Elsa Houben

Young Mothers (2025)

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children. ...

Dark Heart of the Forest (2023)

Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince h ...

How to Make Out (2020)

Arthur, 15, has a crush on Ouassima, who does not even look at him... While he has never been upset, she goes out with Matt, the handsome kid from college. To get closer to her, Arthur gathers a group of single losers and offers to give them lessons in fis ...

Teen Horses (2019)

Following the separation of her parents, Tania, 14 years old, arrives in a French middle school. Having grown up in Finland, she experiences this event as a real uprooting. Especially since she played a very special sport there, "hobby horsing", in a very ...

The Binoculars (2019)

Cadence runs away during an unwanted road trip with her mother. Looking through her binoculars leads her to an unexpected meeting with two refugees. ...

Jamais sans toi, Louna (2019)

Adapted from Never Again Without You, Louna by the spouses Sabrina and Yoan Bombarde. Sabrina and Yann are deprived of custody of their baby for abuse. The couple did not stop talking about an inherited orphan disease, the social authorities seem deaf. In ...

Premier de la classe (2019)

Abu, 14, is his father's pride. Unlike his three brothers, he is the "top of his class". Well, that's what he would have you believe. In truth, Abu is, above all, the king of lies and fake school grades. When the first meeting of parents and teachers arriv ...

Due West (2019)

Mathilde, aged 9, enjoys her last day of summer holidays at the seaside with her group of friends. Her father falsely interprets one of their games. ...

Love at Second Sight (2019)

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him. ...

Mad Mom (2018)

Everything goes for the best in Fanny's life without stories ... until she discovers that her beloved son, Arthur, nine, is the scapegoat of three boys at his school. Fanny will not leave her son alone in front of these little executioners: she will give t ...

Gaspard at the Wedding (2018)

After keeping a careful distance for many years, 25-year-old Gaspard must renew contact with his family when his father remarries. Accompanied by Laura, an eccentric young woman who agrees to pretend she's his girlfriend at the wedding, he finally feels re ...

Barrage (2017)

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine's mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her prot ...

The Girl (2017)

In "The Girl," art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting, and German-Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime converge with the technological advances of cinema to create a powerful work that both unsettles and inspires. ...

The Brand New Testament (2015)

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against he ...

My Son's Murderer Will Die Tonight (2014)