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Documentary made with the patients of wards 15 and 17 of the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris in 2008-2009.

Daniel’s glory days as a singer are over and he has sunk into anomymity. He spends his days shut up in his apartement. Stuck there, he has become bitter and confused. Will he ever taste success again ? His obsesion borders on madness.

Marie and Simon, a couple with two children, are deeply in love despite constant fights in their paired life. To save their marriage, they come up with a chart of Ten Rules to seek love and peace.

1996, Bruno publishes his first novel. He is critically acclaimed and is seen as the french John Fante. Twenty years later, Bruno is soon 50 and has not published anything since. He is single, has no children and lives with a young Femen as a roommate. For him, all goes well but his loved ones are worried and decide to take action.

What is the thickness of the wall that separates us from insanity? No one knows what it's made of and no one knows what it can weather. Aube, Yoan, Marcus, they have crossed the threshold. They live on the other side of the mirror; they have created their own world.

First part of a diptych documentary about the police today. This part takes place in a police Academy. We will follow scenes of the daily life of the Rouen-Oissel’Academy, where every year one thousand juniors, between eighteen and twenty-five years old, are trained between summer camp and military field.

In France, a police station is the stage for a face to face encounter between the police and the city's inhabitants. Via the prism of the police institution, "Commissariat" ​ paints the portrait of a city and its population. The tales of damaged lives are often underpinned by the question of love and a lack of love.