The Strike

Lussas is a small village in South Ardeche, France, with only one main road crossing the village. This real village, with farmers and vineyards, is also turning over time into the Hollywood of documentary films. A few people are preparing the launch of a television channel. From this sweet utopia to the inauguration of a high-tech tool on the internet Claire Simon depicts a singular adventure of our times in 26 episodes.

Hundreds of women film themselves on YouTube cleaning the house.

Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.

Charles Finot, a municipal employee, becomes the scapegoat of a local corruption scandal. A wild, wacky escape ensues. When he learns that he has been betrayed by Ada, his colleague and the woman he's in love with, Charles must take matters into his own hands.

Joachim is a very average man in his sixties, but he has a hidden obsession... or two to be precise: he can't help staring at the men who go to the gym across the street from his house while devouring pickles.
 One day, a new "easy-to-open" jar of pickles won't open.

Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.

The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary attaché Nino is charged with persuading his longestranged father, a reclusive senator, to accept the post. But Lionel Perrin isn’t the only candidate for the coveted position, and in the race for power absolutely nothing is off-limits… Nino embarks on a high stakes adventure risking everything, his love life and political ambitions alike.

France, 2039. One night, a group of activists who are being pursued by the State vanish without a trace. Julia Bombarth is one of them. When she awakens, she finds herself trapped in an entirely unfamiliar world: PLANET B.

Bianca doesn't know how to live anymore. She asks her friends about their daily life, but that doesn't help. So, she goes further and starts spying on them thanks to small cameras that she hides at home. By observing them, she hopes to forget her own pain and discover a little of theirs.

Ondine lost her Corsican grandmother when she was a child. Since then, the memory has faded. Through a memory quest combining cooking recipes and artificial intelligence, Ondine sets out in the footsteps of her ancestor, bringing her "digitally back to life" through a few rare photos that remain. A posthumous goodbye that could not have taken place.

Ferdinand rents a cellar for 200 euros a month. But that’s still too much. The arrival of the Olympic Games in Paris makes him dream big, but he only gets a temporary job at the Stade de France and gets swallowed up by the noise and fury of the Games. At night, Ferdinand learns to write songs with his best friend Juliette and turns his cramped cellar into a place of comfort.

In five eight-minute episodes, “Femmes sous algorithmes” deciphers the most popular videos from the women's YouTube universe (fed and consumed mainly by women). This webseries immerses viewers in current trends that present a typically feminine model of success, using all the tools of advertising to model the ideal woman. For if algorithms force us to confront the depths of our unconscious, they also reveal the unconscious of the world in which we live. If there's one thing we all share, it's the Algorithm. It touches us, threatens us, watches over us - it binds us.

Short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight Lineup.

In a great rock quarry, an explosion unveils an object from a different time.