Rachida Brakni

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved. (imdb)

An obese Police Inspector traumatized by a childhood incident falls in love with a murder suspect. (imdb)

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Secret Défense tells of their secret war through the destinies of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a troubled young man who thinks terrorism will bring him salvation. (imdb)

In Congo, whose government is supported by France, rebels take French soldiers in hostage.A special advisor at the Presidency, acting largely on his own, negotiates their liberation, organises to this aim the delivery of weapons to the rebels. But the plane carrying the weapons, sold by a major defence industry, unexpectedly blows up above the Guinea Gulf.The film describes the French-African networks, the wars of influence between the services, their methods, the dilemmas of the "raison d'Etat".

Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds. (imdb)

Hervé is a star in the porn industry. Exhausted from living on the edge, he decides to take off the costume of Condoman and radically change his life towards mainstream cinema. As he enters a totally new world, he faces rejection from all directions. Nevertheless, his strong will to understand the rules of the game leads him to LZA.

Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman. (imdb)

Lola, a 23-year-old student, is working on a law thesis while working part-time at a nursery. Lola lives in a studio under the small apartment that her mother, Claire Forestier, occupies with her younger brother, Guillaume, 15, high school student. From Italy where she spends her holidays, Claire sends postcards to her children. In fact, she does not decide to return. In raincoat and black glasses, she drags a suitcase on wheels in a street in Paris. It feels unstable, weird. (imdb)

In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the fetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back. (imdb)

Fourteen-year-old Sami (Samy Seghir) is a beur (a French person of Maghrebi descent) living in Chalon-sur-Saône, a relatively poor city in the Burgundy region. When his widowed mother (Farida Khelfa) takes a job working on a boat, she sends Sami to live with her sister Djamila (Rachida Brakni), who is married to Frenchman Stanislas de Chazelle (Denis Podalydès). They live in the upscale neighborhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine, an affluent suburb of Paris. (wikipedia.org)

Jacques Prévert, an elementary school in Seine-Saint-Denis, is threatened by the arrival of a brand-new bobo-ecolo school. Zahia, the school's headmistress, in search of a social mix, teams up with Marion, a young teacher full of ideas, to create the first "green school" in the suburbs and attract new residents. But to do so, they'll have to deal with a rather... motley pedagogical team, and one that isn't exactly nature-oriented.

At an idyllic writers retreat in Morocco, a newly single novelist finds an unexpected connections with a younger man who's reevaluating his life choices. (netflix.com)