Movies: Michel Toesca

Mimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and territories....

Manon, 15, meets Greg, 17, while on vacation. He lives in Claviers, a little village in France’s Haut-Var region, while she lives in Paris. Greg and Manon are in love. This is a portrait of a young man who comes alive when his girlfriend is with him,...

The Roya, valley in the South of France at the border with Italy. Cédric Herrou, farmer, cultivates its olive trees. The day where he crosses the road of the refugees, he decides, with other inhabitants of the valley, to welcome them. To offer them a...

This wacky French film is about a terminally ill 13 year-old whose last wish is to make a schlocky camping-trip-gone-horribly-awry horror flick. Kindly adults play along, acting as campy reporters and providing fake-leeches....

Micha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself. Charles, 20 years old, works for a real estate agency and is given a camera to film apartments. Not knowing how to use it, he practices one weekend and of cou...

This film raises questions about the state of French democracy. A Prefect threatens locally elected officials of all political persuasion with imprisonment in order to prevent a consultative referendum....