A visit to one of the most dangerous Paris suburbs is full of hopeful surprises in "Swagger", which lives up to its name by letting 11 teens talk about what they’ve accomplished and what they hope to do with their open possibilities.

Veteran music-video director Olivier Babinet brings his own visual swag to this lovingly shot doc, which follows its subjects at school, on city streets, and in and around the huge projects of Aulnay-sous-Bois. Populated by mostly poor African and Arab immigrants and their increasingly assimilated children, this outpost has been home to riots, police actions, and crime movies in the past decade.

~Ken Eisner