Anne Suarez

In a working class Paris neighborhood in the early 60's, two unlikely characters -- a young Jew and an elderly Muslim -- begin a friendship. (Sony Pictures Classics)

20-year old geology student from Paris goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord, he falls into the world of gold trafficking. Guyanese jungle is a world where businessmen, gangsters, geologists and soldiers collide, and men kill are killed for a few grams of the precious metal.

A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.

Rose, 78, has just lost her most beloved husband. When her grief gives way to a powerful impulse of life that makes her realize that she can still redefine herself as a woman, the whole balance of the family is upset. (imdb)

Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike. (imdb)