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Mathilde organizes the world’s very first Miss Homeless pageant. Fifteen women compete for the main prize: one year of rent-free housing. Pascale hopes to win the house in order to regain the custody of her 7-year-old daughter. “Mathilde’s Misses” uses the controversy of the election to sketch a committed portrait of women at the edge of society.
The Shelter’s address has to remain secret between herself and the other women. Rae’s cell phone vibrates in her pocket and she is told to turn it off. But this is out of question.
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Like thousands of people around the world who every day leave their homeland, Abdu, a young Malian, has decided to reach Europe. A trip to the Niger River to the barbed wire of the Ceuta, where dreams are confronted with the harsh reality, the distant lights of the West .
Break-in is a short movie about violence against young girls and women.A young woman is shot cutting up her white dress under the vigilance of an old lady who keeps sewing. Extremely bald, the movie consists in the filming of a one–shot performance of mutilation of her dress by the artist.
Electronic monitoring is an alternative sentence to incarceration. The affected individual wears an ankle bracelet. If there is a breach of duty, the system warns the monitoring center by alarm. The individual is obligated to remain in their house for the hours decided by the judge. If there is any infringement (for example if curfew hours are not respected or if the offender attempts to remove the tag) the system alerts the authorities.
CRCR break the law of silence with a film for Amnesty International which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. The film mixes comic book style and elements that make a real impact taking to denounce the rights of citizens are violated.
Blocked in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the North of Morocco, five emigration candidates (from Cameroon, Somalia, Chad and India)are waiting. They are only fourteen kilometers from the Iberian Peninsula but they wonder whether they be allowed to make it to Europe or if they will be deported back to the country they come from? Anxiety – not to say anguish – is their common lot, all the more as they have thrown everything away to pursue their “European Dream”…
17-year-old Manon has to take her grandmother with her while she has a driving lesson. As if that wasn’t hard enough, she suddenly finds out that she’s pregnant.
2088. United States of Europe. Elenna is unemployed. She lives like everybody in a standard habitation unit, managed by the artificial intelligence system LOG. She knows that her social utility is low, and that if the system decides to demote her grade to GGG, she is in danger.
Born sight-impaired, Mohamed finds solace in his passion for singing and the raï of Cheb Hasni. His arrival in Paris eight years ago has not changed his talent nor his desire to share his emotions with strangers. Every day, despite his clandestine status, he delights the passengers of the Paris métro with his love songs.
Darren, a keen gambler, finds himself having to escort an unknown woman on the other side of Paris for a Mafioso. Struggling with the implications of his involvement in the affair, Darren is forced to reconsider his values.
Inert beings broken and crushed by the society lead the life of a recluse in an isolated garbage dump. A distant call shakes up the camp and encourages the population to share a strange tango.
Tudor, a Romanian immigrant, lives in Paris. Married to a French woman, father of two children, he makes some extra money working as an interpreter for the police. One night, he translates a Romanian prostitute’s testimony after a rape. Tudor doesn’t seem to react, but this encounter starts haunting him…
The year is 1941 and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora which she feels attracted to. Astrid also faces a more dark and hostile world onboard as she discovers that the staff has put in system to reject unwanted passengers such as romanis and jews. When Astrid realizes that Dora is wanted for an act of terror agains a German arms transport her inner struggle rises. Will she win her independence or rescue Dora.
Habiba is a woman who lives with her husband in a room on the terrace of a house in the old Medina of a city in Morocco. She works at home as a maid, while her husband is out of work is dedicated to smoking, listening to the radio and read the newspapers.
A man is walking trough a labyrinth and searches the way out. Following the light he reaches the exit.
Exiled Spanish Republican in Bobigny, Daniel Serrano, who is now 91 years old, fights from his suburban house to clean the name of his brother Eudaldo, shot in 1941 after the Spanish Civil War. Despite many approaches of Daniel, the figure of his brother, is still not recognized in his native village where the Socialist mayor refuses also to rename streets and public buildings which still exhibit Francoist names. Tired of negatives answers, exasperated by the passivity of the Spanish authorities, Daniel finally decided to act alone.
The film is about people, 1st and 2nd generation immigrants that are between cultures, languages and traditions. In some odd way, the live in a certain place but often by the culture and habits of somewhere else, they feel they belong nowhere.
In a Paris separated militarily into two parts, Inès receives visa requests for the Left Bank. They all have their reasons, but she has to respect the new rules.
Flash is a film which describes an eternal war between art and dictatorship through a surrealistic duel. It is a combat between a soldier with an AK-47 gun and a photographer with a camera. The duel takes place in a war zone in Syria during the Arab Spring uprising which has become winter for the Syrian people. We hear a sound of a bullet and flashlight from the camera. Who is the last man standing?
After his divorce, Antonin Monterno was awarded custody of his daughter Mila, two weekends a month and half of school holidays. Very saddened by this ruling depriving him of his child, he decides to spend one more day with her …
From the rumors of the city, a woman’s voice raises to evoke her country, Cuba. Despite the low level of life, despite the lack of freedom, she loves her country. She talks about this people who dreams for more than 50 years of a better life.
From a party in an African village and away from the war, we follow a boy to the big city. Despite his strong willpower, things don’t always go the way he had planned.
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