Where I come from
Exile and roots
14 filmsThis film series offers a sensitive and engaging exploration of the themes of exile, uprooting, and the quest for one's origins, through films from the four corners of the globe. From forced flight to the hope of a welcoming land, through the torn apart of identity and the memory of a lost country, each film is an invitation to rethink our perspective on migration, belonging, and territories. Whether fiction, documentary, or animation, the stories presented here question our times and the roots of our common humanity.

- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- 1h43
Arthur is a music critic for a famous magazine. After yet another malpractice, he is relegated to field reporting. While covering the evacuation of a migrant camp on the outskirts of Paris, he is victim of police violence and accidentally becomes the face of the refugee cause. Due to his new status, he gets to spend more time with the brilliant and attractive Mathilde, a former lawyer now head of an association support- ing migrants, but also to welcome Daoud, a young Afghan, whom he agrees to accommodate until his asylum application is processed, which shouldn’t take more than a few days...

- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- 1h36
Sofiane, son of a former Algerian embassy clerk, has travelled a lot. Now a student in Lyon, his visa has been revoked and he lives under the threat of expulsion. Hoping to regularize his situation, he agrees to work for a Muslim funeral home. Amidst parties, encounters and his job, Sofiane will start an initiatory journey that will lead him to find himself, shape his own identity and gradually move towards adulthood.

- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- 1h30
Bellisha is a good Jewish boy. He is a curly-haired, weakling and nonchalant 27-year-old struggling to become a grown-up. He still lives with his mother, Giselle, in a poor neighbourhood. After the last syna- gogue closes, it’s time for the last kosher grocery store to shut down. This is it, they are the last Jewish family in the area. But much to Giselle’s dismay, Bellisha doesn’t particularly want to leave. He is com- fortable there and remains positive, despite tensions arising in the community and his mother’s health quickly deteriorating.

- Drama
- 2023
- 1h42
Jacques Romand is a history teacher who has lost faith in his vocation. One evening, witnessing a shopkeeper attacked by three young robbers, he catches one of the aggressors – Victor, a 14-year-old Roma boy. Moved by his plight, Jacques becomes fascinated by this “wild youth” who will, little by little, reawaken his passionate belief in education. Determined to allow him the opportunity of escaping his situation, he quickly comes into conflict with the pitiless laws of the boy’s community. Nicolas Boukhrief returns with a powerful social drama starring Vincent Lindon and tackling the too-long-ignored situation of the Roma people.

- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- 1h23
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.

- Comedy-drama
- 2023
- 20min
Twenty-seven-year-old Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she slams. Conflicted about her family name ("Good-for-nothing"), imposed on her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she is fighting to complete a name change procedure. It's time to make her new surname heard by those around her.

- Drama
- 2023
- 1h46
Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politically active. Fanny is troubled. To win over Lena, she invents a life for herself, to the extent of becoming trapped in her lies.

- Musical comedy, Biopic
- 2023
- 1h24
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.

- Drama
- 2023
- 1h46
Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing along her own two teenage daughters Jessica and Farah, it is an opportunity for them to go back to the island they left 15 years earlier, in tragic circumstances. While their mother grapples with her memories, the two girls indulge in all the summer temptations: unexpected encounters, mischief and first love experiences. Meanwhile, questions are surfacing about their distant past on the island, leading them to dig deeper into their mother’s version of the family story.

- Comedy-drama
- 2022
- 19min
Public holiday, in the middle of department 77 in France: Lili waits for a bus to go to the airport. She meets Thibault, an old schoolmate she has no memory of. The bus does not pass and she decides to go on foot. Thibault accompanies her in spite of herself. They will then re-meet and bond.

- Drama
- 2022
- 1h56
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from Africa to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons. Spanning 30 years from their arrival in France to the present day, Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to her Caméra d’Or-winner Jeune Femme (Cannes 2017) is a moving chronicle about the construction and deconstruction of an ordinary family.

- 2022
- 1h23
“October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.”

- Comedy-drama
- 2022
- 23min
Rufus and his uncle Alpha, two Ivorians, run an aging hotel in the hinterland of Perpignan. At the beginning of the summer, Alpha returns to the Ivory Coast to sell the family land to relaunch his business in France, before leaving it to his nephew. While waiting for him, Rufus keeps the hotel with Monika, his girlfriend, but Alpha's trip to the country will upset his plans.

- 2023
- 38min
It is June 2021 and the end of the school year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Linda and Irina are best friends. Between TikTok videos and science classes, they confide in each other about their family, their future, and other teenage preoccupations. But Linda has to move house yet again, and will not be here next term. In spite of her mother’s advice, this time she has grown attached to a friend, and their separation will be a painful one. As the summer begins, her heart is sore. Guillaume Brac films Linda and Irina in this pivotal time of adolescence, where everything is a balancing act between doing what one wants and living up to parents’ expectations, in the run-up to that long-awaited adulthood. A time when one forms unforgettable friendships, fleeting but foundational romances, and fates that will ultimately be upended. The multi-award-winning French director has once again constructed a wonderfully light-hearted tale with Rohmerian touches, in which his two characters are illuminated in a way that makes us feel like we know and love them; just like real film heroines, in fact.