Algeria desert, 1961. France just detonated an atomic bomb. A patrol of seven soldiers is sent to ground zero to take samples and measure the current radioactivity. The more they advance, the more they perceive that they are entering a dangerous uncharted territory: the future…
Anna is 16, and lives with her young mother, Rebecca. It is the end of another summer defined by her mom’s flings and conquests, but during which Anna begins to discover her own sensuality. As Anna learns she is pregnant, her mother sees herself in her daughter, at the same age, facing the same choices. And if Anna’s decision implies a rupture in her relationship with Rebecca, she will find support where she least expects it.
Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.
Nicolas is madly in love with Charlotte, a girl he barely knows yet fantasizes about through the pictures she posts on Facebook. With a friend, he decides to prove his love for her by accomplishing an exploit.
Kenza 15 years old and her little brother Mahdi 13 years old regularly humiliate one another on social media in cruel ways. Today, as they travel by bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada; a girl that Mahdi loves but that does not know him. Placed under pressure by his sister, Mahdi ends up confessing.
Seven cousins meet for a last holiday in their childhood house.
In the streets of a small seaside town frozen over by winter winds, two women search for each other and escape. Nina, the girl, guided by an emergency. Lili, the resigned mother. A twenty-year-long silence, erected like a wall, leaves them strangers. But what binds them together, such as the choice Nina is about to make, resonates powerfully in the story she shares with Lili.
Once a year, Liem, a young man from an ethnic minority in Vietnam, leaves his ordinary life behind and retreats to the jungle with his friends. During his "time out," he tries to maintain an ancient tradition that is threatening to disappear, as is the forest it takes place in.
In the late 19 th century, in a Sicilian village countryside, young Pina holds the power to regenerate the land as her village is plundered by the mafia. Pina’s encounter with the mafia boss will mark the fate of the entire country.
