee, an exemplary wife, married to an agricultural engineer with whom she has two children, a 21-year-old eldest daughter, who is soon to be married, and a 15-year-old teenager. But Véronique has a dual personality. She gets her clients to take out life insurance policies and arranges for power of attorney over the accounts, which grants her the comfort she dreamed of.


Wandering Streams
2010 · 1h 34m · FR
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, they trade pleasantries rather than confidences -- so Emile is shocked when it turns out his elderly pal watches porn, paints nudes and shags women who are his contemporaries that he meets online.


The Evening Dress
2009 · 1h 35m · FR
Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.


Our Forbidden Places
2009 · 1h 43m · FR
During the oppressive reign of Moroccan King Hassan II in the 70s and 80s (Years of Lead), many dissidents went missing. After the throning of a new king, a truth commission was formed in the 2000's. Families of the missing speak.


Legal Aid
2009 · 1h 31m · FR
At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...


Salt of This Sea
2008 · 1h 49m · NL
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. However, she soon finds that her simple plan is a complicated undertaking — one that takes her further from her comfort zone than she'd imagined.


Andalucia
2008 · 1h 30m · FR
Yacine is in his 30s, of Algerian origins, and has come to Paris looking for inner peace. A playful and poetic quest leads him via all kinds of strange encounters to an increasingly surrealist world and to Andalusia: a state of mind.


Do You Remember Adil?
2008 · 1h 25m
Adil and Rachid have known each other since childhood. Adil never wanted to stay and live in Morocco and always dreamed of settling on the other side of the Mediterranean. He thus ends up in Bologna, Italy, where his brother has lived for a long time. There, Adil leads two parallel lives: on one hand, he takes care of his disabled older brother; on the other, he works for a trafficker.


Enfances
2007 · 1h 20m · FR
Six stories, six films that follow on from each other; this is a glance at the childhood of renowned directors whose style has marked the history of film. A group of young directors focus their cameras on the story of these filmmakers, these childhood stories that sometimes shape an entire life and thus shed light on their cinematic works. The stories overlap to merge into one film about childhood, filled with emotional wounds, frustrations and encounters.


Open the Door, Please
2006 · FR


Barrage
2006 · 1h 33m
Sabine, a 30-year-old woman, has recently moved to an isolated house near to a river with a dam. She is accompanied by her son Thomas, aged 15. As she tries to settle into her new home, Sabine experiences a series of strange phenomena. She cannot bear to see her son grow up and leave her, and she will do anything to keep him with her...


Tangier, the Burners' Dream
2003 · 54m · FR
Tangier has an open identity on the Strait of Gibraltar. The border here is a presence: it is water. Opposite, Spain. Candidates for illegal departure flock without interruption to Tangier. The film follows the adventure of a few ready to "burn" their identity, to cross or die...


Little Senegal
2001 · 1h 37m · DZ
Fascinated by the history of his people, Alloune, an old guide at the African museum "La Maison des Esclaves" in Gorée, sets off on a pilgrimage to find the descendants of his ancestors in the United States. This moving journey takes him from the coast of South Carolina to the Harlem neighborhood of Little Senegal, home to the African community. Driven by the idea of reuniting his family across centuries and borders, Alloune traces his roots to a distant cousin, Ida, who knows nothing of his past. The old man also crosses paths with his nephew Hassan, a clandestine cab driver, his fiancée Biram, Eileen, pregnant and a runaway, and Karim, who is seeking a sham marriage to obtain a green card. All four misunderstand Alloune's quest.


Baise-moi
2000 · 1h 17m · FR
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!