Catherine Paillé

Gena is an international drug dealer. His enemies are numerous but not easy to recognize. Although there is only a small chance that Gena will be able to trade in his nomadic existence between Asia and Europe for a "normal life", he takes the plunge anyway. A frantic chase across Europe thus ensues. Heading west, presumably towards the sun. (Berlinale)

Yann (Guillaume Canet) trained as a chef and walks with a chef's swagger. It's as easy for him to boast about his future plans as it is to pick up a woman in a bar, in this case the beautiful Nadia (Leila Bekhti). What he can't seem to do is find the right job in Paris's cutthroat restaurant world. (tiff.net)

Mitri is fifteen and lives in a Senegalese village. Like all boys his age, he plays football and dreams of Barça and of Chelsea. When a recruiting agent picks him up out, Mitri believes his chance has come.

When an assistant to a daguerreotype photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine. (imdb)

A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals. (imdb)

Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. This is where he meets Shéhérazade. (imdb)

An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission. (imdb)

Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he's on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to deal with a crisis situation, Frank makes a brutal decision and gets fired. (imdb)

A pupil in an agricultural high school in the Jura, young Mathieu was apprenticed on a work-study basis on a small isolated family farm. There, he takes part in the work of the farm and gradually integrates into this family (imdb)

Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement. (letterboxd.com)

Greg, a DGIS officer, is sent under a false identity to infiltrate a ZAD. There he meets Myriam, an environmental activist. 18 months later, Greg returns to the site on an official mission. He finds Myriam and discovers that she has a baby. Torn between his professional ambitions and a budding love affair, Greg has to make a choice that could change everything. Time is running out, and soon everything will disappear.

Sofia and Louise are newly qualified midwives. They quickly encounter the challenges of everyday hospital life in a broken health-care system.

Dom has to choose between being a commercial fisherman or keeping custody of his two children. (imdb)

Eric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the child under her wing. (imdb)

A Parisian courtesan flees to Rome to protect her reputation when her daughter's learning disability could become exposed. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child. (imdb)