Alain-Michel Blanc

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews.

Newton I. Aduaka's film shows how children were kidnapped and brainwashed by rebel forces during the Sierra Leone civil war, with effective and terrifying results. (festival.sundance.org)

Andrei Filipov, former conductor of the Bolshoi of Moscow, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians and therefore become a family man. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. (Wikipedia)

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well. (imdb)

Set in German-occupied Paris in 1942, Younes, an Algerian black marketer, is arrested by the police and agrees to spy on a Parisian mosque suspected of helping resistance fighters and Jews. Witnessing the horrors of the Nazi regime, Younes stops collaborating to become a freedom fighter. (tiff.net)

Farid is studying to become a lawyer in France when a family emergency forces him to travel to his father's native Algeria for the first time of his life. (imdb)

An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair. (imdb)

An Algerian writer in Paris declines all invitations until accepting honorary citizenship from his hometown Sidi Mimoun, facing the prospect of meeting people who inspired his novels. (imdb)

Hawa, a young girl who lives alone with her terminally ill grandmother. When she learns that Michelle Obama is visiting Paris, Hawa has the crazy idea of being adopted by this personality, whom she admires more than anything... (imdb)

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless. (imdb)

The women in a small rural town join forces to form a football club in order to save the funding for their city's field. (imdb)