Mercuriales

Based on television news footage, a look-back at the 2005 riots in France, which erupted following the death of two teenagers being chased by the police.

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.

As every year, Vicky goes to mass to the memory of Louis XVI. This time, he is accompanied by Ingrid. He has thirty years more than her, but Ingrid seems under the charm of this character. Revolutionary, rocker, prophet of the apocalypse of the West, he claims the return of the values of the chivalry. For Vicky, a princess as Ingrid must be courted according to the rules of the courtly love, but the third millennium leaves little room for the dreams of a knight.

Iulia lives alone in Monaco since her father left, who returned to Russia due to sanctions against their country. She no longer attends school. She feels increasingly lonely and threatened.

May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!

The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness, until a violent event marks their meeting of a strange complicity.

The story unfolds in Monaco, which is paradise on earth for a post-reality-TV generation who have grown up fantasising over a privileged lifestyle, with its promises of infinite pleasures. But what hides within these lofty towers, and behind the tinted saloon car windows and villa gates?

Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.

A shopping center in the middle of montains, pyramides of goods, a glass tower dedicated to bodycare, Andorra makes bright promises of modern happiness. But when night comes, streets fall again into silence and Andorra shines again only for itself.

Nora is a bright young professional whose new job at a financial firm turns out to be a trial by fire when she learns that her bosses share a tumultuous history with her prickly mathematician father. Meanwhile, an interoffice romance with a competitive colleague leads to even more complications, leaving Nora to navigate a minefield of delicate relationships as she climbs the corporate ladder.

Back on the parisian riots of march 2006. By crossing the points of view between the individual, the crowd, the mass, this film tries to draw from the TV coverage some more nuanced, more troubled perception. "Milling around" projects us in the center of the action by keeping us strangly remote at the same time.

Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have been awarded an arts residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome. Camille is accompanied by her husband, the famous writer Marc Landré. When a strange rivalry takes shape between them, Camille bonds with Axèle. But who is Axèle really ? A total artist, who never compromises and confuses herself with her oeuvre ? Or a ghost ? This year at the Villa Medici, where bodies and souls free themselves, no one will come out unscathed.

In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.

Sometime after the fall of the Soviet empire, three stories about sex, violence, and boredom.

Three places, three moments of a night with Geneva’s jeunesse dorée.

Lila, Nico, Yoni, Justine and Guy are all around 25. We follow them through marking moments of their lives, slowly becoming of age.