Mehdi Charef Movies

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries...

The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.

In the 60s, five young teenagers find themselves on the bangs of the school system because of their family history. They are placed in a remedial...

A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of...

A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single...

A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.

An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.

Directed by Mehdi Charef.

Three young female prisoners become friends while stranded in a provincial train station.

A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.