Every morning, we sign the Contract. The system at the heart of our “free" world is based on a kind of contract that we all agree to. We sign it every morning: “I accept competition as the foundation of our system, even though I am aware that it generates frustration and anger for the majority of those who lose. I agree to be humiliated and exploited in exchange for being allowed to humiliate and exploit those on a lower rung of the social pyramid (...)"

L'art délicat de la matraque (The Delicate Art of the Bludgeon) captures the sensibility of police during demonstrations. Jean-Gabriel Periot investigates policemen's abuse of power through cleverly choreographed archive footage of club-wielding cops.

Intimists and emblematic portraits tell the current destiny of the peuls of West Africa. In Mali, one of the poorest states of the world, these people are confronted with the terrible question of his future. In a malian society in full transformation, can the traditions and the way of life of these seminomad shepherds continue to exist in front of the inevitable modernization of the country? Through a touching meeting with this traditional culture, the narrative shows the universal movement of transformation of rural mentalities.

The Society of the Spectacle.

The social treatment of poverty is progressively replaced by repression. The poor, sometimes immigrant, being a victim to start with, becomes a potential criminal. The director observes the social violence and the stigmatisation which keep a whole social class in oblivion. He discovers, far remote from EU's democracy, the reality and the functioning of a social apartheid.

In a world where the economy is no longer at the service of mankind but precisely the opposite, productivity targets and management methods are pushing workers to the very limits of their endurance. Illness, industrial accidents and physical and psychological suffering are at unprecedented levels. The stories that men and women tell their doctor or psychologist, workplace inspectors and industrial tribunals show that there is an urgent need to rethink the way we work.