Xavier Gojo

Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...

France, 1640. Lawyer Maitre Pompignac has never won a case: all his clients are dead, either drawn and quartered, impaled or scalded... One day, a young woman comes to him and asks him to defend an inno- cent girl: 11-year-old Roxane, wrongly accused of killing a Marshal of France. Pompignac accepts, with- out realising that Roxane is in fact not an 11-year-old child, but a goat...

Anna's lifeless body is abandoned on a road in the middle of a forest. Like the name of the main character, this narrative and visual palindrome tells us how this young woman from a wealthy family met such a tragic fate.

Since their mother's death, Sam has had to look after his younger brother Ben, an awkward and silent young man. Broke and overwhelmed by their situation, Sam starts making Ben take part in some very strange evening events.

Fred Bonnemaison, a driven and self-centered Parisian food writer has to return to his home town, Lyon, when his mother, a lively octogenarian, runs away to join a community of free-thinking widows.

Born with a facial deformity, 16-year-old Eugénie faces harassment from her classmates, most of all Sam, and only finds comfort in her faith. One day, Sam gets particularly brutal with her, and she is rescued by Father Mathieu, the new priest of the town's church. Father Mathieu immediately sees in her what could be a modern Martyr and wants to teach her the ways to sanctity. Made saint, Eugénie sees her confidence rising, and even Sam cannot help but notice it...