French Streams: A weekly selection of the best of French cinema
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary school class is left reeling after their teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute. While his students grieve, he must conceal the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.
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Do we ever grow out of our first loves?
A novice teacher arrives from the French countryside to work at a middle school in the troubled Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis.
When his mother takes in a bully whose own mother is ill, Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.
Watching her beautiful older sister be desired, Anaïs struggles to come to terms with both her own body and her sister's pain.
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