Movies: Samir Guesmi

Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to he...

Guy is a dogsitter. In the evening of a day where he has once again disappointed himself, on the edge of dropping off his last dog, he is stopped by bursts of voices. At the height of an argument, the dog's owners declare a minute of silence to solem...

It is summer, in the South. Everyday, Sarah, aged sixteen, sells doughnuts with her father on the beach. One evening she meets Baptiste....

Ivan has an appointment with a psychologist for his first session....

Vincent, in his thirties, works on a night shift on the gigantic Grand Ciel construction site, a futuristic district. When a worker disappears, Vincent and his colleagues suspect the team leader of having hidden his body on the site. Soon Vincent wit...

El Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by...

Before the take-off of a rescue mission, a conflict breaks out between an astronaut and his mother, the very authoritarian director. Only an impervious housekeeper seems capable of unraveling the family neurosis....

A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life....

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On a Saturday evening in Paris, Juliette, Héloïse and Marianne each get their first separate experience of "Parisian life"....

In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageou...

Adelaide and her two children Jean and Sacha spend a few days together in the mountains. As she takes her family on lengthy hikes, she is hoping for them to discover the trace of a hidden memory....

Three short films based on short stories by expatriate American novelist Paul Bowles capture the sense of loss and alienation so common in his works. "Merkala Beach" follows the dissolution of a friendship after a pretty face enters the picture; "Cal...

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Malik, who grew up in Paris suburbs, dreams to move to Canada. Someone will give him a chance. But, when you are an unlucky guy by nature, it is hard to keep its chance....