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- Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
- Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of the place, Lilia gets consistently drawn back to it. She befriends one of the belly dancers and is encouraged into dancing for the audience. Lilia also starts a romance with one of the cabaret's musicians, who unbeknown to both of them, is also romancing Salma.
- The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of her husband, Zahra shuts herself off. In this completely foreign environment that is hostile to this newcomer, and as a new conflict is on the verge of inflaming the whole area, Riad will do the impossible to find his place.
- Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: a doctor who had just been left by his wife, a beautiful but direction less woman, and the bumbling Algerian man who caused the accident. They become fond of each other, and of liquor.
- Finnish-made documentary about GNU/Linux, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software (FOSS) movement.
- A fascinating road movie tracing history and origin of a subculture of youth that is known as one of the most radical and contradictory of our time.
- Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. His rich voice, colored by a lifetime of cigarettes and rum, weathered by the sun and rain, bespeaks the joys and sufferings of his countrymen. An urban troubadour, Del Morales has been called "a living memory of Cuban bolero."
- Raphael is an ex-boxing champ who now trains his young brother Manu. Tony, Raphael's ex-rival, returns to town to wed his reluctant fiance Chinh. As soon as Chinh and Raphael meet, sparks fly, and soon the two are sneaking out together.
- After the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983, successive democratic governments launched a series of reforms purporting to turn Argentina into the world's most liberal and prosperous economy. Less than twenty years later, the Argentinians have lost literally everything: major national companies have been sold well below value to foreign corporations; the proceeds of privatizations have been diverted into the pockets of corrupt officials; revised labour laws have taken away all rights from employees; in a country that is traditionally an important exporter of foodstuffs, malnutrition is widespread; millions of people are unemployed and sinking into poverty; and their savings have disappeared in a final banking collapse. The film highlights numerous political, financial, social and judicial aspects that mark out Argentina's road to ruin.
- The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
- In Paris, Ismaél, a young Tunisian, cares for two brothers, Nouredine, a cripple, and streetwise Mouloud, 14. In haste, Ismaél and Mouloud go to Marseilles where an uncle lives. Nouredine has died in a fire, and Ismaél feels guilt on top of grief. Ismaél becomes friends with Jacky, a white man whose father and brother hate immigrants. Mouloud hangs out with cousin Rhida who breaks Islamic rules and deals hash. Ismaél decides Mouloud must return to Tunisia, but the boy runs off, becoming an acolyte to Rhida's supplier. Ismaél and Jacky's Arab girlfriend start an affair, friends betray friends, and the racism gets ugly. Can Ismaél rescue himself and Mouloud or will life in France crush them?
- Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desperately in need of cash for child support is intrigued when Thelma charters his cab for a trip to Crete. As they travel, talk and flirt, they become friends but the situation grows complicated when Vincent discovers that Thelma is transgender. Will Vincent decide to explore a country that he's never been to with her ?
- In a remote region of rural Switzerland, a farmer and his wife eke out a harsh existence, appearing to live in a century far removed from our own. Paul is incapable of showing any kindness towards his wife Rosine, and is unconcerned when she starts to suffer from severe stomach pains. He treats her worse than his animals, a slave willing to attend to his every need and every command. One day, he hires a Spanish migrant worker, Eusebio, to take on the more demanding jobs on his farm. He treats his new farmhand no better than his wife and becomes suspicious when Rosine begins showing him some kindness. Convinced that his wife has started an affair with Eusebio, Paul beats her in a wild frenzy. A short while later, he sees her being flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital. Feeling betrayed, he turns his anger towards Eusebio but has a change of heart when he discovers that his worker has marital problems of his own.
- Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- Haiti during papa Doc's reign: not a fun place!
- Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, travels around the world in a quest to eliminate the use of genetically modified foods and seeds in her home country of India and other developing countries.
- Jean V., bailiff of forty, plies his trade with talent but without showing humanity. He is married to Nicole, 35 years and consumer crisis. Regularly, Jean George uses the services, chronic debtor and folk character, who helps in his "little tricks". Incidentally, George restores Nicole taste to buy. One day, Jean first met Eddy, a policeman who accompanied during his tour of seizures. But different between them and will take disproportionate dimensions. Pushed to the end, Jean decides to go with George a dark machination to give a lesson to a cop. Translated with Google Translate from allocine.fr
- During WWII a group of Jewish children is sent to a castle outside Paris to hide there until things cool down, but it eventually becomes their new home. Later, children from the liberated concentration camps arrive there as well.
