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The young Nianankoro will receive the ancestral knowledge of the Bambara, enabling him to master the forces around him. But his father does not accept him as an equal. Nianankoro must flee his wrath and embark on a journey of initiation to gain his new powers, before the inevitable confrontation with his father...

Dom, a deep-sea fisherman, is often away from home and sees little of his children, Mailys and Mattéo. They have chosen to live with him but the judge is asking him to be more present. He tries to set up his own business to keep his children from being taken away from him.

Samuel needs to take a step back from his life and goes to isolate in his chalet in the Italian Alps. One night, Chehreh, a young Afghan migrant, takes refuge in his house. She wants to cross the border to Briançon. Moved by her story, Samuel decides to help her.

Esther, in the midst of emotional turmoil, receives a mysterious diary written by a stranger whose break-up echoes her own. Signs reveal that she lives in Toulouse. She decides to find her and sets off on to a journey that will shed light on the meaning of her own existence.

Nélie rose out of poverty by becoming a nurse on the front line in 1914. During the war, she saw her friend Rose die, who was going to be hired as a reader to a bourgeois widow. Nélie assumed her identity and became Rose. In the hope that no one would discover her secret.

Anna wants to rebuild ties with her son Jason, who she abandoned twenty years ago. But she runs off at the last minute and secretly takes refuge in an elderly couple's house. Unusual events lead to her forming a bond with the couple's wife...

Three days before the first round of the presidential election, Élizabeth de Raincy, President of the Republic, wants to retire from politics. But Franck L'Herbier, Secretary General of the Élysée Palace, tells her that a foreign scandal from is likely to hand victory to the far-right candidate.

Diane lives with her two sisters and daughter on a Canadian farm near the American border. She is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her father, who died in an accident. Paranoia leads her to believe that her house is haunted. Her concerned mother comes to her aid.

A former soldier, Dheepan leaves Sri Lanka, where the civil war is coming to an end. On the run, he meets a woman and her daughter, whom he presents as his own to French customs in order to obtain a visa more easily. Living on a precarious housing estate, barely knowing each other, they try to rebuild their lives.

Chouf means "look" in Arabic. It also refers to the lookouts for the Marseille drug gangs. When his brother, a local gangster, is killed, Sofiane joins the "business" in his district to try and find the killers. He abandons his family and studies, quickly working his way up.