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Experience 24 stories of tragic but ordinary true facts about female resistance, 100% created by a host of globally renowned female writers, directors, and actresses. Presenting a post #Metoo era manifesto.

Discover 24 different ways of talking about women's daily lives through the prism of real-life stories. These strong testimonies are a call for insubordination and freedom.

A plunge into a compelling thriller that revisits the codes of noir film. This intoxicating crime fiction is set in modern-day Paris and features a directionless youth threatened by terrifying predators.

46 year-old police officer Michel Serrero lives on his own with his 15 year-old daughter Clara. When he finds out that his daughter has developed a drug problem and that he is suffering from an incurable neurological disease, he decides he has nothing left to lose, and takes action. Unknown to his superiors, he infiltrates an exceedingly violent network that is planning to flood Paris with a devastating, new, synthetic drug. He risks everything to save his daughter.
 
With : Patrick RIDREMONT, Pénélope-Rose LEVESQUE, Olivier CHANTREAU, Salem KACI

Experience 24 stories of tragic but ordinary true facts about female resistance, 100% created by a host of globally renowned women writers, directors, and actresses. Presenting a post #Metoo era manifesto.

Discover 24 different ways of talking about women's daily lives through the prism of real-life stories. These strong testimonies are a call for insubordination and freedom.

She fell asleep on the first train in the morning. But her neighbor tapped her shoulder to wake her up. On his phone, he said, « Can I go down on you? ». She jumps, screams, calls the ticket inspectors. The man denies everything. Nobody moves.

Written by Angela Lehner.
Avec Diane Kruger
German Original Version with English subtitles
 
Diane Kruger (Germany)
Diane Kruger is widely known thanks to several significant roles in Hollywood blockbusters: Troy, the Benjamin Gates film series or Inglourious Basterds. She regularly works with French directors: All That Divides Us by Thierry Klifa, Anything for Her by Fred Cavayé or Farewell, My Queen by Benoit Jacquot. In 2017, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in In the Fade by Fatih Hakin. In 2022, she will star in the blockbuster The 355 with Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong'o, Penélope Cruz and Fan Bingbing.

It’s her first day as a receptionist at a major financial company. When it is discovered that she is wearing flat shoes, she is asked to immediately go and find herself 4 to 10 cm heels. Faced with her refusal, she is immediately fired without being paid.

Written by Alice Zeniter
With Souheila Yacoub
Original French version subtitled in English

On the way to high school. She’s standing in front of the train tracks at the station. She’s 16 years old. For the past days, intimate photos of her have been circulating on social media against the backdrop of Revenge Porn. She throws herself under the first train.

Written by Sofi Oksanen
With Elina Löwensohn
Original English version with English subtitles
 
Elina Löwensohn (American) 
American actress of Romanian origin, Elina has several dozen feature films to her credit. From the American independent film Basquiat by Julian Schnabel to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, including an appearance in Seinfeld, Elina Löwensohn has a rich and eclectic career. She now lives in France where she collaborates with director Bertrand Mandico. She will play in his next feature film After Blue, to be released in late 2021.

She agreed to have a drink at the end of her class with her music teacher. He’s 45 and she’s 25. « We can go to my place » he suggests at the end of the first drink. 

She kindly refuses. « If you’re tired, you can sleep at my place, there’s no problem ». She declines politely. Arriving in front of the subway entrance, he asks her for the fifth time if she is sure she wants to go home. On the platform, finally alone at last, she trembles with emotion as she thinks of the trap door that was trying to close on her.
 
Written by Siri Hustvedt
With Céleste Brunnquell
Original English version 
 
Céleste Brunnquell (France)
Céleste Brunquell, a rising star of French cinema, won the César for Best Female Hope at the age of 18 for her role in the film The Dazzled. In 2021, she will appear in the series In Therapy by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, broadcast on Arte. She is currently shooting the thriller L'origine du mal with Laure Calamy.

She opens her mail and finds an eviction notice for night disturbances. She was screaming too loud when her boyfriend hit her. Neighbors complained. Now she has to leave her apartment.

Written by Lydie Salvayre
With Marilyne Canto
Original French version with English subtitles

She works at McDonald’s. In the parking lot, she sees a man violently beating his wife in front of her children. She leaves her post and interferes. Alone, facing the husband’s rage, she stands up to him. She had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Written by Jo Güstin
With Déborah Lukumuena
Original French version with English subtitles
 
At 22, Déborah Lukumuena won the César for best supporting actress for her first film Divines. She has since appeared in The Troubleshooter, Invisibles, and in the France TV Slash series Mental. She will be present in Cannes this year for two films, Entre les vagues, selected for the Directors' Fortnight and Robuste, for the Critics' Week.

She gets approached in the street: « You’re beautiful. Come on, get in my car. » Tired of being regularly the object of heavy reflections, she takes out her phone and proposes to this man to make a selfie. He accepts and smiles in front of the lens. Without suspecting that he will end up on a dedicated Instagram account.

Written by Lize Spit
With Charlotte de Bryune
Original Flemish version with English subtitles
 
Charlotte de Bruyne (Belgium) 
Charlotte de Bruyne began her career in theater. In 2012, her first show won the Total Theatre Award for Best First Work. Owing to that success, she went on to get her first film role in Patrice Toye's Little Black Spiders. Recently, she was seen in the Netflix series Black-out, as well as in The Twelve on Canal+. She will also play in the second Belgian Netflix original series to be released soon, Soil.

She just missed the final selection rond for the ice dance championships. An unexpected fall on a figure she has already mastered. She’s a tiny girl on the edge of the dance floor, overly dressed in her tight outfit, she’s 14 years old. She is in no hurry to go back on the locker room, to hear the coach’s insults, to feel his hands on her body. She hopes that all this will stop soon, that everything will be forgotten, that one day, in front of her ice cream, she will be beautiful again.

Written by Lola Lafon
Avec Anaïs Demoustier
Original French version with English subtitles

She’s waiting for the bus near her house. She has just turned thirteen and her body is disrupted by hormones : growing tits, extroverted character, desire to seduce…It doesn’t take much more than that for everyone at school to call her a « whore ». Hurt by these words, she tells her mother who doesn’t see where the problem is. As she adds more gloss on her lips before the bus arrives, her mother comes out of the house to tell her that she deserved to be called a whore!

Written by Kerry Hudson
With Tallulah Burns
Original English version with English subtitles