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.

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.

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

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

София-Антиполис — это технопарк на Лазурном берегу, место, где должны сбываться мечты. Но внутри него скрываются страх и отчаяние. Под обманчивым солнцем пять жизней отражают жуткую историю молодой женщины Софии. «Что связывает юную красавицу, которая хочет увеличить грудь и уговаривает хирурга сделать операцию немедленно, одинокую вдову из Вьетнама, вступающую в секту, которой руководит умелый гипнотизер, и чернокожих охранников, организующих фашиствующий отряд гражданской самообороны?

София-Антиполис — это технопарк на Лазурном берегу, место, где должны сбываться мечты. Но внутри него скрываются страх и отчаяние. Под обманчивым солнцем пять жизней отражают жуткую историю молодой женщины Софии. «Что связывает юную красавицу, которая хочет увеличить грудь и уговаривает хирурга сделать операцию немедленно, одинокую вдову из Вьетнама, вступающую в секту, которой руководит умелый гипнотизер, и чернокожих охранников, организующих фашиствующий отряд гражданской самообороны?

The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.

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.

Париж 30-х годов XX века, город декаданса и роскоши. Красавицы американки, сестры Лора и Кэти Барлоу, приезжают туда, чтобы провести спиритические сеансы. Знаменитый кинопродюсер Андрэ Корбен решает, что с их помощью ему удастся поправить пошатнувшиеся дела. Показ «оживших» духов на большом экране принесет ему новую славу и богатство. Лора будет главной звездой его будущего блокбастера. Но что если сестры — вовсе не медиумы, не посредники между миром живых и миром мертвых, а обычные шарлатанки. Похоже, месье Корбена это совсем не волнует, он зачарован божественной красотой Лоры и необъяснимыми талантами Кэти…

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.

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...

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...

A young woman invents the love she does not get and she needs. She has always done that, since childhood. It has become a disease. When Nicolas leaves her she refuses to believe it. He will love her anyway, it is needed, she needs it.

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.

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!

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.

В чем состоят трудовые будни полицейской бригады по защите несовершеннолетних? Содержание под стражей педофилов, отлов подростков-карманников, допросы родителей, жестоко обращающихся с детьми, сексуальные отклонения у подростков, брошенные дети. Однако работа — это также и перерывы на обед, когда можно пожаловаться друг другу на семейные проблемы, это взаимопомощь коллег, это неудержимый смех в самые неподходящие моменты… Как живут эти полицейские, зная, что никогда не бывает так плохо, чтобы не могло быть еще хуже? Как им удается сочетать частную жизнь с жестокой действительностью на работе? Мелисса, фотограф министерства внутренних дел, присоединяется к бригаде для снятия фоторепортажа об их работе, и Фреду, нервному и непредсказуемому, трудно переносить ее проницательный взгляд…

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 ?

A silent, musical and sexy movie. A theme: the loving parade. Characters who make tours (of magic, sometimes). In each the reverse angle, the other, in each or almost their song, as a fiction (a decoration) surrounds their character.

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.

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?