A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.
Richard Berry
Jean Marais
Marthe Villalonga
(voice)
Edwige Feuillère
(voice)
A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algerian grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home life as a child; his death triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate, revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
A man leaves his 8-year old son with his father-in-law who lives near the glacier where the boy's mother died.
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.