Farida Rahouadj

Queen Mom (2025)

Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While Mouna, her eldest daughter, begins to have visions of Charles Martel, and their request for new social housing drags on, Amel has no choice but to reinvent ...

Toute sortie est définitive (2024)

The virgin and child (2024)

Young Yazidi Kurd immigrant Avesta is seven months pregnant. Freshly escaped from the hellish underworld of ISIS, she has just one thought in mind: getting revenge on the man who forced her into slavery. When she arrives in Brussels, she locates and attac ...

Et toi, c’est pour quand ? (2022)

When her mother, her friends and her gynecologist ask her about her desire to have a child, Charlotte prefers to drown the fish. When Emily, a future client, confides in her about her infertility problems, Charlotte claims without thinking that she can't p ...

You Will Not Have My Hate (2022)

The night of November 13, 2015 changes everything for Antoine. Hélène, his wife and mother of his young son, dies during the terrorist attacks at the Bataclan club in Paris. In a moving Facebook post, he counters the assassins' hatred with the love for h ...

Nobody's Hero (2022)

Clermont-Ferrand, central France. Médéric meets and falls in love with middle-aged sex worker Isadora, who is married. When the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young, homeless guy, provokes a wave of paranoia by taking refuge in ...

Bigger Is Beautiful (2021)

Isabelle and her niece Nina open a "fasting and detox" cure in the heart of Provence, with the help of Baptiste, a yogi and handyman, Jessica, a tantric masseuse, and Maxime, a seductive equine therapist. Among the first curists, four overweight teenagers ...

Online Justice (2021)

A man is caught in a storm of public rage when a 16-year-old girl mounts a social media campaign accusing him of murdering her father. ...

Under the Stars of Paris (2021)

Christine's life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine underst ...

Gagarine (2020)

Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houss ...

Wide Load (2019)

This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake. ...

Touiza (2018)

Algiers, 1994, in the middle of the civil war. Yasmine, a housekeeper, must take leave to visit her aunt. But on this particular day, Madame, her boss, loses her beloved dog, Touiza. Unable to be left alone, Madame is determined to prevent Yasmine from lea ...

After the Night (2018)

The day before she is due to arrive in a closed educational facility where she must serve out her sentence, sixteen-year-old Anastasia escapes from her tutor. While she's on the run, she encounters a woman who suggests that Anastasia stays at her place for ...

The Last Hammer Blow (2014)

When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler's 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his mother, fo ...

Des lendemains qui chantent (2014)

Olivier and Leo, two brothers that are moved to Paris and that life has separated ... If the first sees himself as a journalist without concessions, the second is an ambitious and opportunistic communication adviser. Noémie, a charming presidential advise ...

Homeland (2013)

Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect ...

The Clink of Ice (2010)

An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer. ...

Silent Voice (2009)

An elderly woman wants to meet her son's murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of ...

Bambou (2009)

Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. Everything changes when they adopt a female puppy named Bambou. After successfully passing an audition, Ann ...

A Day at the Museum (2008)

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des pro ...

Ali Baba and the 40 thieves (2007)

The story of Ali Baba, who takes on forty thieves to save the Caliph of Baghdad and prevent a war between the Orient and the Occident. ...

For the Love of God (2006)

Kévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. ...

How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)

After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out. ...

Permis d'aimer (2005)

A cafeteria worker of Arab origin falls in love with a French co-worker, much to everyone else's chagrin. ...

The Chops (2003)

A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast. ...

Empty Days (2000)

An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other. ...

Living in Paradise (1999)

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe. ...

Lovers (1994)

In a rural French town, a 15-year-old closeted gay boy breaks free from his idolization of his older and ostensibly free-wheeling half-sister, learning to trust himself and become independent. ...

La nuit sacrée (1993)

A rich Moroccan who belongs to the better circles has seven daughters. Whatever happens, the eighth offspring must be a son. It is a girl again, but she is given a male name, Ahmed and grows up like a boy. When Ahmed is 21, he is in an identity crisis: he ...

The Girl in the Air (1992)

Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young pri ...

Rue du Bac (1991)

Simon lives in an affluent intellectual environment, headed by his mother Alice. Raphael, his cousin, belongs to the poor branch of the family, but Simon adores him. So he decides to help him become a writer. ...

Lucky Ravi (1987)