- When the party's official candidate, suffering from cancer, is forced to resign, Michel Dedieu is named to replace him at the last minute. Michel is to be confronted very shortly with his opponent at a TV debate and as he is little known, his campaign committee decides to coach him in a TV studio reproduced in his own home. Michel complies reluctantly. Worse he has a row with his wife, who disappears after having shaken off her bodyguard. The atmosphere is so tense that Dedieu suddenly feels unwell. He is stunned when the doctor he consults tells him he strongly doubts the former candidate really has cancer. Is the new candidate being manipulated then, notably by Georges, the crafty party strategist? Anyway, Michel Dedieu is not going to be anybody's fool ...
- An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
- A failed French actor and a struggling 30 year-old Spanish actress land in the middle of a dinner party of movie celebrities, where they end up playing the role of real-life hostage takers.
- Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric's novel 'A Bridge over the Drina' describes a years-long conflict of the local people of the Bosnian region around the town of Visegrad. This short documentary rightly evokes associations with the novel. As a kind of annex to the novel, the film combines the scenes of the bridge with the testimony of Mevsud Poljo from the nearby village of Vlahovici, who was pulling dead bodies out of the Drina in order to identify them. Although we do not see Mevsud, we get to know how many men and how many women were among the dead, whether there were traces of violence or rape on them - And the Drina keeps flowing under the bridge.
- While the local population of Dunkerque drinks away their dissatisfaction in life during the yearly Karnaval, second generation Algerian immigrant Larbi gets mixed up in the festivities looking for the local girl Bea.
- Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
- Four people's fate in one day.
- Fleeing the mafia, Vladimir, a young romantic Russian in love with Rimbaud, ends up without money in Paris. After taking part in a game show, where presenter Victor Lalumière bows him, he is found by the Russian mafia who wants to kill him
- In Corsica, a former cop and former secret agent recounts his memories to his ghostwriter, in particular his investigation, 10 years earlier, when two killers coldly executed a "personality" from the continent in the main city of the isle.
- A team of journalists film the everyday life of Christian Bodin, 50, who lives with his mother and will get married soon.
- Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating European-trained politician must choose between two social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. The first, Gagnesiri, is the village beauty, who waits patiently for Daam. Unfortunately, they are unable to conceive a child, so Daam takes European-educated Kiné, who is eager to get ahead by marrying a politician. Daam becomes involved in a shady business deal with Président, a local businessman; when the details are made public, he is forced out in disgrace.
- The worst thing is not death, not disappearing forever - but to remain in the world of the living, surrounded by family and friends. Eric learns that he has leukemia, and abruptly, with no warning, his life is turned upside down. His work, his commitments, all must be put aside, even forgotten. With his memory disintegrating, he begins to resemble a zombie. By his side, Leïla starts down a long path where little by little she rediscovers, together with Eric, the vital sensations of desire and social commitment.
- Une station-service au bord de l'autoroute. Abdou, jeune fugueur, se lie d'amitié avec Georges, le pompiste Arabe. Georges profite d'une ultime et violente dispute avec son patron pour plaquer son boulot et accompagner le petit Abdou jusqu'à Marseille. L'enfant souhaite y voir un match de la coupe du monde de football. La tête pleine de rêves et les poches vides, ils vont voyager en s'apprivoisant mutuellement. Une tendre amitié se tissera peu à peu entre eux, et le voyage, parsemé d'embûches, donnera lieu à d'étonnantes rencontres: Louisa, grand coeur et petits trafics, Oleg, le Russe qui vend tout, les Gitans qui sauveront Georges puis l'abandonneront ... Par des chemins détournés, Georges retourne vers celui qu'il fut autrefois: le footballeur professionnel Ahmed Najid. Pour Abdou, c'est un voyage initiatique vers la perte de l'innocence, l'apprentissage de la vie. Tous deux sont à la recherche de leur identité. L'un ne sait pas encore qui il est quand l'autre ne le sait plus!
- The film shows archival fragments of radio broadcasts, police reports, denunciations, fragments of letters, diaries, etc. All these materials have one thing in common - they were created on the same day, September 27, 1962.
- Amélie would have liked to be born in Paris, in a stylish neighborhood. Her mother would have been as beautiful as a princess and her father would have had a beautiful suit and a beautiful tie, like a president of the republic. They would have lived in a beautiful house, the size of a castle, with lights everywhere and beautiful red curtains, but hey - We didn't ask her opinion - Her name is Amélie Bodin, she was born in the fields, in among the bees and her own life, it's not going to be a fairy tale.
- Documentary about the relationship between humans and bears. Filmed in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.
- "I Am Alive Today" confronts the viewpoints of drug industry leaders, scientists, and AIDS activists on the history of AZT.
- An epic - from rock to slam to punk and hip hop - of musical resistance from a youth and territories in loss of identity.
- A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet.