Nicolas Verpilleux

Holding a master’s degree in film studies from Paris 7, Nicolas Verpilleux has written several short films—Reflux by Paulin.e Goasmat, Prélude by Gabriel Le Bomin, Net Keeper by Fred Bargain—and has also worked in the field of television animation—SamSam (France 5), Captain Biceps (France 3), Les P’tits Diables (M6).

Nicolas Verpilleux en haut à gauche, accompagné des auteur.e.s de La Sélection en 2015 à Paris - évènement co-organisé par le Groupe Ouest et la Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma. © Pauline Maillet

La Course de l’Occident

Sélection Annuelle 2010, La Sélection 2015

It’s the end of the world for Tom, a quiet 17-year-old, on the day he loses his older brother Igor, whom he had always admired. Unable to accept his brother’s disappearance—both sudden and inexplicable—Tom shuts himself in Igor’s room and begins to investigate the true reasons for his death inside a strange, abandoned video game called: (((o)))…