Actor: Idrissa Diabaté

Girlhood

Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.

Asphalt Playground

Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older brother Djibril is 22, a student at the Sorbonne who dreams of becoming a lawyer. As for Mitraillette, he has his eye on Océane, the most beautiful girl in his school...

The Revelations 2014

Every year since 2007, the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques highlights thirty-two young talents through the “Révélations” project, directed this year by Antoine Carlier. This talented and visionary photographer was able to magnify each of them by offering an elegant and very cinematic staging, through the lens of his camera.