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A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.

A father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.

Nour a 27-year-old emigrates illegally to Marseille and lives off petty crime with friends leading marginal lives, and partying hard.

Petty crooks Mehdi and Hamid travel through remote areas of Morocco to recover loans for their agency from villagers. Their usual day takes a turn when they meet a highwayman.

Abdelkader is a watchman and Malika is a house maid. They were just married and are madly in love. Despite money problems, they dream of moving in and starting their love life together. One day Abdelkader is going to live an incident of great violence, a humiliating experience that will ruin their destiny.

Marked by years in prison, Djo, lives modestly with his mother with his daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place.

Salah, Kaddour and other Algerians join the French army as harkis at their head, Lieutenant Pascal. The fate of the harkis seems very uncertain. Pascal opposes his hierarchy to obtain the repatriation to France of all the men of his unit.

In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An unspoken trauma is their common history; rock n' roll their mutual saviour. Larsen's snakeskin-covered guitar and Rajae's liquid gold voice could be heaven, if only everything from his drug-induced visions to her music-buff pimp didn't get in the way. The only hope for their blooming romance is to skip this ferocious town. Is there a way out of this crazy Moroccan underworld with its menagerie of sadistic cops, venomous snakes, metal concerts and shotgun-wielding modern-day Calamity Janes? For these punk Romeo and Juliet, maybe the answer lies in a song - the one they've been writing and dreaming together : Zanka Contact

On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.

More than ten years after giving up on poetry, Arthur Rimbaud, now a merchant in Africa, is considering coming back to France. He just needs one last score, trading thousands of rifles to King Menelik. But nothing goes as planned.

A man in Northern France and a man in the Suburbs of Tunis have their destinies mirror each other, as both the places they work at are relocated, pushing them to deal with the problems that entails.

Morocco, 2004. That summer, 11-year-old Adil spends his days playing with his gang of friends and waiting for the last Olympic Games of his idol, the runner Hicham El Guerrouj. The arrival of his father and his big brother, who came from France for a few days, will mark him forever.

A short film that follows Tis, who struggles to overcome certain obstacles that prevent him from joining his peers.

"Bab Sebta" (or Ceuta's Gate) is a series of reconstructions of diverse situations observed in Sebta/Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the north of Morocco. The border of Bab Sebta is the scene of a traffic of manufactured goods, sold at discounted prices. Thousands of people cross this border every day, carrying enormous packages of goods. In the film, we watch this "ballet" of individuals around the border, and witness the dynamics of movement, the plastic and visual appearance of the passage, the characteristic situations of waiting and the redundancy of gestures.

South-West of France. Each year on winter holidays, black truffle thieves immerse the area into a paranoiac atmosphere. The inhabitants gather themselves, spy on their neighbors, accuse their friends... And sometimes in this general confusion, a scapegoat is easily found.

Polly is in love with Joanne.

January 2009, suburbs of Tunis, four friends spend all their time in a neighbor pub, football games first, then war images broadcasts by the little TV screen capture their attention and fill their boredom, indifferently.

Zak lives in a village in southern France. He has a quiet life, with his wife and his two kids. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. Sarah, his daughter, refuses to go with him.

Samir, a junior high school pupil, edgy and impulsive, is in love with Lea, a classmate in a wheelchair. After he is unjustly expelled from school, he is set upon revenge.

A cow mysteriously dies in a village. Camille, aged 8, who discovered the dead body, observes and tries to understand. In her own way, she is investigating. Slowly she gets suspicious about a farm worker whose behavior disturbs her.

Nassim lives in Abu Dhabi with his American fiancée, Elisabeth. After several years of absence, he returns with her his home town Bollene, in the South of France. But Nassim must face his past: a dead city now governed by the far right party, and a complex relationship with his family.