A la Place du Coeur (1998)

This is a very strange movie based on a short story by the American black writer James Baldwin transposed to Marseilles.  It concerns 16-year old Clim and her black boyfriend Bebe.  They have been friends since childhood and eventually become lovers.  She becomes pregnant just as he is framed for rape by a racist local cop and sent to jail.  However the story goes beyond these two to their respective families.  He and his sister were adopted by a white couple; the father is supportive but the mother has become a religious fanatic dragging the sister along with her.  She has a loving family who will do anything to see their grandchild born and their prospective son-in-law freed.  The two fathers engage in minor crime to find the funds for their procrastinating lawyer, while the mother goes off to Sarajevo (as one would!) to find the rape victim and to get her to change her story.  It all ends well but it treads a very peculiar path along the way.