Porte de Clichy

In April 2018 the new Paris Courthouse a 160meter glass tower by architect Renzo Piano opened at Porte de Clichy For several years this workingclass neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris has been undergoing an urban metamorphosis In the surrounding buildings the inhabitants are living this transformation on a daily basis between resignation adaptation and aspirations Through a backandforth game between intimate trajectories and the metamorphosis of the city the film sketches moments in the lives of several of its inhabitants drawing a portrait of a neighborhood at its turning point