Virgil Vernier

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?

Iulia lives alone in Monaco since her father left, who returned to Russia due to sanctions against their country. She no longer attends school. She feels increasingly lonely and threatened.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

In the middle of the night, in an anonymous street in a parisian suburb, an old woman roams. Her only company is her own voice: her memories, her impressions, her lunacy.

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.

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

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.

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 ?

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.

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…

Lila, Nico, Yoni, Justine and Guy are all around 25. We follow them through marking moments of their lives, slowly becoming of age.

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.

«This morning I left the castle. At dawn I left without waking anyone. I don't remember anything that happened afterwards... the only thing I remember is that I came back here like a sleepwalker».