Evgenia Alexandrova

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

Laura struggles with anger management while in detention. On parole for a day, she is confronted to the complex reality of her daughter being now cared for by her own immature mother.

Sara is spending her summer at Denis and Annie's small lavender production. The couple lives with their nephew Victor who is immersed in a deep mutism. Lavender tells the encounter of these 2 teenagers completely poles apart but that a family secret will soon unite.

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.

A bed sheet devouring bodies, a radio contaminating minds or a chicken refusing to be butchered…Kraken storms into an apartment building, where everyday soon plunges into bizarre…

Pio and Anaïs, a couple about to get married, announce to their friends that their wedding will be child-free. However, their friends, who are now parents, decide to bring their children along, thinking they can hide them from the bride and groom.

Jeanne is traveling to Romania to celebrate her bachelorette party with her friends when she meets Nino and his family. They are worlds away from one another, yet for the two of them it is the beginning of a passionate and timeless summer.

Léto, a young trans and gay man, lives in a small, social housing apartment near Tours. During the day, he kills boredom on his phone from the ticket booth of a movie theater on its last legs. But where he's looking for feelings, he's only offered sex. So at night, he flees disillusionment by heading for the stars. The roof of his high-rise building is like his moped: a refuge, an escape. However, one morning, the parking lot of an ice rink becomes the setting for a life-changing encounter when he comes face to face with Hamza, a solitary employee with an enigmatic charm. The emotional disturbance is immediate. With all due respect to the scoundrels!

Anna’s life is well settled. She and her boyfriend Paul, a young soldier, diligently prepare for the arrival of their first child as the future father is set to leave on a mission abroad. But a few days before the departure, the French state decides to withdraw all troops, and Paul tells Anna that he will be able to stay with her the coming months. The unexpected news cause a big dilemma for her.

Mahdia, Tunisia. Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as “machtat”, traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies. Their music evokes love and its promises, but the reality is much more complex and painful. Between illusions and disillusionment, Machtat is a powerful and liberating portrait of three women asserting their voices.

Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hassidic community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.

Unassertive Neila works at a local fast food joint in the Paris suburb where she's from. One day, she meets another black woman her age named. Championne: delivery girl by day and dominatrix by night. Drawn by the lure of thrills and easy money, Neila follows her into a world that will change her life forever.

Bilal is a violent outsider who lives in the middle of nowhere, between drinking, fucking and fighting. He thinks with his fists. One day, he comes across a worthy rival. The two will lock horns in confrontation.

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground, terrestrial and spatial universes blend into each other starting from a coal mine up to Venus.