Cycles

la Nuit des idées 2023

Plus ?

12 films

Tout au long de l’année 2023 le thème « Plus ? » nous invite à explorer nos modes d’extraction, de production et de consommation, les grands enjeux des évolutions démographiques et la culture de la performance dans le sport, à l’école, au travail et dans les loisirs. L’Institut français vous propose une sélection de films à découvrir et redécouvrir dans sa catalogue IF Cinéma.

la Nuit des idées 2023
  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France, Belgium
  • 1h50
by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre

Cassandra (26) is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home. Will Cassandre find the force to confront what she was running away from?

  • Literary adaptation
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h46
by Emmanuel Carrère

Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity, strong bonds shared by these behind-the-scenes working women.

  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h25
by Gilles Perret and François Ruffin

In this new journey, Ruffin & Perret embarks us across France to meet caretakers at the front lines during the current Covid-19 crises. Those people, mostly women, who give their lives, their time and often their health to help and care for elders, disabled and left out are in fact left aside by the French social regulations. No minimum wage, no work-time limitation, no social recognition force them to stand up for their basic rights!

  • Comedy
  • 2020
  • France
  • 1h32
by Bruno Podalydès

Alexandre is unemployed and his bank account has been frozen. His wife is on a two-month top secret nuclear submarine mission. While she’s away, he has to prove that he can take care of the children and find a job. Following a surreal interview, he is hired at The Box on a trial basis – and thus Alexandre enters the 24-7 world of a greenwashed start-up with a strict no-child policy. He meets Arcimboldo, who juggles different jobs and apps and offers to look after the kids in exchange for accommodation. Between Alexandre’s killer colleague Severine, incessant conference calls and endless team building sessions, keeping his secret is no easy challenge…

  • Drama
  • 2020
  • France, Belgium
  • 1h28
by 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
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h07
by Louis Garrel

Abel (Louis Garrel), Marianne (Laetitia Casta) and their 13-year-old son Joseph (Joseph Engel) live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet.

  • Comedy, Fantasy and science fiction
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h29
  • last chance
by Olivier Babinet

The sea has become infested with jellyfish since fish can no longer reproduce. Daniel, a biologist charged with unravelling this mystery, is obsessed with becoming a father. Statistically he has only 1 chance in 6,233.33 of meeting a woman likely to share his dream. Lucie, a young woman with a sharp sense of humor, relieves her constant melancholy with a passion for the subtle language of piranhas. When Daniel fixes a date with Lucie through a dating app, he comes across a strange fish caught in a net – a fish named Nietzsche – and circumstances finally become favorable for him to find what he has been truly lacking: love.

  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h50
by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai

Au cœur de la capitale, un lycée tente un pari fou : intégrer des élèves de quartiers populaires et briser la spirale de l’échec scolaire grâce à la danse hip-hop. Allons enfants est l’histoire de cette expérience unique en France.

  • Biopic, Drama
  • 2022
  • Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saudi Arabia
  • 1h22
by Rafiki Fariala

Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between the overcrowded classrooms, the petty trades that allow students to survive, bribery lurking everywhere, Rafiki shows us what students lives are like in the Central African Republic, a shattered society where the youth keeps dreaming for a brighter future for their country.

  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h39
by Régis Sauder

Il y a dix ans, Emmanuelle, professeure de français d’un lycée des quartiers Nord de Marseille, participait à un film avec ses élèves. A partir de l’étude de La Princesse de Clèves, Abou, Morgane, Laura, Cadiatou et les autres énonçaient leurs rêves, leurs désirs et leurs peurs. Tous se retrouvent aujourd’hui, les souvenirs se mélangent aux récits de leur vie et des obstacles à surmonter. Que reste-t-il de leurs espoirs de liberté, d’égalité et de fraternité ? « Je sais bien qu’il n’y a rien de plus difficile que ce que j’entreprends. », cette phrase du roman trouve plus que jamais écho en eux. En nous.

  • 2010
  • France
  • 1h09
by Régis Sauder

En 1558, à la cour du roi Henri II, Mademoiselle de Chartres, devenue Princesse de Clèves par son mariage, rencontre le Duc de Nemours. Naît alors un amour immédiat et fulgurant. Aujourd'hui à Marseille, des lycéens de quartiers populaires s'emparent du roman La princesse de Clèves pour mettre des mots sur les préoccupations de leur âge. A 17 ans, on aime intensément, on dissimule, on avoue. c'est l'âge des premiers choix et des premiers renoncements.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 23min
by Clémentine Delbecq

Rufus and his uncle Alpha, two Ivorians, run an aging hotel in the hinterland of Perpignan. At the beginning of the summer, Alpha returns to the Ivory Coast to sell the family land to relaunch his business in France, before leaving it to his nephew. While waiting for him, Rufus keeps the hotel with Monika, his girlfriend, but Alpha's trip to the country will upset his plans.

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