Cycles

Vivre avec / Living with

19th International Architecture Exhibition Venice

13 films

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition Venice will be held from May 10 to November 23, 2025. The theme "Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective." explores how intelligence can transform our built environment. The French Pavilion's project, "Vivre avec / Living with," will explore the role of architecture in addressing climate change, conflict, and global instability. Here is a selection of films that reflect these themes.

Vivre avec / Living with
  • Biopic
  • 2023
  • 1h44
de Dominique Marchais

Between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic flow powerful rivers called gaves. Cornfields make them thirsty, dams block the flow of salmon. Human activity disrupts the water cycle and the biodiversity of the river. Men and women turn their curious and loving gaze towards this fascinating world made of beauty and disaster.

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2023
  • 1h59
de Pierre Jolivet

Brittany, France. Following the recent deaths of locals on Breton beaches, a reporter comes to investigate the mystery surrounding algae that may be a cause of these tragic events. As evidence is being covered up and threats to her research mount up, she realizes that some politicians with close ties to prominent local corporations are working to stop her from uncovering the shocking truth.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • 1h25
de Philippe Petit

Max doesn’t dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of downtown Marseille: a plant area open to all. After years of rejection, his project reached the final stage of an architecture competition. For Max, this is the last chance to offer oxygen to the people who are suffocating in an urban hell, under the beating sun.

  • 2020
  • 1h36
de Flore Vasseur

Depuis 6 ans, Melati, 18 ans combat la pollution plastique qui ravage son pays l’Indonésie. Comme elle, une génération se lève pour réparer le monde

  • Drama
  • 2020
  • 1h28
de Farid Bentoumi

Nour has just been hired as a nurse in the chemical plant where her father, a union delegate and long-time company leader, works. While the plant is undergoing a health inspection, a young journalist is investigating the waste management. The two young women gradually discover that this factory, a pillar of the local economy, is hiding many secrets. Between lies about polluting discharges, doctored medical records and hidden accidents, Nour will have to choose between keeping silent or betraying her father and getting the truth out.

  • Comedy-drama, Thriller
  • 2021
  • 1h27
de Laurent Cantet

I am sharp and wise. I know poetry and politics. I raised from a social underworld to an exposed position as a provocative Parisian author. I published a novel but I also write in 140 signs on social media. And when I do, I hit my target. That's why they all me want out!

  • 2021
  • 1h45
de Cyril Dion

The place of mankind among the living is the main topic. At the instigation of Cyril Dion, who already gave us his vision with Tomorrow, and the primatologist Jane Goodall, two teenagers will embark in an extraordinary quest: to find another way of living alongside other species, more as roomates than predators. To do so, they will travel and meet with scientists and activists all over the globe.

  • Literary adaptation, Adventure, Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h35
de Denis Imbert

Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, regularly travels around the world in search of adventure. One evening, he climbs the facade of a hotel, drunk, and falls several floors. The shock plunges him into a deep coma. When he wakes up, when he can barely stand up and against everyone's advice, he decides to travel across France on foot, taking forgotten paths. A unique and timeless journey where the actor follows in the footsteps of Sylvain Tesson to encounter hyper-rurality.

  • Fantasy and science fiction, Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h52
de Thomas Salvador

Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains…

  • Experimental film
  • 2022
  • 1h35
de Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse et Quentin L'Helgoualc'h

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.

  • Fantasy and science fiction, Thriller
  • 2023
  • 1h23
de Jérémie Périn

En l’an 2200, Aline Ruby, détective privée obstinée, et Carlos Rivera son partenaire androïde sont embauchés par un riche homme d’affaires afin de capturer sur Terre une célèbre hackeuse. De retour sur Mars, une nouvelle affaire va les conduire à s’aventurer dans les entrailles de Noctis, la capitale martienne, à la recherche de Jun Chow, une étudiante en cybernétique disparue. Noctis est leur ville, une utopie libertarienne rendue possible par les progrès en robotique, emblème d’un futur tourné vers les étoiles. Au fil de leur enquête, ils seront confrontés aux plus sombres secrets de leur cité ; ses institutions corrompues, ses trafics, ses fermes cérébrales, et les magouilles des toutes puissantes corporations. Mais des tueurs cyber augmentés ont eux aussi pris pour cible Jun Chow. Aline et Carlos se lancent dans une course désespérée pour sauver cette jeune femme qui, sans le savoir, détient un secret capable de menacer l’équilibre précaire sur lequel repose leur civilisation.

  • Biopic
  • 2023
  • 1h27
de Gilles Perret

50 years in the life of a farm… Haute Savoie (French Alps), 1972: run by three brothers, the Bertrand dairy farm and its one hundred animals is filmed for the first time. As a neighbor, director Gilles Perret dedicated his first film to them in 1997, while the three farmers are in the process of passing the farm on to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Today, 25 years later, the director-neighbor takes up the camera again to accompany Hélène, who, in turn, is handing over the reins. Through the words and actions of the people who have succeeded one another, the film reveals compelling life journeys where work and transmission occupy a central place: an intimate, social and economic story of the French farming world.

  • Classics, Fantasy and science fiction, Thriller
  • 1965
  • 1h50
de Jean-Luc Godard

In an era after the 1960s, the authorities of the "outer planets" sent the famous secret agent Lemmy Caution on a mission to Alphaville, a dehumanized city a few light years away from Earth. Caution is in charge of neutralizing Professor von Braun, the almighty master of Alphaville, who has abolished human feelings there. A computer, Alpha 60, governs the entire city. A message from Dickson, an ex-secret agent, orders Lemmy to "destroy Alpha 60 and save those who are crying". But he is kidnapped, interrogated by Alpha 60 and sentenced to death...

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