Claude Dilain, de la banlieue au Sénat. Au nom de la République
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One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of Turkish immigrants, a population poised between two identities and cultures...
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Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily life in the suburb of Argenteuil, near Paris.
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Kamel, a young man, living in Bobigny, france, gets fired because he is a Muslim. His encounters with an old friend, Khaled leads him to box in a sport club, owned by Karim. But it's a cover for terrorists activities, since Karim sends young adults to Syria. Cops are investigating and find a link between Kamel and Karim...therefore, Kamel is a suspect.
In Saint-Denis, at the Stade de France district leisure center, the time for the fair comes with summer. The day before D-Day, at the Koné's, Oumou and Bakary bicker as usual while their father learns of an important letter from the Prefecture. On the morning of the party, on the other side of the ring road, host Benjamin is very late to help with the preparations and hides his lack of enthusiasm under his hangover. Around the stadium, the security system is set up for the evening concert.
In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.
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Nas is a young woman from a neighborhood in the Parisian suburbs. Since the death of her parents, she has been forced to take care of her family (her two little sisters). As fate is against her, she must assume this new responsibility alone, her husband Mehdi being incarcerated. Fortunately Nas can always count on the support of his best friend: Alyssia. The young woman with a joyful and explosive temperament is an unwavering support for the one she considers her own sister.
Paris, June 1994, for hundreds of young people, the tag is a real religion, a way of life. At 17, Rost is at the head of one of the most respected groups of taggers in the capital, the CMP. Clashes with rival gangs are legion, and a few minutes from a new confusion, Rost is far from suspecting that his life will soon take a decisive turn...
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Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and drugs are very much the reality, Djamel Ouahab saw many people around him dying, which led him to this project that took seven years to complete. The director plays a drug dealer who takes care of his family, protects his mother, and tries to shield his little brother from the drugs around him. He also has to help an addicted friend to quit his habit. Just when we think that he might be successful, reality hits him in the face. The message is that you can't escape drugs with drug money. Cour interdite chronicles the drug dealer's descent into hell. It is a realistic film with poetic dimensions. Ouahab tries to show the world of drug addicts but also the human side of the dealer.
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Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
1600 years after its legendary foundation, Venice continues to be unique: the urban environment, made of stone, earth, and water, and for its legendary history. But, above all, Venice is unique for its identity as a city of oxymorons, holding together opposing DNA in a formidable contradiction: the allure of decadence, and the frenzy of the avant-garde. VENEZIA-INFINITA AVANGUARDIA is a labyrinth of stories, works of art, palaces, celebrities of social and cultural life, places, extravagances, and traditions. It's a sensory experience made of lights, water, and music. Beside connections and suggestions, testaments flow by of art historians, urbanists, sociologists, philosophers, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, artists, and our contemporaries.
The film is dedicated to the history of the execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.
Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.
A documentary film includes four stories about socially and politically active women who participate in the local elections in Ukraine in October 2020. Four video-stories about different fortunes, different professions and motivation of the heroes, who are jointly sharing a common desire for change in the interests of a local community which they belong to, and their readiness to take the responsibility for their actions, to unite other proactive citizens around their ideas, and to break the gender stereotypes.