Movies by Idir Chender
![Honey Cigar](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/q9rDfm0Sq649U6CIZbHdR5Gbz3M.jpg)
Honey Cigar
Paris, 1993. Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets and is strongly attracted to Julien, a dashing young man, she realizes for the first time the heavy rules of her patriarchal family and how they affect her intimacy. As Islamism takes over her country of origin and her family crumbles, Selma discovers the power of her own desire. She must resist and fight. Through the strength of her people, she starts walking down the path of what it means to become a free woman.
![A Progressive Girl](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qL05oquAaJGPMrm4vsjueIZZvDH.jpg)
A Progressive Girl
Nathan, a student at a Talmudic school, meets a stripper at a bachelor party. An intimacy develops between him, who cannot see or touch a woman's body, and her, who earns her living by giving her body to see and touch.
![Carbone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gbFYXClD52Axdvo5h9XRVLDsBY.jpg)
Carbone
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
![Occidental](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2ctWhnaAzG4tDpWpHankYSkiBn6.jpg)
Occidental
The mood is heated. Demonstrations are taking place across France, also in front of the Paris hotel where an Italian named Giorgio is booking the bridal suite for him and his boyfriend Antonio. Hotel manager Diana doesn’t trust them and calls the police to get rid of the odd couple. Italians? Homosexuals? Criminals? In the charged atmosphere of the Hotel Occidental, little is needed for initial suspicions to be aroused.