My Friends (2006)

Director
Sylvie Ayme

Main cast
Soko; Djena Tsimba; Anne-Sophie Franck; Léa Seydoux

Genres
Comedy

Description
Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they could have a month’s vacation in a country of their dreams, free from all constraints.


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