7.3

Des hommes et des dieux

2010, France

• Actors: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin, Loïc Pichon, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Sabrina Ouazani, Abdellah Moundy, Olivier Perrier, Farid Larbi, Adel Bencherif, Benhaïssa Ahouari, Idriss Karimi, Abdellah Chakiri, Goran Kostic, Stanislas Stanic, Arben Bajraktaraj, Zhour Laamri, Raouia, Farid Bouslam, Fadia Assal, Maria Bouslam, Soukaïna Bouslam, Rabii Ben Johail, Saïd Naciri, Hamid Aboutaieb, El Alaoui El Hassan
• Genre: Drama, History
• Director(s): Xavier Beauvois
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

  8.0

Un prophète

2009, France, Italy

• Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leïla Bekhti, Pierre Leccia, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Frédéric Graziani, Slimane Dazi, Rabah Loucif, Serge Boutleroff, Hervé Temime, Taha Lemaizi, Mohamed Makhtoumi, Karim Leklou, Farid Larbi, Doula Niang, Mamadou Minte, Guillaume Verdier, Mourad Frarema, Zohra Benali, Sabar Kabbouchi, Eric Badoc, François De Courcelle, Nathanaël Maïni
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Director(s): Jacques Audiard
• Available languages:
  • English English,
  • French French.

Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration.