When a court rejects the asylum application of Nour, a 25-year-old woman in Germany, and deportation looms, Nour joins a group of women living in a private refugee center. Together, they embark on a multi-dimensional struggle to challenge the deportation order and seek a freer future for themselves and their children in Germany.

Darine, a dynamic woman in her thirties, works at a small radio station in Beirut, where she expertly hosts the morning show "Horoscopes with Darine". One day, her life takes an unexpected turn when the station asks her to replace the news anchor who has been fired due to the country's economic crisis. Darine, who has always taken refuge in a deliberately fictional world, suddenly finds herself reporting on the grim reality of a country on the brink of collapse.

“Oh grandma, what a big mouth you have!” And when she said that, that rascal of a Wolf threw himself on poorLittle Red Riding Hood and swallowed her in a mouthful. Will the little girl be able to get out of the wolf’s belly?

Lebanese-Canadian origin, Katia Jarjoura is a filmmaker and Middle East specialist. Based in Paris since 2010, she has covered several conflict zones, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan and Yemen, and has produced several reports and documentaries for the Franco-German channel ARTE. Her most acclaimed films include Entre Deux Fronts (Best Lebanese Film at the Ayyam al Cinemaiyya Festival in Beirut), L'Appel de Kerbala, (Figra and FIPA 2004), Goodbye Moubarak (Best Film at the Beirut International Film Festival), Liban, de fracture en fracture (screened at the Prix Bayeux des Correspondants de Guerre 2014). She has also directed two short fiction films: Dans le Sang on the legacy of the civil war in Lebanon (France 2 Prize at the Brest Festival, 2009) and Seul le Silence on the violence of exile among Syrian refugees (broadcast on France 3, 2018). Katia is also a script consultant, a reader at the CNC and the Doha Film Institute, and a speaker at training workshops (Cinémathèque française, le Grec, le Socle). In 2022, she directed a creative documentary, Les Échappées, about Syrian artists exiled in Europe, which was selected in competition at FIPADOC. She is currently developing two projects: a documentary adaptation of Lebanese writer Charif Majdalani's text "Beyrouth 2020, journal d'un effondrement", conceived as part of the Fémis 2022 documentary workshop, and a feature-length fiction film "Braquer Beyrouth", about the consequences of the banking collapse in Lebanon.

In Beirut, Selma, 27, decides to rob her bank with the help of an action collective. She wants to get back the 30,000 dollars in her account that have been confiscated by the banking system since the beginning of the economic collapse. It's her last resort to save her sister, who has brain cancer. But the robbery takes an unexpected turn and sets the world on fire...

An insecure artist and daughter of a famous painter must navigate the cutthroat art world and survive financially, leading her to forge her father's paintings and ultimately face a public trial.

Originally from Nantes, Pauline went through the CinéSup preparatory class and then studied screenwriting at the Fémis, graduating in 2016.
She accompanies filmmakers of her generation in writing their short and feature films. She is also involved in writing an animation series for young people.
She wrote and directed the short film Jeanne Dinde, a fantastic and terrifying teen film, winner of the Méliès d'argent at BIFFF 2023 and selected in about twenty French and international festivals.
She is a regular speaker at film schools and writing workshops.
She lives and works in Saint-Nazaire, on the Atlantic coast.
At LabMed, she is working with director Céline Baril on her first feature film, Mauvaises Têtes. They have already written Céline's two previous short films together.

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Karim was counting on his hair transplant to give him confidence. But when the operation fails, Karim loses his footing. From Istanbul to Bodrum, he tries to save his remaining hair at all costs, taking along two clinic patients with whom he forms an unexpected friendship.

Franco-Turkish, Céline Baril came to France to study cinema. She joined the image department of Fémis, where she directed her first short film, Rojda. Today, she works as a cinematographer and videographer for theater and opera productions. In the various projects in which she participates, the fact of being as close as possible to the production makes her want to direct her own films. Une femme à la mer is her first short film. She is currently developing her first feature film, Mauvaises Têtes, with Apaches Films.

Karim was counting on his hair transplant to give him confidence. But when the operation fails, Karim loses his footing. From Istanbul to Bodrum, he tries to save his remaining hair at all costs, taking along two clinic patients with whom he forms an unexpected friendship.

Rim Nakhli studied cinema at the ISAMM, 'Institut Supérieur des Arts Multimédia de la Manouba' in Tunis. She continued her studies in Italy, where she received her Master's degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production from the University of Bologna, DAMS. Her thesis focused on the relationship between comics and cinema. Since then, in 2017, she directed her first professional short film "Ranim", which was selected in several festivals, including Pingyao International Film Festival at ""Pingyao Corner"", Asia South-East Short Film Festival, Mashariki African Film Festival....
In 2020, she directed her second short film "Nour", which was selected for the Locarno Film Festival in the "Pardi di domani" section, the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, the Cairo International Film Festival, and several other festivals. She previously worked at the Journées cinématographiques de Carthage and the Cinémathèque tunisienne.

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Chadia, 18, lost in the city, wanders randomly in search of her missing brother. Her emotional instability and disturbing encounters heighten her absolute search for self and brighten the city from a different angle.