Steve Achiepo

For this 11th edition, the brilliant Valérie Donzelli demonstrates all her attachment to youth by associating her talent with the 34 Revelations 2017. A true surge of poetry and romanticism, Valérie Donzelli's cinema touches, disconcerts and makes us feel furiously free.

Amina, Djeneba et Zineb, trois adolescentes inséparables, postent sur les réseaux sociaux une vidéo mettant en cause l’agresseur de l’une d’entre elles. Elles devront choisir entre sauver leur amitié ou céder face aux pressions.

Des portes explosent. Les policiers casqués, armés font irruption de nuit dans des appartements, cris, coups : défilent à l’écran les visages des interpellés. Des beurs, des blacks, des blancs. Tous ont moins de vingt ans. Ceux que la presse appellera les « barbares ». On est en février 2006. La police quelques heures plus tôt a trouvé le corps moribond d’Ilan (Halimi) sur le bord d’une route à Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, nu, brûlé à 80 %. Kidnappé, il a été séquestré pendant 24 jours. Il était juif. Et donc supposé avoir de l’argent. Par flash-back, le film déroule alors le fil des événements depuis le kidnapping. Courses poursuites entrecoupées de scènes où on assiste au calvaire de la victime. Moderne danse macabre qui en dit long sur la « marche » de nos sociétés.

Driss, a 19-year-old black man, acts in a porn film for the first time. Encouraged by the film director, Driss rapes Joana, his partner in the film. After the shoot, he decides to follow the young woman through the streets of Paris.

A young actress tries out for a film on a sequence that was not planned.

16-year-old Bastien's football team just won a match. While celebrating the victory, his friend Sékou tells him that the girl in the red scarf wants to meet him.

16-year-old Bastien's football team just won a match. While celebrating the victory, his friend Sékou tells him that the girl in the red scarf wants to meet him.

Drey is nineteen and a student in Paris. After a six months absence, she comes home to her housing estate in the countryside, her friends, her family and her boyfriend. But what was supposed to be a pleasant visit slowly turns into a confrontation.

Drey is nineteen and a student in Paris. After a six months absence, she comes home to her housing estate in the countryside, her friends, her family and her boyfriend. But what was supposed to be a pleasant visit slowly turns into a confrontation.

Blaise is 10 years old. Blaise is in love. Blaise likes to eat. Blaise is going to die. In any case, that's what he believes.

Blaise is 10 years old. Blaise is in love. Blaise likes to eat. Blaise is going to die. In any case, that's what he believes.