With its high, its bottom, her tenderness, his humor, and its virulence, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a true character of film. That'it is hated or adored, it leaves nobody indifferent. His presidential campaign of 2017 has looked like no other in the political landscape contemporary. It is during these intense moments of his life, and that of France, that Gilles Perret has accompanied to the more closely.

L'insoumis

Since the cult success of Merci Patron!, activist/journalist/filmmaker François Ruffin has become an MP. Here, he attempts to table a law aimed at upholding the rights of what in Quebec are known as caregivers, and shows us in passing how a law whose need seems patently obvious is put together, debated, voted on and . . . dies on the battleground of French politics. A stirring documentary about social injustice that somehow manages to make us bust a gut laughing as we rage with indignation. And also cry at the beauty of it all, thanks to the director’s humanist sensibility and a deft play between reality and fiction.

Those Who Care

Documentary about the French public welfare system.

The Social

Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis

Made on a shoestring budget, François Ruffin and Gilles Perret’s investigative documentary has the adventurous spirit of a road movie. Intimate and sometimes humorous, encounters with yellow vest protestors pierce through reports of violence and destruction, revealing a collective desire for equity.

A Place in the Sun

Cédric is a worker in a precision mechanics factory in the French Alps. When he finds out that the factory is about to be sold to an investment fund, he joins forces with two of his childhood friends to pull off an epic heist.

The Takeover

A documentary comedy about the encounter between modest working-class people and a bourgeois Parisian columnist with radical liberal views.

Au boulot !

Story of a dairy farm in Haute Savoie going through 3 generations. The director is the neighbor and already did a film about it 25 years ago.