Crossing Over

In Annemasse, Haute-Savoie, Lou, 25, a librarian, and Hugo, 24, a worker, meet Julie, their older sister, who left five years earlier for New York to pursue a career in theater. She returns with Nina, her baby, and adapts with difficulty to the rhythm of this small town. Hugo discovers his older sister, whose life he dreamed of, while Lou takes her return with simplicity, in the present, without asking herself any questions. Through this reunion, they realize that they have become adults, each one choosing a personal life path, each one aspiring to a different happiness than the others.

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his passion for cooking.

While supposedly taking mud baths in Korea, the paterfamilias of a family from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar dies of a sudden heart attack in Brive-la-Gaillarde. His wife and his oldest son travel to France to bring his body home and to investigate the circumstances of his death.

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Ebrahim leaves his family and tries out his luck in Teheran. But in this urban jungle where everything's for sale and anything can be bought, dreams rapidly become nightmares. Caught up, in spite of himself, in a trafficking ring, will Ebrahim find an opportunity of escaping?

Approaching the rainy season, Yaadikoone, a nine-year-old boy, accidentally brokes his house's roof with his soccer ball. Yaadi decides to fix himself this damned roof.

Bella, a 30-year-old Guinean cabaret singer, lives a miserable, dangerous life as a prostitute in Dakar. Though she longs for escape, a gang of pimps, led by Kèba, treat her like property and make sure she keeps in her place. Her only hope is the thought of earning enough money to escape and reunite with her daughter, who she gave up at birth at age 15—a desperate act that haunts Bella’s nightmares and fills her with guilt. While fleeing an angry client, she meets Yélo, a Guinean worker for the United Nations, who happens to be passing through Dakar. Instantly smitten, Yélo agrees to help Bella, and so begins an epic journey of redemption, from Guinea to Paris. But can the young couple escape the clutches of the menacing Kèba?

Today, Arvi, a young Estonian, is eighteen years old. As is the custom, his brother takes him to celebrate the transition to adulthood. Despite of the hold of his elder, this day appears to decisive for him.

Coelio desperately tries to win the heart of Marianne, the wife of Judge Claudio. On a bridge, he wants to commit suicide, but he runs into his friend Octave, who is returning from a carnival - drunk as usual. Octave agrees to act as matchmaker for Coelio.

Seven directors develop their own scripts and come to Estonia to make their films with local cast and crew. Libertade is a feature length film project, comprising of seven short films directed by renowned film-makers from Georgia, Russia, Switzerland, Estonia and France. They all take their unique look into questions about our roots and identity, our choices and our search for freedom and its consequences. —Katerina Monastyrskaya

Aurélie is a tormented teenager. Unwillingly, she has to spend her holidays with her father recently settled on the island of Mayotte. This experience turns out to be an unexpected initiatory journey that will make her grow up.

Screen adaptation of the play Marivo. Sylvia, incapable of loving affairs, should, according to her father’s plan, marry at all costs. It is for this purpose that Father invites Dorant to spend a relaxing weekend in Switzerland. To find out his true nature, Sylvia decides to change into a maid's costume. Dorant, also in doubt about the future bride, comes up with a similar plan! Gentlemen become servants, servants become gentlemen ...