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Khorma is different! With his red hair and strangely pale complexion for a Tunisian, many people think he's retarded. Bou Khaled, his master, takes him under his wing nonetheless and teaches him the secrets of the business. Khorma learns to announce weddings, births and deaths in his neighborhood in Bizerte. But, one day, old Bou Khaled makes a grievous mistake: he announces a local woman's death rather than her daughter's marriage. Khorma is chosen to replace him...

Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.

A French romantic follows his dream girl to NYC, but a weekend of white lies, one-night-stands and tangled love triangles prove infatuation and romance are not what they seem. Featuring indie darling Greta Gerwig.

May 1940, in the French Ardennes. The German Army is getting ready to invade France. Old Gustave lives alone in his village with Camille, his teenage granddaughter and Etienne, his grandson. All the other inhabitants have evacuated the village, which makes Gustave very happy as he is the sole master there. Etienne, does not care because he is too young but Camille is beginning to suffer from her solitude and finds it hard to put up with her granddad's selfishness and bossiness. One day a patrol of African-born soldiers ("Tirailleurs Sénégalais") comes to the deserted village...

Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.

Mario and his brother Alonso become committed to fishing in a coral-reef in the southern Philippines. With many other children of different origin they work for starvation wages on the ship of unscrupulous captain Murène. Together they drive shoals of fish into a big fish trap having to use the dangerous muro-ami technique in the coral-reefs. Fastened to a stone, the little divers jump into the water to reach the depth faster. Without any equipment they dive down 30 meters. The brutal captain treats the exhausted children like slaves. After little Boï is fatally wounded by a swordfish, the situation on the ship gets out of hand. When the boys get to know that the captain has killed Alonso and the fishing company had refused payment and the frequently mentioned bonuses, a bloody mutiny breaks out on the ship which drifts uncontrolled on the ocean. A group of boys leaves the ship in a boat. The little deep-sea divers are left to themselves, are found after a long time and, finally, imprisoned.

This is the story of Franck and Tina. Franck loves Tina, but she can't love him. The man of her life has just died and she's having a nervous breakdown. During a journey to Asia, where Tina attempts rediscover her zest for life, Franck gradually becomes indispensable as a guide, traveling companion and, soon, friend... Will Tina eventually fall in love with him ?

Michel is a welder working at a shipyard in Brest. His wife died of cancer over a year ago and their 19-year-old son, Etienne, went to pieces and made off for Bogota. He hasn't been in touch for 6 months and Michel is desperate to find him. He leaves - without much money - arrives to Bogota and is mugged on the first day but manages to strike up a friendship with a Belgian girl who - reluctantly at first - helps him on his quest and eventually becomes a close friend. In an unbelievably short time, and following the flimsiest clues, he finds his son who has tried to find a new family among a white-clad Indian tribe in a near-accessible place. I won't spoil it by telling you any more - but there isn't much more.

Marion does not love her husband anymore. She decides to leave him to live fully, not to be locked in the reassuring comfort of a family life. Dominique lives with his wife an identical situation but he can not take the plunge.

This biographical telefilm retraces the journey of Alexandra David-Néel, accompanied by Aphur Yougden, a child lama who was to become her adopted son, for 13 years of wanderings from India to the lands of the Himilayas and the Tibetan plains, and of their arrival in Lhassa on Feb. 28, 1924 as the first modern Westerner to set foot in TIbet.

Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia...

A Latin American country on the Pacific seaboard. A coup d'état fails. Jacques and his fellow mercenaries must get out of there as fast as they can. He takes with him Monica, a beautiful prostitute with a taste for adventure. Having cheated their shady paymasters out of some valuable paintings, their only possible means of escape is by hijacking a bus, fleeing across desert and jungle, and rafting down the river to the Atlantic. Nature is hostile, but much wilder opponents await them!

A young and brilliant novice is sent by the Vatican to Latin America

1911. In his father's chateau, Henry de Monfreid is taken seriously ill. A young German woman, Armgart, a friend of the family, cares for him. When he has fully recovered, Monfried decides to embark on a new life. Leaving his two children in Armgart's care, he sets sail for Djibouti, then travels on to Dire Dawa in Ethiopia, where he works for a coffee exporter. Monsieur Joe, the export manager, introduces him to a house-boy named Ali, who encourages Monfried to buy a wife, Fatouma. Contemptuous of white settlers, Monfried gradually "goes native" while keeping up a regular correspondence with Armgart. Then, one day, a group of Arabs steals his merchandise and kills one of his men...

The Almasty, or wild man of the Caucasus, is the subject of this remarkable quest by two scientists. Different from the Yeti of the Himalaya, the Almasty of the Caucasus is a hominid who already possesses certain traits of Neanderthal man.

Koni and Djimi, two childhood friends, flee their village after a tax collector's visit degenerates into a riot. They join the rebels in the bush, convinced that they can at last bring justice to their put-upon compatriots. In both the armed and ideological struggle, a gulf grows between the two friends. To bridge it, they must admit that the cure is often worse than the disease. Daresalam, the first Chadian feature film, is inspired by the story of Hissene Habre and Goukouni Weddeye, both past presidents of Chad.

Jim is a teenager of African origin, adopted by a French family after her whole family was massacred. Her only passion is for Björk, who has become her secret confidante and whom she pictures surrounded by polar bears in Iceland. Recently, Jim has been very down. She refuses to eat. Doctors decide to intern her. Jim's only way out is to flee to Iceland to see the polar bears. Her incredible journey begins, from Paris to Reykjavik via Hamburg, England and the Faroe Islands. But is it real or a figment of her imagination? Will it cure or condemn her?

An ex-con, a young woman and two aging mobsters plan a major heist - holding up a cash transportation depot containing 35 million. Needing funds up front, they call in a high-rolling gambler and his two thuggish associates. The team is ready, but they must wait... and then wait some more. Of course, the tension rises...