Les Chiens

Six years ago, Charity Jimohe left Nigeria for France. After ten months of forced prostitution to pay off a debt of 35,000 euros contracted with the traffickers who had brought her here, she walked through the door of a police station in Nantes to denounce the members of her prostitution ring.

This is the story of the quiet disappearance of a public service in France: the telephone box. Barely forty years old and already totally "out".

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During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "Where I See Myself in 10 Years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.

A couple of grocers originally from Sri Lanka, who have been living in Paris for thirty years, are unjustly evicted from their home. This contemporary tale with Bollywood overtones follows the daily life of Dayana, a sixteen-year-old girl who works in the grocery store and dreams of a princess-like life, far from the back room where her family has settled.

How can you live with a gender that was decided for you, operated since birth to conform to norms? M would like to break free and begins for the first time a correspondence with 25 years-old Deborah, also born intersex. Through their letters and encounters, Deborah and M share their experiences.