Anna is a young woman living in Paris, daily struggling with her emotional frailty. She tries to spend more time with her ten-year-old son, Nathan, but Philippe, her former husband, does not trust her anymore and threatens to take full custody of the child. Having no other choice, she convinces her...
30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is plagued by guilt and depression. But he sees a way...
Louise revisits her childhood when her family decides to sell their farm. 20 years ago, she was Louloute, a mischievous and exuberant little girl, helping her father with their farm, fighting with her siblings and worrying her mother… When the family's debts accumulate and overwhelm them, tender...
Isabelle teaches, Bruno steals. Together, they start believing that could be happy. The day when the police net starts tightening, Bruno fleesm taking Isabelle with him. Deep within the forest, they hide and love each other, outside of time, in a final attempt to hold at bay the world's violence.
Stella, a young American, spends her days only in her New York apartment. To deceive boredom, she tells stories. Until the day when a stranger enters her flat.
Suzanne has been a prostitute for 15 years. She has her turf, her regular johns, her freedom. One day, young African prostitutes settle nearby. Suzanne is threatened.
Worker or poker player, Samir and Xavier live from day to day. Bright young woman and future bride, Liza has a future all traced. They and she find themselves by chance for a weekend for a stay as unlikely as initiative.
On the day of his seven years, Simon is introduced to boar hunting by his father. His mother is pregnant and the boy will be confronted with the complexity of beings and learn of death.
Bruno, accompaned by his friend Liliane, arrives at his father's place. His father lives alone in the middle of the countryside. Bruno wants to ask him something.
Ava is a clown. She’s funny. Free. Confident. One night, as she walks home from her burlesque show with her friends, a man provokes and insults them. Tired of always looking down, Ava talks back and gets beaten up. Ava pretends she isn’t affected but finds out that she was pregnant when she got...
Laure, a single thirty-five-year-old, accumulates a series of fixed-contract jobs, unsuccessfully hoping each time that her work will lead to a permanent position. As her periods of employment shrink, her love affairs take the same path.
Portraits of people taken in a same space : space of listening, space of black & white. In this space can go together the fantasies of the model and the filmmaker.
Damien is on holiday with Elise, his girlfriend, at her family's holiday home. Elise's older brother comes to stay for the weekend. He's possessive and intrusive and his brotherly love knows no limits. Will Damien stay on the sidelines?
Christian is forty years old. Alone, he tours Paris and its suburbs on foot in search of a job, but cannot find one. He gives up his search, but continued to walk aimlessly until he is exhausted.
