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- 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.
- An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
- The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle Époque with his exuberance and originality.
- The story of Fahim Mohammad, world junior chess champion, born in Bangladesh in 2000, and currently playing in France.
- Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.
- Explores the intimate relationship of sisterhood between two sisters, Hayat and Leila.
- NIne years ago, Amin came from Senegal to work in France, leaving his wife Aisha and their three children behind. In France, there is nothing but work for him, no friends but the people he lives with at his workers' home.
- Because he wanted to protect his little brother from a father too violent, Teddy, a young man without history, is accused of the murder of his father and is sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide . He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
- Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
- In the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses. Tom dreams of becoming a good person. But he's thwarted by the hostility flung in his general direction, which shows no sign of abating.
- Children don't care about differences in social class, skin color, or religion, so why does Paul and Sofia's 9-year-old son Corentin only have friends like him? And what happens when all of his friends leave for a Parisian private school?
- Emmanuelle Joly, mayor of Montfermeil, was elected on the background of an original political program. But the personal difficulties of the members of the municipal team rub off on the implementation of this unprecedented policy.
- Juliette Gentil, police officer, is in charge of the investigation of the strange death of the unique heir of a big geranium plantation. Zaccharia "Zac" Bellême is sent from mainland France to help her.
- Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty, exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden.
- Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from her older sister. She will not be able to come to join them for the holidays, pretexting once more an overload of work - Latifa attacks Hakim and pushes him to fetch Leïla. Nedjma will come with him, they will take the opportunity to discover Paris. Upon their arrival in the hair salon, they learn that Leila has actually never worked. It is the journey of a father who begins in Paris one night until dawn.
- In the 60s, the Government encourages Islanders to leave the French West Indies to escape poverty that results from the closure of sugar mills. Lured by the idea of a "dream country", they find life in Europe is not what they had imagined.
- A 13-year-old boy is sent from his home in France to live with extended family in rural Burkina Faso.
- Mary-Jo receives daily visitors in her living room. An ethnologist specialized in Darfur, her guests aren't coming to have tea only. They need crucial help that only this 90-year-old woman can give.
- A young girl runs away from Switzerland. She arrives in Paris to take her chance into Hip Hop music.
- A Sense of Justice, immerses us in a law firm where we find Christine Mengus and Nohra Boukara, specialized in the rights of foreigners, supported by Audrey Scarinoff and their co-workers. Stories from their sad, appalling or tragicomic cases alternate with their daily legal work. And as we hear snatches of consultations involving illegal entry or departure, deportation orders, the right to reside or medical assistance, we become witnesses to predictable tragedies, to the administrative or social precariousness induced by such predicaments, and to whole lives depending on court rulings.
- Faces just out of childhood, concentrated, incredulous, moved. They are named Ilhame, Vincent, Yara, Rouguy or Antoine. They are law students at the depreciated University of Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, and volunteers at the "Legal Clinic". They advise litigants from popular districts who often remind them of their parents and friends. Professionals teach them about distance and neutrality. But in reality, what to do with your subjectivity? With your experience and convictions? With what idea of justice and democracy?
- 2015, Pointe-à-Pitre: At the front of the ACTe slavery memorial, Samuel Rénia (69 years) tells his story to young Sinbad. 1962: Samuel is sixteen and life is tough in the working-class neighbourhood where he lives with his mother, Léa, and his older brother, Julien.
- 1980: Samuel returns to Pointe-à-Pitre for the first time. He visits his childhood friends, including Victor, a separatist. Seeing Julien stirs up emotions, but also causes conflict between the two brothers. When Julien leaves, his vehicle explodes a few metres away. Back in France, Samuel becomes involved in politics.