Bilel Chegrani

Bye Bye les puceaux

Pierre Boulanger

Yafa Abu Hijleh, Jamil McCraven

Even though they don’t know each other very much, Inès (14) and Abdel (15) decide to have their first time together. The big day arrives and Inès is called to help out a neighbor to babysit her two kids Moussa (3) and Balla (5). Inès is determined to go through with their plan and asks Abdel to join her at her neighbor’s apartment. But the two children and their friends don’t stop to interrupt them in their pursuit. And so, they are forced to get to know each other in a different way.

Le Chant d'Ahmed

Foued Mansour

Bilel Chegrani, Laurent Maurel

One day Ahmed, employed at the public baths and nearing retirement, encounters Mike, a teenager adrift. Inside the bathhouse walls, a strange relationship will develop between these two fractured souls.

Fragile

Emma Benestan

Yasin Houicha, Oulaya Amamra

Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anything to help him get his head out of the water.

French Touch: Between Men

Chabname Zariab, Guillaume Foirest

Redouane Behache, Arya Vossoughi

Between life, between love, between men. Four stories of men facing the precipice of deep change in their lives... and the male figures that took them there. Includes: In Seventh Heaven [7ème ciel] (2013); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016); Taste of Love [Goût bacon] (2016); When You Hear the Bells [Au bruit des clochettes] (2016).

Vulnérables

Arnaud Sélignac

Léa Drucker, Romane Bohringer

Goût bacon

Emma Benestan

Bilel Chegrani, Adil Dehbi

After an ambiguous Snapchat video featuring Bilel and Adil, rumors start spreading about the two friends. To save their reputation, each of them tries to find a girlfriend. Their hunt for a date doesn’t quite go as expected.

Gardiennes

Adeline Picault

Ouassima Zrouki, Bahia Hassani

Acha and Myriam, fifteen years old, are bored out of their skulls in their social housing project. Sam, the leader of a gang of boys, asks them to be gardiennes for him. Honored, they stand in front of the main entrance of Building C, convinced they are participating in exciting drug deals.

1000 Visages : Cinéastes de demain

Houda Benyamina, Holy Fatma

Adil Dehbi, Annick Christiaens

Four first short films by young filmmakers. An initiative by director Houda Benyamina, produced by her association "1000 visages" (1000 faces).