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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

She struggles as the Riot Police tries to drag her by force. In the struggle, her skirt is torn off, She appears naked in front of all the passengers in the Terminal F of the airport. But nothing will stop the determination of the police to expel this young undocumented woman.

Written by Fabienne Kanor
With Annabelle Lengronne
Original French version with English subtitles
 
Annabelle Lengronne (France)
One of Annabelle Lengronne's first roles was in Franck Gastambide’s Porn in the Hood. In 2016, she was nominated for a Cesar award for her role in La fine équipe by Magalie Richard Serrano. In 2017, she appeared in the series Spiral (Canal +) and Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (France 2). She will soon be shooting the next film by Cedric Jimenez: Novembre, a thriller recounting the tracking of the terrorists of the November 2015 attack.

The beep on her phone announces a text message. « I dream to see your face blown off on a sidewalk. » For years, this journalist has been harassed by former colleagues. She used to joke with them. As a free spirited girl, she didn’t hesitate to tweet about her encounters that happened on dating website she was using. This bunch of journalists was making fun of her because of that: she was « their whore ».

Written by Myriam Leroy
With Noémie Merlant
Original French version with English subtitles

Hélène rings the doorbell of her old house to pick up her children. Her ex-husband reproaches her, sure that she joined a dating site. She kisses her children, absorbed in a cartoon, but the man takes them off the couch and sends to their room. With three stab wounds, he murders his wife and sets the lodge on fire. Former complaints made by Hélène to the gendarmerie were useless.

Written by Ersi Sotiropoulos
With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Original French version with English subtitles