BACKSEAT LE FILM : 2023, L'année où tout s'est embrasé

Starko!

January 2008 •French

Learn more about Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign, his personal life and more through this documentary.

Pétain et les francs-maçons

September 2022 •French

De Gaulle, l'homme à abattre

November 2020 •French

La Révolte des vieux

February 2023 •French

Symphonie Atonale

February 2024 •French

1974, une partie de campagne

February 2002 •French

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

Fin de concession

October 2010 •French

Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scandalous that the TFI-Bouygues concession has been automatically renewed since 1987 ? Taking up the anti-television fight he initiated with "Pas vu Pas pris", his first film, he confronts the people responsible for the news who have always avoided tackling this taboo subject. But the investigation does not go as planned : the old dinosaurs and young guardians now how to handle this media critic. To find his "fighting spirit" again, Carles calls to arms his friends and changes methods : Henceforth, no more concessions !

Catalunya Nord: el català, a judici

July 2023 •Catalan

Enfin pris ?

October 2002 •French

Pierre Carles, the dispenser of justice seen in “Pas vu, pas pris,” is back in the saddle. After attacking French television star reporters, his new target is television critics as represented by Daniel Schneidermann, host of the "Arrêt sur images" show. “Enfin pris ?” analyzes censure at work in television. It is also a thought-provoking look at how power changes people and the intimate forces between ambition and loyalty. A cruel, biting comedy from which no one really comes out unscathed.

Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle

June 2005 •French

Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments with actors), the film begins on September 8, 1961 with the failure of the Pont-sur-Seine attack on a road convoy carrying Charles de Gaulle, then President of the Republic, and continues with the slow preparation, the occurrence and the consequences of the Petit-Clamart attack on August 22, 1962.

The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor

October 2021 •French

In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme Roussel, the main investigator of this case, believes that he will make him confess to other unsolved crimes in Toulouse. Two ex-prostitutes give a series of names of presumed accomplices of the killer, among them Dominique Baudis, then president of the CSA. He decides to face the case alone. Around him, it is silence: not an official support of his political family. Almost twenty years later, we return to the Baudis affair to try to understand it, with the testimonies of Pierre and Benjamin Baudis, his sons, François Hollande, Camille Pascal and the main protagonists.

Victor Hugo, un siècle en révolutions

January 2018 •French

Vive la crise !

February 1984 •French

Quand la gauche collaborait, 1939-1945

December 2017 •French

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

June 2012 •French

Dépassements : ou annonce d'un meurtre qui n'aura jamais lieu

July 2024 •French

Jacques Doriot, le petit Führer français

September 2018 •French

Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

January 2025 •French

A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one can make sense of it”, he was trying to discredit the investigation into his ties with Muammar Gaddafi, portraying it as a bunch of gibberish. As Sarkozy and his many accomplices go on trial in the Libyan campaign financing affair, here’s the film that will finally explain all of the ins and outs of one of the most remarkable French political scandals in decades.

Wise Guys 2

June 2024 •English

After the release of his debut film, documentarian Richard Chase journeys down a rabbit hole to uncover the lost second episode of his initial film's subject: Wise Guys.

Simone Veil, une loi au nom des femmes

February 2010 •French

The debate in France about the abortion laws in 1974.