Toufik Ayadi

Production

Toufik Ayadi

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Les Misérables poster
7.6

Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

Les Misérables

2019

Dao poster
5.3

A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.

Dao

2026

Animalia poster
6.0

Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.

Animalia

2023

The Defendant poster
5.7

Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s inconceivable yet inescapable death, Silvia embarks on a love story, her first in many years.

The Defendant

2020

Saint Omer poster
6.2

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Saint Omer

2022

Nymphose poster
1.0

A young man named Adam has locked himself in his family's coastal flat overlooking the beach. Adam seems to be suffering from a mysterious disease that causes him to lose the pigmentation of his hair all over his body and makes him blind. His transformation is disrupted one day by a young woman named Eva, who accidentally rings his parlophone. As they begin to form an unlikely friendship, Eva tries to lure Adam out into the real world to join her. But only Adam can decide if he wants to leave everything behind and join her on the other side.

Nymphose

2023

Animal Totem poster
5.8

From Paris–Beauvais Airport to La Défense, with his wheeled suitcase in tow, Darius makes his way on foot through the countryside and the suburbs to complete a mysterious mission—leaving no carbon footprint.

Animal Totem

2025

Le Locataire poster
5.5

Nicole's pregnancy test is conclusive: she is pregnant. At fifty-four, Nicole is anything but prepared for this discovery. Down-to-earth and pragmatic, not prone to despair or doubt, she usually strives to be the pillar of a family on which everyone ultimately depends. With her full-time job as a toll booth cashier, she manages to feed her little world and keep the house running. But this news shakes the family a little.

Le Locataire

2012

Street Flow 2 poster
6.2

Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.

Street Flow 2

2023

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NR

In the remote town of Tarfaya, Morocco, a mysterious epidemic emerges, causing residents to fall into an inexplicable deep sleep.

Tarfaya

Africa Mia poster
7.0

1964. In the midst of the Cold War, ten young promising musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist regimes. They invent a whole new genre: Afro- Cuban Music and become the iconic group 'Las Maravillas de Mali'. New Year's Eve 2000. Richard Minier, a French music producer meets a former member of the band in Bamako and decides to bring the band back together.

Africa Mia

2020

Les Indésirables poster
6.2

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb.

Les Indésirables

2023

No One Will Know poster
5.9

All begins in a rundown bar outside of Paris where a regular man realizes he has a winning lottery ticket only to be shot in a crime that needs to be quickly covered up.

No One Will Know

2025

Undercover poster
4.9

October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.

Undercover

2022

Magnetic Beats poster
6.5

Brittany, France, 1980s. A group of friends, fed up with the boring country life and eager for excitement, create a radio station.

Magnetic Beats

2021

Towards Tenderness poster
6.4

An intimate exploration of the masculine territory of the high-rise projects at the edges of Paris. By following a group of young men, we wander through a world where female bodies are nothing more than ghostly and virtual silhouettes. The characters lead us inside everyday places where we hunt down the staging of their virility. Off-screen, narrated personal tales openly reveal the unexpected side to the characters' histories and personalities.

Towards Tenderness

2016

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NR

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest-ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte.

Dumas: Black Devil

2027

Three Times Nothing poster
6.1

Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winner – though it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and share it in equal parts. The hardest part of all will be to resume a “normal” life, filled with surprises and contradictions.

Three Times Nothing

2022

The Rules of Art poster
5.9

Jonathan, an expert in luxury watches, leads a gray and monotonous life until he meets Eric, a charming conman and dealer in stolen goods. Fascinated by his lifestyle, Jonathan is drawn deeper and deeper into the world of criminal transactions. The situation spirals out of control when the virtuoso thief Joe joins them. In 2010, the trio committed one of the most daring robberies in history - they stole five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

The Rules of Art

2025

Fake News poster
4.1

After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper straight out of jail, a TV host willing to do anything to go viral and click traffickers get involved... Sébastien and Patrick become France’s most wanted bad guys.

Fake News

2021

A Bun in the Oven poster
5.6

There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag…

A Bun in the Oven

2016

Man’s Best Friend poster
5.7

Henri works as canine security guard in a train station in the suburbs. One day, his boss tells him that he needs to get rid of Snowy, an old narcoleptic Rottweiler, and his only friend.

Man’s Best Friend

2010

The Collection poster
7.3

Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter the apartment of Mr. Klein who apparently has a fabulous collection.

The Collection

2018

Le grand cirque poster
6.2

While visiting a friend at the hospital, Momo, a jobless comedian, meets Michel, the director of an unpaid clown's association, who visit sick children. Thanks to Michel's support and belief, Momo sets himself a new challenge : make the children laugh, despite their illness.

Le grand cirque

2023