Danièle Douet

Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes her page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.

For months and months now, Frédéric Laffont has been photographing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The stone, the tank, the olive trees that are cut down... And yet, there are things that his photos do not say. Written day by day, his notebooks sketch another horizon. Close to her victims, the photographer refuses to submit to the worst. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.

Anna and her husband Jean-Paul have to face a long and difficult separation since Jean-Paul is a spationaut. Thanks to a video device they can see each other and communicate... But definitely not for the best!

Mehdi and Alberto arrive in Blois with the idea of following the Loire River to Angers by bike. A week's vacation. Just as they're about to leave, Alberto's bike needs fixing, which gives them the opportunity to stay in town a little longer. Alberto welcomes this idea, while Mehdi only wants one thing: to leave.

In 1900, a couple presents what they claim to be inventions from the year 2000 to the director of a cabaret.

A colonel aims to make her regiment compete with that of the men, which is not to the taste of the general, who also turns out to be her lover.