A large metal door that slides open to let in police vans. Men come out with their stories. Walls, stone staircases, courtrooms, backstage, tears, cries. The Marseilles court is overwhelmed by drug cases. Those on trial are the managers of an economy of chaos, the little pot workers, children who have grown up alone. Below, the port and the city are boiling and full of wounds. And their beauty, too.
CREW:
Director: Alice Odiot, Jean-Robert Vialle
Producer: Bruno Nahon
Cinematographer: Antoine Héberlé, Jean-Robert Viallet
Sound: Jean-Michel Tresallet, Damien Guillaume, Jérôme Wiciak
Production
Thomas Morvan
Director
Jean-Robert Viallet
Jean-Robert Viallet is a French writer, filmmaker and journalist. Winner of the Albert Londres prize for his trilogy La Mise à mort du travail (The Death of Work), an immersion into the heart of large globalised groups, he is interested in the fractures of contemporary society, the grey areas of power, social violence and the environmental destruction produced by neo-liberal capitalism.Selected Filmography
Stups (2025), Men (2019), Man Ate The Earth (2019), Till Death Do Us Part (2015), Le Mauvais Œil (2015), La France En Face (2013), La Mise À Mort Du Travail (2009), Une Femme À Abattre (2006), The Lost Children Of Tranquility Bay (2005)
Director
Alice Odiot
Alice Odiot has spent nearly ten years documenting how the prison administration in Marseille handles delinquency, as shown in Men Inside (selected by ACID Cannes 2019 and winner of Best Film at the London International Documentary Festival), co-directed with JR Viallet. She has also examined the justice system in Stups, an upcoming documentary set to be released in 2025, co-directed with JR Viallet. She has worked on numerous investigations for Arte, France Télévisions, and RTBF. Her film Made in France, co-directed with Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale and filmed between Gaza and Europe, recounts the groundbreaking investigation into the first lawsuit against a French arms manufacturer for complicity in war crimes. Her
first documentary, Zambia: Good Copper, Bad Copper?, earned the Albert Londres Prize in 2012.
Selected Filmography
Stups (2025), Made in France, In The Service Of War (2020), Des Hommes (2019), Till Death Do Us Part (2015 ), Le Mauvais Œil (2015), Zambia, Who Benefits From Copper? (2011)
