Charlotte Cherici

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.

In real life, some people want to become surgeons, others policemen, policewomen or cab drivers. Some dream of love, of good fortune, of getting pride of place within the community. The same happens within this virtual territory, on this French-speaking Californian island. Out here, we do things as if it were real life.

Guess Who's Back, a hacker known for his online hoaxes, has caused the real death of a man. Nobody knows since when the hacker operates, but everyone can meet him through his avatar at the Club des Crocos in the video game Life On Earth. A clash of real and virtual worlds in a universe of pixels, invented from scratch, funny and disturbing.

Clovis, Châtaigne and Mérovée leave home in search of new horizons. They meet Titus and Lucius, two legionaries who have survived the fall of the Roman Empire.

A house in the French countryside as a miniature of society: When Audrey arrives, she is confronted with a lecture right away. The landlord tirelessly underlines how progressive he is, and what a unique space he has created outside the urban centres. While his utopia doesn’t seem to leave much space for others, he is surrounded by three other volunteers who work for him. The house isn’t very large so all of them find themselves unable to avoid each other. Starring the remarkable independent filmmaker Virgil Vernier in a blissfully awkward performance, Brieuc Schieb navigates humour, irritation, and intimacy in his meticulously composed first feature – all to face a question not just today’s art world is obsessed with: Who can really bear living in a collective?

Malika is 47 and looks 10 years younger. Her life has always been one of intensity and chance encounters. Tired of this perpetual instability, she takes shelter for a while at Kamel, her father, in the flat where she grew up, and reconnects with him before he leaves to return to Algeria.

Raja is being sent away to Indonesia. Clément, his French half-brother, would do anything to join him.

Uzec, Baptiste and Leo are killing time in Douarnenez, the city where they grew up. At last year's carnival, their friend Jordan drowned because he was dressed as SpongeBob. While the annual celebrations get underway again, strange events take place.

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.

During a failed weekend in Amsterdam, William, alone in life, starts to crack under the gaze of his son Walter. Will love, with the help of a tour guide, manage to bridge the gap between the two men?

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

A body in search of meaning, or the other way around. Moving, nomadic and mutant figures.

Clara films her solitary everyday life working in a photographer’s studio in the Hamptons, near New York. In this lakeside house, she discovers on the video surveillance recordings the presence of a man who comes to watch her through the windows at nightfall. With her sole companion, Clarita, the photographer’s dog, she faces her solitude and this shadowy presence.