Karim Barras

A Very Secret Service

At the height of the Cold War in 1960, André Merlaux joins the French Secret Service and contends with enemies both foreign and bureaucratic.

Bisons

“Respect for the vanquished”, remarks Steve “is what separates man from beast.” As a champion in Swiss-style wrestling, Steve knows a thing or two about observing codes of combat. But when his family farm faces repossession, he is forced to join hands with his ex-convict brother Joel and enter the lucrative, clandestine world of no-rules fighting.

A livre ouvert

The Break

The story is set in a small village in the Ardennes, where a young African footballer is found dead. If all clues lead first to suicide, a police officer just arrived from Brussels does not take long to discover that this is a murder.

Mode Avion

Four strangers find themselves groggy and disoriented on a deserted island covered with surveillance cameras. Stripped of their belongings, they each hold a phone—blank, with no apps or signal. Suddenly, a message from a masked captor appears: they have 48 hours to figure out why they've been taken if they want to survive. To do so, they’ll be allowed two minutes of connexion at random intervals. But if they try to contact loved ones or alert the authorities, their mission ends, and they'll be executed.

Harcelés

Lucky Day

A dysfunctional family is propelled into sudden wealth when Loic, the father, wins the lottery. Despite every piece of advice, the family decides to move into a Geneva Palace where Loic meets Jean-Hubert, an ill-qualified financial advisor who will help him achieve his dream of buying back Montrex, the watch factory that fired his father – but nothing will happen as expected.

The Belgian Wave

This movies examines a period in modern Belgian history which is as heavily mocked as it is revered: the wave of UFO sightings recorded at the end of the 80s.

Banking District

Summer 2011: the Swiss financial market is abuzz with the news that Paul Béguelin, the director-general of the private bank Béguelin, was found dead in his office. Is it a case of suicide or score settling? This question is going to haunt his sister Elisabeth. Catapulted to the center stage of the bank, she embarks on an internal investigation. This is the beginning of a long road toward the truth, which will immerse her in the murky mysteries of the bank, her family’s secrets and banking secrecy.

Asylum Blackout

A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm