Banlieue Movies

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag...

Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and...

In Saint-Denis, at the Stade de France district leisure center, the time for the fair comes with summer. The day before D-Day, at the Koné's,...

In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable...

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of...

Nas is a young woman from a neighborhood in the Parisian suburbs. Since the death of her parents, she has been forced to take care of her family (her...

Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily life in the suburb of Argenteuil, near Paris.

Kamel, a young man, living in Bobigny, france, gets fired because he is a Muslim. His encounters with an old friend, Khaled leads him to box in a...