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- A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
- Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides in the house of the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting hyper-aggressive criticisms against everything. Sia is found by the soldiers but the army commander had for some time prepared a revolt against the emperor and saves Sia on the way. Will Sia reveals the terrible secret she learned about the Python God ?
- A storyteller named Djeliba comes to the town of a young boy named Mabo with promises that he will reveal the origin of the boy's ancestry.
- -Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-bric from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a cop, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival arrives that her opportunity for escape emerges.
- This movie discusses Frantz Fanon's life and work, especially his involvement in the Algerian Revolution.
- In March 1996 the French government decided to expel all African family who did not have papers from the city of Paris. During a six month period of time, the director followed many of the families and got there testimonials about how it felt to be discriminated against by the French on film. Eventually the documentary focuses on one man who emerges at the center of the fight to not to be sent back to Africa. In the end he is sent back to his native Mali, the director and his camera accompany him.
- A workers strike in 1979 at the Alsthom plant in Saint-Ouen, France, from the beginning to the end of the strike.
- An informed study on the liberty of choice in French society in the nineties. "I filmed friends who accepted to take part in this event in order to speak about determinism. Everything seems to show that they have reproduced the standards inherited from their social class and their parents as though they hadn't had any freedom".
- Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.
- A prank strands a girl outside her apartment building. Can she get back in?
- Everyday life aboard the BERYX, the last-born of the fishing boats from Yeu island.
- A pharmacist combats the pain of headaches.
- The film centers on the plan of a government minister to build a road through a sacred forest and the local community's resistance to this project.
- A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.
- Li Dong, Jade, Lin and Wei left China for Paris. Political or economical exiles in regular or irregular situation, they have attempted or have succeeded in integrating into french society, for 1, 2 or even 17 years. The reality of the parisian's life is quite different than these women had imagined. However, their empty-handed return to China is inconceivable. The film relates the story of these exiled Chinese women. Close to them and witness of their feelings, their deep thoughts, it allows us to see through their eyes the daily life of a chinese woman in Paris.
- All their life two brothers have cherished the same passion for film. They brought along with them their spouse, Marinette and Marguerite. For over 50 years, in some villages from the Hérault region, they managed 3 cinemas built from their own hands.