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A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

France 1943. Two pretty and different girls, Alice and Lisette, 17, are torn from their families by the Germans and, along with many other Alsatians, sent to labor in Germany.

An aging nightclub hostess decides to settle down and get married.

As summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on the slide and a stepfather who keeps her down.

Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter, 15-year-old Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always rosy at Alessandro's for three main reasons : he is a widower and has never really recovered from the death of his young wife ; his brother is some kind of parasite who refuses to sell his paintings to capitalist speculators and so to contribute to the cost of the household ; Irina, whom he has raised alone since she was five months old and always felt close to, is rapidly changing from little girl to teenager and wishes to be treated as such. One day, Florence, a beautiful young woman, gets into Alessandro's life. Will he eventually take his chances with her? And will he manage to stop stifling Irina? And will he finally get on with Luigi?

Michele and Helene seem to be the perfect couple. However, on weekends, Michele steps into a secret life, as a transvestite, Mylene, in a hidden French forest. There, Mylene meets with a lover, Flavia, another transvestite who once fought alongside Michele in war. Michele works to balance his double life, but soon, Helene becomes concerned with her husband's mysterious trips.

Roger becomes stranded on a remote military post while his husband serves overseas, and seeks comfort with the sexually frustrated army wives in the community.

Nine years after her son is killed in a road accident, Marie-France poses as the killer's assistant and gets herself involved in his life to seek revenge from him and his family.

East of France, December 1917. In a village situated close to the front but protected from it by a hillside, the body of Belle de Jour, a little girl, is found by the canal. Judge Mierck, assisted by an Colonel Matzev representing the Armed Forces, investigates the case in his own way. The fact that the young victim's corpse lies a few yards from the manor of Destinat, the withdrawn, haughty-looking district attorney, who has always despised and humiliated him, doesn't escape him. To make matters worse, a witness has seen the magistrate not only talking with Belle but patting her cheek as well minutes before the little girl was strangled. But vengeance is one thing and class privilege another...

Hand in Hand is about a French lady who stay under a spell with a boy, a very young boy, both search for answers to the question but nothings seems logic, just magic.

In August 1914, war was declared between France and Germany. Maurice Genevoix, young man, is appointed to the 106th regiment of infantry. The young soldiers go to the front thinking that this war will be of short duration. But they will soon know the hell of the trenches and terribly murderous fights.

Summer 1944, Racine, a nineteen year old first-aid worker, is called upon to help a wounded fighter in a remote camp of the French resistance. But when he gets there he discovers a wild and disorderly bunch of young men. Between love, trials, and survival, Racine is propelled into learning life the fast way.

Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await with dread the return of Jean, who will challenge them, weapon in hand.

The workers at a bankruptcy clinic manipulate their colleagues. Burlesque, absurd and chiseled dialogues.

As Hakim is waiting for the bus after class, he is caught in a vendetta between teenagers. He is not exactly keen to get into a fight, but how can he possibly avoid an awaited confrontation?

When he finds out that it's because he's Jewish that his willy is different, young Benjamin decides to do everything he can to hide his religion and keep his secret...

Henry is a cynical man who owns a musical instruments store and plays in a rock band;he tries to swindle his pal's mom and to institutionalize his sister .

Edward and Lucas have been friends since childhood. They are both police officers in separate precincts in Nancy. Both have been trained to respect and obey the law. But war separates loved ones who are made to take separate directions due to circumstances of life. Their long and sincere friendship will fly to bits with all the suffering and deception this entails. The Nazis plan a raid on Jews in collaboration with the Vichy Police on July 19th 1942. Edward decides along with six of his colleagues to disobey to the laws of Vichy. The seven police officers begin to warn and offer hiding to the foreign Jewish people. They succeed after a long race against time making the police operation fail. Lucas however will be lead into the most horrid collaboration.

A glass frame, some wax wings, a tale sculpted in dust on the glass, a mask of bees wings. The artist, Patrick Neu lives alone in a remote island village to the north of the Vosges, far from all of the central focal points of the world of art. He creates slowly and carefully with the patience inherited from the primitive Flemish artists, which whom he dialogues explicitly in works that border the ephemeral and tend towards a rare perfection. One day, the director of the Tokyo Palace in Paris pays him a visit: after following his work for fifteen years, he wants to commission him with his first individual exhibition. He accepts but will not change his method in any way. In the background, the old truth of the salamander, above all, an artist should be able to hide and keep his mystery.

A wealthy businessman is stuck at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport because his flight has been canceled. He has taken a room at the Airport Hotel and now he is waiting for a call girl who will spice up his evening. A few moments later she arrives, takes off her coat and in her black waist cincher goes through the motions of paid seduction. Suddenly, the man cries out "Léa!". He has recognized her...

An illegitimate couple having an afternoon tryst in a hotel room. A happy family (one man, one woman two sons, one daughter, one... rabbit) having breakfast before the father drives the kids to school. What is the link between these two situations? Well, there is one, though not obvious at first sight...