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Browse 21 movies from Salaud Morisset
Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
Feb 2025
A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever.
Aug 2025
A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran. A tragedy occurs, brutally confronting her with the impact of her actions.
Sep 2020
In Sarajevo, a teenager seeking affirmation reveals that she had sex for the first time during a game of 'truth or dare' among middle schoolers. Trapped in her own lie, she fabricates a pregnancy and becomes the center of a controversy that spirals out of control.
Oct 2023
As Michael seeks novel ways to halt his spiralling depression, a moment of hope arrives via an unexpected source.
Jun 2021
The money has gone missing in the mosque of Saint-Etienne. Saoud, the gang leader is suspected.
Nov 2017
A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.
Apr 2018
How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.
Aug 2021
While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies.
Jul 2020
Boushra, one of the potato-picking girls, returns from a long day of work in the field only to learn that today her childhood will come to an end.
Sep 2021
An Israeli family's equilibrium gradually disintegrates as a mysterious sound is heard every evening at the door of their apartment.
Mar 2023
"Halima", a Sudanese henna painter living in Egypt. She goes to one of Giza's local areas to prepare a bride for her wedding and her 7 years old daughter "Ward" accompanies her and starts to wander around and discover the place.
Feb 2020
Zadie is an independent florist, privately suffering from fibroids, but determined to take her career to the next level. When a dream job arrives, Zadie searches for help in order to control her morphing body but the unwanted growths threaten to take over.
A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.
Oct 2019
Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he's lost forever.
May 2022
It is every professional gambler's dream: getting rid of that stupid thing called 'luck' which helps amateurs win nevertheless. But when you have it at gunpoint be sure to pull the trigger - because if you don't you'll learn it the hard way: don't mess with luck!
Jan 2015
A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
Jan 2020
Florence and Etienne visit Florence's dead father's house. He has hung himself from a tree. Etienne will soon discover that the couple's excursion brings up the challenge to open up to each other about unspoken truths.
Aug 2014
A young boy in a Mexican border town hustles any way he can to help his family but learns some very cruel realities when the girl he likes gets 'disappeared'. Based on true stories from La Frontera.
Dec 2017
"Guillaume is my friend. He's schizophrenic. He has been hospitalized four times. In 2015, Guillaume left Paris to dedicate himself to painting. Then on March 1st, 2020, I too was admitted to psychiatric care. While there, I take notes on my observations and conversations. I think about Guillaume. When I get discharged, we catch up. He wants to make a movie with me. I'd wanted to make one about my experience in hospital getting to know the other patients. I tell him my idea, and he's excited to do it. On August 1st, I go to meet him."
Mar 2025