Leni and Paul are „all good!“, as Paul likes to emphasise. But on this evening even he realises that this is not true at all. Their new neighbours, Mariam and Ayla, who come over for dinner embody exactly what Leni and Paul have not been for one another as a couple for years. While finishing up dessert, the relationship of the perfect couple, centered on their fluffy dog Amor, unfolds.
Rim, a Tunisian woman, works in France as an interpreter for asylum-seekers. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women whose voices question her own history.
Angelo dreams that his son Matteo becomes a great goalkeeper. In order to reach this goal, Angelo invests everything. But Matteo turns a deaf ear to his father’s dream. During an important game, Angelo is prepared to interfere in his son’s play in order to back him. But the father pushes his son to the limits. He finally puts more than his very dream at stake.
In 2009, war is raging in Sri Lanka. 10,000 km away, in the Tamil district of Paris, Seelan sees his daily life turned upside down.
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Tonight's program has been composed by and for grown-ups who are children at heart. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. Also known as Beauty and the Beast.
Eden, an afro hairdresser, tries to overcome her recurrent stomach aches by taking it upon herself. Not heard by the medical profession, she tries to take care of herself. When her pains catch up with her, her daily life becomes unbearable.
Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.
At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girlfriend with the pain and loneliness.
For the first time since her husband's death, Ute visits their former FKK-club. Curiously she enters this familiar place and immediately receives a warm welcome. However, she painfully has to realise that in the eyes of her old friends she primarily has become the widow. Unintentionally she finds herself involved in a group game in which you have to make your teammates laugh by saying one simple sentence.
In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 years old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. He will have to confront his fears and desires.
Summertime at the beach. Swimming, yelling, playing, tanning. 25-year-old Marie who came alone to lie in the sun and swim in the sea, loses the bottom half of her bathing suit.
Alex and Nico came to surf. For the brothers, everything would be perfect if it weren't for this huge shark stranded on the beach.
Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. There she also meets a man named Marc, to whom she feels attracted, who sees her and desires her. Back in Paris, she visits him again. For the first time in her life, she will make love to him.
In the street, two young girls play their favorite game: "Would you rather?".
In 1926, a Brancusi sculpture is stopped at the American border. Non-figurative, this artwork is classified as a manufactured article and its owner forced to pay a duty. The artist, Constantin Brancusi, appealed the decision. Judge Byron Waite, a former member of the Customs Board, is chosen to process the trial.
Julien, 30, works as a tourist guide at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris over the summer. In an alley of the cemetery he runs into Ada, whom he was very much in love with and has not seen for a year.
After seven years abroad in Italy, Tarek returns home to Tunisia, he meets Khaled, who is everything he isn't: successful, handsome, and helpful..
In the Forest of Spirits, three ghosts monologue all that they were unable to say while alive. Each ghost moves to the places of his memory and listens to the world of the living. The ghosts do not manage to separate themselves from life.
