Chad Chenouga

À l'épreuve (2024)

First Case (2024)

Nora, 26, is a graduate and still lives with her parents. While Nora has no field experience, she finds herself in charge of a 19-year-old boy, accused of having murdered a girl from his residence. From her first police custody to the follow-up of the inst ...

Take Me Home (2023)

Paul Barral, mayor of a small mountain town at the foot of Mont-Blanc, is fighting to maintain business and protect the school from an announced closure. Not without determination, the Mayor may have found the solution. ...

The Heroics (2021)

Michel is an eternal kid who dreams only of motorcycles and hangs out with his big son Léo and his friends. At fifty, he has to deal with the baby he just had with his ex, and fights not to make the same mistakes and be a good guy. ...

By the End of the Night (2018)

Karim, 30, drives every night. One day at dawn, he drives his last client - a foreign artist, the same age than him. Karim feels irresistibly attracted towards this young man. What he feels will start questioning who he thought he was. ...

Dieumerci ! (2016)

A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor. ...

The Grocer's Son (2007)

Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to rep ...

Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine) (2003)

Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours a ...

Passage interdit (2000)

Residents of an old building in a Parisian neighborhood are fighting against a plan to turn the place into a shopping center. ...

Mayday (1995)

This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience a slight change of program. They are all sitting in front of their TV sets and in twelve minutes the face o ...

Sa vie à elle (1995)

Yakine, bright student with algerian origins, wears the hijab. Her family and her school want to understand but she refuses to talk about it. ...

Montparnasse-Pondichéry (1994)

After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Indians. She can only do this if she gets her high-school dip ...

One, Two, Three, Sun (1993)

A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their ...

Billie Melody (2026)

A Smile Doesn't Lie (2024)

Wisi is in trouble. He arrives in Bordeaux in the hope of finding a job and crosses paths with Marina, a humanitarian with a big heart. To get accommodation with her, he pretends to be undocumented. One evening, he meets Jérôme, himself on the street aft ...

Le Principal (2023)

Sabri Lahlali, the assistant principal of a local high school, is ready to do anything to ensure that his son, who is about to take his high school diploma, has the ideal academic record. But he doesn't know how far his enterprise will take him. ...

Do it Right (2017)

Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at th ...

J’ai kidnappé Plastic Bertrand (2009)

17, rue Bleue (2001)

17, rue Bleue is an autobiographical drama about an Algerian immigrant's self-destruction in Paris. In it, director Chad Chenouga recounts how his mother, Adda, came to France as an illegal alien, hoping to escape the haunting secrets of her native land, a ...

Rue bleue (1999)

A day in the life of an eleven-year-old boy, Ali, who has to take care of his mother, who's in need of antidepressants. ...