Actor: Ahmed Dramé

Once in a Lifetime

Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.

Made in France

Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.

Mali Twist

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.

The Revelations 2015

For the 9th consecutive year, the Revelations Committee of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques took care to distinguish 16 actresses and 16 actors whose performances particularly marked the year 2014. Mathieu César, a talented photographer with an evocative name, has had a career that is both atypical and dazzling. He imagined, in his characteristic black and white, a cinematographic atmosphere mixing fiction and reality.