Elhachmia Didi-Alaoui
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A young woman confronts her religious mother. A biker explores the night with a group of rebel dykes in Rio. A rapper in French Guiana comes to terms with her roots. Five young women reflect on life at a luxury spa in the French mountains.
Upon Her Lips: Girl Power

Yasmine is a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghreb woman who moved away from home to be able to live her life. Her love for N'dé, a thirty-something black African woman is secret. For Eid, she visits her family for a few days. Yasmine finds her sister, her father and her mother at home. Each relationship is revealed and at the same time opens-up the entrenched warfare where everyone lives enclosed in their own world. Yasmine is overwhelmed by this violence.
Daughter of sin
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Halal

During a class discussion, Sarah, an 11-year-old French girl of Maghrebian heritage, tells the class she's going to Algeria for the school holidays to see her father. Overwhelmed by her lie, she doesn’t attend the last day of school.