Matthieu Lucci

When a celebrated mystery author visits the small French coastal town of La Ciotat, she's astonished to find the disparate students of her writing workshop are bursting at the seams with inspired ideas and strong, differing opinions on the state of the world. No topic is taboo and quickly lines are drawn in the sand between the most vocal students. An unsettling admiration begins to emerge between the novelist and her volatile student as the reins of the class dangerously slip from her grasp (Strand Releasing)

A group of friends are spending the summer between high school and university on the beaches of Marseilles when tragedy strikes. (Own summary)

19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura is still missing.

Algeria, 1961. France has just detonated its fourth atomic bomb. A group of seven soldiers is sent to the point of impact to take samples and measure radioactivity. But the further they go, the more the Captain, a war veteran in his fifties, is confronted with the paradoxes of a changing world. (imdb)