Les Particules

At the foot of the Jura in Pays de Gex, the 17-year-old Pierre-André and his clique are completing their last year of high school. And as if that wasn't enough of a fuss, scientists at CERN, with the world's most powerful particle accelerator, are reproducing the energy conditions of the big bang just 100 metres below them. In the middle of his everyday life, P.A. notices the ever more conspicuous, unusual phenomena and changes in his environment - and it doesn't take long before his life is thrown off course.

This promising and authentic coming-of-age film by French-Swiss director Blaise Harrison celebrated its world premiere at the prestigious Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes and was screened in the international competition of the Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival NIFFF.