Virgil Vernier

Commissariat

Virgil Vernier, Ilan Klipper

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.

Polisse

Maïwenn

Frédéric Pierrot, JoeyStarr

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.

Pandore

Virgil Vernier

Paris, the entrance of a nightclub, a physionomiste at work. Criteria of selection and balance of power. A time, a space and an action : in or out ?

Kindertotenlieder

Virgil Vernier

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.

Les extraordinaires mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre

Gabriel Abrantes

Liza Lapert, Virgil Vernier

Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.

Iron Maiden

Virgil Vernier

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

La Bataille de Solférino

Justine Triet

Laetitia Dosch, Vincent Macaigne

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!

Andorre

Virgil Vernier

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.

Sophia Antipolis

Virgil Vernier

Dewi Kunetz, Sandra Poitoux

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.

Mercuriales

Virgil Vernier

Ana Neborac, Philippine Stindel

This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...

Sapphire Crystal

Virgil Vernier

Edward Klein, Inès Thurre

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

Orléans

Virgil Vernier

Andréa Brusque, Julia Auchynnikava

In Orleans, two young women are caught up in the festivities of the Joan of Arc celebrations.

Autoproduction

Virgil Vernier

Nicola Sornaga, Kenishi Morimoto

Paris, 2007. Nicola Sornaga shoots a feature film with no money. The story of Morimoto, a 60-year-old japanese man who doesn’t speak French, lost in the city and meets all the weirdos around. Sornaga tries to overcome the financial issues of a low-cost shoot…

Right Here Right Now

Pascal Bonitzer

Agathe Bonitzer, Vincent Lacoste

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.

Thermidor

Virgil Vernier

Vicky de Saint-Hermine, Ingrid Cajat

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.

L'Indomptée

Caroline Deruas

Clotilde Hesme, Jenna Thiam

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.