Farida Rahouadj

An end of day on a rooftop terrace. Anissa has invited her mother to Paris to spend a weekend together. But their reunion doesn't go quite as planned. (imdb)

The portrait of a Tunisian family living in France in the early 1990s when they discover that their landlord wishes to take back his apartment within a few months' time. (imdb)

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

Christmas Eve is ruined by an act of terrorism in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. As the city descend into panic, thirty something Mederic falls in love with older prostitute Isadora.

Antoine lost his wife in the Bataclan bombing in Paris. In a Facebook post, he explains how he resists hate: he opposes that of terrorists to his love for his 3-year-old son. Bereaved, he seems to be losing ground. (imdb)

This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake. (imdb)

Present-day France. The first presidential candidate of Algerian descent is on the brink of power. But on the night of the election, he is shot, bringing turmoil to two families and the entire nation. (imdb)

During 80s and 90s,Noemie is unable to choose between Olivier and Léon who came to Paris to make a fortune for themselves. (imdb)

After the death of its youngest son, the lives of a Roman family take separate paths. (imdb)

Three stories of love, treachery and redemption come together in the visitors' center of a prison in this drama from France. Laure (Pauline Etienne) is an angry and rebellious sixteen-year-old who has fallen in love with Alexander (Vincent Rottiers), a squatter with a hatred of authority. When Alexander ends up in prison after getting in a fight with a police officer, Laure wants to visit him, but discovers those under eighteen can only see inmates while accompanied by an adult.

In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she decides to come back to her man, the mobster Charly, but she misses François and returns to his place. But once a whore, always a whore. (imdb)

Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet) are polar opposites: the former a liberal member of the bourgeoisie, complete with a well-groomed son and an attractive mistress; the latter, a curmudgeonly right-wing ne'er-do-well who lives to upset the status quo. When Leonce's housekeeper Nacifa (Farida Rahouadj) enters the picture, the two become rivals, each attempting to bed (Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide)

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe. (imdb)

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer. (imdb)