Faiza Kaddour

Hexagone, shot in the Parisian suburb of Goussainville, documents the life of a working-class banlieue through a fragmented, episodic narrative which interweaves the lives of a variety of characters, principally drawn from the Maghrebi community.

This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in France, and the lover who chose to stay in Algeria and fight the French colonials.

Summer 1583. Obsessed with securing an heir, a wealthy merchant drives his young wife, Isabelle, to the brink. Charlotte, his maid, decides to act. In the shadow of the grand house, the servants begin to organize in secret.