Annabelle Lengronne

Porn in the Hood

Stay

3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money.

H24: 24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

Twenty-four short films by 24 female writers, performed by 24 women actors, all based on women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment, and violence. A diversity of female voices and talent from across Europe come together for a series that tackles head-on the everyday brutality experienced by women.

Zero

#3

Two Americans wake up in Dakar, Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests ticking down from ten hours. Guided by a threatening voice on the phone, these men complete a series of violent tasks that spark widespread protest against Western influence in the city.

Le Signal 149 kHz

Aby Keita

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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Cheryl

An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

The Confidante

Emilie

After witnessing the harrowing November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks, Christelle "Chris" Blandin quickly latches onto a community of survivors. Claiming that her best friend Vincent was one of dozens critically injured at the Bataclan Theatre, Chris becomes an indispensable resource for the group but discrepancies begin to pepper her story – raising serious doubts among the true victims of the tragedy.

Mother and Son

Rose

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

Baise-en-ville

Laura

Sprite, a 20-year-old young adult, returns to Chelles after a breakup. To pay for his driver’s license and please his parents, he joins Allo Nettoyo, a night-time cleaning start-up in the Paris suburbs. Unable to get around without a permit, he adopts the "baise-en-ville" technique—taught by his driving instructor—which involves spending the night at girls' places of girls he meets through a dating app. Sprite struggles with this new approach to seduction.

Allah is Not Obliged

(voice)

When ten-year-old Birahima’s mother dies, he leaves his native village in Guinea, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border into Liberia, they are seized by rebels and forced into military service. Birahima becomes a child-soldier. Fighting in a chaotic civil war alongside many other boys, Birahima sees death, torture, dismemberment and madness but somehow manages to retain his own sanity.

New Biz in the Hood

Mariama

Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb who will quickly propose to teach them the rules and practices to adopt in this new environment.

Abdoul fait son cinéma

Self - Guest

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Elle's Kitchen

Adriana Soukho

Adriana, a young, inspired, and ambitious French-Senegalese chef, dreams of Michelin stars. Until the day she finds herself unwittingly partnered with Jeff and Angèle Rubens, a brother and sister who run an illegal gambling den. Having taken over the restaurant, they recognize the potential of the place and Adriana's talent, and create a poker game in the back room that quickly becomes legendary. The restaurant then becomes the center of their business and their burgeoning empire. Witness to, and then unwitting accomplice in, the criminal activities of her new partners, Adriana fights by any means necessary to regain control of her life and her restaurant, Ballast.

The Nannies

Sheila

Angèle, a thirty-something from Ivory Coast, always cope thanks to the gift of gab and audacity. To escape from a bunch of dangerous criminals, she becomes a nanny in the uptown Paris, hired by Hélène, the single mom of eight years old Arthur. Discovering the work conditions of her colleagues, she decides to stand up for their rights, thanks to a young lawyer who will quickly fall for her.

Working Girls

Conso

Everyday, three sex workers cross the border from France into Belgium to practice their trade. At the end of one particularly hot summer, all three share a secret that will bind them together forever.

Ombline

Fatou

Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…

Les Mythos

Myriam

In spite of their total inexperience, three suburban lascars launch themselves into close protection. Thanks to a "mythical plan", they are assigned to protect Marie Van Verten: a capricious and whimsical young woman, heiress of the biggest fortune in Belgium... And incidentally, a target for over-trained killers! Will our heroes' sense of improvisation be enough to get them out of trouble?

Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Lou

Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.

Paula

La mère

Paula is 11. She is bored at school and has only one friend : Achille. Her father gives her a surprise : they will spend next summer in the house of her dreams by a lake. But time flies, autumn is coming, and they still don't come back.

Mercuriales

Zouzou

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

Sun

Soussaba

Sunil Pratham, aka Sun, is a 30-year-old delivery boy of Indian descent. He leads a hectic life in today's Paris, but everything threatens to stop the day his Chinese employers put an end to their illegal activities. To continue working, Sun decides to set up a real courier company. His plan was quickly complicated by the unexpected arrival of his cousin, a sitar player who had come to Paris for a career, and to whom Sun had to promise a concert at the Olympia. Caught in his lies, Sun will therefore find it very difficult to invent a future ...