The class of 2019 was hosted in Tangier, Morocco, from March 1 to 8, 2019, in partnership with the Moroccan Film Festival and the Moroccan Film Center.
The second session took place in Marseille, from June 15 to 22, 2019.
The third session took place in Marseille, November 23 to 30, 2019.
LUZIA is going to be fifty years old and has just met Ivan, who inspires her and gives her proofs of love, even if sporadic. But there is the dizziness of imminent death, a secret, and the promise disintegrates. Ivan disappears – for LUZIA it is an abyss, a bottomless pit. She will hang on and face the unknown. This is the story of LUZIA and a transformative experience that will liberate her, the profound metamorphosis of a being who accepts that there is probably no other way out, except for the optimists.
In an upscale country club located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the story of a love triangle between Amal Tawil, a 30-year-old middle-class woman, Saïd Itani, a tennis teacher, and Léa Farés, an 18-year-old teenager who is none other than Amal's future sister-in-law. Like a premonitory sign, the birth of this love triangle takes place on the day when, in the club, the bones of Palestinian fighters who died during the civil war are dug up. The resurgence of the violence of the past will contaminate the three protagonists who will each upset their moral codes as this love triangle progresses. Soon, the only solution to regain balance will have to be through the murder of one of them.
In the spring of 1961, two Italians from Morocco embarked on a mission to rescue a mysterious shipwrecked on the shores of the Atlantic Sahara. A series of inexplicable events block their path to personal glory. Adversity, betrayal, disappointment will be their daily bread. But the Sahara is also the scene of a human adventure which leads them to reach their most extreme limits. They confront their own conscience and bitterly realize that the desert reflects their own failure. Will they be able to accept the real price?
It's the story of a guy who does everything to make his dream come true. It's the story of a guy who when his dream comes true will do everything, everything, to destroy it. It's the story of a man who needs the love of a woman so much that he does everything to scare them away, all of them. In short, it's the story of a happiness that can only escape, lest he run away.
Khaled, a man in his forties, is preparing to make his film “The Lie That Tells the Truth” about terrorism in the 1990s in Algeria. Khaled is in full preparation for his shoot: scouting, casting, interviews, and interviews with journalists. Khaled also attends conferences on national reconciliation and victims of terrorism. Held meetings with producers and assistants to organize filming.
Professional football player at Olympique de Marseille, Océane is the club's best player. Her efforts since childhood to be at the highest level finally seem to be paying off, since she is about to be selected for the French team for the World Cup. But, after a complicated season, the club's leaders recruit Fanny, a promising and ambitious young striker. His arrival within the team shakes Océane’s certainties. Is she still good enough to stay on top?
Despite their mother's denial, the three children suspect that their father was replaced overnight by a stranger. 'The Taste of Homes' is a family drama which depicts the violent transformations of a fragile youth at the age of adolescence, towards the economic and social changes around them.
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).
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".