Suburb Movies

Kassovitz revisits the story of his cult film by adapting it for the stage and highlights the film's eminently contemporary nature. Recorded in...

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a...

In Saint-Denis, at the Stade de France district leisure center, the time for the fair comes with summer. The day before D-Day, at the Koné's,...

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author...

Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and...

Mannequins examines the suburb as a state-of-mind through the eyes of a 7th grade teenage girl.

Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their...

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of...

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag...

A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.

When the first snow turns the area around the highrises white, a new world opens up. Two boys, Sören and Anders, explore the snow and have...

A woman's fears about having children begin to manifest as visions of her dead grandmother.

From the “integration model” to the “Islamist fanatic”, France fantasizes about these children of immigrants who grew up with...

8:30 follows an unsuspecting door-to-door salesman, who finds himself stranded in a desert-like suburb as his train returns to the same train station...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is...

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world...

The film takes place in a Parisian suburb and brings us into the closest possible contact with the people who live here and takes us into the privacy...