Nights of ideas 2026

Touda only dreams of one thing: being a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan performer empowered by the lyrics of the fierce female poets who came before her – with their songs of resistance, love and emancipation. Performing every evening in provincial bars under the lustful gaze of men, Touda plans to set her sights on leaving her small town for the bright lights of Casablanca where she hopes to be recognized as a true artist and also secure a better future for her and her son

Classical symphonic music is everything for 17-year-old Zahia Ziouani and her twin sister, Fettouma. Nevertheless, living in underprivileged Parisian suburbs in 1995 with their Algerian background, they struggle arduously to approach their dreams – becoming an orchestra conductor and a cellist. Driven by determination, passion, and courage, they create their own orchestra, Divertimento. It will be a game-changer. DIVERTIMENTO is inspired by the life of Zahia Ziouani, one of the few worldwide renown female conductors.

Since 2014, in France, Restorative Justice has offered victims and perpetrators of offences the opportunity to dialogue through secure systems, supervised by professionals and volunteers such as Judith, Fanny or Michel. Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, sentenced for theft with violence, Gregoire, Nawelle and Sabine, victims of home jacking, robbery and purse snatching. Also Chloe, victim of incestuous rape, all engage in measures of Restorative Justice. On their journey, there is anger and hope, silence and words, alliances and heartbreaks, awareness and regained confidence. And at the end of the road, sometimes, reparation.

The kids from the "Bluebell" projects have spent all night warring with the police. Why ? Because a 16-year-old boy, Abdel Ichaha, is at near death after being beaten up under questioning by a police officer. Among these kids blinded by hate are three homeboys - Hubert, Saïd and Vinz. Together they're about to live the most important day of their lives. Because today there's the fourth hero of our story : the gleaming, chromeplated 9mm Beretta automatic which a plainclothes policeman is reported to have lost during the rioting.

A romantic biopic about Sarah Bernhardt, the world’s first celebrity. Known as ”La Divine”, she left an indelible mark by shattering societal norms thank to her daring personality and acting performances.

Totone, 18 years old, spends most of his time drinking beers and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends. But reality catches up with him: he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He then sets out to make the best Comté cheese in the region, the one that would win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.

France, early nineties. As the violence escalades between police and youth in the city projects, hip hop culture spreads as the best mean to express revolt. Two boys, JoeyStarr and Kool Shen, become the voice of a generation and the biggest French rap group ever: Suprême NTM.

50 years in the life of a farm… Haute Savoie (French Alps), 1972: run by three brothers, the Bertrand dairy farm and its one hundred animals is filmed for the first time. As a neighbor, director Gilles Perret dedicated his first film to them in 1997, while the three farmers are in the process of passing the farm on to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Today, 25 years later, the director-neighbor takes up the camera again to accompany Hélène, who, in turn, is handing over the reins. Through the words and actions of the people who have succeeded one another, the film reveals compelling life journeys where work and transmission occupy a central place: an intimate, social and economic story of the French farming world.

Can high school friendships last a lifetime? One thing's for sure: before long, Aurore, Nours, Jeanne, Diane and the others will say goodbye to their boarding rooms, swimming in the Drôme and parties in the mountains. Louison will cut his dreads and the little family will break up. For some of them, it's not the first time, and it hurts even more...

Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a school teacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.

Alice sneaks out of the family home to take part in a guerilla political flyposting campaign.

The film is a feminist musical. Two young girls live in Paris in 1962. Pauline (17), a student, dreams of leaving her family to become a singer. Suzanne (22) is taking care of her two children and is dealing with the drama of their father's suicide. Life separates them, each one living her own struggle as a woman. Pauline became a singer in a militant and itinerant group after having lived a difficult union in Iran. Suzanne is out of her misery and works at the Family Planning. Ten years later, they meet again during a feminist demonstration. At the end of this chronicle, we find them together again, with their children who have grown up.

Ernest Cole was the first black freelance photographer in South Africa, whose early pictures laid bare the injustices of apartheid for a world audience. Cole was exiled to the US, where his experiences were far from his expectations of the American Dream.

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.

En l’an 2200, Aline Ruby, détective privée obstinée, et Carlos Rivera son partenaire androïde sont embauchés par un riche homme d’affaires afin de capturer sur Terre une célèbre hackeuse. De retour sur Mars, une nouvelle affaire va les conduire à s’aventurer dans les entrailles de Noctis, la capitale martienne, à la recherche de Jun Chow, une étudiante en cybernétique disparue. Noctis est leur ville, une utopie libertarienne rendue possible par les progrès en robotique, emblème d’un futur tourné vers les étoiles. Au fil de leur enquête, ils seront confrontés aux plus sombres secrets de leur cité ; ses institutions corrompues, ses trafics, ses fermes cérébrales, et les magouilles des toutes puissantes corporations. Mais des tueurs cyber augmentés ont eux aussi pris pour cible Jun Chow. Aline et Carlos se lancent dans une course désespérée pour sauver cette jeune femme qui, sans le savoir, détient un secret capable de menacer l’équilibre précaire sur lequel repose leur civilisation.