Antoine Fontaine

Through a reconstruction combining computer-generated images with surveillance footage and the story of a victim, we question the legitimacy and excesses of law enforcement in France.

Renarda, a young actress, confides to her analyst the different stages of her sex life. Moved by the confession, the shrink will eventually marry her.

An animated documentary immersing viewers in the shadowy and hypnotic world of the shell game, a notorious street scam where players must find a ball hidden under one of three cups. At its core is Doru, a 60-year-old Romanian player whose life is as elusive as the game itself: a labyrinth of illusions and manipulations. As Doru reveals the secrets of the game and recounts his nomadic life story across Europe to the director Antoine, the line between reality and illusion begins to blur, until the world itself feels like one grand shell game.

Through a poignant reconstruction of police violence that has occurred in France in recent years, Constrain shows the expression of state violence against individuals. A disturbing staging, combining a green background and 3D sets, tells an unprecedented way of these acts of repression, based on persecuted and humiliated bodies. - Alice Riva