Tarantula

14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her best at school while juggling a job in a sandwich shop and all the chores at home. Her vividly imaginative mind and the novel she is writing are her only distractions. But when a social worker is appointed to visit them, Lucie and William elaborate a complex plan to make social services believe they live a perfectly normal life.

Claudia is a girl like many other 20-years-olds, torn between past and future loves, but she has a peculiarity. When feelings overwhelm her, when she get excited or angry, she turns into a creature with white wings, tusks and feline paws. Her story is about abuse and protection, about growing up, about change: but most of all, it is about finding the courage to show others who we really are, and about being ready to take this risk.

Michael thought he'd seen his mother for the last time when she passed away in a Paris hospital, but months later she reappears in the neighborhood of Belleville, talkative as ever, and full of insight.