Philippe is principal in a high school outside Paris. A keen jazz lover, he does his best to share his passion with students. Yet this generation is more into rap than jazz, so much so that a frustrated Philippe wishes that rap would disappear. When this absurd wish comes true, Philippe starts living in a world with no rap...
Simon Astier
Philippe
Al-Hassan Ly
Landry
Firmine Richard
Marlène
Marion Creusvaux
Fodjé Sissoko
Philippe is principal in a high school outside Paris. A keen jazz lover, he does his best to share his passion with students. Yet this generation is more into rap than jazz, so much so that a frustrated Philippe wishes that rap would disappear. When this absurd wish comes true, Philippe starts living in a world with no rap...
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
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A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves.
After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club scene by storm.