Yasmine Belmadi
1976 - 2009Les corps ouverts
Sébastien Lifshitz
Yasmine Belmadi, Pierre-Loup Rajot
Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.
Open Bodies
Les terres froides
Sébastien Lifshitz
Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley
A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
Cold Lands
Criminal Lovers
François Ozon
Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.
Criminal Lovers
Who Killed Bambi?
Gilles Marchand
Laurent Lucas, Sophie Quinton
Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to dissappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.
Who Killed Bambi?
Adieu Gary
Nassim Amaouche
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique Reymond
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et qu'ils ont grandi. Parmi eux il y a Francis, l'ouvrier consciencieux qui continue d'entretenir la machine sur laquelle il a travaillé toute sa vie ; Samir, son fils.
Adieu Gary
Grande école
Robert Salis
Grégori Baquet, Jocelyn Quivrin
Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...
Grande école
Beur Blanc Rouge
Mahmoud Zemmouri
Yasmine Belmadi, Karim Belkhadra
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va diviser les deux amis : Brahim revendique son identité algérienne, Mouloud fustige son refus de la France, pays qui les a vu grandir.
Beur Blanc Rouge
Les Gens en maillot de bain ne sont pas (forcément) superficiels
Eric Assous
Isabelle Gélinas, Agnès Soral
A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two tickets he couldn't use. Lovers Pauline and the pregnant, cranky Anita find their vacation complicated by an ex-lover of Pauline's. The playboy Jimmy is the hotel M.C., and Carla, free-spirited and sensual, coaches Laurette in the ways of seduction. She is hot and cold to these wiles, alternately attracting and putting off Aziz, hoping Jimmy will try to seduce her, and afraid he might. By week's end, with the help of Camille's diary, we'll know the outcomes.
People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow
Coupable
Laetitia Masson
Hélène Fillières, Denis Podalydès
When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was incapable of giving her children, all eyes turn to the widow. Beneath this passionate crime, a modern day detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.
Coupable
De l'autre côté
Nassim Amaouche
Abde Deen, Benaïssa Ahaouari
Samir, a young man turned lawyer, returns to his family to attend the coming-of-age feast of his little brother. He finds his mother and father confronted with administrative problems and ordinary racism. His other brother, a deadbeat in his parent's eyes, is Malek. Malek still hangs out with his friends in their hometown where nothing has really changed. What comes along is tenderness, love, tension, a deep history, and the pain of growing up to see your family in a different light.
The Other Side
