Movies: Mehdi Charef

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist....

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A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence....

A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act....

An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies....

Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who li...

A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie...

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually unt...

The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb....

A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs....

Directed by Mehdi Charef....

Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station....

In the 60s, five young teenagers find themselves on the bangs of the school system because of their family history. They are placed in a remedial class with Monsieur Raffin, a teacher who has himself fallen from the hierarchy of the French education ...