Elbow 2024
Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But a fatal incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.
Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But a fatal incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.
Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know the young man and her determination is tested.
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Chenghua is 9 years old and has to prepare a presentation on Space with her best friend. She can’t find the time she needs, as her parents are constantly asking her to translate for them. Chenghua’s parents don’t speak French and are so dependent on their child that they don’t realise they’re putting too much weight on her shoulders. Chenghua can’t take it anymore and is looking to break away from her family. Her desire for space and her natural enthusiasm will help her take the plunge.
Remy and Sandra can't have children because they suffer from the "Past Loves Syndrome". To heal, there is only one solution, they must sleep with all their exes once.
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause
Dje arrives in Paris penniless, relying on his charm to get by. He seizes every opportunity which comes his way, even if it means killing.
Paris. Nedjma, a teenager living with her mom and sister, spends the summer with her squad. She sees her life turned upside down when she meets Zina, coming from the opposite gang. They are rivals in broad daylight, but lovers in secret.
Sandstorm blows, waters scarce. In a remote mining town without any radio signals, a quirky teenage girl gets curious about a passing truck driver.
Fatiya agrees to replace her cousin at a babysitting gig. When she meets the mother of the young boy she is supposed to look after, prejudice and racism cause the afternoon to take a turn.
During a training session, 16-year-old Maxime sees the police arrive to question his coach, who has been accused of sexual abuse by one of the club's children. These accusations are going to crack the shell of silence he had been trying to build.
Lost in Paris, Cléo is looking for Paul and Paul is looking for Cléo. A poetic adventure lived in 3-year-old kids' shoes.
Xavier joins a free gym. Free? Yes. But when it's free, it means you're the product.
No matter the cost, Yacine and his two pals want to see Fast & Furious 8 at the multiplex in the high rise suburb where they live. Unfortunately for them, they can only afford to see the cine-club session. For Yacine, what was meant to be a strategy transforms into an amazing experience.
A marginalized twelve-years-old boy lives in a village where he is constantly mistreated. Until one day, a "miracle" happens: after being bullied for the umpteenth time, his tears turn to blood. News of this event goes viral on the internet and fills the hearts and heads of the villagers with mystic excitement. With all eyes of the people now upon him, he must decide how to treat others, especially those who mistreated him.
Basile, 17 years old, activist, wants to change the world. Malik, 19 years old, a security guard at a multinational company's warehouse site, makes do with the world as it is. These two were not really meant to meet. However, a combination of circumstances will embark them in a common adventure.
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.