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- For the first time in a long time, three inmates are granted a weekend leave. 48 hours to settle down. 48 hours to reconnect with their loved ones. 48 hours to try to make up for lost time.
- In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a car park with their boyfriends Salim and Majid? Rim knows nothing about it, but that's because Yasmina is doing her utmost to prevent her from finding out. What was it, then? The unmentionable... the worst thing ever... supersize shame - and it was all captured by Salim in a potentially highly volatile video...
- At her grandmother's house, with her daughter, Lucie dreams of being an actress.
- As an opening, we slowly approach an urban area from above, in an aerial view of unremarkable apartment blocks sparkling in the quiet of the night. Next is the same city in the daytime, looking hollowed-out. A sweet sidestep, such is Dania Reymond-Boughenou's challenging approach as she films the Rougière, a neighborhood in Marseille, beyond the predictable clichés, the social unrest and the picturesque. She aims at filming what is never shown, at capturing what makes the density and the flesh of the place, and at conveying the spirit that enlivens it. Off-screen, we can hear a succession of old memories shared by the inhabitants, like this woman who remembers the shock she felt when she arrived from Algeria, or that man who recalls slices of life from his childhood. Their stories accompany the slow descent of words and memories towards the bodies that we can finally see and hear, at human height. Dania Reymond-Boughenou sets out, in slight touches and successive layers, to film the invisible, like vibrating waves echoing the violence of the stories that are shared, alongside major developments in History - war in Algeria, AIDS in the 80's, or lately the devastating effects of drugs. These are vibrating presences, like the wind shaking tree foliage as shown in long, hypnotic and caressing tracking shots. Paying no heed to film genres, mixing time lines, indulging in fantasy, the director thwarts codes and shifts assignments. With unexpected lyricism, carried by discreet and melancholic musical surges, she endeavours to loosen and link up bodies and voices, to make what happened palpable. To give body to a haunted world and, as indicated by the constellation in the film's title, to shine a light on the voids and the missing, whose pale light illuminates the place.
- Nadim, age 13, is questioned by French police and examined by a doctor. A flashback to the Calais "jungle" shows how Nadim ended up in that situation and got injured, and subsequent events reveal Nadim's role in the family and thus the meaning of "bacha posh".
- An unusual young woman, Marie, lives under strict maternal rules. One day when she escapes to the beach, she meets an unusual young man and his grandfather. After a radical turn of events, she takes control of her own life.
- 19,000 years ago - Guilty of a hunting accident which could have cost the life of a child, Py'ro is banned from his tribe and finds shelter in a cave, close to the camp.
- In an experimental comedy blending wit with intimacy, we follow two characters as they film their way through Paris.