Samir Guesmi

A pharmacist, at the head of a support group for victims of domestic violence, slips into crime to defend her protégés. (Télérama)

While preparing for her daughter's wedding in Paris, Gloria remembers the ceremony years before in Guinea-Bissau which consecrated her father as an ancestor. (imdb)

A mysterious traveler crosses Picardy with a suitcase handcuffed to his wrist. (Télérama)

At a construction site of a future residential complex, Vincent and his coworkers grow suspicious of management when a worker vanishes. The situation becomes darker after another disappearance. (imdb)

Malik returns from Spain to learn his stepfather Serge was arrested. On trial day lawyer Iris offers Malik a deal, pull off a dangerous heist in exchange for Serge's freedom. Malik agrees and joins ex-partners of Cherif for one last job. (imdb)

In the aftermath of a crime, the victim's sister fights to obtain a fair trial and justice for her brother. (imdb)

Rosemay, 16, lives with a foster family and only joins her biological family for vacations. One day, her father is not there to welcome her as planned. What's more, he doesn't reappear and seems to have vanished into thin air. Her questions are met with lies, and Rosemay can only rely on her intuition... Freely inspired by a true story.

Marie Tessier, 45, director of an NGO, is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on the day when five Europeans, including two French were taken hostage by terrorists in the Sahel.. (imdb)

Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons. Under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance. For the young Geisha, somber Léonie and unpredictable Eugénie, it's a chance to get away from the noise, to engage with the present, and think about the future.

Following the burial of his father, in his village right in the middle of the Corsican countryside , Dumè discovered the existence of a brother, Lucien, with whom he will have to share the inheritance left by the patriarch... On the condition of being able to live together for a month in the family home. Under the backdrop of cultural legitimacy and of real estate inheritance a balance of power will be established between Lucien, the blood son, and Dumè, the adopted son.

On the night of December 5-6, 1986, Malik Oussekine died following police intervention, while Paris was shaken by student demonstrations against a new education reform. The Ministry of the Interior was all the more inclined to hush up the affair, since another Frenchman of Algerian origin had been killed by a police officer on the same night.

It tells the story of a police officer who dies during an initiation process at a French military school. (imdb)

When their father dies, Louise, Fabien and Estelle feel helpless as they confront the task of taking care of their schizophrenic brother Jacques. For Louise, the experience will be life-changing. (imdb)

Police detective hunts serial killer while dealing with disintegrating marriage, teen daughter who hates her, and violent temper "blackouts". French, with subtitles. (imdb)

Mid-nineties, a small town in Northern Morocco. Fouad is a technician whose life is disrupted by a neurological disease. While Fouad is dying, his family rediscovers itself through love, sorrow and memories.

A youth is torn between his father, a brasserie oyster vendor, and a friend from technical college, who gets him involved in a dodgy robbery scheme. (imdb)

Vincent, in his thirties without children, infiltrates a tribe with mysterious codes and language: the PTA. Finding himself at parent-teacher meetings, school trips, and the end-of-year fair is quite a feat for him. (imdb)

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to find Claire his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded, so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and Pierre is exhausted at work. Despite the love of his wife and children, he is slowly falling...

And if the terrible "collapse" of our civilization, the collapse that everyone is talking about, was really happening soon? Several destinies of individuals and families, at different moments of the collapse, trying to survive as best they can in a world that no longer runs, between lack of resources (energy, food ...), riots, panic and insecurity. (myseries.tv)

An architect is unexpectedly given the opportunity to redesign Notre-Dame's esplanade. (variety.com)

A French woman hits menopause, quits her job as waitress, and feels everything going downhill. But then she meets her old love from before she got married, had 2 daughters and got divorced. Is this a new beginning? (imdb)

The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away. (imdb)

Samir, a tall, lanky, 40-something crane operator from Montreuil, in the outskirts of Paris, falls head over heels in love with Agathe. He discovers she is a swimming instructor at the local swimming pool, and, for lack of a better plan, he decides to enlist as her student...although he can swim perfectly. But his lie only lasts for 3 lessons, and Agathe hates liars. The truth surfaces. Agathe is furious. The end? (quinzaine)

Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak. (imdb)

Frank Martin is the most highly-skilled transporter money can buy. The stakes are greater and technology better, but the same three simple rules apply: never change the deal, no names and never open the package. When Frank is hired by cunning femme fatale Anna and her three stunning sidekicks, he quickly discovers he's been played. (imdb)

Camille was sixteen years old when she met Eric. They fell madly in love and had a daughter. 25 years later: Eric is leaving Camille for a younger woman. That's New Year's Eve, and Camille suddenly finds herself back in her past. She is sixteen again and has returned to her parents, her girlfriends, her childhood... and Eric. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)

Amanda has a complicated relationship with Bertrand and men in general. She suffers from androphobia. On New year's eve Amanda meets Antoine, whom she mistakenly thinks is gay. Between misunderstandings and disguises Amanda discovers love and Antoine's heterosexuality.

They say that when a woman gets over her husband's death, she becomes a queen. Agathe, Queen of Montreuil's main character, is trying to mourn. It is early summer. Agathe has come back to France and is at home in Montreuil. She is trying to recover from her husband's death and wants to return to working as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a mother and son from Iceland, a sea lion.

The Returned opens in a small mountain community which is rocked to its core when several local people who are presumed dead suddenly re-appear at their homes. Despite having passed away some years earlier, these ghostly characters appear in human form, they have not aged, and they are completely unaware of their own fatality. Determined to reclaim their lives and start over, they slowly come to realize that they are not the only ones to have been brought back from the dead. (imdb)

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times. Befriended by a French Arab who offers him a job, Tom finds himself employed as a security agent as he struggles to write his second novel and see his daughter. Meanwhile, his personal life takes a turn as he becomes involved with a beguiling woman. (tiff.net)

A new lawyer, ambitious and eager to establish himself, takes on a difficult case and wins. Little does he realise that his win might destroy him. (imdb)

After loosing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting destinies reunite them in the French capital, where freedom is a battle to be fought and won. (imdb)

The meeting between two clandestine homosexuals, an Iranian and a single woman.

A couple with a penchant for crime find it appalling that a man threatens to steal the inheritance they got after poisoning a woman.

In the grips of delirious illusion, Anna, a young, gentle and shy young woman convinces herself that Doctor Zanevsky is fervently in love with her. Nothing can shake her certainty... But after hope will come resentment, followed by hatred... (imdb)

Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. (imdb)

In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters... (imdb)

Paris, 2010. An isolation wall surrounds the ghetto cities. Without effective law enforcement, with these walls, gang rule is absolute. (Magnolia Pictures)

In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is in war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal. (imdb)

Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help... (imdb)

Jérémie Rénier stars as Philippe Seigner, an ambitious young executive at a management consulting firm. Things are going well for him at work and he starts dating single mom Eva (Cylia Malki). Soon his boss, Hugo Paradis (Laurent Lucas), chooses him for a special job auditing a company outside of Paris. When Philippe realizes that he's been effectively downsizing a company, he begins to feel a moral opposition to his task. (All Movie)

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home (imdb)

An ex-con, a young woman and two aging mobsters plan a major heist - holding up a cash transportation depot containing 35 million

Three short stories by Paul Bowles