1839年,运送黑奴的阿米斯塔德号在大洋上遭遇暴风雨,黑奴们趁乱暴动,将船员砍杀,控制了阿米斯塔德号后试图驶回家乡,然而六周后,他们阴差阳错抵达了美国,幸存下来的44名黑奴被美国军方逮捕,并将面临杀人罪的指控。此时,西班牙女王向美国总统要求引渡这些属于西班牙的黑奴;两名海军军官也宣称黑奴是他们的战利品;另有人拿出了在古巴购买这些黑奴的证明。各方争执之际,废奴会的领袖之一、同时也是船公司负责人的乔德森(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)与友人塔培安雇佣了律师罗杰,希望证明这些黑奴来自非洲,从而在废奴观念深入人心的大环境下为他们谋取自由……
Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
When a young boy's mother and father are savagely murdered, he ages out of an orphanage intent on revenge, but the love of a girl and psychological trauma lead him down a mystifying path.
An adaptation of his own novel of the same name. "Dix ans que les deux hommes s’étaient perdus de vue et puis, d’un coup, ils se retrouvaient au détour d’une rue, face à face. Le hasard, paraît-il, fait bien les choses. S’il s’agissait de lui, il aurait mieux fait ce jour-là de se mêler de ce qui le regardait, mais il n’y était pour rien. Skender le comprendrait bientôt, ce n’est pas le hasard qui avait mis Max et Madame sur son chemin. Il le comprendrait bientôt."
The story revolves around Gabriel and Idriss whose lives have taken very different directions since an argument. Gab is a cop in Internal Affairs who plays by the books. Driss is a fixer for the mob who sells his services to the highest bidder. They’re brought back together by the brutal death of Sofia, their childhood friend from the orphanage. Killed in a car accident, Sofia leaves behind Leïla, her 17-year-old daughter. Determined to find the killer, Leïla unwittingly tracks down the son of a ruthless businesswoman who relies on vicious henchmen to protect her family’s secrets. With no time to settle their personal scores, the two orphans must now join forces to find Leïla before she commits an irredeemable act…