Virage

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...

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.

In the 1970s, the hippie movement arrives in the Swiss countryside. Lulu, Joe and Chiara share a dream: to build a world of freedom and equality, without rejecting anyone. For four decades, they freed themselves from the constraints of society and created a pioneering community: the 'farm of free spirits'.

Nora is about to get remarried and finds out that her father is dying. Her life and that of her son, Élias, are turned upside down. At the same time, Ismaël, her ex-husband, is sectioned. While he tries to get his life back on track, their paths cross again.

Rose leaves the Ivory Coast for France with her two sons, Jean and Ernest. The single mother gets a job as a chambermaid and struggles every day to keep her family afloat. As teenagers and then young adults, Jean and Ernest are confronted by the difficulties of integration.

Soane leaves Wallis and Futuna and an authoritarian father to join a rugby team in France. Although he is French, he is treated as an outsider in France. His greatest challenge is the other players' hostility who, like him, want to rise the ranks in a very popular sport.

Normandy, in the 1980s. Between the cows, Club Dorothée and chunky woollen jumpers, life for 10 year-old Louloute is one of dreams, love and family squabbles. But as the family farm falls further into debt, that life is about the change forever...

1968. Robert, graduated from École Normale Supérieur and extreme left militant, is hired by Citroën as assembly line worker to revive the revolutionary fire. When the company requires workers to work three hours overtime per week for no pay, Robert and some others see the opportunity for a social movement.

Solange, Michèle and Fanny, very different, are united by the same combat: a strike by the chambermaids of a hotel, which appears to be a losing battle. By changing their lives and their principles, this combat will bring them out of their solitude and at last make them visible.

In Douala, in a poor district in the city, the everyday life of Pierrette, a seamstress who takes care of her two children and invalid mother alone. Bravely determined and discrete, she is used to getting by from day-to-day but never gives up.