Your request: “adolescence”

« A Day With… » is a series of ten portraits of children living in West Africa. They are seven to twelve years old. They live in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Each film tells the story of an ordinary day, at school, at home, from a child’s point of view. Each day has its upbeats and offbeat...

During the day, Sabrina does housework to renovate the house from which she might be expelled. At night, she works as a stripper in a city night club to pay for her nursing studies. Greater than all past pains and shames is the bright dream of one’s own of a better profession and a job. A minutely o...

In 2013 a trial put an end to a paedophilia case that took place from 1969 to 2001. Those kids now adults between 30 and 50 years old, testify and help us understand why silence and guilt have kept them from denouncing their aggressor as they were trapped in a system they were unarmed to fight. It ...

Deported at 13, Simone Lagrange is an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor and one of the principal witnesses at the Klaus Barbie trial. The film is an opportunity for her to tell her story. "I have not become what they wanted me to be." she often tells teen-agers that gather to listen to her account. The s...

Near Charleroi, Colin lives alone with his mother in a dilapidated house which caves in each day a little more. Facing misery, he writes with his buddies in his room, transformed into a kind of improvised "youth centre". Rap. As safety valve and as necessity. The only way they have found to speak of...

After being evicted from their housing, the Kamalanathan family, who arrived from Sri Lanka nearly 30 years ago, moved into the cramped backroom of their grocer’s shop. This film, filled with tenderness and audacity, and peppered by Bollywood-style musical interludes sung by the protagonists, also i...

How do you imagine the future? What do you want to dream about? During a rough school year, 14-year-old students talk about their teenage life, limited by an unprecedented health crisis. They try to think about their future in spite of a worrying world's state and tell the story of their coming of a...

In a college in Vaucresson, handicapped and able bodied sports students share the same rowdy classrooms, while enjoying wheelchair races and little romances. In this unusual co-educative environment, the film examines adolescence and the questions they ask themselves regularly, such as, “ Who am I? ...

Ghorban reached France alone in 2010 when he was 12 years old. He had travelled over 12,000 km from Afghanistan, experiencing the terror and dangers of clandestine migration. He was taken into the care of the child welfare services, and his social workers addressed him to a psychologist. He had to t...

Abdel is 18. He has been an intern in one of the most prestigious football training centers of Europe. In the next months, his future will be at stake: after negotiations, he may sign his first contract and begin a path to wealth and glory, but if he doesn’t succeed he will get back at the starting ...