For his first feature film, Ceasefire, Emmanuel Courcol reflects on Paris after the First World War. Through the character of Georges, who survived the trenches, the film discusses the difficult return of the soldiers.

In this street adventure, Rachid Djaïdani reconciles old workers and the French suburban youth. His second film affectionately describes a France far removed from clichés.

With Girlhood, Céline Sciamma interrogates the construction of female identity by immersing us in the daily life of Marieme, a teenager from the Parisian suburbs in search of freedom.

In this adaptation of the comic book by Christophe Blain and Abel Lanzac, Bertrand Tavernier has created a political satire in which he wields his acerbic gaze to great effect.

With Until the Birds Return Karim Moussaoui presents his first feature film and carries us to the heart of contemporary Algeria.

The first feature film by Franco-Malian director Daouda Coulibaly, Wùlu immerses us in the daily life of a young bus driver from Bamako who finds himself involved in the hellish world of drug trafficking.

Equal parts novelistic thriller and reflection on love and paternity, Eastern Boys lets Robin Campillo hone a unique gaze wherein the social chronicle takes on breath of lyricism.

 A documentary exploring the issue of infertility in Niger, The Fruitless Tree describes, through the experience of the director herself, the struggle of these socially-ostracized women.

By making his encounter with schoolchildren from Aulnay-sous-Bois into a teen-movie style documentary, Olivier Babinet paints a portrait of youth who have not given up on their dreams.

The first film of “African cinema”, Africa on the Seine, immerses us in the lives young Africans living in Parisian exile in the 1950s. An historical short film by film-maker Paulin Soumanou Vieyra.

With The Assembly, Mariana Otero takes us to the heart of the "Nuit debout" movement that shook Paris in spring 2016, and interrogates the notion of collective speech.

With tenderness and humour, Christian Sonderegger tells the story of his half-sister’s Suzanna's sex-change, in a transformational documentary carrying the name of the man she has become: Coby.

With her first feature film, Kill me Please, Anita Rocha da Silveira reinvents the teen movie. Released in 2017, the film immerses us in the universe of lonely teenagers in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro.