Une vie française (2011)

Actors: Manuela Gourary (actress), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Jean-Pol Brissart (actor), Eve-Marie Arnault (costume designer), Edith Scob (actress), Jacques Gamblin (actor), Mathilda May (actress), Christiane Millet (actress), Catherine Schwartz (editor), Vincent Meslet (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Pierre Sinapi (writer), Jean-Pierre Sinapi (director), Barbara Constantine (miscellaneous crew), Marie Dupuy D'Angeac (miscellaneous crew), Joëy Faré (producer),

L'école du pouvoir (2009)

Actors: Harmel Sbraire (miscellaneous crew), Scali Delpeyrat (actor), Olivia Bruynoghe (miscellaneous crew), Anne Canovas (actress), Élodie Navarre (actress), Carlo Brandt (actor), André Wilms (actor), Samuel Labarthe (actor), Patrick Raynal (actor), Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (actor), Christophe Odent (actor), Dominique Bettenfeld (actor), Martine Barraqué (editor), Marc Faure (actor), Bruno Raffaelli (actor),

Plot: In 1977, Caroline Séguier, Matt Ribero, Abel Karnonski, Laure De Cigy and her brother Louis pass their oral entry exam to the ENA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration) and proudly find themselves studying in France's most prestigious school. Caroline, beautiful, hard-working, annoying and seductive, is a staunch supporter of François Mitterrand and is determined to succeed. Matt, a supporter of Michel Rocard comes from a family of steel workers in Lorraine and is proud to be the first in his family to escape his social status. Abel, a righteous young idealistic altruist, is the only one of the group already working (as a lawyer) and to have a wife and child (a little girl), whereas Laure and Louis come from a long line of aristocrats used to serving the State. The president and the government of France have been part of the right-wing party for more than twenty years and the students of the "Voltaire promotion" swear to themselves that they'll internally change a system they deem unfair and obsolete, starting with the man running their school... Determined to change the world, their arrival at the ENA marks the beginning of their political hopes and dreams. Abel wants to influence the way things go at the highest level of French administration. Caroline can't stand the system's unfair nature. Laure thinks that François Mitterand's election will restore the social balance. But their years spent at the ENA, during which victories and disillusions follow each other, confront them to the spirit of competition, to their personal ambition, to the system's injustice, and are just a rehearsal for what awaits them once they've graduated in 1980: the first round in a savage struggle for power. Hardened by their first experiences in the field, in embassies and police headquarters in Corsica and Africa, some learn how to use every weapon at their disposal. Others, constantly torn between their childhood dreams and their new responsibilities, struggle to embark on the path of compromise. For History does not wait. Called to the front lines a year later and propelled, thanks to François Mitterrand's victory, into the arcane mysteries of the State, these young "énarques" will be asked to make choices on which their careers, and France's future, will equally depend.

Paris 2011: La grande inondation (2006)

Actors: Marie Ducret (miscellaneous crew), Salim Kechiouche (actor), Yves Darondeau (producer), Christophe Lioud (producer), David Reyes (composer), Emmanuel Priou (producer), Christophe Lioud (actor), Yvonnick Muller (actor), Georges Martin-Censier (actor), Jérémie Loiseau (actor), Fabien Lucciarini (actor), Nelly Alard (actress), Jochen Hägele (actor), Xavier Douin (miscellaneous crew), Gérard Couchet (actor),

Plot: The centennial flooding of Paris, where the river Seine is expected to rise 8.62 meters above normal, is expected to take place within the next five years. How will it happen? What will the most beautiful city in the world look like then? Imagine the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and L'Arc de Triopmhe deluged by dark, icy waters. With the subway under water, no electricity or telephone, where can millions of citizens and twelve hospitals evacuate? THE GREAT FLOOD: PARIS 2010 is not a drama or disaster movie but a future archive documentary written in close collaboration with Paris' City Hall and Police Department as well as the main economic protagonists. The wealth of archive material on the 1910 and former centennial floods, the precision of recent studies and the CGI technology's possible scenarios enable us to, for the first time, make a realistic and spectacular film of what will happen to the City of Lights when the Seine rises once more. Paris has been actively preparing for its centennial flood for many years and it remains to be seen the collective efforts have been in vain. Bruno Victor-Pujebet directs THE GREAT FLOOD: PARIS 2010, written by Bruno Portier.

L'humanité (1999)

Actors: Rachid Bouchareb (producer), Nathalie Raoul (costume designer), Guy Lecorne (editor), Jean Bréhat (producer), Virginie Barbay (miscellaneous crew), Bruno Dumont (director), Bruno Dumont (writer), Sylvie Verheyde (actress), Caroline Dieusaert (miscellaneous crew), Darius (actor), Cédric Delplace (actor), Marie-Hélène Aernout (actress), Vanessa Réveillon (miscellaneous crew), Delphine Merabet (miscellaneous crew), Séverine Caneele (actress),

Plot: In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus. For Domino, sex seems her way of connecting. Does she fancy Pharaon? A plowed field, the sea, Pharaon's flowers, the pudenda of Domino and of the ravaged girl - this mix of images of beauty, evil, and possibility assaults Pharaon as he tries to do his job and hold on to his humanity.