Zaida Ghorab-Volta

Jeunesse dorée

Zaida Ghorab-Volta

Alexandra Jeudon, Alexandra Laflandre

Spring to summer 2000. Gwenaëlle and Angéla are friends. They are seventeen and eighteen years old and live in the same town in the suburbs of Paris. Summer vacation is coming up. They put in a project at the Youth Department of the local town hall. It is selected and funded. They will be able to carry it out. Their project is a trip around France to photograph people's homes. They invite people to pose in front of their houses and take photographs of themselves. When school goes back, an exhibition is organized at the town hall. Full of curiosity and strengthened by their friendship, they encounter people from a range of backgrounds. They broaden their horizons and open up to the possibilities life has to offer. They have many adventures and sometimes their encounters lead them to stay in one place for several days

Souviens-toi de moi

Zaida Ghorab-Volta

A young French immigrant from the Middle-East struggles to grow up in the housing projects surrounding Paris in this drama. The young woman faces many obstacles. Though she is in her twenties, Mimouna is forced to live with her domineering father and his traditionally submissive wife. Her younger siblings have eschewed Algerian traditions, and so does Mimouna, but only to a point, for she can also see the value of keeping her cultural heritage alive. Whether or not she chooses to live a traditional Algerian existence or that of the modern Western woman, Mimouna realizes that her gender restricts her opportunities in life.

Les histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général

Anne Fontaine

Nora, Sami Bouajila

Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her two loves?

Marie et le Loup

Ève Heinrich

Zaida Ghorab-Volta, Marc Barbé

The strange relationship of a man and a woman, the latter having surprised the erotic antics of this one with a stranger, missing since.

Laisse un peu d'amour

Zaida Ghorab-Volta

Andrée Damant, Aurélia Petit

58-year-old Monique lives in a small apartment in the projects on the outskirts of Paris. She has retired from assembly-line work with a small textile company, only to learn that her retirement benefits barely match her rent. One of her daughters, Giselle plans to enter the Drama Conservatory in Paris, while her other daughter Sandra is recovering from a suicide attempt.

Sa vie à elle

Romain Goupil

Sabrina Houicha, Séphora Haymann

Yakine, bright student with algerian origins, wears the hijab. Her family and her school want to understand but she refuses to talk about it.