Jérémias Nussbaum

A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.

During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and resistance through time and the horrors of the Occupation and Nazism.

Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.

An industrial wasteland - overtaken by the winter’s fog. The cemetery wall is a thoroughfare for lost souls. A young homeless man who lives in his car and a young girl whose current project is to commit suicide, are a few of those people. These two disoriented beings cross paths on a stone passage, and exchange but a few words, before respectively going their own way. Night falls. Surprisingly upbeat music comes from the young man’s car where he is trying to sleep. We see a young girl on a bridge. It’s the young girl in a red coat, who seems to have finally found an ideal place to end her time on earth. However, life will win out. Under the pale light of the moon, the two suffering souls dance. The next day they meet again. To celebrate their reunion, an ad-hoc bed awaits them in the great outdoors. And what if the little death was the only conceivable way to come together for the ultimate end?

The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.