Tiphaine Lemou

A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six-year-old child trying to find a place in a new family structure. By revealing their aspirations, their fears, their choices, Carine Tardieu depicts different ways in which humans create families.

Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.

The zombie apocalypse musical!

In a dilapidated house by the ocean, a woman, worn down by time and solitude, lives a reclusive life. Every day, she performs the same unsettling ritual: extracting thick black algae from the pipes, cracks and invisible fissures, as if the house were rotting from the inside. Every afternoon, she drags this living matter to a cliff and throws it back into the sea.