Movies: Lyna Khoudri

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance....

Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university refor...

A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nea...

Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find ...

At the bottom. That's where Yaya and Zakri feel they are living in the projects of Paris. One day, they discover a bag full of money hidden in a parking garage. The two friends finally see an opportunity for them to change things and decide to throw ...

Jean is a fireman whose girl friend Albertine died of a horse accident shortly after having left him. He suffers a great pain because he had serious hopes of her coming back home. It’s a double punishment which he attempts to confess to his fellow fi...

In the early 90s, five young women, childhood friends, robbed seven banks in the Avignon area. The press dubbed them "The Amazon Gang". This film is their story....

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Fatiya agrees to replace her cousin at a babysitting gig. When she meets the mother of the young boy she is supposed to look after, prejudice and racism cause the afternoon to take a turn....

The WW2 romance drama follows the Giraud family, who take over a hairdressing salon after their father's death. Marie, a French Resistance heroine, takes care of the salon and brings clients to the son. However, Lise enters their lives, disrupting th...

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Maya is an apprentice in a welding workshop. She likes her boss, maybe a little too much. The day she gets hurt, she keeps quiet to preserve the business. But when she discovers that she is being manipulated, Maya decides to take justice into her own...

10pm on a summer's evening. The sun goes down over the Place de la République in Paris. Lucie and Rio embark on an "urbex", descending into the city's abandoned underground networks. The two teens share their adventure live on social media. On a subw...