Salim Kéchiouche

A young French student finds love and affection for the first time with a lover when she begins a passionate relationship with a free-spirited woman.

Tall, quiet Malik, a 30-year-old Parisian architect, returns to his homeland after the death of his father. He's greeted warmly by his over-bearing, petulant mother and is immediately confronted with her expectation that he stay and get married.

The latest from the director of Blue Is the Warmest Colour is a coming-of-age saga that casts a nostalgic glow on the wonders of youth.

Maya, an up and coming young Moroccan stylist, is about to get her first fulltime job, in a famous fashion house. Childhood in a working class suburb and her family in Morocco are behind her now, she is now officially an 'it girl' in the world of fashion and Saint Germain des Pres. As bad luck would have it, a simple police check reveals that her green card has expired and in less than 24 hours she is on a direct flight to Morocco, back to the country and family she had wanted to forget, for a shock of cultures and a shock of prejudices. Maya will do everything she can, in fact anything she can, to get back to France.