The 2018 class was hosted in (Morocco) from March 9 to 17, in partnership with the Moroccan Film Festival and the Moroccan Film Center.
The second session took place in Marrakech, from June 6 to 14 for the "Morocco" group and from June 17 to 22 for the "Mediterranean" group, in partnership with the French Institute of Marrakech & the French Embassy in Morocco.
The third session will take place in Marseille, at the FRAC and La Vieille Charité, from November 8 to 14 for the "Southern Region" group, and from November 11 to 16 for the Mediterranean group, in partnership with the Southern Region and the City of Marseille. Then for the Morocco group in Rabat, from October 28 to November 3, in partnership with the Moroccan Film Center.
The year he turned 20, Hani learned that he had been admitted to the school of fine arts but that he had to join the military school in order to follow the path that his father had imagined for him. It is then a long quest for emancipation that begins for this young Moroccan, through fragments of life marked by this ambition to transform his destiny.
Faten, a high school student entering her final year of high school, vacillates between traditions and modernism. Feeling unique and different, she tries to find a place for herself in a dark urban environment that will change her life.
Oran, Algeria, October 1988. While the country is shaken by riots and young people are demanding freedom and democracy, Yasmine, a 17-year-old girl, living alone with her mother, runs away. Having grown up in France, from birth until the age of 10, Yasmine is an uprooted young girl who oscillates between death urges and a fury for life. His friendship with Kenzi, a young woman on the street, will soon fuel a double desire for revenge.
Sarah is preparing to return to her studies when she learns that Adam, her autistic “big-little brother” has been institutionalized. Sarah makes her brother escape, and decides to take him with her to Agadir. At the wheel of her red 4L, Sarah's Odyssey across the Atlas will transform, over the course of her encounters, into a true initiatory journey and will lead her to reconcile with herself, with her family, but above all with life.
In a world between dreams and waking life, Reem and Osama, a troubled young couple in their thirties, are going through a to-do list on their last night together. In their quest to overcome depression in post-revolutionary Egypt, the loving couple is convinced that what is best for them is to commit suicide. However, as they walk through the empty streets of Alexandria, Reem begins to have doubts, but Osama cannot accept the fact that she is no longer dying. Her shocking reaction makes her question his intentions and their relationship as well as the idea of love in general. As the conversation between the two escalates, the conflict becomes physical.
A pharmacist from an Algerian province, Suzanne does not understand what her Pied-Noire community still calls 'events'. But facing a daily life disrupted by an Algerian entourage who regains their freedom, Suzanne decides to collaborate with each camp so as not to leave her native land. Not hesitating to disavow his deepest convictions.
The film traces three crucial periods – young adolescence (12-13 years old), mid-adolescence (16-17 years old) and young adulthood (seven years later) – in the life of Shams-Eddine, a young Moroccan, a hermaphrodite, in search of his identity, in search of love and above all, friendship. Declared and raised as a boy, his/her world turns upside down when he/she becomes frightenedly aware that he/she is neither a woman nor a man, but both at the same time. Torn between his youth and his desire for self-exploration, he is confronted with events that will force him to question his preconceived ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, family and love.
Houda and Achraf, newlyweds, become candidates for the coveted status of “respectable family”. Watched over by a couple of divinities guarantor of religious and moral order, Sidna and Sitna, the newlyweds find themselves forced to live as prisoners of a life, which for their mothers must be perfect.
When Keryann, as a child, sees his father, Bachir, allow himself to be humiliated without reacting, his world collapses. In his HLM district of Arles, his future seems closed, until he crosses paths with Luis, a charismatic trainer from the bullfighting school.
In an isolated village in the Atlas, there remains an old belief according to which saffron is cursed, causing the death of the inhabitants. But one man, Hassan, does not believe in this curse and secretly tries to restart production to save the village from poverty.
Leyla, a thirty-year-old Franco-Moroccan journalist, goes to the High Atlas for a documentary project on wild boar hunters. The young journalist must then face the disappearance of all the slaughtered wild boars, events of which she and her camera are the only witnesses.
Paris, in the 80s, Rachel, a loving mother, finds herself forced to reconnect with Malek, her childhood sweetheart, in order to save Simon, her son. Only problem: Malek is in reality the young man's biological father and Alain, Rachel's husband, doesn't know it.
Christophe Lemoine is a French screenwriter, director, actor, comic strip scriptwriter and writer of children's literature.
Born in Morocco, he arrived in France at the age of 13. For a whole decade, his career took off in the world of theater, where he worked as an actor and director. He gradually began to write for the stage. In 2000, he became a writer for young people and a comic-strip scriptwriter. Les trois imposteurs" (2005-2006), in collaboration with Jean-Marie Woehrel, was his first published comic strip.
He also wrote the adaptations of "Robinson Crusoe", drawn by Jean-Christophe Vergne (2007), "L'Odyssée", drawn by Miguel Imbiriba (2010) and "L'île au trésor", drawn by Jean-Marie Vergne (2010) for Éditions Adonis' "Romans de Toujours" collection. He also wrote the screenplay for "L'Incroyable Music Hall!", drawn by Bruno Bazile, which appeared periodically in "Spirou". 2010 saw the production of a short film, which enjoyed a successful career, leading him to consider writing for the cinema. A screenwriter for film, animation and television, and a writer who passed through the Groupe Ouest Annual Selection in 2012, he also often acts as consultant, coach or script-doctor.He received the Prix des Écoles at the Terre de Bulles festival in Langeac in 2012 for "La Guerre des Boutons", the Prix de la Ligue de l'Enseignement at the BD Boum festival in Blois in 2012 for "Clara", and the Prix Latulu 2015 for "Poil de Carotte".
Jamal Belmahi was born in Morocco to a Moroccan father and an Austrian mother. A screenwriter for more than a decade, he has written several TV formats and also two film projects (Les Chevaux de Dieu, dir. Nabil Ayouch, Adieu l'Afrique Director: Pierre-Alain Meier). He is currently developing several projects, including Idir Serghine's first feature film.
He is a consultant on several series in Morocco and Algeria, a member of the CNC commission for the financial contribution for short films and one of the founding members of a French association of professional screenwriters: the SCA (Scénaristes de Cinéma Associés).
Born in Morocco, Ismaël Ferroukhi came to France as a child and grew up in a small town in the south of the country. In 1992, he wrote and directed his first short film, L'Exposé, which was selected in the Cinéma en France category at Cannes. It won the Best Short Film award and the Kodak Prize.
Two years later, he met Cédric Kahn and co-wrote Trop de bonheur. The film, co-produced by Arte, was presented at Cannes. The two men went on to write Culpabilite zero together. In 1996, he directed his second short film, L' Inconnu, starring Catherine Deneuve. At the same time, he wrote and directed two TV films (Un été aux hirondelles and Petit Ben), followed by his first feature, Le Grand voyage, in 2004. Telling the story of Reda, a young high-school student who has to take his father to Mecca, Ismaël Ferroukhi won rave reviews from the industry and was awarded the Luigi de Laurentiis Prize for Best First Film at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. Following this success, he reunited with Cédric Kahn and co-wrote L' Avion, a poetic tale of childhood with Isabelle Carré and Vincent Lindon. He then joined the Enfances collective, for which he directed a short film on the childhood of Jean Renoir, starring Clotilde Hesme.
2011 saw the release of his second feature film, Les Hommes libres, with religion as its central theme. For the occasion, he cast Tahar Rahim as a young Algerian living on the black market during the Second World War, whose life is transformed when the police arrest him and force him to spy on the Grand Mosque of Paris.
